>        A great many posings recently have made arguments pro and con this
>mediction or that medication, this symptom or that symptom.  Without taking
>sides, I will try to alienate everybody all at once.  Here are some statements
>which I think are probably (more or less) true.  They are also not
>self-consistent.
>
>1.      PD is a bummer.
>2.      It's not going to go away.
>3.      Anecdotes about individual experience are valuable because they
remind us
>of our common humanity.
>4.      There is objective reality in this world, but it is not to be found in
>anecdotes about individual experience.
>5.      Our physicians work for us.  The best physician is the one we have
>confidence in. BUT, beware of quackery.
>6.      Quackery promises much but delivers little.  Science promises
little but
>delivers much.
>7.      The person who acts as his (or her) own doctor has a fool for a
patient.
>8.      Characterizing engineers (and, by extension, scientists) as all of
a kind
>is nonsense, an anti-intellectual Polish joke.
>9.      Those who can't spell shouldn't put themselves down.  They should get a
>dictionary.
>10.     George Fox, the founder of Quakerism, preached that when we learn
to see
>that part of God that is in those we meet we will then see that part of God
that
>is in us.  (My words, not his.)
>11.     PD is a malady of the body.  It does not have also to be a malady
of the
>spirit.
>12.     I only know eleven things for sure, today.
>
>Check out the logical contradiction in #12.
>
>George Andes  62/14  and counting.>


George,
Do us all a favor--go back to bed & get up on the Right side of the
bed this time!!!!!

Marjorie