The Health Weasel
Circus time begins with an ailment that drives a health weasel to look for medical help, for a condition that doctors had no part in creating. While ignoring the fact that a personal health defect caused the problem, the health weasel holds the feet of doctors to the fire, as if doctors originated their dilemma.
The health weasel makes across-the-board verdicts, such as how masses of people have been murdered by doctors not up to task of medicine. With no mention of what required treatment in first place, the health weasel blathers on and on about alleged doctor-caused abuse. They devise ways to disparage doctors, by latching on to hysterical jargon, popular with champions of holistic romance.
We see such attitudes in a meaner light when we consider that, had a doctor not saved a parent or grandparent from disease or injury, many weasels would not be alive to complain. But the weasel talks as if there is secret federation of doctors profiting through a massive scheme to harm patients. The health weasel concludes that a clandestine venture by the medical establishment is in full swing, with a goal to make a mess of their patients through needless medical intervention.
Unlike rational people, with real complaints against the system, the health weasel offers few solutions to their manufactured problems (other than those in the form of bellyaches). They ignore the fact that no rational physician would try to hurt them. The health weasel overlooks the fact that society is congested with eager trial lawyers and journalists waiting for an assignment to indict criminal doctors.
In the western world, ququality of life has burgeoned since the time of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918. However, we hear only a few people acknowledge that advances in public health are due to science and medical research.
Most citizens of such countries refuse to see the reality of medicine, which is an art based on science. They resist the fact that symptoms sometimes require an in-depth investigation. And it may take time before a syndrome rears its ugly head. A sick person may need to consult with specialists before solutions emerge. Unfortunately, too many people see this as an opportunity to malign competent doctors.
More and more of us come up with reasons to complain about everything, to anyone who will listen. In particular, they despise people more intelligent, who have power over them, or anyone who stands up for honest doctors. To add outrage to insult, they conveniently pretend to be above reproach.
Flying in an airliner like a bird, enjoying a meal, while in a soaring metal tube, we complain loudly whenever something, however trivial, isn't right. But when we ponder how most of the world lives, and how easily we find ourselves upset, we might start to see how spoiled we are.
Coddled attitudes, uncommon in poor countries, threaten developed societies, weakening them from within.
Then again, we have people of conscience. They honor the great scientists and medical innovators that made the world a better place. They erect mental and physical monuments to such benefactors of humanity.
