Right on!
Posted on 01/25/2007 10:14:41 PM PST by neverdem
Here is an interesting little slice of contemporary English life.
The police go to a pub in a small town in Devon, looking for a suspect. They see a man there who they think resembles the suspect, and approach him. He becomes abusive and they arrest him and take him down to the station. He is drunk.
After a couple of hours in a jail cell, he says he feels sick and demands a doctor. The police call the police surgeon. When he arrives (he is an Indian), the arrested man says, “I want an English doctor, not a f*cking Paki.”
The police then charge the man with racially aggravated insulting behavior. He elects for a superior court trial, and the prosecution proceeds with the case as though it were a very serious one.
The judge decides that the court should not waste its time on so trivial a matter, especially when burglars and robbers frequently escape charges. The doctor, he says, is a man of some social standing; a single insult from a drunk could not, or should not, have harmed him unduly. He then gives a bit of advice to the accused: “Next time, call him a fat bastard and don’t say anything about his color.”
The judge soon had to explain publicly, in an almost groveling way, that he by no means underestimated the seriousness of racial insult, and that he was not making light of it.
Contained in this story, of course, are many elements of modern social and moral pathology. The judge, surely, was being ironic at the expense of those who thought that a single boorish remark by a man who, after all, had been wrongly identified by the police so threatened the social fabric that it deserved the attention of many highly educated people and a cost to the public of many thousands of dollars. But even mild criticism of the prevailing pieties is becoming intolerable in Britain.
In the very same week, the British Medical Journal published a debate on whether British Muslims should have their own, separate medical services—funded by the state, naturally. Now there’s irony for you.
An example of cheap immigrant labor reducing Aetna's costs?
Amazing. More like 1984 every day.
IMO, it still does not change the fact that the doctors could give lower rates for people who can or have to pay out-of-pocket. There is less administrative cost for accepting cash. They make enough money off of insurance companies to still live comfortably.
They still live in nice houses and drive nice cars. I have yet to see a doctor driving an old junker or living in a low-income area.
I for one wouldn't mind paying $50 or so for an office visit as long as it helps to keep the cost of medical insurance down.
I agree with you that cash customers should have a lower rate on medical services. It would certainly lower their paperwork.
I know there are lots of Indians here and that is why so many motels post "American Owned" signs. I know that both Hindu, Christian Indian, and Moslem Indians can be good doctors. But unless I'm referred to one by someone I trust I ain't dragging my child into see one. I would rather go to a Jones than a Sankar all things being equal. Do you think that the ones named Mohammed are Hindu?
I know there are lots of Indians here and that is why so many motels post "American Owned" signs. I know that both Hindu, Christian Indian, and Moslem Indians can be good doctors. But unless I'm referred to one by someone I trust I ain't dragging my child into see one. I would rather go to a Jones than a Sankar all things being equal. Do you think that the ones named Mohammed are Hindu?
You first.
If they are so much better than their White colleagues then why do they cheat their butts off in class? I seen it too many times. So yes I don't care what you call me but I would rather go to a "rightful" doctor in Birmingham than in Calcutta.
How low the "Free Born English" have sunk.
Right on!
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