Weetabix wrote:I don't know, Aesop, about the "fuck you, go die" being the only solution.
I don't think it's the only solution.
But it's the only solution
when you turn healthcare over to the government.
{
cf. airport security, railroads, mail delivery, veteran's care, home loans, college loans, marriage, child care, and damn near everything they've ever touched, since forever.}
Bitch all you want about Nazis, but at least Dr. Mengele was honest about what he was trying to do.
My gripe is selling socialized medicine as anything but slow-motion euthanasia and self-inflicted genocide.
Because socialism
always runs out of other people's money, and no one knows that better than the leading apparatchiks themselves, from the inside of the monkey house.
6. Some doctors of at least the following varieties:
- I'm God. Do whatever I say
Modern medicine as we know it was developed in post-revolutionary France.
Napoleon was great at creating all sorts of soldiers with interesting wounds and diseases, and a decade of war across Europe helped spread that boon to all parts of society. Coupled with the sentiments of the French Revolution, doctors in France developed a marvelous system of hospitals, where they grouped and treated people with similar complaints: gunshots, stabbings, broken legs, abdominal pain, etc., all under separate rooves, so they could use statistical data to determine empirically the best outcomes in treating similar disease pathways, and then standardizing practice accordingly. It was brilliant. And, courtesy of the kneejerk largesse of "
liberte, egalite, fraternite", all provided absolutely free of charge to the citizens.
There was but one caveat: you had to follow precisely and exactly the course of treatment the physician prescribed. Period.
Refusal was handled very gently: they lifted your pallet off the sick bed, carried it out to the curb, set you gently alongside the gutter outside the hospital, and they wished you "
Bon chance, and bon voyage, Messr. God be with you!"
We should follow the exact same pattern here, nowadays.
If you want to be your own doctor, go right on ahead. And DLTDHYITAOYWO.
(Dr. Jenny McCarthy, call your office.)
- I'm scared of lawsuits, have every test under the sun
That would be every doctor practicing in the United States.
If you don't like that, there are several excellent replacements available:
Seriously, you're shooting the victim there.
"There are four types of homicide: felonious, accidental, justifiable, and praiseworthy." -Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
