The clash of the mammoth egos:
Addendum: Go here
http://www.swbh.nhs.uk/about-us
…for a portrait of a ‘slum hospital’.
Although would any semi-competent local health authority locate an eye clinic that serves most of the inhabitants of a major city in a slum? You decide.
“The Trust hosts the Birmingham and Midland Eye Centre which is a supra-regional specialist facility, as well as the Pan-Birmingham Gynaecological Oncology Centre, Birmingham Skin Centre, Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia Centre and regional base of the National Poisons Information Service.
Aside from being one of the largest providers of patient services in the Midlands, the Trust also has a substantial teaching and research agenda with several academic departments including rheumatology, ophthalmology, cardiology, gynaecological oncology and neurology.”
So Sick of Drowning 
December 9, 2011 at 4:06 pm
asking again, how does Dalrymple get publicity rather than Section?
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December 10, 2011 at 9:17 pm
His admirers call him ‘the greatest essayist of his generation’. Since when were vengeful, bitchy little vignettes called ‘essays’?
I weep for the poverty of their expectations.
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December 10, 2011 at 11:36 pm
his followers clearly lead a sheltered and uneducated life
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January 3, 2012 at 1:35 am
To be fair that is not the impression I get. In the hagiographical article on Standpoint someone asked if anyone had ‘fact checked’ Dalrymple’s assertions. I responded by saying something like ‘you seem to be assuming that truth is what his acolytes are interested in.’
I just think they deserve a worthier messiah.
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January 11, 2012 at 2:02 pm
Although they are undeniably strange.
His latest effort is sub titled ‘The Death of Honesty’.
The man is funny, I’ll give him that.
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December 12, 2011 at 8:50 pm
Our libel laws are crazy. Everyone knows that. Especially Russian oligarchs.
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December 24, 2011 at 3:17 am
Hi, I am from Australia.
Yes despite having worked on the coal face of human suffering, one really wonders how Daniels is presumed to be an authority on the human situation altogether. And why does he keep such BAD (right-wing) company?
I much prefer the assessment of the state of the world and how we got to here as presented in these references.
Politics & culture
http://www.dabase.org/not2p1.htm
http://www.beezone.com/AdiDa/reality-humanity.html
http://www.beezone.com/coopdoub.htm written in the 70’s
http://www.aboutadidam.org/readins/bridge_to_god/index.html
Art & Culture
http://www.adidaupclose.org/Art_and_Photograpy/rebirth_of_sacred_art.html
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December 31, 2011 at 3:46 pm
‘And why does he keep such BAD (right-wing) company?’
I wasn’t aware that he did but could it be…
…because Daddy was a slightly mad, tyrannical business man who suffered from delusions of Communism?
Consequently, the Good Doctor suffers from Delusions of Omniscience and his followers suffer from Delusions of Omniscience by Proxy.
And, all along, the lunatic really was running the asylum.
A lunatic who evidently failed to grasp the very basics of psychiatry. Or even the simple notion that if you are on a mental ward then its patients are highly likely to be…well, mental.
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January 1, 2012 at 11:26 pm
Ad hominem rubbish.
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January 3, 2012 at 11:31 am
Oh, believe me, I’m holding a lot back.
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December 24, 2011 at 10:32 pm
‘His admirers call him ‘the greatest essayist of his generation’. Since when were vengeful, bitchy little vignettes called ‘essays’?’
Why don’t you tell us?
Merry Christmas BTW.
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January 3, 2012 at 2:01 am
Mea culpa. I was wrong. I had intended to write “vengeful, bitchy, petty little vignettes”.
Have an excellent new year.
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December 27, 2011 at 10:09 pm
Is this a “vengeful, bitchy little vignette”?
http://www.city-journal.org/html/14_2_when_islam.html
Is this?
http://blog.skepticaldoctor.com/2009/02/23/classic-dalrymple-fool-or-physician-excerpt-1987.aspx
Or this?
http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Gooseberries-a062214336
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January 3, 2012 at 1:47 am
Thank you for taking the trouble to post those links.
My goodness, where do I start?
‘Gooseberries’. What a ruthlessly ugly, unsympathetic portrait the good doctor paints of his father.
‘my father ran a business that hovered in that large area between success and failure’
A business that little Anthony indirectly relied upon to put food on the table. What an ingrate.
And the mockery of a man who served his country. What’s that all about?
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December 28, 2011 at 5:57 pm
how do i do this
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December 30, 2011 at 9:53 am
I had something like this:
http://www.city-journal.org/html/8_1_oh_to_be.html in mind. I wonder if his patients know that they have been quoted in this publication. (if, that is, they existed at all and are not products of the good doctor’s very fertile imagination.) Maybe someone ought to tell them.
As I’ve already said: he’s the moral equivalent of the tour guide in Bedlam.
Is all this designed to make those of a certain nationality feel better about themselves? I guess if Doc D. did not exist then somebody would have to invent him.
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December 31, 2011 at 1:44 pm
Can those guys look any more like a park bench winos?
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January 7, 2012 at 2:32 pm
Loiuse, thanks for the city journal article. It was an excellent read.
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January 8, 2012 at 12:57 pm
Much to entertain, little to admire.
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January 15, 2012 at 4:58 am
The good doctor wrote âGary Brecher at War Nerd has a post thatâ� s lengthy but well worth reading in full.
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