Medical Guinea Pigs

Guinea Pig is a tailless rodent used in medical experiments and testing.

I am opposed to using  animal testing unless those testing are done for the benefit of the species as is done in zoos.

I am opposed to having animals in cages for human display.

I yesterday saw peacocks displayed in Nicosia island park.

Animal should live in their natural environment or habitat.

I believe London, Paris and New York have more rodents than their equivalent human population.

My equation is 3 rats to every human being.

I believe that rats eat their own carcases by design (if not controlled by snakes and weasels).

We do not need Rat Zhar but the proper disposal of staled food.
Best place is our stomach and one should eat as much as one needs, not more, not less.

Problem of obesity is solved.

I am far off the intended long essay.

I was used as a guinea pig by a PhD guy.

I was in my third year of our medical school a guy from my own colleague who was attached to the Nuclear Medicine Unit approach me and asked me, if I can be a subject for the purpose of stabilization of the thyroxin protocol.

Without much a do, I said yes since I had a good understanding of T4,T4 and TSH.

He was physics guy with a PhD from somewhere.

He did not have any medical background.

He gave me a lethal oral dose of radioactive  iodine.

Within a few hours of it radioactive iodine was all over my body.

I was a human guinea pig.

I used go a scan every month of my medical student days for a scan and when it petered out I started testing my TSH levels every year for very long time.

When they start charging I stop testing in Ceylon and in UK and New Zealand I used to test them in my opening medical examination tests.

They are only worried about Tuberculosis.

Once in a few years I go to Singapore and get basic tests done since, I do not trust Testing in Ceylon.

I had a full examination aged 55 that was required by a UK Agency.

Thankfully the radioactive dose of my thyroid was very low.

For all its worth, I would have been hyperthyroid to begin, with lest I would have ended as a case iatrogenic thyroid carcinoma.

When I joined as a seconded officer, I actively campaigned against locating it behind the medical library and got them evicted.

I never saw this physics guy again in my life.

Somebody else much later tried to do the same trial on Kandy school girls and I told the principal that my daughter is not given a single dose and I killed the project yet again.

Then again a medical guy 3 years junior to me wanted an advice on a research protocol.

I told him test thyroid function against grey hair, which he did and he disappeared to America.

I told the professor under whom he worked he will never come back.

He was a good sportsman and with his help and my scoring in my events and relays Medical Faculty was the second runner ups