Fantastic post and analysis. Great point about semantic satiation and its blunting effects on our intellectual faculties. And thanks for referencing Marcuse's work, an author I was unfamiliar with until reading your post and whose book, One Dimensional Man, I will now seek out.
This is a nuanced analysis which, IMO, still gives doctors WAY more credit than they deserve. I know of a woman who was having a baby, via scheduled C-section. So, planned, not an emergency. While delivering the baby in this manner, the doctor BROKE THE INFANTS ARM!
The doctor then pretended nothing was out of the ordinary, as the infant screamed and the mother was distraught. They took the infant away and brought it back with a bandaged arm, and no admission of wrongdoing.
It is just in plain view. You are not a humans, people, for a doctor. Not a man or woman, not a boy or girl. You are a "patient". In non-latin countries like Russia it sounds especially weird, since even no part of word "patient" have any roots in language and sounds something like "gzhobnik" for english-speaking person.
It would be ironic if Dr's refused to see Daniel after this tweet.
That's NoT whAT I meaNT.
Fantastic post and analysis. Great point about semantic satiation and its blunting effects on our intellectual faculties. And thanks for referencing Marcuse's work, an author I was unfamiliar with until reading your post and whose book, One Dimensional Man, I will now seek out.
Marcuse is cancer
https://youtu.be/9ju2BGLAi9A
Thank you. I'll check that out. Edit - Ah, I see he's connected with the Frankfurt School of critical theory. Say no more!
This is a nuanced analysis which, IMO, still gives doctors WAY more credit than they deserve. I know of a woman who was having a baby, via scheduled C-section. So, planned, not an emergency. While delivering the baby in this manner, the doctor BROKE THE INFANTS ARM!
The doctor then pretended nothing was out of the ordinary, as the infant screamed and the mother was distraught. They took the infant away and brought it back with a bandaged arm, and no admission of wrongdoing.
It is just in plain view. You are not a humans, people, for a doctor. Not a man or woman, not a boy or girl. You are a "patient". In non-latin countries like Russia it sounds especially weird, since even no part of word "patient" have any roots in language and sounds something like "gzhobnik" for english-speaking person.
Docs aren't in control, nurses are