> In a message dated 8/29/2003 1:56:39 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[log in to unmask] writes:
> ...a patient in an emergency condition (of any
> kind) is a patient who himself thinks that he is
> having a problem that is an emergency. It doesn't
> matter whether any doctor or other medical
> professional thinks that the present state of this
> patient does not represent an emergency at the moment.
This is OK. It saves us having to think too hard and insulates us from such
tough topics as rationing. It makes us feel good and altruistic...
"Do not judge, or you too will be judged." Matthew 7:1
Trouble is that the term then becomes useless: I cannot use it to define
what I do (or do not do) for a living, and at the end of the day we all have
to do that...
Newspaper headline: "PHYSICIAN ADMITS THAT HE/SHE TOLD PATIENT WITH AN
EMERGENCY TO SEE THEIR GP NEXT WEEK"
(...Shock, horror, probe: 50% of all doctors below average...)
OK - sorry I'm rambling. It's 02.35 early hours Sat am at the start of a
weekend and I just went in to the department for an "emergency" (this one
defined by neither patient nor physician!). Time to try and get some more
zeds, though my brain is buzzing.
I leave you with a final bible quotation: Look at the book and the
chapter/verse numbers...
Revelation 9:11
"They had as king over them the angel of the Abyss, whose name in Hebrew is
Abaddon, and in Greek, Apollyon."
(Abaddon and Apollyon mean Destroyer)
Funny old world n'est pas?
Jeremy Harrison
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