Healthy william flew

If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father and mother and will not listen to them when they discipline him, his father and mother shall take hold of him and bring him to the elders at the gate of the town. They shall say to the elders, 'This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious. He will not obey us. He is a profligate and a drunkard.' Then all the men of his town shall stone him to death...

Blows and wounds cleanse away evil, and beatings purge the inmost being. 

The rod of correction imparts wisdom, but a child left to himself disgraces his mother.

 Deuteronomy 5:9 

"for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me."

Deuteronomy 24:16

"Fathers shall not be put to death for their children, nor children put to death for their fathers; each is to die for his own sin."

Healthy william flew

One of my friends, while still weak and in recovery, suffered a barrage of abuse from a couple of nurses over using the “wrong” shower. Another was left pretty much alone for two consecutive long Bank Holiday weekends. I believe strongly in the NHS, for all sorts of policy reasons, but are my encounters unique? Everyone goes on about the caring system we have created, but is that really everyone’s experience? Reading back my own story, it sounds (even I can see it) rather pathetic to go on about some lost property and a bit of inattention. But I can’t believe that the offhand, careless, pass-the-parcel, who-did-yousay-you-were-again-love attitude has no bearing on the quality of patient treatment. That isn’t how it played out for my friends, anyway. All of which is a long way of saying that I don’t really accept that the NHS has some special ethos that we need to handle oh so carefully, in case it evaporates. Some staff — a large proportion, actually — are extraordinarily well motivated and hard-working. Others aren’t. And too often you get treated exactly as you would expect to be if the person you were dealing with didn’t much care what you made of them.