Disenchantment is an Understatement

As I get older I find that I am completely apathetic about the state of the world today. I am not speaking just to my comfortable suburb with the vapid, ignorant, and wasted cohorts, but in each and every country, province and hamlet on the globe.

My one true passion, medicine, has become an object of hatred. I am disgusted with "Health Care" in the 21st century. There is a pill for everything. Piss too much? pill for that; piss too little? pill for that too; penis as flaccid as overcooked asparagus? they have that one covered entirely-much to the chagrin of every wife who thought that with her husbands impotency she had escaped the ritual of being used merely as a masturbation tool, and accepted 'pass me a beer will ya babe?' as foreplay. This does not come from bitterness. I take more pills than the average 90 year old, and my sex life is...well suffice to say I am smiling. In less than ten years in health care, I witnessed the black locust cloud of consumerism and profitability infiltrate what used to be a relatively noble profession. If I had wanted to attend budget meeting and fill out capital application forms, I certainly wouldn't have chosen health care. I would have acquired an MBA and slutted myself out to some Finance company with a decent benefit package and a lovely cubicle. Everyone is for sale. When was the last time anyone met someone that they would describe as 'honorable' or 'noble'? New physicians nowadays are patsy's for the "Big Pharma", nevermind that Mr. Smith lives on a pension, lets prescribe a pill that costs triple what he's on now and works half as well. I left health care shaking my head. Long gone is the naive twenty-something who believes that a hospital is a place of healing, care and compassion. Disenchanted doesn't begin to describe it.

This is the world now. Everyone needs money to survive, unless where you live happens to still use the bartering system; money is not my issue, it's the ravenous hunger for bigger and bigger profit margins, the desensitization of the masses to corruption; a politician lining his pockets or a department manager scoring a huge year end bonus when her staff all received pay cuts barely registers a cocked eyebrow these days. Enron has become a catchphrase. It's all about the money.

I don't really have a decent solution - just venting I suppose. Besides, in today's world if you really want to change things, you'd best find a sh*t load of cash.