I am back. I have all the news to tell. I lie. I did see a headline that said that Fats Domino is missing. He does live in New Orleans and Hurricane Katrina was not kind to those in Louisiana and Mississippi Gulf areas. The strange thing was that I thought he was dead. I am sorry for thinking that before, but I just may have been ahead of time on that one. Ooops!

There is more fun stuff in the news. Here goes.

Doctor adds insult to injury
Thu Sep 1,12:00 PM ET
"Trust me, I'm a doctor" wouldn't describe one Japanese medic who has landed in hot water after hitting and abusing a patient during surgery.
The elderly female patient at a hospital in Shiga, central Japan, was given a local anaesthetic for an unspecified operation early last month, but began thrashing around on the operating table and yelling at the doctor to stop.
After trying to persuade her to calm down, the doctor hit the patient on the forehead and yelled at her to shut up, a hospital spokesman said. The patient needed five days to recover from the injury to her forehead.
The operation was re-conducted last week by another doctor.

Damn, I should have been a doctor. Any profession where you can keep your head and cuff somebody who cannot is one for me. There is a case up here with a doctor being up before the College of Physicians and Surgeons for conduct unbecoming a doctor for yelling at some of his patients and sharing his opinions of some of his patients to their families. Two things struck me. One, I am not so sure that is "unbecoming". I see it as two things, one, bad business. It is rarely good for business to speak ill of somebody behind his/her back. Have the balls to say it to his/her face. But as far as I can tell is no crime. I mean if you have to "regulate" and "codify" that type of behavior, who are you really concerned about here. Two, somebody who has trouble dealing with people, especially those elderly and ailing chronically. Again, isn't that something that should be "taught" back in medical school, so that crap is rooted out and minimized.

Now, the doctor is working in an underserviced area, so he took the government incentives to set up practice there and he does have a large case load. His lawyer is arguing that when he was in Toronto and under stress, he had some sort of addiction. He was in Betty Ford during the time his behavior in question. He is using a diminished capacity, I am a victim as well, type of explanation. It may all be true or he may just be a shmuck who became a doctor. The world is full of these people and they make their way into every profession. Oh well, that is life.

That is all for today, kiddies. Have a beautiful one, I intend to and will. Ciao.