Re: Stroke ! ....just a thought

Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
04 Jan 1998 12:09:34 +0100


"Warrl kyree Tale'sedrin" <warrl@blarg.net> writes:

> Warning: if you have had any sort of internal surgery in the past 3
> months, I do not recommend reading about it in Gray's Anatomy or any
> comparable reference book.

:-) Depends on your perspective. Medicine, and especially surgery, is
a rather brutal craft at present. I read up on surgery before I had a
operation, and I found it empowering to know exactly what it would
involve. The doctors were somewhat annoyed by my questions until they
gave me narcosis. In general, I think it is better to be a power
patient who knows exactly what is going on and how to deal with it
than just a passive recipient of magical medicine.

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