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- From: heim@vms.macc.wisc.edu (JOHN HEIM )
- Subject: Re: It's True
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.174600.16466@macc.wisc.edu>
- Sender: news@macc.wisc.edu (USENET News System)
- Organization: University of Wisconsin Academic Computing Center
- Date: 13 AUG 92 12:34:06
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- In article <MJD.92Aug12232255@saul.cis.upenn.edu>, mjd@saul.cis.upenn.edu ("[*] Angel of Tar") writes...
-
- >Warning: Not original; I got this from ``Why You Can't Make a Computer
- >that Feels Pain'' from _Brainstorms_, by Daniel Dennett:
-
- [Stuff about surgery being perform while patient is paralized by
- curare deleted for brevity.]
-
- When I was in 9th grade I broke my arm. My parents took me to an
- emergency room in a Green Bay hospital. The doctor came into the ER
- after I had been waiting for 20 minutes or so and started yanking on
- my arm. He braced himself against the chair I was sitting on, put one
- arm against my shoulder and pulled and twisted with all his strength.
-
- Obviously, this hurt a little. I almost passed out from the pain but I
- didn't say anything or even cry out. When he stopped he put a cast on
- and finally went over to a counter to fill out some paper work. My
- mother said to the nurse "He must have been setting his arm, huh?"
- The nurse said "Oh, no. If he had been setting his arm we would have
- given him an anastetic (sp?)."
-
- The doctor looked over at us sharply and said "He didn't get an
- anastetic?!"
-
- Absolutely true story.
-
- John "And I didn't even have a bullet to bite on or a shot of wiskey" Heim
-