"calling doctor borg"
July 13, 2001, 12:30 p.m.

I'm at home today while everyone else is working. It's a vacation day. I'm going to the doctor for a check-up in a little while.

Sometimes I really I hate going to the doctor. Especially when there's nothing wrong with me. I will tell him about my sleeping problems though which he won't be able to do anything about.

He will tell me to eat right, no caffiene, no smoking, and be sure I excercise properly and get plenty of sleep.

That's what he'll say. That's what they always say. That's why I loved it when I went to the Chiroproctor. He didn't say all that to me. He even told me he didn't want me to go all full out and excercise but rather do 2 separate stretches for my lower back and that was it.

So anyway - I'll hear the canned speech today - which every doctor I've seen in this HMO has said to me. I can tell by the way they say it that they were either taught to spew this blurb when they went through medical training or HMO training - or HMO doctors are all borgs.

So we shall see what they have to say today.