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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFor the first time in a long time. I'm going to atypically post
some Sunday morning reflections: I've been here nearly 16 years and many years ago I used to post clinical/behavioral cases that were IMO interesting as they came through my dental office. But I stopped doing that because other things were more important for discussion as the country has been dissolving into Civil War and a form of Anarchy over this time, so my sense of humor has been dulled a bit and there was no point in performing the exercise without humor.
But I was thinking about something today which may interest a few of you: in clinical practice we have the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, with respect to individuals and the Ugly can sometimes be Very Ugly. which phrase reminds me of someone with whom we are all obsessed to some fair degree. But I will tell you something: I have had some people who are horrifying human beings and tortured me and my staff for many years here, especially in my early days (As one matures, one learns how to eliminate these individuals quickly from one's practice without risking a lawsuit for patient abandonment or malpractice, or worse, being reported to the State Board) but you know what?
Eventually these bastards die (as we ALL shall) of disease or old age or accident. And you know what else? Even as a humanist and an altruist and a clinician who gives his all to his patients no matter what their politics, attitudes, prejudices, or evil nature, because that's the job, I smile grimly yet happily to myself when these horrible human beings depart this mortal coil. And so it shall be eventually.
I just want to be around for the event...
UTUSN
(70,755 posts)(me) not wishing death before the fact, but when somebody expires who did me wrong - talking here *maliciously* wrong - they go on the list.
A (Tao?) proverb: "If you sit on the river bank long enough, the bodies of your enemies will float by."
PCIntern
(25,595 posts)I like it too!
(though I'm not sure tRump's corpulent corpse would float......)
LuvNewcastle
(16,860 posts)UTUSN
(70,755 posts)LuvNewcastle
(16,860 posts)I don't want to die tomorrow, but I don't want to watch all my loved ones die, either.
UTUSN
(70,755 posts)in2herbs
(2,947 posts)these depraved individuals will have a chance to come back and do it right the next time --- or they'll keep coming back until they do get it right.
barbtries
(28,811 posts)they'll have to build his grave in a latrine or keep the location secret.
LiberalArkie
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I have discovered that I have outlived all the people who were bullies to me or mean or evil. It is all a matter of time.
world wide wally
(21,755 posts)erronis
(15,371 posts)Some of us can actually get better, with some effort.
Some of us go our of our way to be bad and ugly, very/very ugly.
Smile, grin and bear it, practice random acts of kindness.
H2O Man
(73,627 posts)Thank you for this.
ismnotwasm
(42,014 posts)And yes they do eventually die. Working in transplant is an ethical knifes edge anyway (ie How the hell did THAT person get listed, and not THIS one)
I find death either sad or a release, but I never take joy in it. Even for our behavioral frequent flyers, who eat up resources and are never compliant. Even for those patients who arrive from prison, with their guards, who are truly despicable.
Even Donald Trump fans (this actually happened, had a patient who died as happy as he could be after the election)
Ive just seen death too often.
PCIntern
(25,595 posts)And I concur.
But some are less upsetting than others