-=> Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 06-25-19  08:11 <=-

 >  ML> The first was a rogue, and by the time I figured out
 >  ML> it had gone, Doc's had sent it out. I deleted it on
 >  ML> Doc's, but it was obviously too late.
 > My first thought, but then thought perhaps there was more to it...
 ML> Unlike what some people like to think, I do not always 
 ML> have ulterior motives (sometimes, maybe, but not then).

Oh, I know...   I just try to not assume, at least as much as
possible... 
 
 >  ML> The first dates are Saturday and Sunday of the
 >  ML> echo picnic. The working conditions are okay
 >  ML> and the money is more than okay, but she'll have 
 >  ML> to do without me for at least the first weekend.
 > Gotta keep your priorities straight, after all... You can join them for
 > the second part....   Sounds like a nice gig... 
 ML> We shall see. Four digits for her.

Pretty nice.... 
 
 >  ML> patient, well, there's a 80% chance it'll help you
 >  ML> but a 10% chance it'll kill you.
 > Isn't that pretty much all or most of medicine, even if one isn't
 > specifically told so...?  I remember signing a consent form for removing
 > a skin tag, that also mentioned that chance of death....and that's a
 > minor minor surgery...
 ML> Usually the formulations and dosages have been refined
 ML> to the degree that they can claim a substantially better 
 ML> percentage than that.

Even a 1% chance is pretty high...   And can kill you just as dead... 
And then, one can just look at the much better odds that it would help,
and not worry about the risk factor...  ;0
 
 >  ML> the days when the pesty little things were thrown
 >  ML> away, with the occasional Italian fisherman cutting
 >  ML> one open and gulping it down. They were amazingly
 >  ML> delicious and could be got if at all for a dime each.
 > I'll have to try to remember... that does sound like something I'd like
 > to try... 
 ML> Just think of it as going back to Uni.
 >  ML> I'm not so sure about the liver, which should be readily
 >  ML> available here. The first time I had it it was from the
 >  ML> Monday United Tokyo-Denver nonstop, and it was pretty but
 >  ML> not totally fresh, having probably been flown Thursday on
 >  ML> the Washington-Tokyo nonstop.
 > So the liver is a US product...?  Another interesting one...
 ML> It's monkfish liver - the Japanese poach it (in
 ML> sake sometimes) and press it and chill it, and it
 ML> becomes an expensive delicacy. Americans used to
 ML> throw it overboard, but now they know that the
 ML> Japanese will pay for it. And the Japanese have 
 ML> discovered that American epicures will pay for it, 
 ML> which creates a bi-linear 360 degree trade.

I'll mostly just have to remember to mention them when we're at Fu's...
not always an opportunity, especially when things are busy....

 > ... "Sometimes the only answer to death is lunch." -- Jim Harrison
 ML> Okay, that's an interesting take.

I thought so.... especially having recently (before snagging it) had the
occasion to be at a funeral, which had been followed by the usual
food-back-at-the-church (or community room, as the case might be)...  

ttyl        neb

... Traditions are group efforts to keep the unexpected from happening.

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