Sunday 26 May 2019

Don't shoot the Doctor!

   Just about five years ago I started warning you.   I warned you that euthanasia would be the thin end of the wedge.  I warned you that if you let the lawyers and administridiots decide that taking life is permissible, then they would want physicians to do the slaughtering just as they do with babies.  Politicians and administridiots, many of them lawyers are legislating when it is appropriate to take life.  Ours is a profession, dedicated to the preservation of life and the amelioration of suffering even when we can't cure the disease.  The Supreme Court of Canada, has just told physicians if you can't make your conscience acquiesce to what we tell you to do then you are free to seek another job!   If you won't kill people because the State tells you  it is what you need to do for the good of the 'State', Medicine is not for you!  Find another job.
   I warned you it wouldn't be long before scraping a few fertilized cells from the uterus would become morally equivalent with killing a newborn.  It has.
   I warned you that the indications for euthanasia would become unrecognizable and they have.  It is no longer acceptable to even use that word.  It slipped to 'assisted suicide' for a while, before that too became politically incorrect.   Now, ridiculously it has become MAID -Medical Assistance In Dying.  (After all, what sane person wouldn't like a maid?)
   The politicians and the administridiots are often very smart.  They start off cautiously when they support a new position assuring us their only motive is 'serving the people'.  Very often it is the bottom line they are concerned with..   It is very expensive to keep old people alive sometimes and if we can so easily dispose of neonates (the newly born) surely we shouldn't be too squeamish about helping the elderly on their way.  After all, they've had a long life and if they want to feel really good about it they can donate their organs while they are still alive.  Surely death by organ donation is as noble as one can get.
   Now let me give you one more warning.   Nepotism trumps everything, including money.  Even talking (or writing) about cannibalization indicates that's what some folks are thinking about.  After all, if my thirty four year old son needs a heart and your eighty year old father has one - hey folks, let's be reasonable, why should we spend a fortune on  someone who has had a good life and is going to die soon anyway.  "Let's give the 'old guy' a comfortable death," they say and give my son (who  happens to be a high-ranking civil servant who has served the state all his life) the break he deserves.   After all, he has so much more to offer the State.
   The 'Elites' are much more concerned with their own health, both physical and financial, than they are with yours.  I worked in the system for long enough to realize that when the CEO of the Hospital or whatever brought the deputy minister down to the 'Department' to introduce him  to  the Department Head, there was often another agenda.
   That's enough warnings for today, but fear not, I  have plenty more, not least of which is what will happen if the administridiots remain successful in determining the future role of physicians!
   If you are a patient or about to become one soon, don't read this blog.  It may kill you -sooner!
    
 

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