Maybe it means particularly those academics who wanted a middle ground between creationism and evolution?
Mal: So we run. Nandi: I understand, Captain Reynolds. You have your people to think of, same as me. And this ain't your fight. Mal: Don't believe you do understand, Nandi. I said 'we run'. We.
'Heart Of Gold'
Natter 40: The Nice One
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Emily - Dec 05, 2005 10:35:31 am PST #9454 of 10006
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Cashmere - Dec 05, 2005 10:35:49 am PST #9455 of 10006
Now tagless for your comfort.
I'm mad at myself for being too discombulated to say anything at the time it was happening.
Don't be. Most people feel vulnerable if they're in the doctor's office. Half the time they're naked and upset and don't feel like they can complain.
I'm glad you can switch--definitely make sure they know why, in no uncertain terms.
tommyrot - Dec 05, 2005 10:42:34 am PST #9456 of 10006
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
That got me, too. Which academics are the natural allies of ID? The ones that don't rely on scientific facts?
I took it to mean "allies - assuming that ID is (as its adherents claim) actually scientific."
So maybe I was reading sarcasm where there was none.
tommyrot - Dec 05, 2005 10:43:29 am PST #9457 of 10006
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Half the time they're naked and upset and don't feel like they can complain.
NATLBSB
(sorry)
Jesse - Dec 05, 2005 10:50:55 am PST #9458 of 10006
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
So, everyone already said what I was going to say about ID and Allyson's doctor and msbelle's flight and whatnot. So.
Allyson - Dec 05, 2005 10:51:00 am PST #9459 of 10006
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
I have no sense of humor right now.
§ ita § - Dec 05, 2005 10:56:11 am PST #9460 of 10006
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
There should be a gig like patient's advocate -- how many times do you ever go into a doctor's office feeling on top of your game?
I admit that the times I've been to the ER with people it's helped me stay focussed (but that time I was fighting morphine for mental clarity was a bit tiring). But that's still about you remembering to be on your own case.
Someone calm and reasonably impartial to remember why you went in, and to keep the doctor reasonable themselves.
Sorry you had to go see Dr. House, Allyson.
Trudy Booth - Dec 05, 2005 11:12:07 am PST #9461 of 10006
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Cass can't come out to play, but she sent this for the Alias (and other) fans [link]
shrift - Dec 05, 2005 11:15:15 am PST #9462 of 10006
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
I have no sense of humor right now.
I rarely do when I'm not feeling good and my experience at the doctor is horrifying.
Signed,
Still Not Over the Whole Crystel Meth Thing
flea - Dec 05, 2005 11:17:05 am PST #9463 of 10006
information libertarian
The New York Times has been having a series on what it's like to be a patient, and their most recent one was about bad doctor behavior. They said that traditionally almost nobody complains, but big practices and HMOs are really working to get people to comment on the way the doctor treats you. If nobody complains, nothing gets done, but if people complain, TPTB can make the doctors go to sensitivity boot camp, or even fire them. TPTB like happy patients who come back.