Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ? Date: 28 Dec 2024 00:27:32 GMT Lines: 16 Message-ID: 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=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net sw/BHFOd4eLHqtJXgBtNxg/3iGjo5d1vscvrbfn9vIqWRv8YSD Cancel-Lock: sha1:xUtLWj6d5XjfsxLaFXoCLB+fJxg= sha256:FC36k1DV4FfzRt/h+cGzOsW3Gus1pnr2p490LYz5E+E= User-Agent: Pan/0.149 (Bellevue; 4c157ba) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:63170 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. 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.