Sun, Jun 7, 2009
Professionals dominate social change organizations and also hold them back. Despite their good intentions, professionals are a conservative force. The skills they have acquired to serve an oppressive system are the opposite of the skills required to challenge that system.
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September 11th, 2009 at 8:55 pm
Dear Susan,
Thank you for your well-argued and very direct pamphlet, Professional Poison. It is one more nail in the coffin of capitalism. Capitalism becomes evermore sinister and unacceptable the better one understands it.
Heart greetings,
Viktoria
December 13th, 2009 at 10:26 pm
Loved your narrative on the patient who almost died of an allergic reaction.
I was almost killed in one hospital as a result of an overgrowth of nonsusceptible organisms caused by administration of the wrong antibiotics. I was scheduled for a leg amputation followed by death.
I was ambulance-planed (my family had money) to a second hospital where I was diagnosed as a homosexual paranoid schizophrenic who had gouged his leg in a suicide attempt. Later, photographs, pathology slides, and pathology blocks disappeared, but thanks to an honest dermatopathologist the correct diagnosis was made: classic fulminating pyoderma gangrenosum (gangrene).
Ultimately I made the correct diagnosis myself: GSE–gluten-sensitive enteropathy (underlying the pyoderma).
What’s really upsetting is that the resident’s seniors and head of the department knew it was pyoderma all along, but they sacrificed me to her as part of her “training”.
I had to have an attorney threaten to sue in order to get the dermatologist’s report because everyone had refused to tell me the real diagnosis.
Back in the 70s, Louis Wolfson (perhaps the richest man–or certainly one of the richest men–in Florida at the time) offered me money to go into politics. Like an idiot I turned him down.
I’m now very ticked off and am reconsidering politics.
Love some of your essays.
Wan sui (May you live 10,000 years.),