online: 9 june 2019
modified: 8 june 2019

5 april 2019 the patient in control


my first thought is that the patient is not in control and is impatient . . . and the term the patient is unsuitable . . . for what we need to assist and empower are people who are subject to waiting and waiting to be served . . . usually without information which is in the system but is not transmitted to them or us . . . eg no one will say how long you have to wait . . .

though, i feel myself that it should be a near crime to impose waiting time such as we encounter it in queues throughout the industrial system . . . for what we do is stealing much of his or her life that is consumed to satisfy the convenience of the administrators . . . and many jobs include the destructive duty of imposing delay upon others . . . this could be my biggest criticism of industrial life . . .

for instance . . . computers are not being used as they could be to transfer delays from patients to those in control . . . this objection seems so trivial for the utopian time where we might expect ...

we shouldnt call ourselves patients . . . ( i/we can be other things )


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