Why?
- violence
- abuse
- isolation and exclusion
- drinking and driving
- selling each other drugs
- wars
- famine within view of wealth
- you know, the whole news cycle.
I know because I’ve been wrestling with this for a few weeks now. Work with me. Stay objective.
Let’s define it as: Study of the influence of other human beings on the health of the individual.
There. That wasn’t so bad.
1. 28 F in the ER with a broken arm & black eye from “fell down”
2. 52 M community acquired pneumonia
3. 52 M TB pneumonia
4. 22 M GSW outside restaurant
5. 22 M GSW, self-inflicted
- social work
- psychiatry
- religion
- free will
- bad luck
- not our business
- “just things that happen”
- human nature.
I get it. Just sew up the aorta and move on.