[dighton]

“He said it was a job for a psychiatrist’s couch, not for a surgeon’s table. He implied that I was crazy, and it was really quite hurtful. He probably saw me as a raving lunatic.”

Right on the money.

You may recall a doctor, with the same view of a patient’s identical request, in Hemingway’s short story God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen.

[aculeus]

You may recall a doctor, with the same view of a patient’s identical request, in Hemingway’s short story God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen.

George Carlin on the same subject, "Well, he now has less to wash."