Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!i2pn.org!i2pn2.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: D Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ? Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2024 12:17:31 +0100 Organization: i2pn2 (i2pn.org) Message-ID: <5b065b27-7b96-fa22-2f35-a1fda1bf0edb@example.net> References: <10366897-b37e-5fee-3895-1524008f8b3b@example.net> <4b2cnTX5lsAz0Pf6nZ2dnZfqn_qdnZ2d@earthlink.com> <9768b36e-becf-45b5-9730-77fc3396ba60@example.net> <35fa6d66-0cd3-db6e-a34c-6625712373f2@example.net> <2e1d4083-8bb5-d852-87e2-466b8971f071@example.net> <573768ec-4a10-ddde-774e-9d378baac394@example.net> <237cf371-700e-be30-7ec8-df825e179db2@example.net> <8ea4721d-c8e7-600d-4eab-8a5f473a8a79@example.net> <131fa0ed-dc3c-5873-81a5-61213a109b57@example.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Injection-Info: i2pn2.org; logging-data="845860"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@i2pn2.org"; posting-account="w/4CleFT0XZ6XfSuRJzIySLIA6ECskkHxKUAYDZM66M"; X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:63203 On Sat, 28 Dec 2024, rbowman wrote: > On Sat, 28 Dec 2024 00:31:08 +0100, D wrote: > >> This makes one think. How much is sickness, and how much is the belief >> of sickness? It's almost as if a doctor can make things worse sometime. >> =/ > > Medicare provides for a yearly 'wellness' visit and I make use of it. I > get along well with my doctor. She must have slept through Drug Pushing > 101 in med school. There is a form to determine if a person would benefit > from statins and according to her the answer is always 'yes'. She would > prescribe them if I asked her to but it's not the default. At times she > can be cynical abut her profession. What are statins? Sometimes I feel very young here. ;) I remember my old doctor. He operated on a push/pull methodology. If you wanted something, he would not give it to you, if you did not want something, he would push it. The reason I remember it, was that once my mother wanted something, and he tried his best not to give it to her, and then the same week I went there, he tried hard to push the same medication on me. He was fairly grumpy and an extremely heavy smoker. > I would prefer to blow my heart out on a steep mountain trail and become > food for the bears to some long drawn out affair where 'medical science' > tries to put off the inevitable. This is the truth! After seeing my mothers cancer treatment that did not work out in the end, I agree 100%. She went through 3 years of hell for nothing. It did not help of course, that the doctor misdiagnosed her. She was in tears and filed a law suit against herself. I do not blame her, I blame the socialist system she works in, which made her over worked, and therefore more likely to commit mistakes.