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Liver (Score:5, Funny)
I am going to need it at this rate
Re:Liver (Score:4, Funny)
If you weren't so selfishly hogging that liver, Steve Jobs might still be alive.
Re:Liver (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Liver (Score:5, Funny)
Who?
Yes, that's the right doctor to ask for. :-)
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Pancreas (Score:5, Insightful)
Since I am a type 1 diabetic since my pancreas was ruptured & removed 12 years ago.I have suffered through the very severe side effects of Diabetes,especially 3 amputations.
Re:Pancreas (Score:4, Informative)
If it was possible several years ago I would check OE pancreas as well but for my Dad who passed away from pancreatic cancer. Only had 7 weeks from diagnosis until death.
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If my - and more importantly, your father's - toilet had an ELISA diagnostic in it that turned purple when someone with pancreatic cancer peed in it, he'd have gotten the bad news 20 years ago, back when there was just the one little lump the size of a grain of sand and there was still time to do something. Michio Kaku has spoken on the subject before, after interviewing people who are building the magic t
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Sounds similar to having a baby.
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I think "bad genes" is an entirely too convenient diagnosis that's been handed out far too often. What is her family history? Did her parents or siblings suffer similar problems? Does she have a known genetic condition that predisposes her to cancer? I would guess not. Seems more likely to me that she was exposed to nasty chemicals. And it's not in most people's interest to explore such causes. Industries that use such chemicals would prefer to hush up that kind of thinking. Might get them sued, or
Re:Pancreas (Score:5, Interesting)
They were.The last one took the front 2/3 of my right foot.Left me most of the heel.I can hobble about the house now,but going outside requires at least a cane.I never could negotiate crutches.I usually stuff clean wash cloths into a right shoe to go to town,but that has a tendency to spin around if I don't tie it tight enough.
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Re:Pancreas (Score:5, Interesting)
Directly a result of our current greed based healthcare system.How in the hell can you afford the insulin when one-can't buy insurance that covers the condition(ACA took care of that.BTW) and the premiums were higher than what I made minus a $10000 deductible PER YEAR.
I'm now just starting Medicare and am finally getting some decent treatment.But I believe it will go single payer with 5 years.It will have to.The current setup is collapsing.
Re:Pancreas (Score:5, Interesting)
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I have a sister suffering from 4th stage cancer or I would have..Even though I am disabled & barely able to walk,I care for her,as no one else will.
It is the Religious Christian(That's a fucking laugh) right that is pushing that idea.But times are slowly changing.I hope I live long enough to see the changes.
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As a fellow type 1 I can only express my monumental shock that you would be treated so poorly by the medical system. Completely avoidable problems because you can't get synthetic insulin? Absolutely disgusting. Absolutely, totally disgusting. Basic, basic diabetic care.
I'd send a pen or ten if it'd help.
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In April of 2010 the AAP suggested allowing less damaging versions of FGM under some circumstances.
And you thought you were joking.
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I've got 1 but using it is so clumsy that I put it away after the first 2 weeks.The cane works fine for me now,I get along fairly well,not fast but I eventually get there.What's the hurry? It's not as if I have to go to work anymore.
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The problem isn't that it's evil, it's that the U.S. simply can't afford it.
Well, can't afford it while simultaneously paying for our military at current funding levels. And pay out foreign aid to make other countries not hate us so much that they turn communist. And fund an impossible to win Drug war. And funding mass-monitoring and eavesdropping operations.
IMO, (full disclosure, I'm a US citizen) it's more "evil" to spend what we are on what we currently are than health care, or education, or science, but
Re:Pancreas (Score:4, Insightful)
I'm all for reducing military spending, but that's not the real problem. Other countries have single payer or socialized health care systems, and they pay less than we do. The problem is that too many of our older citizens are stuck in the cold war mindset where socialism = communism = the enemy. That problem will fade in time, but greedy capitalists will push propaganda to keep it going as long as possible.
It wouldn't be that hard for the US to switch to single payer health care once we have the political will to do so. Just allow younger people to buy into Medicare. The Dems tried to do that during the whole health care "debate" a few years back, but were stymied because the unified GOP bloc meant that they needed every non-GOP vote, and Lieberman decided to be an asshole to get back at the party that had kicked him out.
Even so, we'll get there eventually. The current system is unsustainable, and while Obamacare improved things, it won't be enough in the long run. The GOP is aware that that's the direction we're headed in, which is why they're trying to get rid of Medicare in favor of that voucher system of theirs.
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>The problem is that too many of our older citizens are stuck in the cold war mindset where socialism = communism = the enemy.
