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Pray With Your Legs's avatar

For short, let's call it Socialism with Climate Emergency, LGBTQ+. Stakeholder Capitalism characteristics.

We have the radical, atheistic, materialist, progressive fundamental secularists on the left and the radical, theistic, spiritualists, fundamental Jihadists on the right both imposing their world views.

While the Judeo-Christian proposal in the middle is being abandoned by the faithful.

The irony at this point is, the only thing that is going to keep global totalitarianism at bay is great faith and action on the part of the faithful. A rational mind would calculate the odds and lose their optimism quickly. Hope is supernatural and is a trust in God.

And as Mother Teresa said, "give yourself to God. He will use you to accomplish great things on the condition that you believe much more in His love than in your own weakness."

So, this is how we will defeat the global Totalitarian Barbarians!

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I got into medicine in 1974 as an orderly at a hospital in New Orleans. I don’t know if we have orderlies any more – they were simply male nurse aids, now called CNAs down here (“certified nurse assistant”).

As an orderly I was part of the Nursing Department. The system ran as a three-legged stool: Medical Staff, Nursing Department, Hospital Administration, all doing their own jobs and all, at times, in tension with one another. It kept things honest, balanced and running.

From the 1970s to the 1990s I saw the whole thing change. Nursing was absorbed into Administration, with the rise of the “nurse manager” class. Then doctors’ practices were bought out by the hospitals, becoming employees. Often the hospital administrators were doctors, but doctors with MBAs or MHAs. Now there was no three-legged stool to provide balance. It is, as you all realize, all about the money now. Everyone is Administration.

Now, in analyzing any action in Medicine that might seem conflicted or confusing, remember the new Golden Rule of Medicine: A dead patient is a cheap patient.

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