You're such a cut-up--are you sure you're not a surgeon?

That's interesting about Mondeville. In the 19th Century, Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis proposed that obstetricians wash their hands between deliveries, a practice that reduced childbed fever in mothers to below 1%, but he couldn't get the medical establishment to go along with it and finally died in an asylum.

I think you're onto something, if they give you morphine just for acting grumpy. Acting like I was in agony with my last kidney stone couldn't even get me an ibuprofen.

Oh well. If all else fails, ponder the plight of the dyslexic agnostic insomniac, who lies awake for hours wondering if there really is a dog.