{"id":1271,"date":"2007-01-13T08:03:47","date_gmt":"2007-01-13T13:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=1271"},"modified":"2007-01-13T08:03:47","modified_gmt":"2007-01-13T13:03:47","slug":"house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=1271","title":{"rendered":"House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>yeah, I watched the season opener, even watched the Christmas &#8220;catch up&#8221; episode- (loved the midget comments) and while I have little interest in addicts, my bulging belly reminds me I have my own addictions. <\/p>\n<p>So it was with some amusement that I saw the treatment of Dr House, and some enjoyment that I saw the vindictive cop Tritter smacked down by the judge. <\/p>\n<p>I mentioned this to my friend Dr Bob over beers thursday night, and he said &#8220;I can&#8217;t watch that show. No doctor could be that much of an ass and continue to practice&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>I sat, openmouthed, stunned.<\/p>\n<p>My old friend and confidant Mlle Jenny, a medical transcriptionist who deals with doctors every day, said &#8220;that&#8217;s the funniest thing I ever heard in my life&#8221; I can&#8217;t but agree. The entire medical profession thinks so much of itself they can&#8217;t stand it when someone points the eyepiece of reality at them, and I am reminded of this by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.babytrollblog.com\/index.htm#ThatsAGoodThing_\">M Alger<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theothersideofkim.com\/index.php\/tos\/single\/10102\/\">M Du Toit<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Face it, folks. As a group? doctors are overpaid scum. Their minions are self important boors. One in a hundred is worth the powder it would take to blow themself up with. Demonstrably, the US medical system is one of the lower rated in the world, at least in part because of it&#8217;s snake-oil propensities and it&#8217;s insurance-fraud subculture. <\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t trust them, never will, and I doubt I&#8217;ll begin soon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>yeah, I watched the season opener, even watched the Christmas &#8220;catch up&#8221; episode- (loved the midget comments) and while I have little interest in addicts, my bulging belly reminds me I have my own addictions. So it was with some amusement that I saw the treatment of Dr House, and some enjoyment that I saw [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}