Re: Digest Number 2000

From: Oliver D. Bernuetz <bernuetz_at_...>
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 23:07:15 -0000

• In HeroQuest-RPG_at_yahoogroups.com, "Jane Williams" <janewilliams20_at_y...> wrote:
  > It's nasty. It wrecks your life. It's not as bad in
  > Glorantha as in the RW because there's the clan to do child-rearing
  >(and Glorantha being under-populated not over-, there's a lot more
  > incentive!), so you only lose a few "months", not the next twenty
  >years, but it's still a non-trivial event.
  

Wrecks your life? That's a tad severe.

>
> > Both my wife and sister in law were extremelly active during their
> > pregnancy.
>
> Lucky them. This is not the norm.

Probably more the norm in Glorantha where a sedentary lifestyle is not so common as in the RW. Plus the weak get winnowed out before they get to child bearing age. And yes that's a terribly cruel thing to say.

> Severe what????

"Iatrogenesis is:

Any adverse or physical condition induced in a patient through the effects of treatment by a physician or surgeon." http://cmo-usa.com/iatro.html

Oliver