Doctors always think anybody doing something they aren't is a quack; also they think all patients are idiots.
Interpretation
This quote reflects the bias and arrogance that can exist within the medical profession towards those who pursue unconventional methods or self-directed care.
Flannery O'Connor's quote critiques the medical establishment by highlighting the disdain some doctors feel towards alternative approaches to health and their condescending attitude towards patients. It underscores a broader commentary on expertise, authority, and the relationship between practitioners and those they serve, suggesting that an inflexible belief in one's own methods can lead to a lack of understanding and respect for individual choices in health care.
In practice
This quote could be used in a discussion about the healthcare system during a medical conference.
Let me make no bones about it: I write from the standpoint of Christian orthodoxy. Nothing is more repulsive to me than the idea of myself setting up a little universe of my own choosing and propounding a little immoralistic message. I write with a solid belief in all the Christian dogmas.
What people donβt realize is how much religion costs. They think faith is a big electric blanket, when of course it is the cross.
If you live today, you breath in nihilism ... it's the gas you breathe. If I hadn't had the Church to fight it with or to tell me the necessity of fighting it, I would be the stinkingest logical positivist you ever saw right now.
There won't be any biographies of me because, for only one reason, lives spent between the house and the chicken yard do not make exciting copy.
Knowing who you are is good for one generation only. You haven't the foggiest idea where you stand now or who you are
He loved her because it was his nature to do so, but there were times when he could not endure her love for him. There were times when it became nothing but pure idiot mystery.
Where there is no imagination there is no horror.
Why is our own participation in scapegoating so difficult to perceive and the participation of others so easy? To us, our fears and prejudices never appear as such because they determine our vision of people we despise, we fear, and against whom we discriminate.
When you look at it that way, you can see how absurd it is that we individualize ourselves with our fences and hoarded possessions.
I have had the good fortune through my God that I should never abandon his people whom I have acquired in the extremities of the earth.
A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.
Words. Borne on the ever swelling current of hatred, like flowers opening in the current, petals peeling back, then falling apart.
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