Anti-diarrhoea drug drives cancer cells to cell death

Re:Anti-diarrhoea drug drives cancer cells to cell death by EForEndeavour on Wednesday December 23, 2020 @12:18PM (#25519765)

1. Medicine is an ancient tower of hacks upon hacks.

2. Many people have areas of interest outside of their profession.

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Re:Anti-diarrhoea drug drives cancer cells to cell death by oblio on Wednesday December 23, 2020 @12:45PM (#25520047)

3. Programming is one of those things you can do as a side-gig/hobby. I'm quite sure you can be a programmer and an MD, but you probably can't be both a theoretical physicist and a neurosurgeon :-p

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Re:Anti-diarrhoea drug drives cancer cells to cell death by eitland on Wednesday December 23, 2020 @01:49PM (#25520716)

I'm fairly certain there was at least one doctor who used to write Linux kernel code as a way to get rid of stress after work.

(3 minutes of searching got me Con Kolivas, and "ck" sounds familiar so that might be him.)

edit: now I see heavyset_go has commented about the same.

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