[NPInfo] FW: HELL EXPLAINED BY CHEMISTRY STUDENT

[Michael B Marks, FNP]

I did my L4-L5 when I was 29.  I had severe radiculitis and total foot drop. 
Despite nuerosurg and ortho consults that thought surgery was the best 
option I went to a rehabilitive medicine specialist (DO)  who through 
multiple injections and PT had me back to full activity after 6 months of 
hell. 21 years later no scar on my back and I am fully active in skiing, 
backpacking, basketball etc.  So, my experience avoiding surgery was the 
best thing.  BTW, the DO who fixed me was someone would be familiar to many 
on the list, Robert Goldberg.  Small world.
mm
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> loved this.
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> by the way, for all on list:
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> I have a 20-year old, pre-med son/student (who also appreciated this story 
> below) who recently blew out his L4-5 lumbar disc playing?basketball.???? 
> Had his first epidural steroid injection with equivocal results thus far, 
> and is asking me (an orthopaedic nurse practitioner with LOTS of 
> experience with spine, but very few patients his age with this problem) 
> what his prognosis is.??? How many of you have treated kids his age with 
> this problem, and what have you seen in the long run?? how many go on to 
> resolution? how many need surgery?? any suggestions?? he's also in PT and 
> on pretty useful?drugs.
>
> Kathy Geier?
>
>
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> From: wrightnp <wrightnp at bellsouth.net>
> To: npinfo at nurse.net
> Sent: Sat, 10 May 2008 10:00 am
> Subject: [NPInfo] FW: HELL EXPLAINED BY CHEMISTRY STUDENT
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> Subject: HELL EXPLAINED BY CHEMISTRY STUDENT
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>  The following is an actual question given on a
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> Louisiana State University chemistry mid-term.
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> The answer by one student was so 'profound' that
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> the professor shared it with colle agues, via the
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> Internet, which is, of course, why we now have the
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> pleasure of enjoying it as well :
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> Bonus Question: Is Hell exothermic (gives off
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> heat) or endothermic (absorbs heat)?
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> Most of the students wrote proofs of their beliefs
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> using Boyle's Law (gas cools when it expands and
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> heats when it is compressed) or some va riant.
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> One student, however, wrote the following:
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> First, we need to know how the mass of Hell is
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> changing in time. So we need to know the rate at
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> which souls are moving into Hell and the rate at
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> which they are leaving. I think that we can safely
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> assume that once a soul gets to Hell, it will not
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> leave. Therefore, no souls are l eaving. As for how
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> many souls are entering Hell, let's look at the
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> different religions that exist in the world today.
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> Most of these religions state that if you are not
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> a member of their religion, you will go to Hell.
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> Since there is more than one of these religions and
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> since people do not belong to more than one
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> religion, we can project that all souls go to Hell.
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> With birth and death rates as they are, we can
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> expect the number of souls in Hell to increase
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> exponentially. Now, we look at the rate of change of
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> the volume in Hell because Boyle's Law states that
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> in order for the temperature and pressure in Hell to
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> stay the same, the volume of Hell has to ex pand
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> proportionately as souls are added.
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> This gives two possibilities:  1. If Hell is expanding at a slower rate 
> than
> the
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> rate at which souls enter Hell, then the temperature and pressure in Hell
> will increase until all Hell
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> breaks loose.
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> 2. If Hell is expanding at a rate faster than the
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> increase of souls in Hell, then the temperature and
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> pressure will drop until Hell freezes over.
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> So which is it?
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> If we accept the postulate given to me by Teresa
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> during my Freshman year that, 'It will be a cold day in Hell before I 
> sleep
> with you,' and take into
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> account the fact that I slept with her last night,
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> then number two must be true, and thus I am sure
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> that Hell is exothermic and has already frozen over.
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> The corollary of this theory is that since Hell has
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> frozen over, it follows that it is not accepting any
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> more souls and is therefore, extinct......leaving
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> only Heaven, thereby proving the existence of a
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> divine being which explains why, last night, Teresa
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> kept shouting 'Oh my God.'
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> THIS STUDENT RECEIVED AN A+.
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