Guest guest Posted January 13, 2007 Report Share Posted January 13, 2007 Pamela- go for it! Maybe the primed talk in NYC... Lynn > >Reply-To: >To: >Subject: Re: IMP talk ideas - The great exodus for >freedom - Passover and MLK >Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 15:57:36 -0000 > >Thanks for the compliment. The LL story sort of sounds like passover.... > >Yes, If I speak to a Jewish audience I must surely integrate how we docs >survived in exodus from " Be jipped " to the promised land. > >In the land of " Be jipped " the great " Fair-O " had something called a >non-compete clause (and other tricks and empty promises like " benefits " >and a " bonus " ) which kept the doctors enslaved in medical >sweatshops unable to escape without traveling large distances at >great personal expense. > >Some escaped. Most continued to work harder and harder and became >robotic slaves of the master who built larger and larger edifices outside >of the urban growth zone creating unsustainable urban sprawl and >dessimating entire communities. The physicianslave labor was >needed to build these monstrous and mammoth buildings and >create wealth to expand " Be jipped " > >Those who perpetrated the unjust " healthcare " system run >by the great " FAIR-O " were eventually hit with the 10 plagues: > >1) Blood - They could not get the blood off their hands even when washed. > (dead patients from HMOs who declined referrals to >specialists) >2) Frogs - infested their homes >3) Lice - even the strongest pharmaceutical CEOs could not remove the lice > from their skin with their special potions. >4) Dog flies - attached to the eyelids of the Bejipptians >5) Cattle Plague = BSE I suppose on the dinner plates of the wealthy >6) Boils - Full of superMRSA eradicated entire sects of Bejipptians >7) Hail - dented only the windshields of Hummers, SUVs, and > environmentaly unsustainable guzzlers >8) Locusts - destroyed their agriculture >9) Darkness - A combination of sudden onset macular degeneration/cataracts > impacted only a few of the upper echelon. >10) Death of firstborn - with no loopholes to shelter their wealth they >finally > let the physicians go. > >IN the words of MLK..... in honor of his birthday on Monday January 15th >I close with the following quote: > > " ...the forces of justice stand on the side of the universe, and that you >can't >ultimately trample over God's children and profit by it. " - MLK > > " When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village >and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able >to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and >white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, (MDs, PAs, >NPs, massage therapists, naturopaths, patients, nurses etc..) >will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old >Negro spiritual, " Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, >we are free at last! " > >I have MLKs speeches on my ipod. They are absolutely invigorating. >I listen to them nearly daily to keep me on the path that so many >others walked before me. > >Consider listening to the I Have A Dream speech or read it on line >on Monday. > >Blessings, > >Pamela > > >Pamela Wible, MD >Family & Community Medicine, LLC >3575 st. #220 >Eugene, OR 97405 > >roxywible@... >www.idealmedicalpractice.org > > > > > > > while discussing IMP's with lynn ho last night on the phone, i came up >with an idea for >IMP talk parameters. > > i think the only person who could incorporate them into a talk and >carry it off well >would be pam wible (that's a compliment). > > it's the seven deadly sins, and the seven heavenly virtues. > > > > they are, associated with their designated demon and punishment: > > > > lust vs chastity; asmodeus, smothered in fire and brimstone > > gluttony vs temperance; beezelbub, forced to eat live vermin > > greed vs charity; mammon, boiled in oil > > sloth vs diligence; belphegor, thrown into a snake pit > > wrath vs forgiveness; satan, dismembered alive > > envy vs kindness; leviathan, placed in freezing water > > pride vs humility; lucifer, broken on the wheel > > > > and don't forget the incubi and succubi! > > > > i think it would be hilarious. > > > > of course, i have undoubtedly far too much time on my hands right now, >but i can't get >to work today because we're having a cold snap with icy roads. > > > > LL > > > > > > --------------------------------- > > The fish are biting. > > Get more visitors on your site using Yahoo! Search Marketing. > > > > _________________________________________________________________ Your Hotmail address already works to sign into Windows Live Messenger! Get it now http://clk.atdmt.com/MSN/go/msnnkwme0020000001msn/direct/01/?href=http://get.liv\ e.com/messenger/overview Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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