--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [email protected], anonymousff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > <snip> > > I like Benson's point, its kind of beautiful actually. > > Years ago, when I was heavily into Star Trek, I read one of the many > Star Trek novels in which at one point Spock explains to a > disapproving Dr. McCoy that the entire Vulcan medical system is based > on the placebo effect. > > Not long after that, i had to have some minor surgery. As I lay on > the table being prepped, a young doctor stuck a needle into my arm > for a Valium drip and started fiddling with the apparatus. I > instantly felt all my muscles relax. I said, "Gee, that stuff works > fast!" > > He smiled and said he hadn't started the Valium yet. We both > chuckled at my premature response. > > Just as he did begin the drip, I remembered the Star Trek story and > started to tell him about it. He got a very peculiar look on his > face, grinned nervously, and backed away, which I thought was strange > because he'd been so friendly before. > > Then I realized what he had heard me say as the sedative took effect > was, "You know, on the planet Vulcan..."
Thats funny. A great image of the doctor backing away. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
