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Allergy to novocaine causes numbness - Is that not what it is supposed to do?

Posted: Mar 24, 2012

Seriously, it's been that kind of a day. Am I missing something?

You missed nothing... - Baglady

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...sounds like the dictator missed the medical school entrance exam. That's got to be the most obvious piece of evidence of falling standards when staffing physicians.

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