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   From: seanc130@hotmail.com   
      
   "Hunter"  wrote   
   > kerilotion  wrote:   
      
   >> If your toes are blue you might be dead or having circulation   
   >> problems. So no socks.   
      
   > Ah, I suppose that makes an odd sort of sense but dammit I think I'd   
   > still want socks....or at least a blanket, FCOL! If someone's   
   > concerned, they can take 'em off.   
      
   I think the idea is that your toes might be blue and no one would ever   
   *know* about it, if you had socks on. It's not the kind of thing that only   
   happens when someone is specifically concerned and goes out of their way to   
   check for it. You have to be able to see what's going on at *all* times.   
      
   I don't know if this is what I was referring to when you said I made the   
   comment about 'House', but the recent episode 'Frozen' did in fact   
   demonstrate this very well. House had the patient, who was on the other end   
   of a webcam at the South Pole, strip down so he could examine her body, but   
   she left her socks on because it was cold. Days later, after she almost   
   died, it turned out that her problem was related to a broken toe she didn't   
   even know she had, and if she'd taken off those socks House would have seen   
   it immediately.   
      
   A blanket shouldn't be a problem, though. But on the other hand, if you're   
   in a coma, are you really going to even care? How can you be cold if you're   
   not even conscious? Scully, as a sentient observer, wasn't even in that   
   hospital room -- she was off gallavanting around, riding boats and talking   
   to her dad. What does she care if some body she's not even in is covered up   
   or not?   
      
   --   
   --Sean   
   http://spclsd223.livejournal.com   
      
   House: You're wearing that shirt for someone.   
      
   Wilson: The health department. They frown on topless oncology.   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
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