tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7569958547277090007.post2327604724408162487..comments2023-03-31T16:14:50.896-07:00Comments on J.E. Matzer's Wafer Thin Mint: It's Jody with a "y"http://www.blogger.com/profile/10303493328055303074noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7569958547277090007.post-28124540373906814242010-06-30T11:23:21.103-07:002010-06-30T11:23:21.103-07:00I have a difficult time believing, in this day and...I have a difficult time believing, in this day and age, in the Year of Our Lord 2010, with technology so incredible that we can create AI-enhanced videocameras to plumb the depths of our circulatory systems and miniature balloons to shore up our weakened arteries, and artificial corneas and eardrums and all manner of other replacements or enhancements for our organic components, along with fantastic instruments to probe the inner depths of our structures, that a physician does not have at his disposal a method of identifying and repairing (or removing) an anomaly such as you describe within moments after the sufferer enters his office. Where is Dr. McCoy when we need him?<br /><br />I am reminded of Jubal Early's comment to Dr. Tam in "Objects in Space" (from the excellent and much-missed Firefly series): "They make psychiatrists get psychoanalyzed before they can get certified, but they don't make a surgeon get cut on. That seem right to you?"<br /><br />No, it don't seem right to me. Seems to me a doctor ought to experience serious physical pain, mortal fear of death, and unbearable uncertainty as to their future at some point in their education they'll understand what's going through the patient's mind; then perhaps they'll have a bit more compassion for them what's on the other end of that stethoscope.Robert L Meyerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17028366431302451454noreply@blogger.com