Woke Crowd Needlessly Blows Lid Over JEOPARDY! Clue
Man, the woke crowd will find absolutely anything to complain about.
Imagine being so woke that you get offended over an actual medical term for a disease.
This is a trend that I’ve been seeing lately with the woke crowd, but it’s something that liberals actually do. They also find someone else other than themselves or the actual person or group responsible for an “offense”.
Just this month, pop star Billie Eilish was attacked for a video that she made when she was 13-years-old in which she mouthed the word “ȼhink” because she was mouthing a song by a rapper.
So the woke folk go and target her for something she did as a literal child, and ignore the man who actually wrote the song.
Now they’re mad because JEOPARDY! used the term “Grinch Syndrome” to refer to Postural Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS), when it wasn’t even JEOPARDY! who came up with this title, it was medical experts!
The following comes from a medical manuscript published by the NIH.
By using a cardiac MRI technique, we assessed precisely the heart size and mass in patients with POTS, and found that the heart was about 16% smaller in these patients and more than two standard deviations smaller than the true mean for healthy sedentary controls. In the famous children’s book “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” by Dr. Seuss, subsequently popularized by the movie of the same name, the main character had a heart that was “two sizes too small.” We suggest then, that a more pathophysiological name for POTS would be: “The Grinch Syndrome”, emphasizing that a small heart is the primary abnormality and target for therapy. A small heart coupled with reduced blood volume contributes to the small stroke volume, ultimately resulting in reflex tachycardia during orthostasis in these patients.
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In summary, patients with POTS had a smaller heart coupled with reduced blood volume compared with healthy controls. We therefore propose the name “The Grinch Syndrome” to focus on this pathophysiology. The marked orthostatic tachycardia in these patients appeared to be a physiological compensatory response to a smaller stroke volume, which was attributable to cardiac atrophy and hypovolemia.