These weren't Rock's usual doctor. The first, a man, checked his blood pressure. Rock's systolic reading was in the mid-one twenties, but his diastolic was fifty-eight.
"Bill Joseph is my doctor, and he put me on this really strong blood-pressure medicine," Rock said. "Do you think he might want to put me on something not quite as strong?"
"That's a possibility," the doctor said.
The next doctor, a woman, pulled out a plastic instrument of some sort that was about the shape and size of a ball-point pin. She made it clear that she intended to insert it in Rock's right arm. Rock resisted, but she would not be denied and almost angrily stuck it in just above his elbow. To Rock's surprise, there was no pain involved. Also to his surprise, the doctor withdrew from his arm a clear liquid that looked as if it had ground black pepper floating in it.
"It's obvious that you've eaten some pepper today," the doctor said. "You have, haven't you?"
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