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Our exhausted elected servants have retired to their native haunts, spent perhaps by their efforts to noodle through a desperate plan to reform our national health care mess. It may be that they’ve retired to make good on their wakening efforts on health care, and go full throttle into sleep-and-dream efforts. They might be able to find something there. At least for some of them there may be not a great difference between their awake and their asleep reasonings, so few will get injured.
But the one degree of separation business
connecting health care reform with sleep-thinking is Asclepius, on whose pillow
the legislators can feel safe and comfortable.
In ancient Greece
The connection between modern
medicine and sleep and dreams is the staff of Asclepius—a snake-entwined staff,
which is the very symbol of modern medicine.
In ancient Greece,
people in need would go to their Asclepieion and take their treatment, again
consisting of fasting, prayers, meditation and sleep.
The connection between modern
medicine and sleep and dreams is the staff of Asclepius—a snake-entwined staff,
which is the very symbol of modern medicine.
In ancient Greece
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