shaun micallef luuuub~~~

[mayoraasei]

Absolutely adooooore this guy

Okay, okay, full credits to bludger1985 for bringing up his act when we were discussing TGYH one day......

Love how he's funny without resorting to plain obnoxiousness. Okay, he can be obnoxious too, but he's always so....educatedly obnoxious. It's hilarious XD

"It's strange to have a segment consisting entirely of American newsreaders mentioning our name," says Shaun Micallef, anchor of upcoming comedy news program Newstopia, on SBS. "With Port Arthur there was almost this sense that we've made it; that we're up there with any number of mass shootings across the world."

LOL....just the sort of ridiculously irreverent and politically incorrect thing he'd say...

=================== I. Am a. Divider. Am. ===================

A beautiful, eloquently written essay reflecting on the recent events at Royal North Shore hospital (a mother miscarried after waiting two hours in emergency) and problems it revealed about the Australian health system. Including the busy blame-shifting and snarking of the politicians.

I don't do economy, so a lot of economics students might disagree. I study and I am interested in the health field, and what the government has done in the last three terms of its reign is to withdraw funding from both these vital fields.

I wonder how many more prescription drugs could have been issued with the amount of money spent on making barricades and hiring snipers and making raincoats driza-bones and throwing dinner parties for APEC.

Comments

[jkylk.livejournal.com]

*points at layout*

*squints at DP*

*amusingly chuckles*

*cowers* 0_o

[luna-rainbow.livejournal.com]

What's a DP? O_o;

...If you chuckle amusingly, are we supposed to laugh at you?

Or are you merely chuckling in amusement? =P

Just sayin'

[bludger1985.livejournal.com]

after all these years of MSN...and you still dont know what a DP is...you stupid PUPPET!! thats what DP is!!!

[luna-rainbow.livejournal.com]

I've always called it an avvie or an icon ==;

Especially for LJ...especially since in the options you manage your user icons not display pic =P

Shuddup, I like my puppets =P

[bludger1985.livejournal.com]

And whoa, that is a pretty convincing essay :O

The thing with "Change life of one or change life of million" spurred some thoughts. I guess when you look at the big picture all day, you will end up being content with just covering 80% of the picture or less.

"Oh I am doing this for the good of MOST people"
"Oh sacrifices must be done for the greater good"

And I know many people would be conscience-clear when they make decisions that ultimately, will leave particular groups of people high and dry.

Such *may* be the work of economists who study mathematical models all day, staring at statistics all night, unaware of the surrounding social change that is happening around them. They do have passion in their field, have their own precious things to protect.

"Australia must grow more prosperous"
"There must be no one below the poverty line"
And albeit idealistic, there must be many aspiring economists out there hwo are setting out to change the world for the better. But they too must end up making priorities and putting things down in turn.

I am not saying who I believe to be right or wrong. I agree with Luna that you know, some luxuries that do nothing practical other than maybe to protect Australia's image/status (or lack thereof) in the global theatre; should be allocated elsewhere. Though I bet someone passionate about politics will easily come out with strong arguments on why that has to be done.

At the end of the day, we are all just changing the life of one, the life of ourselves. How we pursue our daily routines and lifelong goals will end up changing those around us and however little, the world at large. Set your own priorities, don't disobey your conscience, and I guess just do what must be done so you, being the most important person to yourself, can have a overall great and fulfilling life. (oi...i hope that didnt sound like the 人不为己,天诛地灭 comment you hate so much about:P)

[luna-rainbow.livejournal.com]

LOL...the way I interpreted the "life of one or lives of millions" line was totally irrelevant to what you said =P

Basically his supervisor asked him if he wanted to research, and, say, find a cure for millions of people, or if just wanted to be a doctor and can really only save one person at a time.

It's not quite the same concept as what you said, which is for every choice there will be people who benefit and people who don't.

This is a choice about bettering the future for mankind through ways that might be very subtle and you never know you can achieve that goal through your research, or bettering the future of one man. It's one of those philosophical decisions (which, ironically, appears a lot in anime) where you decide whether or not it's hypocritical or simply human to only want to help the person you can see in front of you, instead of trying to help everyone at the same time.

.....Okay, I said a lot of things that was completely irrelevant.

I've been reading a bit on the whole "moral integrity" of a doctor. It's a profession that demands "altruism" and all kinds of beautiful sounding words, but we're living in a capitalist society, with pharmaceutical companies that function by valuing economy above all else. This is in direct conflict with, supposedly (I am practically quoting this, just in case you find it incredibly cheesy, which I do), the functioning principles of medicine, where in utopia finance should never come between the doctor and helping the patient.

Of course, in reality, it's not like that. But enforcing corporate models (?) on the medical system places a lot of stress on its personnel because on the one hand you're required to do "everything within your power to help the patient, regardless of authority", and on the other, it's the real world and you just don't have the money to do that.

This is why there's a lot of complaint from all quarters. The government's not helping by pushing the blame instead of trying to restructure it to a system that will in the long run be much more economically efficient. It's certainly not helping by adding another level of bureaucrats that will just further drain money away from the system.

.....This is a huge rant LOL. There are problems at so many levels of medicine because it's not just doctors and nurses and health professionals involved. You have pharmaceutical companies and insurance companies and governments, none of whom follow the same ethical principles as required of the medical profession.

[bludger1985.livejournal.com]

lol, shrug....all that random stuff just came to me and flowed out without thinking :P

I guess for all things it gets more and more complicated the more you learn about it