I’ve spoken a number of times here on my virtual soapbox about the growing inhumanity of the medical institution here in America, about why “capitalist medicine” is rapidly becoming an oxymoron. I just read a quote from an article in the New England Journal of Medicine by a Doctor Robert Sade, who is currently on the American Medical Association’s Council of Ethical and Judicial Affairs. Dr. Sade said that medical care in modern times “is neither a right nor a privilege: it is a service provided by doctors and others to people who wish to purchase it”.

Ah yes, Dr. Sade. The Marquis would be proud. He was a laissez-faire kind of guy too.

I think that the best medicine you can get these days is medicine for the soul. So in that vein, I submit for your consideration the picture below, taken near the street in front of my house. It’s only a little crocus and it only lasts a couple of days. But it certainly does help heal the wounds of modern living.