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Bob Veecks
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Date Posted: 00:05:26 05/08/06 Mon
In reply to:
Xpltivdletd
's message, "In a search for something else, this turned up.." on 19:59:51 05/06/06 Sat
Interesting theory!!
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>href="http://atlanta.craigslist.org/vol/144371201.html"
>>Suuuure I believe he's volunteering for this.
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>OK... the wording raises all sorts of warning-flags.
>But, as a CONCEPT (had he not specified who he'd
>rather have "practicing" on him), it struck me the
>idea may have its ...applicability.
>
>I never enjoyed a *thing* about being ill or otherwise
>in need of attention in Sickbay for the first 20 of my
>adult life. That habit has largely endured for the
>16½ years or so, since. If I'm on that exam-table I
>am NOT there trying to put any moves on some
>attractive (and quite obviously aware of it) young
>woman who has just been assigned to come in and do
>this or that. When she walks in looking at my
>middle-aged carcass like she's a celeb on
>Lifetime-TV's EEEUWWW-Factor and I'm her new
>challenge, it little-inspires my confidence. I don't
>really care if she's demonstrated on some cadaver or
>mannequin that she knows the course-material. Neither
>of those can actually report that something she did in
>haste while making a face and averting her eyes HURT
>LIKE HELL, now get her away from me and get me a
>Doctor.
>
>Some live person who knows what's supposed to happen
>and how it ought to feel if done RIGHT, can give that
>report immediately. Some live person who does NOT fit
>her profile as a possible romantic interest, giving
>instant feedback, might either cure that squeamish
>approach or might provide an epiphany regarding her
>career-choice (e.g., you were better suited for
>the Mall).
>
>So--logically--there could be a place for the position
>that "volunteer" is pretending to seek--in a
>teaching-hospital or in a nursing-school. It would
>have to be in an open, un-private setting, with direct
>adult supervision. I'm thinking a teaching-hospital
>because some of the implements with which such a
>volunteer would be poked--can create an immediate need
>for surgical intervention if wielded too
>vengefully/fearfully/disgustedly.
>
>Logically, such a volunteer should expect to serve as
>a live training-device for the entire spectrum of
>nursing students--not just those about whom he may
>have fantasized. That would probably select-out
>whoever posted that proposition, in the first 3
>minutes or so. The same logic that tells me this
>could work, suggests some seasoned Nurse might know a
>few other things that would select-out a wiseass on
>the make. So any applicant had better be
>genuine--and, probably, genuinely shameless. But, as
>a concept, this off-the-wall idea works
>for me, I believe. RKBA! Best regards.
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