On Nov 7, 4:25=A0pm, Vance <Vance.L...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Nov 7, 12:49=A0pm, "Novice" <bardirectREM...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> > aneasthesia?
>
> Sorry, I was writing quickly and forgot that there is a common
> American spelling. =A0In my educational background people were sticklers
> about the language and you had to learn Greek, Latin, or German if you
> were studying medicine because the terminology is all rooted in those
> languages.
>
> Either is acceptable in common usage and I should have thought about
> that comment before I made it. =A0Anesthesia is and always has been a
> bastard spelling in my mind and that prejudice slipped out. =A0My bad.
>
> However, I am interested in what he was/is doing with hypnosis as
> anesthesia/aneasthesia in a medical practice. =A0The OP's first post
> doesn't quite pass the first sniff test as coming from an MD, but you
> do get a strong whiff of GRPiness about it.
>
> Vance
What is GRPiness?
I am retired from practice. I was a GP and on occasion, when a
patient was particularly anxious before a potentially painful
procedure, I used hypnosis to help them relax and I suggested the area
concerned would become numb. Things like suturing without xylocaine
or endometrial suction curretage for post meno-pausal bleeding were
good uses. When you grab a woman's cervix with a tenaculum to
straighten it before inserting an endometrial probe or currette, you
can be sure that hurts and hypnosis helped - but did not completely
eliminate the pain.
While I have become proficient at rapid induction and deepening, I
have used it responsibly so as not to embarass the subject. I do,
however, enjoy watching skilled hypnotists manipulate their subjects
to do essentially anything they want. Personally, I do not believe
that people have complete "free will" when it comes to the
machinations of a master hypnotist.
Do I pass the sniff test now? By the way, there is a common clinical
condition diagnosed with the 'sniff' test. Anyone know what it is?
Its called Bacterial vaginosis - or Gardnerella.
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