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Remember the sequence wherein Elly was horrified to learn that Connie had had her face touched up? Not only did we have the same sort of bellicosely fatuous nonsense about doctors that informed the monster-under-the-bed take on getting a mammogram or seeing a gynecologist, we also had to endure a simperingly fatuous "moral" from Elly about how great it is to not arrest the process of getting old, fat and ugly the way Nature intended. The reason I mention this is that Lynn has herself a nasty habit that isn't kleptomania: lying to her fans about having the occasional round of cosmetic surgery. As we know and the Geri C's, Anna M's and Bettyheres do not, she'd once written Phyllis Diller about at least one face lift and her recent photos show all the signs of post-operative bruising so we know something about her that her fans don't. Why she lies about this is one of the few readily comprehensible things about her: that's because she's probably supposed to lie about stuff like that.
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The story arc that was featured in the dying days of January 2009 reminds us of Lynn's hostility towards modern medicine. She distrusts and fears the health practitioners in her life because they don't seem to give her what she needs when she needs it. She spent years in pain, for instance, because of a conflict between two of her meds. This dislike of the field manifests itself in various means. The first sign that we had that she doesn't trust doctors is the way she writes Ted. Instead of a kindly dispenser of wisdom like Marcus Welby, we have a defective clone of Hawkeye Pierce from the first few seasons on MASH: a womanizing, patronizing buffoon without the essential decency that made the man's skirt-chasing and leering almost bearable. We also have John as an incompetent and, to top things of, any female that wore a lab coat was a brainless bimbo that was hired as window dressing. This, as howtheduck said, extends to Deanna. The reason this occurred to him is quite simple. One the one hand, we had Jim complaining about being over-medicated while on the other we had her not taking him seriously. It also seemed to him that in the Strip of Destiny all the characters were able to do better for themselves than they do now. She was thus able to transcend being the sort of idiot John hires to become competent at last by opening a money-hemorrhaging, anachronistic sewing school.

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