Doctor: Divine or Devil ?

January 8, 2011 in Living Thought

Assalamualaikum,

I have just watched “Medium” which title is “Pain Killer“. In this serial, it is about a doctor who decides which patient should be kept to be taken care of, or which patient should be given death sentence.

Dr. Thomas Stanler, the doctor in this movie, is a doctor who handles all the patients who get cancer. He is a good doctor indeed. He saved a lot of lifes which of course with HIS permission. (But this is a Hollywood movie, no such thing about HIS permission :p).

But anyway, he seems like to judge the patient’s life or time to death by himself. So, when he knew that there is no longer hope for the patient to live then he will inject the “special” liquid to them without anyone permission. I mean with no hope here such as cancer with stage 4, no life insurance, not so rich person, can not pay the bill, etc. But actually, the patients themselves still have hope to live.

We all know that being doctor is a “gift”. They can help healing their disease or illness. But it does not mean that they have the right to decide which patients can continue to live and which patients should just die. The doctor may argue that this decision is for the patient’s own good. They may argue that it will end the patient’s pain from disease and help them not throwing a huge fortune just for trying to heal them and for the uncertain hope. How do they know? How do they know that it will help the patient? How do they know that it will end their pain? How do they know that there is no such hope?

The reasons might not because of money like the other many other practices of them but it still cost life that no one can ever buy it from anyone and anywhere. Are they divine or devil?

Wassalamualaikum

Joki Napi: What is it used for?

January 3, 2011 in Daily Shoutout

As usual habit, I always allocate some time to read my reader. And then it chops my eyes, Joki Napi Bojonegoro, Modus baru. This operation is about replacing the real prisoner to the fake one. So, the real prisoner pay some amount of money to whoever wants to replace him or her. In the real case in Bojonegoro, they found that the one in the prisoner is not the real one. Instead of Kasiem, it is Karni. And Karni has been in the prison for four days.

My question here is how come it happens? How come the prison officer let this things happen? Or just to be clear, how can they do it?

People is sentenced to be in prison because they have committed a crime. So, they can pay what they have done in the past. They can clear up their mind again or whatever it is. It is true that it does not mean every prisoner will be better after that. But at least that is the basic idea on prison. The criminals get basic knowledge how to survive and hopefully they can use the knowledge to earn some money after they finished their punishment.

But if someone just replace them, so what the use of it? How about if the criminals is a serial killer or rapist? The criminals is still wandering around outside. What are you going to do about it?

I do know the fundamental reason behind this action is always about money. You are rich then you can do anything what you want. Or you can argue that you need money so you just accept the offer? But please whoever you are, can you start thinking about other people safety? Can you deny your conscience? Or is it died already?

When I was a little kid, I did admire people who work in Law because they always try to do justice and find the truth. And I always keep a little hope that all of the “messiness” will vanish because there are still some people who keep their promise. But it seems the good one is only 1 from 100. And after reading the article, I doubt it even more.