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  1. Newsgroups: sci.med
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!eff!ibmpcug!kate.ibmpcug.co.uk!gtoal
  3. From: gtoal@ibmpcug.co.uk (Graham Toal)
  4. Subject: Re: Telephones and Doctors
  5. Organization: The IBM PC User Group, UK.
  6. Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 12:48:01 GMT
  7. Message-ID: <1992Jul26.124801.639@ibmpcug.co.uk>
  8. References: <15800@pitt.UUCP> <1992Jul25.185601.3922@ibmpcug.co.uk> <1992Jul25.211255.7732@ux1.cts.eiu.edu>
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  11. In article <1992Jul25.211255.7732@ux1.cts.eiu.edu> cfaks@ux1.cts.eiu.edu (Alice Sanders) writes:
  12. >Michael, do you care to explain what you mean here?  It could sound like
  13. >you were putting women who have back problems and period problems into a
  14. >category of some kind.
  15.  
  16. I'd hazard a guess that they're the two most common complaints which the
  17. medical profession handles really badly, therefore doctors will be
  18. cornered by people suffering these ailments at parties, saying "How
  19. come the medical profession can't do anything for my ...?"
  20.  
  21. I suspect if you asked Michael he'd also include *men* with bad backs
  22. in this group, but the original remark he was answering was a joke
  23. about meeting women...
  24.  
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