I'm not so sure about that. From what I can see, the most right-wing of the voters are the Gen-Xers and the younger Baby Boomers, in their 30s-50s, not the old people. The old people want to preserve their Social Security and Medicare checks, and they aren't so rabidly religious and anti-gay.
I think things are going to get a lot worse before they get better. I don't really beli
Re:Pancreas (Score:4, Informative)
The problem isn't that [single payer healthcare is] evil, it's that the U.S. simply can't afford it.
I see this claim often, but it's simply not true. The UK spends about $3000 per person per year. The US spends nearly three times that much, and doesn't even get coverage for everyone as a result.
The cost delta, scaled to our ~300M population, is over $1.5 Trillion per year. If we wanted less-meager universal healthcare, we could spend 66% more than the UK, in which case we'd save "only" $1T per year.
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I live in such a place and my grandfather went through the same as above and more - diabetes is not always a simple thing to treat even if you can afford and obtain the best possible treatment.
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I don't know what you mean by your post, but I do know that Europeans drive like crazy lunatics compared to Americans. I've survived traffic here for 44 years already.
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Mass of vehicles and the skill of the drivers at dealing with changing situations probably contribute to that.
I've lived in rural areas and in Toronto. In the city you'll see some aggressive driving, but not that many accidents. The aggressive drivers have some amount of skill and those around them tend to react well. Even in traffic jams people compensate for each other and let others on and off the ramps to keep things flowing.
Out here in the rural area the drivers seem to think that there is no one to in
Other (Score:2, Funny)
A new Homuncowboyus Nealus, duh
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I'd go for a new squeedlyspooch.
I am white (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I am white (Score:5, Funny)
I am white...Because of this I think you know what organ I'd like to print.
Then what you want is not a replacement, but an upgrade.
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If it ever becomes possible to download a cock upgrade and print it yourself I just hope you can download an enlarged extra-lubricated vagina to go with it, or womankind is going to suffer.
Cystic fibrosis (Score:2)
Re:I am white (Score:5, Funny)
A rhythym.
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Train your zombie to only feed on people wearing blue uniforms, and send it to the airport.
It would starve.
Meh (Score:4, Funny)
Organs sound too 60's for my taste.
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What about a Mellotron?
Re:Meh (Score:5, Funny)
Wasn't he the Decepticon that turned into a groovy VW Microbus?
Nervous system for my friend (Score:5, Insightful)
Who suffers from MS.
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Nervous system for my friend ... Who suffers from MS.
As much as it's a nice thought, can you imagine the transplant procedure?
Re:Nervous system for my friend (Score:5, Funny)
"Who suffers from MS."
He should try Ubuntu instead.
Re:Nervous system for my friend (Score:5, Insightful)
Try talking to people with MS. I told a friend that what she needed was Linux to solve her MS and it made her laugh.
Political correctness can be very annoying to the people you are trying to protect!
Definitely Liver! (Score:2, Funny)
Given the amount of ethanol I have asked my liver to clean out of my bloodstream since I turned 21, I think my liver is my savior part!
Face (Score:2)
Seems to be the main problem!
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How do you know that the new one will be better? The poll doesn't say.
Because of this risk, I'd go with something that's relatively harmless if the new organ was worse, like a wisdom tooth or fourth toe nail.
New organs (Score:5, Insightful)
Custom-designed heart good for longer than the lifetime of the owner. Skin which changed to reflect the mood of the owner.
If at all possible, a better repair system, so life-threatening injuries would become life-irritating injuries.
vagina (Score:4, Funny)
Because I have only seen one on the internets
knees (Score:4, Informative)
If I had a million dollars I could get those fixed now. So maybe I'd just print $1 million rather than wait.
Re:knees (Score:5, Funny)
Foreskin (Score:5, Funny)
Because mine was multilated without my consent after I was born.
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This seems to be a bigger deal than it is.
1. For most of us, we don't even remember it.
2. For most of us, we don't going around showing it off anyways (with or without it)
3. Most women really don't care.
4. It suppose to help prevent infection
Either way it is no big deal.
Re:Foreskin (Score:4, Insightful)
Either way it is no big deal.
Unless something goes wrong during the procedure. There is no such thing as risk-free surgery.
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Either way it is no big deal.
Unless something goes wrong during the procedure. There is no such thing as risk-free surgery.
But that one solves itself naturally. It just becomes a small deal!
Re:Foreskin (Score:5, Insightful)
Don't, and there's a one-in-a-million chance he'll get AIDS when he otherwise wouldn't have.
Now I could be wrong about this, but I don't believe that AIDS just spontaneously happens. I'm also fairly confident in saying that, as far as receiving it sexually, your kid cannot get AIDS if the only people he fucks are people that are free of the HIV virus, and as far as receiving it from other methods, trimming your kid's dick isn't going to make any kind of difference. I'm also fairly confident that even if your kid fucks someone with the HIV virus, a condom is going to do a hell of a better job of protecting him than a trimmed dick would.
