Aphorisms
Kim Sawyer
The bystander
The silence of one bystander is a
powerful voice.
Their silence is more powerful than
the silence of none.
The silence of two bystanders more
powerful than one.
The silence of three bystanders
more powerful than two.
The silence of four bystanders
more powerful than three.
And in the limit, the silence of the
bystanders converges to
the voice of the wrongdoer.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, the Massachusetts Medical Society, Tinsel Erudition and Pretended Science Redux
As the oldest medical society in the United States the Massachusetts Medical Society can count some of the greatest minds in the history of American medicine as members. My how far we have fallen. This same author has previously unintelligibly compared the field of medicine to Barbra Streisand’s face and shamelessly and opportunistically blamed the Boston Marathon bombing on “marijuana withdrawal.”
The sophomoric mnemonics are neither clever nor illuminating. Unworthy of Readers Digest circa 1957, this dumbing down of doctors needs to end. The very soul and practice of medicine is being castrated and lobotomized by the same dull and very very blunt instrument. How does one reconcile the fact that the very same medical society that publishes the New England Journal of Medicine is allowing this type of tripe and rabble to get past editorial review? In…
View original post 1,846 more words
Disrupted Physician 