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Paging Doctor Feelgood to the White Courtesy Phone...
| Watching one of the ‘outrageous moments caught on tape’ shows on TV, I wondered just how ticked off Doctors and Nurses and emergency workers get. There are all kinds of people suffering from illness and disease that they have no control over, and these medical workers do their best to help them. Then there are the idiots. People who do stupid things and wind up – surprise, surprise – getting hurt, having to be rescued, and needing medical attention. You treat a lion like a pet and he wants a hunk of your arm instead, don’t be shocked. You base jump off a tall building in bad winds and get slammed back into the concrete building injuring all sorts of important things, don’t blame physics. You try to paraglide in one door of an airplane hangar and out the other and get slammed to the floor when your ‘chute gets caught, how can you be surprised? Consider it nature’s way of knocking you up the backside of your head and yelling ‘idiot!’ I just feel sorry for the people who have to patch these morons up. They show an event gone bad on that TV show, and then say something like ‘doctors didn’t think he would walk again, but after three surgeries he was able to.’ That’s good, but what I’m thinking is that’s three surgical teams and beds tied up to fix something that didn’t need to be broken in the first place. I wonder if someday they’ll wind up teaching Common Sense 101 in schools… |
posted by Eaglewing at 12:58 AM
Comments on "Paging Doctor Feelgood to the White Courtesy Phone..."
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Eaglewing said ... (September 17, 2006 3:49 PM) :
post a commentHmm, interesting comments, although the idea of the post at the time had nothing to do with health care costs, politicians, or legislating common sense. I was just thinking if I was a doctor, and someone came in with self inflicted wounds due to not using their brain and doing something stupid, I’d be a little ticked that I had to fix the mess while other people needed my help because they were dealt a bad hand from life.
I do agree that freedom needs to be maintained, but just for argument’s sake, what about the flip side of ‘legislating common sense.’ I don’t think you can legislate that, but the thing is – people will always jump if there’s a net. If the net is taken away, people might stop and think about the consequences of the action, especially if they have to pay the bill. I don’t want to legislate anything, I just want people to smarten the hell up. But how do you get people to use common sense? If the cost is always paid by someone else and the free ride is there, people don’t seem to bother to use their heads. Take away the free ride, and maybe people will stop and think. I don’t really think anything should be taken away, I’m just playing devil’s advocate here.
People are human and will make mistakes, that’s a given. It’s the people who go out of their way to tempt fate doing something that has a high probability of turning out badly, and then when it does, they expect somebody else to clean up the mess. How do you get those people to stop and think before becoming a burden to an over taxed system? They basically wind up taking advantage of a system setup to help those that really need it. Then the system has to change with even tighter regulations to prevent it causing even more stress on those who need it. I should know. It’s the actions of the bad few affecting the chances of the needful many. How do you curb that without giving away your freedoms?