But I suppose if, when you look into the eyes of your hours-old son, you see someone who absolutely must have unprotected sex with carriers of HIV, well then, trimming his dick just might offer some kind of benefit.
Re:Foreskin (Score:5, Interesting)
By saying it's not a big deal, you insult everything I stand for, you insult the Dutch Constitution, and you insult the German Constitution and their Constitutional courts. Learned men have concluded that the circumcision of children is a violation of their basic rights and their integrity.
I was circumcised at 20. It was a medical decision: The foreskin was too tight to allow me to have sex properly, so I made the only choice I could. I *know* what it felt like, I know the "before and after" differences, and I know some good and bad consequences of the procedure.
My son was born 4.5 years ago in Israel. He is, according to that side of the family, Jewish. According to me, he's just an Israeli and Dutch citizen, and he can make up his mind about philosophies later in life. According to the Dutch constitution, the freedom to believe whatever he wants is self-evident. The Israelis being the racist and religious fucknuts they are, however, caused them to use 6 months of debating with me to get me to yield to his circumcision. I refused. The first Mohel left the circumcision because I told him I didn't want it done because it is nobody's right to decide over his body but himself. The same applies to his mind. I don't understand the "religious by birth" argument. He is simply Daniel the Dutchman, and he is getting mind-raped as we speak.
The second time around they did manage to circumcise him against my explicit will. He was a month and a half old. Mazal tov. They hurt him physically, which I could see at the time, but which I also can attest to as a later-in-life circumcised man. Then they took away his choice. He is getting Judaism shoved down his peeing tube. He cannot undo the modification / mutilation of his body ever again.
Culture should stop at the knife and outside the school grounds. If that is not a big deal to you, you're an insensitive clod.
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By saying it's not a big deal, you insult everything I stand for, you insult the Dutch Constitution, and you insult the German Constitution and their Constitutional courts.
Somehow I doubt that he feels bad about insulting all those. If circumcision is all you stand for, then you have a serious lack of diversity in your life.
Re:Foreskin (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Foreskin (Score:5, Insightful)
Yeah, except for when something goes horribly wrong [google.com] (up to and including death) from a procedure that is totally unnecessary literally 99.99%+ of the time.
Would you play Russian Roulette if you didn't have to?
Re:Foreskin (Score:5, Insightful)
Who the fuck are you to tell me it's no big deal that I'm missing part of my penis?
Thanks for telling me how to feel. Good luck with marriage.
Re:Foreskin (Score:4, Interesting)
1. For most of us, we don't even remember it. ...
But it doesn't grow back - scars are still there, missing nerve endings,
2. For most of us, we don't going around showing it off anyways (with or without it)
But we do use it for having sex. Kind of important.
3. Most women really don't care.
So I shouldn't either? WTF?
4. It suppose to help prevent infection
Medical circumcision - a cure in search of a disease for over a century.
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There is a valid medical reason for routine infant circumcision: to discourage children/teenage boys from self-abuse (masturbating). Sound backwards? It should; this is exactly the reasoning that Victorian-era doctors had for pushing for this barbaric procedure to be standard.
Luckily, the civilized world has moved on past this craziness, but the USA has not.
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Let me list the diseases it helps prevent: 1. AIDS 2. HPV 3. Syphilis 4. Gonorrhea In African countries...
Those studies are unreliable, at absolute best. All the other problems aside, the reason you have to run to studies done on adult circumcisions in third-world African countries is because none of the ones done on men circumcised as children in first-world countries find any connection worth mentioning.
As for women...
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There's no religious tradition involved. Only a tiny percentage of Americans belong to a circumcising religion.
The New Testament makes a big deal of circumcision not being a part of Christianity.
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He wrote that very poorly, and from an American viewpoint. What he meant to say was that for the vast majority of Americans, there is no valid religious tradition which compels them to circumcise their male infants, because it is not a part of Christianity. Jews are a tiny, tiny minority here. Most Americans still do it because it's a tradition, and they've invented all kinds of stupid excuses to convince themselves it should still be done, when the real reason it was pushed in this country was because 1
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Whenever possible, please tell us all about your private parts. Everybody wants to hear everything about that.
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So if your parents want to get your hands amputated just for kicks, they should be allowed to give consent and have that done to you?
Your logic is fault.
