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- From: fulk@cs.rochester.edu (Mark Fulk)
- Newsgroups: sci.med
- Subject: Re: Non-physician bashing
- Message-ID: <1993Jan3.192504.1774@cs.rochester.edu>
- Date: 3 Jan 93 19:25:04 GMT
- References: <1993Jan1.000114.3025@cnsvax.uwec.edu>
- Organization: University of Rochester
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- In article <1993Jan1.000114.3025@cnsvax.uwec.edu> nyeda@cnsvax.uwec.edu (David Nye) writes:
- >...Those that go to
- >alt.practitioners (other than chiropracters) on the other hand often go
- >because it is novel and trendy. They also seem to be more superstitious
- >than mainstream patients, believing in things like luck, fate, and
- >common superstitions. These are the same people who would go to a
- >fortune teller.
-
- There are also those who don't want to confront the possibility that a
- problem may lie within themselves. A friend of ours is clearly, severely
- depressed; although I'm not an M.D., her case is as obvious as George
- Washington's nose on Mt. Rushmore. (Extreme insomnia, negative attitude, a
- permanent frown, frequent outbursts of hostility, long periods of inactivity,
- poor grooming, etc. etc. etc.) She insists that she's just fine, nothing that
- her herbalist can't cure, and by the way, would we mind picking up her herbs
- for her because she doesn't feel like driving...
-
- Mark
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- Mark A. Fulk University of Rochester
- Computer Science Department fulk@cs.rochester.edu
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