{"id":73,"date":"2006-04-09T11:16:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-09T11:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/2006\/04\/09\/73\/"},"modified":"2006-04-09T11:16:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-09T11:16:00","slug":"73","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/?p=73","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve spoken a number of times here on my virtual soapbox about the growing inhumanity of the medical institution here in America, about why &#8220;capitalist medicine&#8221; 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&#8217;s Council of Ethical and Judicial Affairs.  Dr. Sade said that <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">medical care<\/span> in modern times <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">&#8220;is neither a right nor a privilege: it is a service provided by doctors and others to people who wish to purchase it&#8221;. <\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Ah yes, Dr. Sade.  The Marquis would be proud.  He was a laissez-faire kind of guy too.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;s only a little crocus and it only lasts a couple of days.  But it certainly does help heal the wounds of modern living.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jimgworld.com\/beta\/springflower06.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve spoken a number of times here on my virtual soapbox about the growing inhumanity of the medical institution here in America, about why &#8220;capitalist medicine&#8221; 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}