A Great Quote...

I found this quote/poem and I love it...can anyone tell me more about it?? I believe it is by an unknown author.


Risk

To laugh is to risk appearing the fool.

To weep is to risk being called sentimental.

To reach out is to risk involvement.

To expose feeling is to risk showing your true self.

To place your ideas and dreams before the crowd is to risk being naive.

To love is to risk not being loved in return.

To live is to risk dying .

To hope is to risk despair.

To try is to risk failure.

But risk must be taken, because the greatest risk in life is to risk nothing.

Those who risk nothing do nothing, have nothing, are nothing and become nothing.

They may avoid suffering and sorrow, but they simply cannot learn to feel, and change, and grow, and love, and live.

Chained by their servitude, they are slaves; they have forfeited their freedom. Only people who risk are truly free.

To take a risk is to have faith, to have a trust beyond ourselves.

It is more than fate, it is faith.

10 Commandments for Doctors

1. Thou shall not allow any other doctor to have more patients, even if that means each patient pays $300 for a 15 minute medical exam.
2. Thou shall not allow any profession to rise to the level of God. This is why chiropractors had such issues getting accredited.
3. Thou shall not allow malpractice lawsuits. This is why in many states there is a limit on monetary awards from these “accidents”.
4. Thou shall charge double when a patient misses an appointment (but make excuses when one misses them with a patient).
5. Thou shall honor patient’s parents (and their medical history) because God knows there are LOTS of things you can blame them for (and lots of diseases you can claim your patients got from their bad “genes”).
6. Thou shall never commit murder, but shall also never tell a patient he/she is well when one can charge for a myriad of tests and prescribe a placebo that costs more than a left lung (that is if a left lung was up for sale on EBay). And if they do not pay their bills, then the doctor shall accidently on purpose let them die.
7. Thou shall never commit theft, but shall over charge for services whenever possible. This is so every patient gets to read these 3 important words: customary and reasonable. As in “Not”.
8. Thou shall not lie and say “I hope you’re doing alright today”, but instead shall ask every patient the same idiotic question: “How are you today?” (If they were doing well, they wouldn’t be visiting a doctor!)
9. Thou shall require payment in full if the patient does NOT have medical insurance, because God forbid the doctor take a pro bono patient and not be able to buy his fifth castle in the South of France.
10. Thou shall not drive any car less than 3 times what ones patients drive—meaning anything less than a $100,000 car. This is so every patient knows he’s getting (if not the best) then the most expensive medical care possible.

Don't get me wrong...I dislike murderers.

I really do. I don't take too kindly to men or women (or children for that matter) who take other people's lives. I might be amenable to suicide in the right instances, but not murder (unless it's to save oneself from being murdered, then maybe, but not in war--that's just wrong!).

My point is...I really am NOT trying to discount what anybody does. But in the past 6 months I've gone through some stuff (best left like that--unsaid!) that makes me believe that sometimes, on rare occasions, one is not responsible for what one does. Okay, okay, I'm NOT trying to let anybody off the hook here. Really, I'm not.

But when professional wrestler Chris Benoit killed his wife and son over a couple day period, then committed suicide…you have to admit it was too weird. How could anyone stand to stay in the house? The smell? The knowledge? The depravity? UNLESS, it was the roid-rage? Okay, maybe you don’t believe it…but I do. I had to take steroids for a bad sinus infection. The first time, well, I knew they might make me “a little crazy” or so my doctor said. The second time, I noticed they made me a LOT crazy.

I had these unbelievable thoughts—first, there was the instance with the train. I was getting close to the tracks. The guard rail was coming down, I floored the gas. NEVER have I done something so crazy before—plus I didn’t even seem to care. It didn’t faze me…I didn’t worry about it. It was SO unlike me.

Next was the incident with my eye. Hmm, I thought, my eye hurts (a sign of my sinus infection)….hmm, I thought, maybe I should just RIP it out! And this thought kept occurring day in day out. Thankfully, I stopped the roads before I ripped out the eye. I say thankfully because it was someone else’s eye—JUST kidding, it was my eye. And this did happen. So, I understand roid-rage. It’s real. It happens. Sh*t happens. So maybe, maybe there is something to this whole bit about forgiving those who sinned against you (this from a NONRELGIOUS person!).

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