A Doctor's Religion Comments

Daniel, Your style of writing is very introspective, and it punches in the nose at the end. I like that format. I write in the same manner. Pedestrian readers sometimes wonder why poems don't rhyme, and my answer is always the same. Humpty Dumpty rhymes-that isn't what this is! You dig deeply into your subject matter and tell the story from the inside out. You are quite an interesting writer with a different professional drumbeat to which you march. Keep up your standards. they are quite worthy.

I don't doubt the professionalism of this doctor but I doubt his ethics. But wait don't those two things come together in the Hypocratic Oath? Absolutely. What has blinded this doctor to the higher values of knowledge, skill, compassion, prestige, commitment to others, good humor - all of which should be unified in the doctor's outlook, or (say it!) religion. Instead he has become isolated because of those achievements, and he finds himself tottering on a ladder of material success which goes - nowhere - which sums up the course of his life. I would like to refer this doctor to the doctor in Shakespeare's MACBETH, V,1 & 3. a humble and wise man among men.