WenJennings on self congratulation
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quackademicIt’s heartening to see doctors thinking about ‘difficult’ patients.
Seems to me that the clue is in the concepts used in this study. A key criterion for ‘difficulty’ is ‘vague complaints’. That is, patients describing experiences that don’t fit neatly into the conceptual map their treating doctors use to understand & respond to illness.
A doctor in this situation has 3 choices. They may acknowledge the limitations of their map & seek to understand how the patient experiences their bodily distress, to see whether any part of their conceptual or therapeutic repertoire might be helpful. They could say ‘I’m sorry, my expertise does not cover this. I can’t help you’. Or they can blame the patient.
For the doctor, the first option takes time, respect & empathy. The second may feel like losing face. The third protects the comfortable fiction that ‘I am the expert and some patients are crazy unreasonable’.
I’d put money on the likelihood that people like me, whose sensory experience is atypical in ways that have not been represented in medical training, are readily cast as ‘difficult’. Especially when we have the education & skills that enable us to advocate for ourselves.
Until medical education lifts its game, it’s up to us to educate our doctors about what our own flavour of neurodivergence is like from the inside. For those of us without the privilege & skills to advocate for ourselves the obstacles are greater.
For people trained in medical sciences it can be hard to grasp that however good our conceptual map is, it’s not the territory.
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Buddhism BasicsBuddhism Basics 47: What is Ignorance?
Richard RatheI friend sent me a clipping with this #quote...
"Ignorance now rules America. Not the simple, if somewhat innocent ignorance that comes from an absence of knowledge, but a malicious ignorance forged on the arrogance of refusing to think hard about an issue." -- Henry Giroux (The Terror of the Unforeseen)
I was unfamiliar with both the book and the author. His bibliography reminds me a bit of #NeilPostman.
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Quick Quotes“A person who falsely believes he or she is knowledgeable will not seek out clarification of his or her beliefs, but rather rely on his or her ignorant position.”
― Sunday Adelaja
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David CulleyOften I hear the sentence "The human brain isn’t designed to process all of the world’s breaking emergencies in realtime."
I agree with that. But I disagree with the conclusions that some people draw from that.
It doesn't mean to not care about *anything* anymore and to ignore *every* emergeny. In other words, to not have any empathy (except very selective empathy at most).
Evolution hasn't caught up with the globalized world in which we now live in, so much is true. You personally cannot fix *all* the emergencies of which we hear every day:
- the attack on Iran
- the genocide in Palestine
- the war in Ukraine
- the war in Sudan
- the murders in Minnesota
- the increasing surveillance and attacks on privacy
- the destruction of the environment
- etc.
You'd quickly burn out if you tried to simultaneously do something about *all* of these emergencies. Since our brains haven't evolved for that, you need to pick *one* emergency and dedicate yourself to that one emergency.
Not giving a shit about *anything* that needs to be addressed and just focusing on happy things because "the human brain isn't designed for caring about emergencies" is a bad stance and the wrong conclusion to draw from the quoted fact.
WIST QuotationsIt is almost as difficult to make a man unlearn his errors as his knowledge. Mal-information is more hopeless than non-information; for error is always more busy than ignorance. Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase. Ignorance is contented to stand still with her back to the truth; but error is more presumptuous, and proceeds in the same direction. Ignorance has no light, but error follows a false one. The consequence is, that error, when she retraces her footsteps, has further to go, before she can arrive at the truth, than ignorance.
Charles Caleb "C. C." Colton (1780-1832) English cleric, writer, aphorist
Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Vol. 1, § 1 (1820)
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Offord gets in the unsubstantiated early in a conversation. Of course to a Reform yoon, all the evils in the world are down to refugees or immigrants.
Vote Reform for a more refined class of hatred, bigotry and xenophobia seems to be the message
A quotation from Douglas Adams
“Oh, all right,” said the old man. “Here’s a prayer for you. Got a pencil?”“Yes,” said Arthur.
“It goes like this. Let’s see now: ‘Protect me from knowing what I don’t need to know. Protect me from even knowing that there are things to know that I don’t know. Protect me from knowing that I decided not to know about the things that I decided not to know about. Amen.’ That’s it. It’s what you say silently inside yourself anyway, so you may as well have it out in the open.”
“Hmmmm,” said Arthur. “Well, thank you –”
“There’s another prayer that goes with it that’s very important,” continued the old man, “so you’d better jot this down, too.”
“Okay.”
“It goes, ‘Lord, lord, lord …’ It’s best to put that bit in, just in case. You can never be too sure. ‘Lord, lord, lord. Protect me from the consequences of the above prayer. Amen.’ And that’s it. Most of the trouble people get into in life comes form leaving out that last part.”
Douglas Adams (1952-2001) English author, humorist, screenwriter
Hitchhiker’s Guide No. 5, Mostly Harmless, ch. 9 (1992)
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Adams, Douglas - Hitchhiker's Guide No. 5, Mostly Harmless, ch. 9 (1992) | WIST Quotations
"Oh, all right," said the old man. "Here's a prayer for you. Got a pencil?" "Yes," said Arthur. "It goes like this. Let's see now: 'Protect me from knowing what I don't need to know. Protect me from even knowing that there are things to know that I don't know.…