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Duer 157099 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-22-09 05:21 PM Original message |
A serious question about two-headed conjoined twins |
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Bunny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-22-09 05:32 PM Response to Original message |
1. Well, if this is the girl you're referring to, I am stunned that you think she should be made |
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Duer 157099 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-22-09 05:34 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. Why? I don't get it |
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Orrex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-22-09 05:55 PM Response to Reply #2 |
3. If only we had some way to infer the opinions of medical professionals experienced in these matters. |
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Duer 157099 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-22-09 06:16 PM Response to Reply #3 |
6. ? n/t |
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Orrex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-22-09 09:44 PM Response to Reply #6 |
16. It's like this: |
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Duer 157099 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-23-09 05:45 PM Response to Reply #16 |
28. And, of course, surgeons never attempt new procedures in order to |
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Orrex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-24-09 08:56 AM Response to Reply #28 |
31. That's a pointlessly cynical (and irrelevant) ad hominem |
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La Lioness Priyanka (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-22-09 06:33 PM Response to Reply #3 |
8. +1 |
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hippywife (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-22-09 09:54 PM Response to Reply #1 |
17. I really, really wish |
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Rising Phoenix (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-22-09 06:02 PM Response to Original message |
4. what is supposed to be an educational channel |
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Duer 157099 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-22-09 06:15 PM Response to Reply #4 |
5. I view it as educational |
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Rising Phoenix (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-22-09 06:31 PM Response to Reply #5 |
7. I agree |
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ChickMagic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-23-09 02:25 PM Response to Reply #4 |
26. Mermaid girl |
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Gormy Cuss (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-24-09 10:07 AM Response to Reply #26 |
32. The girl profiled on DH channel died recently at age 10. |
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ChickMagic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-24-09 01:30 PM Response to Reply #32 |
33. One of the docs where I work |
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La Lioness Priyanka (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-22-09 06:35 PM Response to Original message |
9. because her extra head even looks like an extra limb. because your desire to know more about her |
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Duer 157099 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-22-09 07:39 PM Response to Reply #9 |
10. But her "extra head" was functional and functioned independently of the other head |
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La Lioness Priyanka (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-22-09 08:01 PM Response to Reply #10 |
11. so it would be kinder and less of an outrage to use a human life as a scientific experiment |
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Duer 157099 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-22-09 09:16 PM Response to Reply #11 |
15. If anything, the separation surgery was more "experimental" |
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Orrex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-22-09 10:31 PM Response to Reply #15 |
19. That's a cruel way to spin it |
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La Lioness Priyanka (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-23-09 08:13 AM Response to Reply #19 |
20. also to pretend surgery to enhance a persons life by removing an extra part of their body |
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Duer 157099 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-23-09 05:46 PM Response to Reply #20 |
29. So a second head with a functional brain is just a "growth?" |
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Orrex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-24-09 08:52 AM Response to Reply #29 |
30. Not just a growth. A parasitic growth. |
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Deep13 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-23-09 11:51 AM Response to Reply #15 |
23. The goal was to save one of them. |
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Orrex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-22-09 10:05 PM Response to Reply #9 |
18. +1 |
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Deep13 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-23-09 11:49 AM Response to Reply #9 |
22. +1. |
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KamaAina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-22-09 08:04 PM Response to Original message |
12. Did they name the baby "Zaphod"? |
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HERVEPA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-23-09 03:17 PM Response to Reply #12 |
27. Disgustingly insensitive. |
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KamaAina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-22-09 08:04 PM Response to Original message |
13. dupe |
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elana i am (626 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-22-09 09:15 PM Response to Original message |
14. the condition of the child (named manar maged) |
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cherish44 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-23-09 08:42 AM Response to Original message |
21. I've seen video of Manar before the surgery |
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skygazer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-23-09 12:03 PM Response to Original message |
24. I would just like to point out that this has to be among the oddest subject lines |
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brendan120678 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-23-09 02:17 PM Response to Original message |
25. I have no doubt that both of the twins... |
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dugaresa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-24-09 04:09 PM Response to Original message |
34. As a mother, I can tell you why the parasitic twin was removed |
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