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From:  Mike & Vicki Bryant <mbryant@f...>
Mike & Vicki Bryant <mbryant@f...>
Date:  Fri Jan 12, 2001  9:11 pm
Subject:  Re: What effect does singing have on physical health?


Chris wrote:

vtec> Don't you hate it when doctors say "take a deep breath" when what they
mean
vtec> is "take a high clavicular audible breath" (meaning, really, a SHALLOW
vtec> breath)? I always ask my doctors "Do you really mean a deep breath?" I
vtec> think it annoys them but I have to re-translate because if I take what is
to
vtec> me a deep breath, they say, "No, I mean a DEEP breath!"

Yes! The only doctor I ever had who knew what a deep breath really
should be was my allergist, who saw asthma patients daily. For all
the rest, I've learned to add a little clavicular breathing to the
deep breath to give them what they want to hear...

Vicki Bryant
Naperville, IL



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