Reply to: Modern medicine

[TimberWolf]

I suppose timberwolf using the term modern medicine is a compliment to all the doctors over the last few hundred years building up the science. If we all had the view that you get sick going to the doctors then we would still be getting leaches applied for genital warts. I am sure timberwolf will be thankful of this next time he goes down with a dose of the clap.

I'm sure you think this is some kind of compelling argument.

[TimberWolf]

I think that all IT contractors should all be on no more than 40k/year as well. While we are about it, the guy that reads the gas meter - 20 quid a month max.

PZZ

Gas meter readers aren't on a great deal more than minimum wage anyway.

[TimberWolf]

Personally, I'd like to knock him though a wall.

Oh, so you're a tough guy eh?

[minestrone]

I suppose timberwolf using the term modern medicine is a compliment to all the doctors over the last few hundred years building up the science. If we all had the view that you get sick going to the doctors then we would still be getting leaches applied for genital warts. I am sure timberwolf will be thankful of this next time he goes down with a dose of the clap.

[minestrone]

Good point. I feel that prescriptions create a dependancy. No need, try and avoid as much as possible, your body is an amazing machine don't pollute it unnecessarily. Let it fight its own battles more.

I will just ditch my Asthma medication then and if I get carried into hospital and asked why I decided to stop treating myself I will tell the doctor someone in the internet told me it would be OK not to take them anymore.

[contractor79]

Michael Jackson’s death at the hands of the medical profession epitomises the way it preys on the sick, vulnerable and super rich. As does the way his £billion fortune was drained out of him to leave a disfigured hollowed out bank balance a body that might not be biodegradable. Given the opportunity, would modern medicine do that to entire economies too? Is that what you want? Or is it time we saw the medical profession for what it really is, and that is a parasitic organsim populated by grossly overpaid, egotistical scumbags who just want all your money, a big pension, house and early retirement? And a yacht?

Wouldn't it be better if medical professionals were paid the same as a bus driver, much like in Cuba, or perhaps modern medical practise replaced by cheaper and equally effective Voodoo medicine? After all isn’t it a fact that the healthiest people are those that never see a doctor?

Good point. I feel that prescriptions create a dependancy. No need, try and avoid as much as possible, your body is an amazing machine don't pollute it unnecessarily. Let it fight its own battles more.

[pzz76077]

Is a Polish bus driver who works here and earns more than a Polish doctor who stays at home tending to a leper hospital a parasite?

I think that all IT contractors should all be on no more than 40k/year as well. While we are about it, the guy that reads the gas meter - 20 quid a month max.

PZZ

[PM-Junkie]

I still find it amazing that this doughnut can call a doctor a parasite. Why do I just know that he would never have the balls to say that to one's face?

Time to stop feeding this troll I think. Personally, I'd like to knock him though a wall.

[minestrone]

A GP on a bus drivers salary would be deemed no longer to be a parasite in my book, assuming the bus driver is not also overpaid. This thread is not about demeaning bus drivers though, who provide an essential public service and have to put up with awkward customers and traffic conditions. You can have a go at dentists though if you wish.

Is a Polish bus driver who works here and earns more than a Polish doctor who stays at home tending to a leper hospital a parasite?

[TimberWolf]

So if we gave GPs the same rate as a bus driver and a bus driver the same rate as the GP had the bus driver would now be a parasite and the GP would be a loyal servant of the socialist republic?

A GP on a bus drivers salary would be deemed no longer to be a parasite in my book, assuming the bus driver is not also overpaid. This thread is not about demeaning bus drivers though, who provide an essential public service and have to put up with awkward customers and traffic conditions. You can have a go at dentists though if you wish.

[RichardCranium]

Actually if you speak to a decent doctor, he (or she) will willingly admit that it the body that heals itself. In most cases medical treatment just helps the healing process along a bit.

One of these is about right as a quote for Voltaire:

"A doctor is a person who entertains the patient, while the body heals itself."

"Medicine is what we do to entertain the patient while the body heals itself."

[minestrone]

What about a bus driving GP?

But would the Daily Mail say it was a "Twisted bus driver moonlights as GP" or "Twisted GP moonlights as bus driver".

[Amiga500]

So if we gave GPs the same rate as a bus driver and a bus driver the same rate as the GP had the bus driver would now be a parasite and the GP would be a loyal servant of the socialist republic?

What about a bus driving GP?

[snaw]

coal miner isn't a cushy number either.

Sure about that? I grew up in a mining town, and I know lots of people who were miners, and there's a common theme of lots and lots of lazy bastards who worked doon the pits (Not all obviously) and liked going for a kip for their shift ...

[minestrone]

In a sense and depending on context I guess they could. What do you think? A farmer would be a better example than butcher though, and strictly speaking the host should remain alive, although in these cases the host and parasite would be more abstract entities, rather than individual creatures.

So if we gave GPs the same rate as a bus driver and a bus driver the same rate as the GP had the bus driver would now be a parasite and the GP would be a loyal servant of the socialist republic?