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Jeff
hypothesis
suggestions
drown
cognition
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(Jane was upset when I got to 330 this noon. Jeff Karder, her doctor, had been in. At first she didn’t want to tell me what he’d said until after lunch, but I persuaded her to tell all. One of the nurses had evidently told Jeff that the open sores on Jane’s right knee were draining. He told Jane that there could be an infection there, at the site of perhaps a bone spur — he wasn’t sure. Jeff added that a small operation might fix it, or that perhaps nothing need be done.
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A suggestion like: “If you go swimming too soon after lunch, you will drown,” is extremely dangerous, for it predicts behavior of a disastrous nature that would follow almost automatically after the first act is performed. Obviously, children who go into the water right after eating do not all drown. The suggestion itself can lead to all kinds of nervous symptoms, however — panics, or stomach cramps — that can persist well into adulthood.
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