Parents are only supposed to be able to give consent for procedures which are medically necessary. Foreskin removal has no medical necessity except in a few very rare cases, which generally show up later in life. Moreover, parents aren't allowed to bar access to medically-necessary procedures or treatments because of their stupid personal beliefs; many re
Wait. (Score:5, Interesting)
Since none of my organs are failing, or having problems, at the moment, I'd rather wait until I have problems then print whatever it is I need. In the absence of that choice, I'd probably print one for someone else.
Pulmenary system (Score:3)
I'm not a long-time smoker like a lot of the older guys I know, who've been smoking nigh on half a century. But I have been smoking for ten years, and I'd like to print me a new set of lungs and a new trachea. I don't have cancer (that I know of (yet)) but I used to be able to play sousaphone while marching briskly uphill. I can't even carry that sousaphone uphill now without getting winded and wanting to have a smoke.
Or maybe a new brain would be better.....
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Re:Pulmenary system (Score:5, Informative)
That said, to the OP: Quit! Quit now! You will never regret quitting! Nothing feels better than waking up in the morning not needing a smoke.
Don't forget all the extra money you will have for new "toys".
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As others have said, quit. :)
I quit after about 15 years of smoking. I took up running and feel great. I run about 30-40K per week, and have undone most of the damage I caused by smoking. Running shoes and even the technical shorts and shirts are far cheaper than smoking as well
Ears (Score:5, Interesting)
Print for someone else, and by organ I mean brain. (Score:5, Interesting)
I know of a few people that is in dire need of a new organ, and in every case that organ is the brain. Defective kidneys and livers seem to have less visible effects, so the need of such organs are not as obvious.
Here unlisted... (Score:5, Funny)
I'd print myself a Hammond organ. With Leslie speakers.
Pretty obvious (Score:5, Funny)
I'm blind in one eye. :D
So the answer is pretty obvious :
big tits!
"It's a good brain..." (Score:3)
Wrists (Score:2)
Colon for my mom (Score:2)
That depends. (Score:2)
Can I tell you after my doctor's appointment this afternoon?
(Unfortunately I'm not joking. I'm having some bizarre health problems and I don't know why.)
Something new (Score:2)
A new set of lungs (Score:2)
Missing organ? (Score:2)
new brain (Score:3)
Let's put no middle/high school into this brain and double the math content.
Trust me... (Score:4, Insightful)
As someone who just got out of the burns ward yesterday -- you want a second set of skin. Don't even waste any time looking at the other options.
Stomach and small intestine (Score:2, Funny)
Still can't digest grass. Fix that and it's no longer 'cutting the grass' rather it's 'making dinner'.
Now get off my lunch.
Kidney for my son (Score:2)
My son has a pretty severe kidney-related problem, since birth. He's almost 9 months old now. I would happily donate one of my kidneys for him but he's too young.
I'd print one for him right now if this were possible.
Brain for my son (Score:2)
If I had a coupon for a two-fer I'd also get an eye for me (blind in one eye since I was a kid).
Comments in here are one of three categories (Score:4, Insightful)
Man, this is a rather annoying poll. Every response in here seems to fall under one of three categories... and two of them can basically be lumped together.
1. Liver - I drink logs, hurr durr.
1b. Brain - I stupid, I need new brain hurr durr.
2. Remove whatever cancer I have/someone else has.
So all of the comments boil down to either lame, overplayed college humour, or a sob fest. Boy, what an awesome pile of comments to read.
That was easy. (Score:3)
It's unlisted, but I would print myself an new pair of knees due to the old ones falling victim to arthrosis, and a new thumb which was damaged in an bicycle accident recently.
A Prehensile Tail. (Score:3)
Seriously, how useful would a "third hand" be? I could be typing this two handed and eating a cheeseburger at the same time. Of course I'd need the supporting neural structures to go with it; motor and sensory cortex etc; and who knows what emergent cognitive possibilities that might add?
Backbone (Score:3)
the obvious use (Score:3)
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Pancreas. I'd like one that does the right thing with insulin please.
stupid thing is missing from the list. apparently my livers fine, but pancreas freaks from alco(or from whatever).
hence, pancreas it would be.
Re:Since I'm a smoker (Score:5, Funny)
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Maybe YOU should get a new brain, so you could get over your Magical Thinking. "Why don't you just quit?" Heh. Spoken like someone who's never smoked, but has all the smug superiority of a recent quitter.
Between "print yourself new lungs" and "quit smoking", you picked quitting as the example of magical thinking?
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You also did not describe any common symptoms of nicotine withdrawal. It is more likely that you had mono. [wikipedia.org]
mentally, I believe, it was more taxing then most smokers would have to go through, at least they know the cause of their suffering
Quite the opposite. One of the most difficult parts about quitting smoking, is that you know (or think) "just one" cigarette will make yo
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Re:One seems an open value (Score:5, Insightful)
Actually, the skin is an organ.