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Skriven 2014-12-01 21:45:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av MICHAEL LOO
Ärende: Re: health again 364
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-=> Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 11-30-14  15:16 <=-

 ML>> Suppose. Today I had to go take the bus half an hour up
 ML>> to the courthouse to do some stuff, then half an hour
 ML>> back (waiting at the bus stop 10-15 each way), and I
 ML>> was totally wiped.
 NB>> Not all that surprising.  Hopefully you are doing a bit better by
 NB>> now...? 
 ML> Still really tired a lot of the time, and this is a week
 ML> later. I am afraid that I've fallen into a hole that it
 ML> may take a long time to claw my way out of.

Sigh.  Anything you can use as a tonic...?  Maybe there's still some
infection lurking...?  Thoughts and prayers stay with you here...

 ML>> They proposed an implantable cardioverter for me, which
 ML>> is a fancied-up defibrillator that does more things
 ML>> (which means that it's likely to go off more often,
 ML>> something I don't really want - again, it seems like
 ML>> micromanaging my body).
 NB>> Doesn't sound all that appealing to me, either... if anything is
 NB>> going to micromanage my body, I want it to be just me... ;)
 ML> They would make the point that sometimes the crisis occurs
 ML> too fast for anyone but a machine to respond; and I would
 ML> say, not in my lifetime ... .

Similarly, I'd probably respond that I'm not that concerned about
sticking around... not that I'm raring to leave, either, but some things
are just more than I wish to deal with...  :) 
 
 NB>> In my context there,
 NB>> the implication was that maybe it's true, maybe it isn't, but if true
 NB>> after all, it could be explained into what I already knew... 
 ML> My issue is that it's a Humpty-Dumptyoid approach to
 ML> the language, which emphasizes the solipsistic view
 ML> that a word means wnat I want it to mean, rather than
 ML> emphasizing the communicative aspect, where words have
 ML> meaning by precedent (the lexicon) and otherwise by
 ML> mutual agreement.

I mostly (probably almost entirely) agree with you on that... :)  The
original use of the word was by someone else, and without knowing quite
how it was being used, I'd just be inclined to go with it and argue
later... but I'm not happy with the port-manteau approach to language
either... :)

 ML>> No doubt - the systems are all related and interreact,
 ML>> something that I discovered that the idiot resident docs
 ML>> hadn't read in their books and hadn't yet figured out
 ML>> on their own.
 NB>> I think that the curricula here at URMS may actually have that sort of
 NB>> thing taught early on
 ML> One of the young geniuses tried to lecture me that
 ML> the two excretory systems were totally separate, and
 ML> I pointed out that though their normal functions did
 ML> not overlap much, in non-average cases, such as
 ML> overload, there could easily be slopover between the
 ML> two. He had the good grace to come back and admit
 ML> that that was true.

Quite, and there's promise for that young man after all.. :)

 NB>>> Especially at your home base.  :)
 ML>> Well, yeah, word may spread quickly, but it doesn't
 ML>> spread as fast as all that.
 NB>> Probably not to the whole hospital, yet...
 ML> The records are all out there for everyone to see; if
 ML> anyone cared to scroll down through the whole mess.

That, after all, is supposedly the point of having all these integrated
computerised records... the fly being that one actually has to read
them... 

 ML> M's note: vinaigrette? Maybe a dotty garnish or something?

I guess they figured they needed to leave something to the
imagination... ;0

ttyl       neb

... Prune yoghurt - the "get & go" snack food!!!

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