{"id":115,"date":"2010-06-13T22:33:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-13T21:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/adc-archimedes\/?p=115"},"modified":"2010-06-24T11:30:22","modified_gmt":"2010-06-24T10:30:22","slug":"squiggly-lines-and-tea-leaves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/2010\/06\/13\/squiggly-lines-and-tea-leaves\/","title":{"rendered":"Squiggly lines and tea leaves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Cerebral function monitoring\" src=\"http:\/\/z.about.com\/d\/healing\/1\/0\/J\/H\/1\/gi_tea-leaves.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"110\" height=\"111\" \/>My grannie-in-law knew a lady who would look at your tea leaves and tell you the future (younger readers &#8211; see <a title=\"How to make proper tea\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imperialteagarden.com\/brewtea.html\">here<\/a> &#8211; tea is not always bagged &amp; tagged).<\/p>\n<p>I had a similar experience with a neonatologist who would look at the seismograph attached to a babies head and declare the child needed more (or less) phenobarbitone.\u00a0 Exactly how the dose alterations were related to who&#8217;d just knocked the incubator, and what they did for the babe, I have yet to understand. 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