They haven’t reached the point they would need a doctor… a veterinarian would be more appropriate.
Just because there is a mass shaped in human form that doesn’t automatic make them people – that honor has to be earned.
Was the majority right and they crucified Jesus? Was the majority right and they refused to believe that the earth revolve around the Sun and allowed Gallieleu to be driven to death?
RIDGEON. Yach! Thats what makes the medical student the most disgusting figure in modern civilization. No veneration, no manners—no—
SIR PATRICK. They all put up with me, these young chaps, because I’m an old man, a real old man, not like you. You’re only beginning to give yourself the airs of age. Did you ever see a boy cultivating a moustache? Well, a middle-aged doctor cultivating a grey head is much the same sort of spectacle.
RIDGEON. Good Lord! yes: I suppose so. And I thought that the days of my vanity were past. Tell me at what age does a man leave off being a fool?
Theres nothing wrong with your spine; and theres nothing wrong with your heart; but theres something wrong with your common sense. Youre not going to die; but you may be going to make a fool of yourself. So be careful.
He radiates an enormous self-satisfaction, cheering, reassuring, healing by the mere incompatibility of disease or anxiety with his welcome presence. Even broken bones, it is said, have been known to unite at the sound of his voice: he is a born healer, as independent of mere treatment and skill as any Christian scientist.
The most tragic thing in the world is a sick doctor. Yes, by George: its like a bald-headed man trying to sell a hair restorer. Thank God I’m a surgeon!
Theres nothing in your point: phagocytosis is pure rot: the cases are all blood-poisoning; and the knife is the real remedy.
Walpole has no intellect. A mere surgeon. Wonderful operator; but, after all, what is operating? Only manual labor.
RIDGEON. We’re not a profession: we’re a conspiracy.
SIR PATRICK. All professions are conspiracies against the laity
There are two things that can be wrong with any man. One of them is a cheque. The other is a woman. Until you know that a man’s sound on these two points, you know nothing about him.
Its not an easy case to judge, is it? Blenkinsop’s an honest decent man; but is he any use? Dubedat’s a rotten blackguard; but he’s a genuine source of pretty and pleasant and good things.
The world isnt going to be made simple for you, my lad: you must take it as it is. Youve to hold the scales between Blenkinsop and Dubedat. Hold them fairly. And youll take out of Dubedat’s scale all the faith he has destroyed and the honor he has lost, and youll put into Blenkinsop’s scale all the faith he has justified and the honor he has created.
Well, sometimes a man knows best; and sometimes he knows worst. Youd much better cure them both.
-It’s easier to replace a dead man than a good picture.
-When you live in an age that runs to pictures and statues and plays and brass bands because its men and women are not good enough to comfort its poor aching soul, you should thank Providence that you belong to a profession which is a high and great profession because its business is to heal and mend men and women.
LOUIS. You mean youd want the money back again. RIDGEON. I presume people sometimes have that in view when they lend money.
Why dont you learn to think, instead of bleating and bashing like a lot of sheep when you come up against anything youre not accustomed to?
you were smelling out a scandal instead of keeping your mind clean and wholesome. I can just play with people like you.
It’s always the way with the inartistic professions: when theyre beaten in argument they fall back on intimidation.
I don’t believe in morality. I’m a disciple of Bernard Shaw.
I’m going to live as part of you and not as my troublesome self.
Ive been threatened and blackmailed and insulted and starved. But Ive played the game. Ive fought the good fight. And now it’s all over, theres an indescribable peace.
I said the other day that the most tragic thing in the world is a sick doctor. I was wrong. The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not also a man of honor.
there are doctors who are naturally cruel; and there are others who get used to cruelty and are callous about it. They blind themselves to the souls of animals; and that blinds them to the souls of men and women.
Thou shalt not kill, but needst not strive Officiously to keep alive.
like all secrets: it will not keep itself. The buried truth germinates and breaks through to the light.
you are clever enough to puzzle me, but not to shake me
Movie – 1958 – Leslie Caron, Dirk Bogarde, Alastair Sim
Book – 1906 – Bernard Shaw
Till recently, there hasn’t been a clear way for nonanimal methods to gain the FDA’s stamp of approval, a concept for which the Physicians Committee has advocated for years. This changed when the FDA launched its Innovative Science and Technology Approaches for New Drugs (ISTAND) pilot program in December 2020. ISTAND provides a pathway for companies and the FDA to work together to qualify nonanimal methods. Importantly, methods qualified under ISTAND will be communicated to sponsors via agency guidance indicating that the method can be used for its qualified purpose without the usual need for companies to do extensive validation work to use a new method. In the program’s first year, multiple companies have contacted the agency seeking to begin the process.
