Stupidity abounds, dear readers. I used to think that medicine had kind of a ‘corner on the market’ of crazy. I mean, we have crazy doctors, crazy nurses, crazy patients, heaven knows we have crazy laws like EMTALA forced down our collective gullets, and we have crazy rulings from bodies like JCAHO and MCS. Medicine isn’t hard to practice because of sick people; it’s mainly hard to practice because of ridiculous and remarkably inefficient rules and legislation.
Well, we’ve been trumped. First, in the midst of an almost unfathomable economic crisis in America, in the midst of a $700+ BILLION economic bailout by Congress (which smacks of collectivism), the lousy pirates in Washington managed to sneak in $110 BILLION dollars in pork projects. How much more can they insult us? We, the people, being hornswaggled once again ‘in our own best interests.’ ‘But it will help stimulate the economy,’ the pig peddlars said. ‘How about just letting us keep the tax dollars we’ll have to pay, and let us stimulate it?’ we ask. Next, Gov. Terminator asks Congress for $7 BILLION to bail out California, even as every other governor in the US lines up with palm extended. California, arguably one of the most liberal governments in the world, can’ make payroll! Surprise! So now, I get to pay for their ridiculous policies, and the madness of every other executive in the US (if Congress pays up and the die is cast). Never mind that I’ve been paying for government inefficiency in medical care for years.
But there’s another level of madness. I’ve been in Colorado this week at a meeting. Did you know that the Colorado legislature passed a LAW that eliminates gender specific public restrooms? That is, men can use women’s, women can use men’s. Can you guess why? So transgender citizens won’t feel discriminated against. So, Colorado is willing to offend and cause anxiety in overwhelming numbers of individuals, to avoid offending the miniscule minority of individuals undergoing sex-changes. And by the way, unisex restrooms were off the table because they, too, might make transgender persons feel discrimination.
After years in the ER, I know a bit about humanity. Even if it made sense, which it doesn’t, do you think that only transgender patients will avail themselves of this rule? Do you think sexual predators and voyeurs won’t just pop into the ladies’ room to relieve themselves? Do you think it’s just fine if a grown man or woman walks in on my daughter, or son respectively?
Madness. I fear, dear friends, that the legislative process has decayed into bits. And that we are, increasingly, at the mercy of the tyranny of madness, limited only by the perverse and sophomoric imaginations of the masses, or of the few, for whom there is no rule, ethic or convention that wasn’t meant to be broken.
We may weep for America before we know it. Just be careful when you go to the restroom for tissues.
Edwin
Aft
Stupidity abounds, dear readers. I used to think that medicine had kind of a ‘corner on the market’ of crazy. I mean, we have crazy doctors, crazy nurses, crazy patients, heaven knows we have crazy laws like EMTALA forced down our collective gullets, and we have crazy rulings from bodies like JCAHO and MCS. Medicine isn’t hard to practice because of sick people; it’s mainly hard to practice because of ridiculous and remarkably inefficient rules and legislation.
Well, we’ve been trumped. First, in the midst of an almost unfathomable economic crisis in America, in the midst of a $700+ BILLION economic bailout by Congress (which smacks of collectivism), the lousy pirates in Washington managed to sneak in $110 BILLION dollars in pork projects. How much more can they insult us? We, the people, being hornswaggled once again ‘in our own best interests.’ ‘But it will help stimulate the economy,’ the pig peddlars said. ‘How about just letting us keep the tax dollars we’ll have to pay, and let us stimulate it?’ we ask. Next, Gov. Terminator asks Congress for $7 BILLION to bail out California, even as every other governor in the US lines up with palm extended. California, arguably one of the most liberal governments in the world, can’ make payroll! Surprise! So now, I get to pay for their ridiculous policies, and the madness of every other executive in the US (if Congress pays up and the die is cast). Never mind that I’ve been paying for government inefficiency in medical care for years.
But there’s another level of madness. I’ve been in Colorado this week at a meeting. Did you know that the Colorado legislature passed a LAW that eliminates gender specific public restrooms? That is, men can use women’s, women can use men’s. Can you guess why? So transgender citizens won’t feel discriminated against. So, Colorado is willing to offend and cause anxiety in overwhelming numbers of individuals, to avoid offending the miniscule minority of individuals undergoing sex-changes. And by the way, unisex restrooms were off the table because they, too, might make transgender persons feel discrimination.
After years in the ER, I know a bit about humanity. Even if it made sense, which it doesn’t, do you think that only transgender patients will avail themselves of this rule? Do you think sexual predators and voyeurs won’t just pop into the ladies’ room to relieve themselves? Do you think it’s just fine if a grown man or woman walks in on my daughter, or son respectively?
Madness. I fear, dear friends, that the legislative process has decayed into bits. And that we are, increasingly, at the mercy of the tyranny of madness, limited only by the perverse and sophomoric imaginations of the masses, or of the few, for whom there is no rule, ethic or convention that wasn’t meant to be broken.
We may weep for America before we know it. Just be careful when you go to the restroom for tissues.
Edwin
Aft