Small But Mighty: A Thyroid Life

THE new and growing medical platform, Medpedia has recently announced the addition to its impressive colation of resources, health and medical videos.

I wrote about the launch of Medpedia, a new platform for sharing medical information between professionals, organisations and patients, a short while ago - to see the post click here.

The new feature pulls videos from the big names in information-sharing such as Big Think and the US CDC and FDC.

So far there is an impressive collection of articles with video on the site. The article pages contain, as with all articles on Medpedia, textual information divided into Wikipedia style menus and headings, useful links to other divisions of the site (communities; questions & answers, etc), as well as any photos and, now, a YouTube video insert under the heading 'Related Videos.'

The multimedia addition to the site follows Medpedia's success so far in creating a "one-stop site",  as I named it in my article after its launch. It is pooling incredibly useful resources from dozens of different places. No more searching on Google and then a Medical site, and then YouTube to find all the information you're looking for: you can just use Medpedia. Hassle-free.

To take one page as an example, here is the article on Metabolism at Medpedia:
http://wiki.medpedia.com/Metabolism
Still in development, there isn't a whole wealth of information on this page as there is on some others and the 'Clinical' tab as yet remains empty. However there is a simple definition of metabolism and there is a YouTube video explaining how knowledge is being furthered about human metabolism, information of both common-interest and useful to those studying medicine at any level.

Linked from this page is an article titled: 'Alcohol Metabolism', which is one of Medpedia's more detailed and longer articles, explaining how alcohol is processed in the body. There is then a video on "How much is Too Much?"


Check out the videos on Medpedia now:
http://wiki.medpedia.com/Special:ArticlesWithVideo

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Thyroid Disease Community on Medpedia:
http://www.medpedia.com/communities/146-Thyroid-Diseases

Thyroid Q&A:
http://www.medpedia.com/communities/146-Thyroid-Diseases/related_questions

My blog on Medpedia:
http://www.medpedia.com/news_analysis/59-Small-But-Mighty-A-Thyroid-Life

The crowd is screaming, booing and cheering all at once, and their voices are so tied together you can't tell which is for you and which is for your enemy. 

And the truth is that you have made an enemy. You've made one without even trying. You've made one without ever wanting one. You've entered a fight - right now your trainer leads you to the ring, and the ongoing screaming cries ever louder - and you've not even been trained. 

But now you've got to learn to punch. And you've got to punch good. 

Smack. Your against the ring. It hurts. Like hell. Blood and sweat, stinking and dripping and - you punch back once. 

Your enemy slips out the way. Skilful. Better than you. Probably better than you'll ever be. 

You want to curl up in a ball and sleep. 

Smack. 

Smack. 

Smack. Smack. Smack. 

Give it all. All or nothing. You gather what little you have left, and that consists of anger. Screaming, you are, in your head. Screaming. 

And the crowd too. Louder and louder. You're standing there, a life-long enemy facing you, his eyes dark and devilish. You're standing there, facing an enemy you never wanted and never meant to have, and you punch him. And you get smacked. 

Finally! There it is! The magic pill; the red or black life-saver; the health box in Crash Bandicout;  the pill that means energy. Why rely on it? So weak, so silly, to rely on something so artificial. Especially for a fighter. Not a born fighter no: a made one. 

But it works, doesn't it? It works. Smack. Smack. Smack. 

One more, okay?

Smack. 

And he's down. Down and quiet and sleeping, and you're standing there, finally - the first fight you've ever won - smiling, laughing, cheering with the crowd and jumping up and down as though you've just been born. 

He'll be back, that enemy of yours. You know it. Enemies always are. 

So for now until the next fight, Time. 


Winston Churchill:

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life. 

Woodrow Wilson:

If you want to make enemies, try to change something. 

 http://www.wisdomquotes.com/cat_enemies.html