Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man. Psalm 43:1
September 3, 2023 by Amy Faith Ho, MD, MPH, an emergency physician, published writer, and national speaker on issues pertaining to healthcare and health policy.
Violence in Healthcare: Why Are People So Angry?
The healthcare system has failed us all when we needed it most
"The core traits of psychopaths — superficial charm, grandiosity and self-importance, a need for constant stimulation, a penchant for lying, deception, manipulation and the inability to feel remorse or guilt — are celebrated. The virtues of empathy, compassion and self-sacrifice, are belittled, neglected and crushed. The professions that sustain community, such as teaching, manual labor, the arts, journalism and nursing, are underpaid and overworked. The professions that exploit, such as those in high finance, Big Pharma, Big Oil and information technology, are lavished with prestige, money and power." -- Chris Hedges September 3, 2023
Lind notes, “Social Darwinism went underground after the Holocaust. But its catechism — now more than a century old and consisting of both axioms and policy prescriptions derived from the axioms — is finding new and faithful devotees.” -- David Klinghoffer August 22, 2023
Too sad to read...but I did anyway. Rural America is a third world country for healthcare, the inner cities the same for crime and destitution. Is it getting better, or are the deck chairs sliding?
Love the poem, Ed. So true and so tragic. It inspired me to attempt a similar rhyming comment on the sad closure of our rural hospitals:
In a rural town in Kentucky
American flags unfurled.
To celebrate the 4th of July
As a statement to all the free world
Then, an elderly man clutched his chest,
And to the ground he fell
And his daughter kneeled down beside him,
Her father's pain to quell.
She called out for an ambulance to drive him.
to the hospital in Harlan's Dell.
But the hospital where she had been born.
Had closed its doors for good.
And soon the townsfolk would mourn.
For the old veteran who once proudly stood.
The county would lose two hospitals that year,
No place for the sick, or to those giving birth.
And ironically, this was AMERICA,
The wealthiest country on Earth!
Awesome. Highlights the double tragedy of hospital closures and the plight of aging veterans in such need. Thanks friend! Write more!
Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man. Psalm 43:1
September 3, 2023 by Amy Faith Ho, MD, MPH, an emergency physician, published writer, and national speaker on issues pertaining to healthcare and health policy.
Violence in Healthcare: Why Are People So Angry?
The healthcare system has failed us all when we needed it most
https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/who-can-you-trust/profits-over-patients-in-the-'health'-care-field/msg1285/#msg1285
"The core traits of psychopaths — superficial charm, grandiosity and self-importance, a need for constant stimulation, a penchant for lying, deception, manipulation and the inability to feel remorse or guilt — are celebrated. The virtues of empathy, compassion and self-sacrifice, are belittled, neglected and crushed. The professions that sustain community, such as teaching, manual labor, the arts, journalism and nursing, are underpaid and overworked. The professions that exploit, such as those in high finance, Big Pharma, Big Oil and information technology, are lavished with prestige, money and power." -- Chris Hedges September 3, 2023
https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/our-collective-trauma-is-the-road
ITS THE SOCIAL DARWINISM
Lind notes, “Social Darwinism went underground after the Holocaust. But its catechism — now more than a century old and consisting of both axioms and policy prescriptions derived from the axioms — is finding new and faithful devotees.” -- David Klinghoffer August 22, 2023
https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/geopolitics/money/msg1278/#msg1278
Too sad to read...but I did anyway. Rural America is a third world country for healthcare, the inner cities the same for crime and destitution. Is it getting better, or are the deck chairs sliding?
Very powerful poem. Wow.
Well, that's about as vivid a statement on rural hospital closures as I've seen.