At 08:57 PM 26/04/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>Catherine Driscoll wrote:
>
> > Ken writes (re Z and postmodernism):
> >
> > >Here's an example.
> > >
> > >"Doctor, it hurts when I twist my arm like this."
> > >
> > > "Then don't twist your arm like that."
> > >
> > >"I'm going to twist it all the way back!!!" "Yarrrghhhg!"
> > >
> > >This is an illustration of the damned if you do damned if you don't
> psychotic
> > >behaviour. The "patient" knows damn well that they shouldn't twist
> their arm,
> > >but they do it anyway.
>
>The patient had damned well better twist his/her arm, and the doctor
>damned well better do better than this or one of these days the patient
>will find she can't lift her arm more than a few inches from her side.
>Check with a good neurosurgeon. She will give you two simple
>exercises that in about two weeks will eliminate the pain and let
>you scrub your back when you take a shower.
>
>Carrol
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