Recent content by SerpentSun

Except that you totally listed cancer surgeries as one of their most common procedures. In this thread, your original post, it says "cancer surgery". Right before "organ transplant", aside from their heart. That technically counts as mentioning cancer in a post. You didn't say "viral...

"Snake venom", "plant poison", and "neurotoxin" are all very broad categories. I could ramble on endlessly about biochemistry, ethnobotany, and herpetology, so forgive me if I blow your minds. There are reasons the serpent became associated with medicine. Snake venom is mostly just powerful...

For being a medical student, your understanding of biology is....eh. In most cases, surgery is rarely necessary. Perhaps if a bullet or arrow is lodged in the body, or if there is severe internal bleeding that needs repaired. But real medical "professionals" have a tendency to remove the...

Hello! :) I thought perhaps I might offer advice before asking it of others. There should be a more concise way to list my areas of knowledge, but it's bedtime in my timezone and that is the shortest title I could think of. I apologize. There are a great many topics that interest me, but none...

I would stitch wounds in real life, but I would probably go for cautery in my writing. There's just something about a hot guy screaming as he burns....But it really is better for plot purposes, more physically and mentally scarring. Burns seem worse than anything else for most people. A...

I will say that cauterization actually increases the risk of infection. Burning would cause extra tissue damage, and it doesn't usually stop the bleeding as well as you'd think. Cauterization leads to amputation if there is something left to amputate. In an ideal situation, wounds should be...

Or maybe just an urn? I know urns are usually for ashes, but a lot of the ashes from cremation are actually bone chunks and powder. Or at least my brother's ashes are.

What idea is truly new anyway? Perhaps information, like energy and matter, has no beginning nor end? Some of my best characters started as carbon copies of other favorite characters, until they found a new life of their own. Your magic systems are as unique as the individuals who invisioned...

My advice may differ from what others before me have said. That doesn't mean they're wrong, I just ain't normal. And I also don't intend to get published either; publishers are looking for certain things, and that isn't what I write. Your mileage may vary. I struggle with writing dialogue and...

I'll have to read that when I have a minute. And yes, but what would predispose an Earthlike planet to have smaller tectonic plates? I'm thinking maybe more currents in the mantle. The axial tilt and whatnot are the same as Earth, so there are no changes in centrifugal force. That leaves...

Which was due (at least in part) to the quick shift in pressure on Earth's crust, if I do recall correctly. Interesting. I was wondering if more extreme weather would be a result of increased volcanism, a cause of it, or just overkill. Pehaps a more rapidly changing climate might be in order...

I think our ancestors had A LOT of good medical knowledge that the modern industry has lost or hidden. Not just the medieval days either, I mean the ancient prehistoric tribes. Look at how healthy wild animals are. They must have some medical secrets, and humans used to be wild animals too...

My fictional world is the same size and basic mineral makeup of Earth. It is also the third planet from its sun, the same distance we are from our sun. Except my Earth is much more volcanic. Or rather, it is more geologically active in general. But how? If a planet was the same size...

Hello! :) Nice to be a member of such a friendly forum. I may have been here before, maybe not, but I'd rather not say who I once was. I'm trying to delete any old internet accounts I made with my Gmail address. Haha yeah right, like anything on the internet can be deleted. You folks may just...