“If it is feasible in your situation, you might start to make inquiries into the availability and quality of other pediatricians. A doctor who becomes verbally judgemental about career decisions of his patients indicates a lack of self-control: he might also lose control and slip up in treatment situations.”

You and I have the exact same thought. The nerve of this doctor to made such a idiotic judgement about a young person’s dreams. I, too, would look for another doctor for my kids.

Hospitals are already full of sick people with damaged immune systems. It doesn’t take much additional disease vectors to knock em into the red.

I choose not to adopt such a defensive posture. I choose the offense. Break down the attacker and you will stop the attacks at their source, rather than at the target.

When people are chasing you down, you don’t run away, you run towards them and run them over. If you want to inflict more psychological trauma, you can run into a blind and narrow alley, wait for them to get close, then pop out and break their wind pipe as a initial gift for a whole symphony of carnage and human entertainment: if entertainment you mean the Scream Theater.

After all, isn’t that what the Left told us. That we are homophobic, Islamophobic, scared and afraid, using fear tactics, to stoke up rage and hate and security measures against foreigners and those that don’t speak English? That, in order to be more sensitive, we got to listen and take care of root causes?

I turn the gun back on the user and fire it point blank, against their wishes or intent. When they ask me how come I killed them with their own gun, I reply that they had given me a labor saving tool and I would be impolite to waste such a gift. The Left doesn’t want to take their own advice because they know how pernicious it is to morale and group unity and cult loyalty. They know they are as vulnerable to social engineering and human prejudices as we are. They just don’t care. Well, I do. I care to make them admit and recognize their vulnerability. By demonstrating it to them.

I don’t think that our military can claim such an annual body count even in the midst of two hot wars. I know there’s a pony somewhere in those statistics: you might want to ask you pediatrician how this could be, Book? It just may bring him back to earth.

Of course, once I am away from the computer……….I am trying, I am trying.

I like Book’s style. She is open and honest, within the requirements of etiquette.

I would have engaged in a more open discussion with the doctor, but would have preferred off duty hours, and would also prefer that everybody involved be seen as equals. If it is two adults speaking and one child, the child will be suppressed in terms of actual influence and consideration. The adults will also have their attitudes modified for the good and the bad because of that perception.

Regardless, it’s always a good thing to bring up topics people are unaware of. If the doctor believes his field is virtuous and superior to the military’s because the military concentrates on killing, what would the doctor say to AQ’s plethora of medical degrees? If he is unaware, why is unaware? Are they not part of the same profession? Are soldiers unaware of Abu Ghraib? If they are not, why should any doctor be unaware of medical abuses?

Poster Girl

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BZ6aqgvdFI

A touching tribute to Australian diggers.

Australian and New Zealand slang term for a soldier.