HPSCHD-L Archives

Harpsichords and Related Topics

HPSCHD-L@LIST.UIOWA.EDU

Options: Use Monospaced Font
Show Text Part by Default
Show All Mail Headers

Message: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]
Topic: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]
Author: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]

Print Reply
Subject:
From:
turpin d'isigny-ffytche <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:
Harpsichords and Related Topics <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Wed, 23 May 2007 08:55:28 +0200
Content-Type:
text/plain
Parts/Attachments:
text/plain (40 lines)
Am 23. Mai 2007 um 8:01am schrieb David Hitchin:

>> At 09:53 PM 5/22/2007 -0500, Jay wrote:
>> ...  Is it legitimate for me to be
>> curious about this, or do I just accept his authority?
>>
>> I've run into this problem before, and I still haven't figured out the
>> appropriate strategy.  I'm afraid I'll continue to be seen as a smart 
>> ass
>> as long as I continue breathing.
>>
>> JB
>
> When examining my nose, rectum and bladder, four (separate) 
> specialists each informed me that they were using a "telescope" (a 
> device for looking at DISTANT objects). Were they being patronising, 
> assuming that I would not understand the words "nasoscope", 
> "proctoscope", "sigmoidoscope" and "cystoscope", or were they all 
> astronomers who had missed their vocation?
>
> David Hitchin

The last time I was obliged to see a doctor it was for driving license 
renewal (one has to rent vehicles occasionally to transport things), 
and I was given occasion to be very glad a doctor was well educated - 
cos once it was clear that i was fit enough he asked me 
how-i-was-in-myself, and when i answered that i was very troubled by 
the US regime pursuing adventurist wars and by states retracting their 
economic presence under pressure from highly mobile and aggressive 
capital and by the increasingly pornogrphic character of popular 
culture, he said that he would not be able to sign my form until i had 
'seen one of his colleagues' . I could only think to answer that this 
seemed an example of the forceful policing of souls, something that had 
been of grave concern to Eugen Bleuler (the 'father of institutional 
psychiatry') in his late book entitled 'Autistic & Undisciplined 
Thionking in the Medical Profession': I asked him if he had read that 
book,  and I was enormously relieved when he answered slightly 
abashedly that he had, because he then signed my form without further 
ado

ATOM RSS1 RSS2