Gone are the days when people will do anything to stay away from medical facilities for fear that some unpleasant news on their future would befall on their ears. From a therapeutic and corrective role, medical industry or rather business has metamorphosed to a preventive one. So, from the position of righting the wrong, it has started looking the wrongs in a complete pink of health person to give him the pallor of ill health - that is, after so many further expensive tests and dead ends of inconclusive results.
Paranoia (to the level of hypochondriasm), hunger to perform their daily duties (of acquiring wealth), fear of death and fear of litigation on the part of the providers have skyrocketed to need to have a comprehensive exhaustive full (fool) proof way of detecting a disease even before its genesis. Like mushrooms after a rain, health sanctuaries with resort like set-up have mushroomed offering membership to exclusive (richly gullible) members to guarantee peace of mind if they are willing to part with a large piece (chunk) of their dough to undergo multiple annual dubious screening procedures to detect signs of early diseases. Tests like full body imaging and respiratory function tests in an otherwise healthy individual have not shown to yield conclusive information but if someone is paying, anything can be arranged. The minuscule but real risk of idiosyncratic reaction to contrast is always overlooked. As they say, there is no such thing as a free lunch - something got to give.
On the other hand, these unnecessary interventions and business ventures have a snowball effect on others. It opens job opportunities for the menial workers, cleaners, sanitation companies, caterers, undertakers and not to mention the clinicians who are bored of looking at sick and terminal patients. The mundane mood can be replaced with rich blabbing executives rather than the depressingly poor malnourished real patients who need medical attention in the first place.
Meanwhile, the sharks with robes will saunter in with their hawk eyes looking for loopholes and maladies and capitalistic businessmen will stomp on their cigar and laugh all the way to bank with their stash of moolah and their portly paunches to flaunt their prosperity.
And the clients of the sanctuary carry on with daily activities with a certain boost of confidence that they would survive until the next appointment. In spite of listening to lectures on healthy living, they continue entertaining their guests with an unhealthy diet of nicotine, ethanol filled spirits with different hues and flavours, bodily pleasures that involve two to tango and the list of goes on...
Life is a beach so stop bitching...
* life's a beach (www.urbandictionary.com)
A smart way of saying "Life is a bitch!". Someone who has oppressed anger and fed up with life, yet at the onset wants to look normal, would use a phrase like that. Gives the connotation that the user of the phrase is very happy-go-lucky, but on closer examination one realizes that the user is going through a hard time.
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On the other hand, these unnecessary interventions and business ventures have a snowball effect on others. It opens job opportunities for the menial workers, cleaners, sanitation companies, caterers, undertakers and not to mention the clinicians who are bored of looking at sick and terminal patients. The mundane mood can be replaced with rich blabbing executives rather than the depressingly poor malnourished real patients who need medical attention in the first place.
Meanwhile, the sharks with robes will saunter in with their hawk eyes looking for loopholes and maladies and capitalistic businessmen will stomp on their cigar and laugh all the way to bank with their stash of moolah and their portly paunches to flaunt their prosperity.And the clients of the sanctuary carry on with daily activities with a certain boost of confidence that they would survive until the next appointment. In spite of listening to lectures on healthy living, they continue entertaining their guests with an unhealthy diet of nicotine, ethanol filled spirits with different hues and flavours, bodily pleasures that involve two to tango and the list of goes on...
Life is a beach so stop bitching...
* life's a beach (www.urbandictionary.com)
A smart way of saying "Life is a bitch!". Someone who has oppressed anger and fed up with life, yet at the onset wants to look normal, would use a phrase like that. Gives the connotation that the user of the phrase is very happy-go-lucky, but on closer examination one realizes that the user is going through a hard time.
"Sex, booze, rock and roll; Weed, speed and birth control; Life's a beach and then you die; so f@#% the world and let's get high"
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