For the new intellectual: the philosophy of ayn rand by Ayn Rand
Author:Ayn Rand [Ayn Rand]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Philosophie
Published: 1963-12-01T21:25:06+00:00
THE FORGOTTEN MAN OF SOCIALIZED MEDICINE
This is the explanation given by a distinguished brain surgeon of why he joined Galtâs strike.
âI quit when medicine was placed under State control, some years ago,â said Dr. Hendricks. âDo you know what it takes to perform a brain operation? Do you know the kind of skill it demands, and the years of passionate, merciless, excruciating devotion that go to acquire that skill? That was what I would not place at the disposal of men whose sole qualification to rule me was their capacity to spout the fraudulent generalities that got them elected to the privilege of enforcing their wishes at the point of a gun. I would not let them dictate the purpose for which my years of study had been spent, or the conditions of my work, or my choice of patients, or the amount of my reward. I observed that in all the discussions that preceded the enslavement of medicine, men discussed everythingâexcept the desires of the doctors. Men considered only the âwelfareâ of the patients, with no thought for those who were to provide it. That a doctor should have any right, desire or choice in the matter, was regarded as irrelevant selfishness; his is not to choose, they said, only âto serve.â That a man whoâs willing to work under compulsion is too dangerous a brute to entrust with a job in the stockyardsânever occurred to those who proposed to help the sick by making life impossible for the healthy. I have often wondered at the smugness with which people assert their right to enslave me, to control my work, to force my will, to violate my conscience, to stifle my mindâyet what is it that they expect to depend on, when they lie on an operating table under my hands? Their moral code has taught them to believe that it is safe to rely on the virtue of their victims. Well, that is the virtue I have withdrawn. Let them discover the kind of doctors that their system will now produce. Let them discover, in their operating rooms and hospital wards, that it is not safe to place their lives in the hands of a man whose life they have throttled. It is not safe, if he is the sort of man who resents itâand still less safe, if he is the sort who doesnât.â
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