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tandell

People Confuse Me

Mar 22, 2005 23:07

So pretend that you're a doctor with many years of medical school behind you. So, why then would you ( Read more... )

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liltommygirl March 23 2005, 08:25:13 UTC

well it could be that they're running on 5hrs of sleep in a 36hr day?

totemstothesun March 24 2005, 00:23:12 UTC

A) Perhaps to confirm an at-home pregnancy test's result?

B-D) Nevermind. You're right, he's a moron.

tandell March 24 2005, 00:53:03 UTC

Actually, A & B-C & D are all different doctors.

The only difference between a HCG & a Preg. is that you get the raw number with the HCG rather than just a true or false... and the report for HCG comes with the following guide: 2-6 for premenopause, 4-8 for postmenopause (and I'm misspelling menopause, I'm sure) and anything >10 is pregnant.

A link: http://www.conceivingconcepts.com/learning/articles/hcg.html

In computer science terms, the preg test would be:

if( HCG > 10 ) return pregnant!
else return Not Pregnant.

umm, yeah.
-- Andrew