Hippocrates??? Bizarre...
Jun. 16th, 2005 08:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
locus_ofcontroVirgo Horoscope for week of June 16, 2005
Virgo (August 23-September 22) The ancient Greek physician Hippocrates is known as the father of medicine. Even today, the approach that he and his followers formulated remains a major influence, epitomized in the Hippocratic Oath sworn by all new doctors. His views on horoscopes might be shocking to some, however. "A physician without a knowledge of astrology," he wrote, "has no right to call himself a physician." I wish modern MDs would take that part of Hippocrates' wisdom as seriously as they do the rest; the art of healing would be more efficacious if it included an understanding of patients' astrological makeup. Now please apply this approach as you revisit the ideas that are at the foundation of what you believe, Virgo. In other words, explore the original sources of your inspiration and education. See if there are vital aspects of the wisdom contained therein that you have missed or ignored.
OK. ... I find it really really interesting, that the week I have spent trying to sort my health out is also the week that FREEWILL mentions Hippocrates in my horoscope... BIZARRE.... Oh, and I had X-Rays of my lungs & sinues and have started on a corticosteriod inhaler. The inhaler appears to be working wonders. I have barely coughed for a full day... (course the lifting of the smog advisory might have something to do with that).
Work brings home some terrible images. It makes me angry to see what some people can do to their children. I saw a training video today which showed images of children (dead by their caregivers hand) and some of the physical damage done to them. I know they show us this stuff so when we see it on our cases, we don't blanch. So we can address our anger and vent in training rather then to the PRAM or at the scene. They don't want the first time we see this stuff to be in the hospital ward. It makes me think about every bruise I have ever seen on a child, every time I have ever seen a child flinch. The image burned in my mind is of a young child who had been placed in scalding water and held there. The child had died with burns covering the entire lower half of the body, except the buttocks where they had rested against the bottom of the bathtub. Ya know, I can almost excusing someone losing control and striking out. I know how easy it is to get there. But to deliberately hold a child, in scalding hot water, a child who would be screaming in pain and fear. How demented would you have to be. HOW HEARTLESS????
I come home every day and look at my own child with different eyes and curse my own failings and fears of being a mother. It would be nice to think this is rare. But the abuse that is happening to children is increasing, both in frequency and in intensity. As pressures of our society increase, and more demands get placed on our time, our children are becoming an inconvenience. I'm lucky. My caseload has no instances of physical abuse. Instead I have 2 sexual abuse cases, and the rest are neglect, or caregiver with a problem (drugs or alcohol). But I now watch for the bruises, look for the flinch. In every parental interaction I see.... It scares me. It angers me. And it's my job.
Virgo (August 23-September 22) The ancient Greek physician Hippocrates is known as the father of medicine. Even today, the approach that he and his followers formulated remains a major influence, epitomized in the Hippocratic Oath sworn by all new doctors. His views on horoscopes might be shocking to some, however. "A physician without a knowledge of astrology," he wrote, "has no right to call himself a physician." I wish modern MDs would take that part of Hippocrates' wisdom as seriously as they do the rest; the art of healing would be more efficacious if it included an understanding of patients' astrological makeup. Now please apply this approach as you revisit the ideas that are at the foundation of what you believe, Virgo. In other words, explore the original sources of your inspiration and education. See if there are vital aspects of the wisdom contained therein that you have missed or ignored.
OK. ... I find it really really interesting, that the week I have spent trying to sort my health out is also the week that FREEWILL mentions Hippocrates in my horoscope... BIZARRE.... Oh, and I had X-Rays of my lungs & sinues and have started on a corticosteriod inhaler. The inhaler appears to be working wonders. I have barely coughed for a full day... (course the lifting of the smog advisory might have something to do with that).
Work brings home some terrible images. It makes me angry to see what some people can do to their children. I saw a training video today which showed images of children (dead by their caregivers hand) and some of the physical damage done to them. I know they show us this stuff so when we see it on our cases, we don't blanch. So we can address our anger and vent in training rather then to the PRAM or at the scene. They don't want the first time we see this stuff to be in the hospital ward. It makes me think about every bruise I have ever seen on a child, every time I have ever seen a child flinch. The image burned in my mind is of a young child who had been placed in scalding water and held there. The child had died with burns covering the entire lower half of the body, except the buttocks where they had rested against the bottom of the bathtub. Ya know, I can almost excusing someone losing control and striking out. I know how easy it is to get there. But to deliberately hold a child, in scalding hot water, a child who would be screaming in pain and fear. How demented would you have to be. HOW HEARTLESS????
I come home every day and look at my own child with different eyes and curse my own failings and fears of being a mother. It would be nice to think this is rare. But the abuse that is happening to children is increasing, both in frequency and in intensity. As pressures of our society increase, and more demands get placed on our time, our children are becoming an inconvenience. I'm lucky. My caseload has no instances of physical abuse. Instead I have 2 sexual abuse cases, and the rest are neglect, or caregiver with a problem (drugs or alcohol). But I now watch for the bruises, look for the flinch. In every parental interaction I see.... It scares me. It angers me. And it's my job.
