I find it somewhat distasteful that a doctor would compare an obese patient to a whale while implying it's less worthwhile to treat them than other patients. It's not the job of medical professionals to pass moral judgment.
What if he were complaining about an influx of smokers with emphysema or alcoholics with liver cirrhosis? Doctors are justified in their frustration with the preventable burden that lifestyle diseases impose on their profession.
I find it distasteful that your tangential comment is upvoted in a presumably Chomsky-esque noone-is-accountable-for-the-consequence summary from which further discussion ensues.
As someone here whose primary job is not programming, the tendency for posts critical of programmers to have a discussion led by minimizers is quite obvious.
You are not the issue. The hordes of upvoters are the issue.
The whole blog entry read like a tantrum. A comment on the site from "SuperMike" says this:
"Anyone with even a passing familiarity with the world of medicine will be amused by the surgeon being forced by circumstances to treat staff like actual human beings. (And he complains about it!)"
Sounds about right to me. IT issues can definitely be frustrating, but this blog reads like a libertarian rant.
