Doctors
I've decided that doctors are getting away with too much. They make hundreds of thousands of dollars a year and often have a smug, self-righteousness about themselves. They're often atheists. They treat patients (particularly those with terminal diseases) like means, annoyed either that they're not healthy enough, or that they're going to die--this not because of compassion, but because of their own vanity and their inability to play God 100% of the time. They also increase the objectification of the world by telling patients that they're going to die before the patient realizes he is deathly ill. This leads to an upsurge in suspense and dread on the part of the patient. Hundreds of years ago, there were no special names like "cancer;" people just got sick and died. Before death, they could pray for deliverance. The presence of doctors seems to annihilate religious hope.
I've never seen Greys Anatomy. But I bet I'd hate it.
I'm not advocating that we get rid of doctors or modern medicine at all. But we need a radical change: First, doctors stop getting paid so much. General practioners are idiots anyway--fuck 'em. Surgeons? Those who really preside over life and death? You're in for it: Start showing compassion, or get the fuck out of the fuckin' hospital. No more Mercedez, no more playing Bridge with the other asshole millionaire surgeons and getting wasted on expensive liquor. Surgeons get paid the same salary as elementary school teachers. No greedy Americans up for the challenge? Good. We'll get Catholic priests and nuns to do the job. Surgery's not that complicated; no more complicated than what I do in the lab. They swear an oath of poverty anyway, and they're in the business of compassion and good will. Besides... I don't want atheists ripping open my chest cavity in the first place.
Grief. Pain. Humility. Compassion. Start walking the Way of the Cross, doctors, because right now your blatant material realism is sickening.
Another thing:
I believe I'll re-publish some the great conversations of 2005 and 2006. They were phenomenal.
I've never seen Greys Anatomy. But I bet I'd hate it.
I'm not advocating that we get rid of doctors or modern medicine at all. But we need a radical change: First, doctors stop getting paid so much. General practioners are idiots anyway--fuck 'em. Surgeons? Those who really preside over life and death? You're in for it: Start showing compassion, or get the fuck out of the fuckin' hospital. No more Mercedez, no more playing Bridge with the other asshole millionaire surgeons and getting wasted on expensive liquor. Surgeons get paid the same salary as elementary school teachers. No greedy Americans up for the challenge? Good. We'll get Catholic priests and nuns to do the job. Surgery's not that complicated; no more complicated than what I do in the lab. They swear an oath of poverty anyway, and they're in the business of compassion and good will. Besides... I don't want atheists ripping open my chest cavity in the first place.
Grief. Pain. Humility. Compassion. Start walking the Way of the Cross, doctors, because right now your blatant material realism is sickening.
Another thing:
I believe I'll re-publish some the great conversations of 2005 and 2006. They were phenomenal.