E-mail has brought us not only quicker and painless communication, but also a shorthand for keystrokes. Talk about impatience. For those who find that typing out certain common phrases is needlessly slow, here is a list from The Elements of E-mail Style, an Internet bible of sorts. Makes one wonder what the meaning of literacy may be in the future: someone who can string together a group of acronyms? FYA & FWIW, CUL.*
| ACRONYM | EXPRESSION |
| -------- | ---------- |
| BRB | Be right back |
| BTW | By the way |
| CUL | See you later |
| F2F | Face to face |
| FWIW | For what it's worth |
| FYA | For your amusement |
| FYI | For your information |
| GD&R | Grinning, ducking, and running |
| GMTA | Great minds think alike |
| HHOK | Ha, ha, only kidding |
| IMHO | In my humble opinion |
| IOW | In other words |
| LOL | Laughing out loud |
| OBTW | Oh, by the way |
| OIC | Oh, I see |
| ROFL | Rolling on the floor laughing |
| SO | Significant other |
| TIA | Thanks in advance |
| TTFN | Ta-ta for now |
| WB | Welcome back |
| WRT | With respect to |
| WTG | Way to go |
Many relevant diagnostic signs are not performed deliberately by the examiner or by the patient at the examiner’s direction. They are observed as the patient reacts to their condition. Fortin’s finger sign, Minor’s sign, and Vanzetti’s sign are three examples of this principle.
Spearheaded by burgeoning scientific and clinical research literature, psychedelics have reached a level of media coverage and popular interest that has not been seen for over half a century. By “psychedelics,” we are referring to the unique class of substances that includes psilocybin (the active compound found in so-called “magic mushrooms”), LSD, dimethyltryptamine (DMT), ayahuasca, 5-MeO-DMT, and mescaline – each of which occurs in the natural world (except for LSD, which is a semi-synthetic compound).
While working at the Lovelace Medical Center in Albuquerque, N.M., one of the primary care physicians stated that imaging every patient prior to receiving chiropractic was not medically necessary. It was at that point I reconsidered the need for the imaging of every patient to avoid malpractice.
