http://healthblog.ncpa.org/the-spleen-it-gets-no-respect/ Health Care Policy and Reform Insights | NCPA Fri, 25 May 2012 14:05:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://healthblog.ncpa.org/the-spleen-it-gets-no-respect/comment-page-1/#comment-45348 Devon Herrick Tue, 25 Aug 2009 21:55:33 +0000 http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/?p=4843#comment-45348 It’s amazing how doctors used to think that tonsils were something to be routinely removed; the appendix had no useful purpose; and the spleen had some benefit that must have gone out of style with the Stone Age. If these organs didn’t provide a biological advantage to their owners, we never would have evolved them. It’s amazing how doctors used to think that tonsils were something to be routinely removed; the appendix had no useful purpose; and the spleen had some benefit that must have gone out of style with the Stone Age. If these organs didn’t provide a biological advantage to their owners, we never would have evolved them.

]]> http://healthblog.ncpa.org/the-spleen-it-gets-no-respect/comment-page-1/#comment-45342 Bruce Tue, 25 Aug 2009 20:31:47 +0000 http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/?p=4843#comment-45342 I've always liked my spleen. I’ve always liked my spleen.

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