andrel wrote:

> They do that with patients that they operate on for brain tumors. Apart 
> from scientific reasons they do that because they don't want to damage 
> functional brain tissue. Basically what they do is stimulate a point and 
> if the patient says he feels his feet or his thumb starts to move or he 
> suddenly remembers his mother, you know you should keep that part. 
> (depending of course on his relation with his mother).

...that last sentence is so full of win! :-D

>> (Perhaps it was the same person who volunveered for the study into the 
>> common cold. They took a control group, and a group who had their feet 
>> submerged in cold water for 4 hours a day. The latter group suffered 
>> from more colds than the control group. WHY WOULD YOU VOLUNTEER FOR 
>> THIS?!?!)
>
> money?

Hot Sales Girl asserted that "that's because they're all students". And 
she used to be a nurse, so I guess she'd know.

[Hmm... Hot Sales Girl as a nurse... yum!]

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