May 2008
2 posts
Problem 3: Rapacious Temerity of the Insurer
So far, we’ve seen the reduction of an individual’s life to discrete functions he/she wishes to control. From there to the physician, where discrete functional deficits are corrected, in exchange for society’s dollars and the individual’s autonomy. However, it is inside the insurers where de-individuation is completed. Once reduced to a claim number, all pretense of patient care may be dropped....
Problem 2: Unmitigated Gall of the Physician
Woe to the physic, caught between the role of healer and the role of dealer. The individual’s reduction of the life experience is subsumed and amplified by a medical community that offers an escape from every corporeal challenge. This criticism is not directed at the medical profession, in general, only at the irresponsible purveyance of unproven and unnecessary ‘cures’.
The grand theft of...