Comments on: The Art of Differential Diagnosis in a Super-Hero World

By: GW Crawford

GW Crawford — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 16:17:40 +0000

Always best to stake first, diagnose later…

Come on, back me up on this!

By: Jason Barnett

Jason Barnett — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 23:38:57 +0000

When Kitty joined Excalibur she’d suffered a massive physical injury that altered her from solid girl who can become non-solid, to non-solid who can become solid.

By: Shibia

Shibia — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 20:24:04 +0000

IIRC, Kitty Pride suffered during all her early teens from migraines, and not only just before her powers emerged. It was linked to her mutant power, but not a simple symptom. Strangely, when she joined Excalibur (and was physically a grown-up) no more migraine. Could it simply be a sympton of teen hormonal confusion ?

(sorry for the syntax, English is not my first language)

By: Mark Temporis

Mark Temporis — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 01:53:14 +0000

I highly suggest you make these a regular part of your blog. Got them both, BTW. You might want to mix things up by having two paranormal choices.

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 18:06:41 +0000

fluffy, For the real world: In my experience, D is the most common cause in situations like Case #1, but A would be fairly common as well. For Case #2, I would be most concerned about A, though I would probably want to work-up B too.

By: fluffy

fluffy — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 17:40:11 +0000

So, which would be the correct responses in the real world? My suspicions would be migraine and a transient ischemia attack, but I am of course not a doctor (but I do go through periods of severe migraine and that sounds very familiar to me, and on the second one I think you can rule out B, C and D because D seems unlikely to even be brought up by a patient and B and C would involve several periods of actual fainting which he’d remember, right?).

By: ScienceGiant

ScienceGiant — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:23:03 +0000

Actually, Scott’s post just narrows the focus on a wide swath of science fiction & fantasy.

For instance, I recall in an episode of Star Trek where the characters are talking about all the possible causes for the trouble they are encounters, and among the things ticked off on what could go wrong are alien encounter, parallel universe, and time travelling.

But I suppose we could go back to Bram Stroker to blame for this. When examing why Lucy is weakening, Van Helsing realizes she must the victim of… a vampire!

By: arkonbey

arkonbey — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 14:34:19 +0000

nothing to say except that it made me laugh. That short post summed up a lot of the fun of the comic book world.