Is illness mostly in the mind? Certainly it's interesting that once a fellow has found the courage to go to his GP and been handed that lovely crisp green bit of paper marked 'prescription' he immediately experiences a greater feeling of wellbeing - some time before the pills are actually even in the bag and then down the hatch.It's a feeling like reinforcements arriving at Helm's Deep, or maybe the Blitz spirit returning on a much smaller, more personal scale. Help is here; you're not alone; we will overcome, now stick the kettle on for a nice cuppa char.
I have been given Metoclopramide in 10mg doses to be taken three times a day. It's like the 25th of December in short bursts.
Doctors and pharmacists are wonderful people. They bring comfort to millions by not actually doing much other than chucking some tablets at you and taking your £6.85 NHS charge.
Now that's magic.
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Michael Crichton - for it is He - in his book, 'Travels', surmised that people typically only died of cancer when told they had it. That is, relatively 'healthy' people, when told they had skin cancer, or whatever, typically died fairly shortly thereafter. Those that were *not* told, tended to live on for years. The mind gives in, and the body follows. Allegedly.
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