Living helically

Categories: response

Tags: asperger

Date: 27 November 2008 19:30:43

You may be right, Smudgie. But, are we ascending the staircase, or are we descending?

I read somewhere a (supposedly humorous) article (a long time ago), which pointed out that in England, medicine is entirely directed towards diagnosis. Every effort is expended to give a name to the patient's condition, at which point the practitioners lose interest. This, of course, isn't England, it's Scotland, but the principle does apply. At least, in my experience, in relation to one condition ...