In the fall of 2000 before the Presidential election I had an outpatient operation to remove a precancerous skin lesion on my abdomen. I remember lying on my back on a surgical table with the doctor standing over me as he held a long needle and began to numb the area around the skin he was about to remove. A young nurse was beside him to assist with scalpels, stitches, and bandages.
Other than small head, hand or finger gestures I didn’t move. He said something about fat cells ‘weeping’ after cutting them open. Then he began to talk about the election. He talked about how Gore would be bad for the economy, business, and doctors. I nodded in agreement because I wanted him to be on my side. I don’t remember exactly what he said, but I remember the nurse chiming in about Bush being the ‘lesser of two evils.’