Despite all the inertia pushing for business as usual, revolutionary advances have been made in human-specific approaches that can reduce and replace animal use. When policies and funding shift to favor human-specific nonanimal approaches over animal experiments, the American public can expect safer and more effective drugs to be developed faster and at a lower cost—financially and morally.
The spectacle can be found on every screen that you look at. It is the advertisements plastered on the subway and the pop-up ads that appear in your browser. The media interprets and reduces the world for us with the use of simple narratives.
Photography and film collapses time and geographic distance – providing the illusion of universal connectivity. New products transform the way we live. Debord’s notions can be applied to our present-day reliance on technology. What do you do when you get lost in a foreign city? Do you ask a passer-by for directions, or consult Google Maps on your smartphone? Perhaps Siri can help. Such technology is incredibly useful, but it also engineers our behavior. It reduces our lives into a daily series of commodity exchanges. If Debord were alive today, he would almost certainly extend his analysis of the spectacle to the Internet and social media.
The alienation of the spectator to the profit of the contemplated object is expressed in the following way: The more [the spectator] contemplates the less he lives; the more he accepts recognizing himself in the dominant images of need, the less he understands his own existence and desires. The more his life is now his product, the more he is separated from his life. The proliferation of images and desires alienates us, not only from ourselves, but from each other. Debord references the phrase “lonely crowds,” a term coined by the American sociologist David Riesman, to describe our atomization. The Society of the Spectacle’s first chapter is entitled “Separation Perfected,” a quality that Debord describes as the “alpha and omega of the spectacle.” Referring to the Marxist concept of false-consciousness, Debord describes how the spectacle conceals the “relations among men and classes.” The spectacle functions as a pacifier for the masses, a tool that reinforces the status quo and quells dissent. “The Spectacle presents itself as something enormously positive, indisputable and inaccessible. It says nothing more than ‘that which appears is good, that which is good appears,'” writes Debord. “It demands […] passive acceptance which in fact it already obtained by its manner of appearing without reply, by its monopoly of appearance.”
Medicine is the only world-wide profession, following everywhere the same methods, actuated by the same ambitions, and pursuing the very same end. This homogeneity, its most characteristic feature, is not shared by the law or religion, nor the ‘extraordinary solidarity which makes the physician at home in any country.’
The medical duty to treat people with humanity and respect applies to all patients. Physicians must be aware that, during armed conflict or other situations of violence, health care becomes increasingly susceptible to unscrupulous practice and the distribution of poor quality / counterfeit materials and medicines, and must attempt to take action on such practices. As such, the WMA supports the collection and dissemination of data related to assaults on physicians, other health care personnel and medical facilities, by an international body. Assaults against medical personnel must be investigated and those responsible must be brought to justice.
Do truly great peoples ever need a great leader?
Simon Leys, The Hall of Uselessness
New Year’s Day is a melancholy and a tedious one for everybody whose public or private relations do not make it an exceptionally interesting one. There is the alteration in the date, for one thing, which is provocative of thought, and there is the enforced idleness for another, coming upon energetic folk like temporary paralysis and leaving them nothing but meditation wherewith to employ themselves.
“I fail to understand your attitude, young man. You appear to be hypnotised, fascinated. You speak of Fantômas as if he were something interesting. It is out of place, to put it mildly,” and he turned to the Abbé Sicot. “There, sir, that is the result of this modern education and the state of mind produced in the younger generation by the newspaper press and even by literature. Criminals are given haloes and proclaimed from the housetops. It is astounding!”
It seems to be a real established fact that the inventive faculties, even of men of inferior mental quality, are sharpened when they are engaged in mischief.
When one gets to my age, little Thérèse, one always does remember the happy days of one’s youth; one remembers recent events much less distinctly. Most likely that means, my dear, that the human heart declines to grow old and refuses to preserve any but pictures of childhood.
INQUIRIM VITAE 
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