tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8544217363787442756.post4523536062693064885..comments2023-06-01T10:01:35.172-04:00Comments on TPMAHOLICS: Capitalism RULZ!Amikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07635085661287993810noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8544217363787442756.post-70373117357149013532010-10-04T16:14:35.842-04:002010-10-04T16:14:35.842-04:00Here is a quote from Lewis Thomas, in a chapter of...Here is a quote from Lewis Thomas, in a chapter of one of his essay compilations, <b>The Youngest Science</b>:<br /><br /><i>"I'd never seen anything like it. Almost every red cell contained blue-staining bodies, looking exactly like the textbook pictures of malaria.<br /><br />(...) <br /><br />The patient became drowsier, then, early in the morning, deeply comatose, and died within the next hour.<br /><br />(...)<br /><br />Had he received less clinical interest and animated attention, and been given quinine immediately the diagnosis was made, early that morning, he would perhaps have lived.<br /><br />(...) <br /><br />The house physician went to his room and brought back a copy of Osler's <b>Textbook of Medicine</b>, opened to the chapter on malaria. The first sentence, which he read aloud to the assembled house staff, said, in effect: Any doctor who allows a case of malaria to die without quinine is guilty of malpractice."</i><br /><br />To allow someone's house to burn because of an unpaid $75 "fire department fee" is in the same league. <br /><br />The true evil at the heart of libertarianism has now been revealed.Alanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06939468809703630844noreply@blogger.com