[ExI] Medical power of attorney for cryonicsts

[spike]

>… On Behalf Of Rafal Smigrodzki
Subject: Re: [ExI] Medical power of attorney for cryonicsts

 

 

On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 4:27 PM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:

 

 

There is so much in this post, I just thank evolution once more that I decided to not go to med school.

 

>…### Why, Spike, med school is easy as pie, most docs are just passing smart :)

 

Do let me put that comment under things for which I hold a reasonable doubt.  {8^D

 

>…Those rocket scientists, on the other hand, they are the really hardcore....Rafal

 

 

Rafal, I have a number of friends from college who went to medical school.  I stay in contact with several of them to this day.  One factor that sets them apart from me is they can make these kinds of ethical decisions and act on them, where I just go crazy.  

 

I was fortunate to go into aerospace.  Of all fields I know of, that one is the most free of ethical dilemmas.  In my entire career I never ran across one that I recall.  Our bosses might lean on us to work our asses off, but not once was I ever pressured to do the wrong thing, or to do anything against my conscience or to rush anything out the door before I was completely satisfied it was right.  There are no movies about aerospace, because there is little human drama.  There are no ethics in the rocket science biz, just numbers, just lots of equations, right or wrong, in spec or out of spec, sharp lines, very little gray area.  It’s so clean!  Oh I love that.  

 

Your feedback analogy worked on me: the part of my brain which solves moral dilemmas atrophied to nothing a long time ago, like a muscle in a plaster cast.  Now when I reach a real ethical dilemma, that area of my brain is nearly useless, debilitated from a lifetime of non-use.  the best I can do is ask my friends, particularly the ones I know who love humanity, who do the right thing always, and who explain it to me in terms I can understand, such as feedback control theory (  {8^D (thanks for that btw.))  

 

To complicate matters a bit, I bounced this question off of one of my doctor friends.  He advised me to stop forthwith.  He didn’t explain himself very well, just said there was just too many unknowns here to proceed, so, stop.

 

Now I don’t know what I am going to do.  But I might discuss the matter with the candidate’s son, the one who has been a friend since college days, have him discuss the matter with my friends in the medical biz.

 

spike

 

 

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