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From the desk of Dr Bassett.

Memo to Dr Hatchjaw.

Wallace, thank you for patient report FJ1b. May I make a brief point? Once again I detect a tendency to overdiagnose. The fact that the patient showed some reluctance to wake up and exhibited signs of confusion, anxiety, etc., when he did, hardly justifies the inference that he wants to regress to the womb, interesting though the observation is, and doesn’t necessarily imply avoidance as a tactic. The behaviours and symptoms you describe are all consistent with a very bad hangover.

Also (sorry to niggle) I feel that the use of the expression ‘zonk’ in a formal report is a little inappropriate. However, perhaps I’m just being old-fashioned.

Eudora