hard lump on side of neck

[Lestat]

Like I said, a course of anitbiotics and to reassess it in a few weeks, usually within a month.
You will never get a defintitive answer though. B?C everyone has been quoted saying its nothing then they get that person.
In fact, you cannot say if you are doing an ultrasound on some lady saying its gender. You either say/ "its a boy or a little girl with a penis".
Just cant be sued.
Its a language.
Bottom line, you may still be dying

bro they didn't give him antibiotics!

 

[bran987]

Like I said, a course of anitbiotics and to reassess it in a few weeks, usually within a month.
You will never get a defintitive answer though. B?C everyone has been quoted saying its nothing then they get that person.
In fact, you cannot say if you are doing an ultrasound on some lady saying its gender. You either say/ "its a boy or a little girl with a penis".
Just cant be sued.
Its a language.
Bottom line, you may still be dying

why do you guys have to do that to me?

 

[KillahBee]

Bran, the most important thing to take away from this thread is this:

You're only dying if you're not living.

ya heard?

live, bran. live

for the love of Christ, Bran, LLLIIIIIIVVVVEEE!!!!

 

[Lestat]

why do you guys have to do that to me?

its bad bro material

 

[GoldenDelicious]

why do you guys have to do that to me?

because medical doubletalk is designed to soothe the patient, protect the provider, and achieve a good outcome in the vast majority of cases. however, because of people being overconfident/lazy/whatever, some simply diagnosed/treated conditions slip through the cracks and lead to a very, very bad outcome. your doctor made a decent call - if it looks like a lymphnode and acts like a lymphnode, then it probably is a lymphnode - so lets not traumatise the shit out of the patient by shoving in a very large biopsy needle and ordering an expensive test, lets just wait and see if the pesky bump keeps on acting like a lymphnode. hence, DO NOT NEGLECT YOUR FOLLOW UP APPOINTMENT.

also, to the guys betting, lymphnodes/cysts/lipomas look remarkably similar with the amount of info the doctor has at his disposal (ie no timeline of changes etc) so paying out bets is premature imo. im still in "wait and see" mode personally.

 

[spongebob]

because medical doubletalk is designed to soothe the patient, protect the provider, and achieve a good outcome in the vast majority of cases. however, because of people being overconfident/lazy/whatever, some simply diagnosed/treated conditions slip through the cracks and lead to a very, very bad outcome. your doctor made a decent call - if it looks like a lymphnode and acts like a lymphnode, then it probably is a lymphnode - so lets not traumatise the shit out of the patient by shoving in a very large biopsy needle and ordering an expensive test, lets just wait and see if the pesky bump keeps on acting like a lymphnode. hence, DO NOT NEGLECT YOUR FOLLOW UP APPOINTMENT.

also, to the guys betting, lymphnodes/cysts/lipomas look remarkably similar with the amount of info the doctor has at his disposal (ie no timeline of changes etc) so paying out bets is premature imo. im still in "wait and see" mode personally.

i tried to tell lestat that very thing but he's fucking greedy.

i wanted a panel to review the actual bet and compare it to stans, i mean brans half-ass diagnosis.

i believe my e-diagnosis will prove to be correct in due time.

bran do you have a digital camera by any chance?