{"id":3163,"date":"2010-09-27T09:30:14","date_gmt":"2010-09-27T16:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/?p=3163"},"modified":"2010-09-27T09:30:14","modified_gmt":"2010-09-27T16:30:14","slug":"people-never-fail-to-astonish-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/?p=3163","title":{"rendered":"People Never Fail to Astonish Me"},"content":{"rendered":"

So pretend you have had medical training. Rather extensive medical training.<\/p>\n

Your young dog is itchy and instead of taking him back to the veterinarian that you’ve been working with you figure that it’ll just save everyone time if you continue to medicate him on your own.<\/p>\n

So for two years you write prescriptions for your dog for prednisone. A LOT of prednisone. And for two years you give your dog a lot of prednisone.
\nWhen said veterinarian finds out about it and hits high freak out mode, you figure it’s no big deal since the dose of prednisone was something that you’d “worked out with another veterinarian two years ago”. And you keep writing those prescriptions.<\/p>\n

NOW pretend that you’re the medical establishment in charge of monitoring professional ethics in your county.
\nWhen you hear about a physician who has been endangering the health of a species of animal for whom they are not licensed to treat do you offer to investigate and chasten, or do you ignore the issue? \ud83d\ude2f <\/p>\n

I’m more than a little jaded about the medical community right now. <\/p>\n

And if anyone is in the position of needing to find an OB\/GYN I can make some recommendations as to who you SHOULDN’T see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So pretend you have had medical training. Rather extensive medical training. Your young dog is itchy and instead of taking him back to the veterinarian that you’ve been working with you figure that it’ll just save everyone time if you continue to medicate him on your own. So for two years you write prescriptions for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-margarets-musings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3163"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3167,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3163\/revisions\/3167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}