That's a new book by Ricardo Nuila, M.D. (Scribner) I'm not going to do a full-scale review, but it's definitely worth a mention. He's a physician at Ben Taub hospital in Houston, which is a charity hospital that takes care of people who are uninsured or underinsured. He tells the stories of many individual patients he has known and weaves them together into a tapestry that reveals the fundamental insanity of the way we pay for, or don't pay for, medical services.
Of course I talk about that all the time here, but maybe statistics and facts and figures don't make the case for everybody. Tragic stories of real people, courageous and resilient but battered by bad luck and heartless bureaucracy, might do it.
P.S. Jordan Peterson is not a "moderate voice," he's a deranged, delusional, far right maniac.
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As a side note to yesterday's screed of comments left by me, I will say that having had a profoundly narcissistic mother -- although she possessed great beauty of character in addition to her monstrous side, unlike Donald Shitler -- it is somewhat painful to me to see Shitler's dazed glare into the camera as he sits in a courtroom, being charged with crimes. Narcissism is a mental illness, and I know that look all too well (though my mother didn't have bizarrely tinged orange skin and hair -- he truly is a mad clown). It is the look of an individual trying to make sense of the events taking place around them ... but they can't, except in a way that twists all perception. This is why Shitler was ranting the night before his arrest about how Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg should arrest himself.
I have compassion for narcissists. But I have only pity for Donald J. Shitler. He has simply committed too many crimes, and hurt (and now killed) too many people. Our society is squarely at fault for allowing such a person to have power, when someone like him shouldn't be allowed to run a candy store.
There should be testing for mental fitness for any prospective federal or state office seeker/holder.
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For a narcissist, shit only happens to OTHER people. That shit could happen to them is inconceivable, since in a narcissist's mind they alone are the focal point of the universe.
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