Are we honest to ourselves and to our patients to a fault? Is attending to patients - human or animal -- a privilege or is it in current terms 'boring' and a 'drudge' or 'burn-out'.
Most if not all Medical Doctors / Veterinarians / Ancillary staff are not grateful and cannot be taught gratefulness. We will talk of gratefulness only in this section, as the reading capacity of humans has declined with technologic distractions and slick advertisement.
The sole purpose of advertisement is never to allow the human mind to become tranquil or to sustain or surpass tranquility, barring fiscal sustainability.
Readers of such contributions run far ahead of themselves as they HUNT for methodology and data to duplicate or replicate and, would practically die for citations.
It has taken ages to come to where we are now, without any contribution from our side to the uncertain magic of the generations that has preceded us as well the distressing unease / deaths of the patients who have taught us knowingly or unknowingly in their dying, whether we were ready to learn or not at that that time.
Some prose and verse in Medicine cannot be bettered, as each word and punctuation has been placed by ESP (Extra-Sensory Perception) by the five muses (Is) including insight, for posterity in the immense never-filling-to-the-brim bowl of knowledge for posterity.
They form prayers to the shapeless, formless, dimensionless, omnipresent, omniscient, omnipotent, all -pervading Cosmic Universal Consciousness that gives life and takes it away without consulting our nano-or-even lesser less consciousness, give us strength to change, to bear what we cannot, and the blessing to know the difference between the two.
"Over the millennia that humanity has struggled against malaria, some successes in controlling this scourge have been achieved from time to time through both empirical efforts and rational design. By trial and error, and without the constraints of ethical committees and regulatory agencies (that have replaced rational thought and logic, my insertion) effective antimalrial drugs were discovered many centuries ago, Remarkably some remain important therapeutic agents today, a testimony to the value of empiricism (Wyler, 1992).
Just like the flat-Earth and the solar Sun revolving around the Earth were sacrosanct generalized logic-deprived canonical Church-supported concepts at one time, the whirl and relativity of space and time, delayed this life-saving effect of aspirin by several centuries -- the pharmaceutical drug that has and will save billions (or incalculable numbers) of lives in time to come.
In 1763, the Revered Edward Stone of Chipping Norton aubmitted a bried letter to the Royal Society in which he described his discovery of the benefit of willow bark (which contains salicylates) for the treatment of ague. "I have no other motive for publishing this valuable specific than that it may have a fair and full trial in all its variety of circumstances and situations, and that the world may reap the benefits of accruing from it". This lay beyond all applause, and awards, and patents, and was a purely altruistic exercise at a time when the Brain Prize or the Nobel Prize lay centuries and not even a concept.
To deveop altruism and honest is becomming
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