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Re: Politics and MedicineFrom: Richard Chudacoff, MD (richardc@bcm.tmc.edu)Thu Aug 29 14:44:27 1996
My wife, who is foreign born, wants to know what the political party conventions are for, since everyone says the same thing, in the same way, promising the world and then follows their own self serving agenda. Politics of today has it’s own twist of the Golden Rule, not "He who has the gold, makes the rules," but rather, "He who makes the rules gets the gold." ((Fine, to be PC interchange She for He :-) ) Still, I feel I am fortunate enough to have achieved a moderate degree of success in terms of education and livelihood, and do believe that I should contribute to others in the form of helping (the less fortunate) with education, access to medical care, and training for work. Better to prevent than treat, and that’s how I feel about social assistance. Note I say assistance, no subsistence. But, I do not demand that others do the same. Unfortunately, political parties, Democratic or Republican, are a little too constraining in their beliefs. The problem with the political game is that there is an undercurrent that says that "you have a freedom of choice, as long as you choose our way." I choose a more existential ideal that you can do what you want as long as you don't prevent me from doing what I want. (Obviously, if what you do injures me, than you prevent me my doing, and that is wrong . There is a reasonableness (and naïveté) in this theology.) I tend to favor Clinton or Perot over Dole, because at least they are telling you their poison, rather that hiding it. While once again it is not a vote for someone, but against someone, and I think that a second Clinton term will do less harm than a fourth Reagen term (which is what the Republicans want Dole to be.) Just my $.02
-- Richard Chudacoff, MD Asst. Clinical Professor, OB/GYN Baylor College of Medicine
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