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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?
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>> 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
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