I feel sorry for them. Divisive is the new technique that is used to silence and coerce people. A “divisive” bishop can be certain that he will be the next to be shot down.
Of course they are not alone. A physician can now have one’s medical staff priviledges removed for being “divisive”. A hospital can have one’s medical license removed for being “divisive”. It is a tool for denial of due process, since there is no need to demonstrate any facts. The statement “divisiveness” which is based on a feeling alone, if backed up by those in power is sufficient to rise to the level of “unprofessional behavior” worthy of expulsion from the field of medicine.
The only thing one can do is to make sure that one really doesn’t need one’s job, so that one can, if conditions became morally or physically intolerable, just leave. Then one would be free to be “divisive” at need.
I am free to be divisive. If I needed to leave my current job, I could do locums pretty easily. If I needed to leave medicine (and it may be necessary) I can survive as a teacher, wal mart worker, secretary, truck driver or whatever. I have no debts. I will manage, with God’s help.
The trouble with the bishops is that they have no concept of earning their living as anything else. They don’t know how they could possibly get a job in a down market outside of the church and therefore they are afraid to be “divisive”.
It is truly a pity that we have a paid clergy. We would have better clergy and bishops if they were all “tentmaker priests” rather than priests serving two masters.
I really feel sorry for them. Especially the conservative ones who dare not speak. They must be going through Hell.
that was “a hospital can have a physician’s medical license removed for being divisive”.
Examples of divisiveness include:
1. Refusing to sign a contract that requires a physician to take on debt in exchange for employment.
2. Discussing contract terms with other physicians.
3. Refusing to discharge a patient who you feel cannot be safely discharged even though “utilization review” feels continued hospitalization is not “medically necessary”.
4. Suggesting that some diagnoses lack scientific basis.
Quite easy to be “divisive”. Expensive too. But it is so much easier to sleep at night if you know that you don’t need to compromise yourself. But for that, you need to be out of debt.
Is anyone charged with the responsibility/opportunity to email non-sarcastic materials (e.g., McCall’s analysis) to all of the bishops? I doubt that they bother reading conservative blogs, but they might study something with intellectual integrity. (Now, that didn’t come out quite right, but think that the essence is okay.)
Prayers for the HoB can be found at Lent & Beyond.
I feel sorry for them. Divisive is the new technique that is used to silence and coerce people. A “divisive” bishop can be certain that he will be the next to be shot down.
Of course they are not alone. A physician can now have one’s medical staff priviledges removed for being “divisive”. A hospital can have one’s medical license removed for being “divisive”. It is a tool for denial of due process, since there is no need to demonstrate any facts. The statement “divisiveness” which is based on a feeling alone, if backed up by those in power is sufficient to rise to the level of “unprofessional behavior” worthy of expulsion from the field of medicine.
The only thing one can do is to make sure that one really doesn’t need one’s job, so that one can, if conditions became morally or physically intolerable, just leave. Then one would be free to be “divisive” at need.
I am free to be divisive. If I needed to leave my current job, I could do locums pretty easily. If I needed to leave medicine (and it may be necessary) I can survive as a teacher, wal mart worker, secretary, truck driver or whatever. I have no debts. I will manage, with God’s help.
The trouble with the bishops is that they have no concept of earning their living as anything else. They don’t know how they could possibly get a job in a down market outside of the church and therefore they are afraid to be “divisive”.
It is truly a pity that we have a paid clergy. We would have better clergy and bishops if they were all “tentmaker priests” rather than priests serving two masters.
I really feel sorry for them. Especially the conservative ones who dare not speak. They must be going through Hell.
that was “a hospital can have a physician’s medical license removed for being divisive”.
Examples of divisiveness include:
1. Refusing to sign a contract that requires a physician to take on debt in exchange for employment.
2. Discussing contract terms with other physicians.
3. Refusing to discharge a patient who you feel cannot be safely discharged even though “utilization review” feels continued hospitalization is not “medically necessary”.
4. Suggesting that some diagnoses lack scientific basis.
Quite easy to be “divisive”. Expensive too. But it is so much easier to sleep at night if you know that you don’t need to compromise yourself. But for that, you need to be out of debt.
In the final analysis, one needs to be able to say “I am not defined by being a (physician/bishop/priest).”
“I am defined by my relation with God”.
But that is quite difficult to do, if one has never been anything else, and if one truly loved what one did, with all one’s heart.
Our bishops need our prayers.
Is anyone charged with the responsibility/opportunity to email non-sarcastic materials (e.g., McCall’s analysis) to all of the bishops? I doubt that they bother reading conservative blogs, but they might study something with intellectual integrity. (Now, that didn’t come out quite right, but think that the essence is okay.)