david.debhal wrote:
I should regard your exclusion from a medical list as a badge of honour. Some
people cannot handle the truth. Very few are true to their word.
I was trying to get the quote from Burmese Days to describe what was
happening - particularly as Edgar had a special feeling for medicos - but am
unable to do so. What I did find will suffice:-
Acceptance
For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle (home life, and perhaps
the trade unions or local politics) he feels himself master of his fate, but against
major events he is as helpless as against the elements. So far from endeavoring
to influence the future, he simply lies down and lets things happen to him.
Candor
Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age
of seven or eight onwards.
Contradiction
Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind
simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
Freedom
I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as
eternal dirt.
Happiness
Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is
happiness
Language
Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.
Literature
The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is
completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature.
School
No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were
altogether unhappy.
Sports
Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred,
jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing
violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting.
Technology
Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.
Writers and Writing
All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies
a mystery. Writing a book is a long, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some
painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven
by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.
Should I find the proper quote I will send it.
FOr what it is worth, Andrew will not answer the question :
Does HCN sell Advertising Software with Medical Informatics or does it sell
Medial Informatics Software with Advertising?
When I discussed it with him he said that the vast majority of HCN's income
came from GPs. My understanding was that the majority of its income came
from its advertisers. I have not had the privilege of reading the latest company
report but I expect that the veiled threats are sufficient to shut almost everybody
up. IF that is not enough, Andrew will get you at some forum and you will have
PTSD as I have following an hour's discussion with Andrew in Perth last year at
which I told him I should agree with anything he said just to get away from from
any further 'discussions'. He told me I posed a grave threat to his company - just
because I responded to a request for elaboration of the wonderful security
system that was in place in Medical Director.
As I have never owned Medical Director I do not have the privilege of having
been excluded from that forum.
The other people I know who do promote freedom of speech are you and Horst
and Peter whose actions enable the free exchange of ideas and information.
David de Bhal
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