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I delayed responding here, because your comment is so silly.

Once again, you just don't know most of the people on this website, or their backgrounds.  Nor do Izzy and Migeru who so happily give your comment a 4.

In my case, I know many, many patients and people with health issues--both from the patient side since I have had perhaps an unusual amount of illness in my immediate family (if you hang out in treatment centers for cancer, you meet a lot of patients and their family--I hope you are lucky enough not to find this out), and from the professional side since I've been involved in developing products for doctors to treat patients (and yes you meet them, watch them treated, etc.) and involved in home health care.

The three of you have these arrogant attitudes that preclude anyone who has a different view than yours as to how economies can best run, from being compassionate people, that also want the best for mankind.    You don't allow that people that work in companies that develop and make products to help people in their lives, do this partially because they are compassionate people.  (I'm no real exception--there are literally hundreds of thousands of people like me that do this for a living, and feel wonderful when a product that they participate in developing, or show a doctor how to use on a patient,,that feel personally rewarded.  they devote their lives to this--and you are ignorant of that, or just outright reject it.)  This I am better than you attitude is disgusting to me.  The idea that I don't talk to patients, know people with problems, try to help them as best I can--you are a supercillious bunch, that is for sure!

by wchurchill on Sun Apr 29th, 2007 at 02:14:10 PM EST
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Wow, I've been called a lot of things, but never supercilious.  This is a whole new class of insult for me -- I feel like I've upgraded!

I'm going to reply more substantively to your more heartfelt comment below, but will mention here that meeting people does not necessarily equate with understanding them.

Maybe we can eventually make language a complete impediment to understanding. -Hobbes

by Izzy (izzy at eurotrib dot com) on Sun Apr 29th, 2007 at 03:09:13 PM EST
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The idea that I don't talk to patients, know people with problems, try to help them as best I can
I certainly agree that meeting doesn't necessarily lead to knowing.  some people can talk to someone for years and not understand them.  others can listen, understand, empathize and even help in very short periods of time.  hard to tell which is which on a website, imo.

thanks for taking my rant with some good humour.

by wchurchill on Sun Apr 29th, 2007 at 03:59:31 PM EST
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