There’s a certain primitive, the Aristus primitive, who hasn’t been featured in the DUmpster much, if at all, even though he’s boss of the Lounge, the second-largest forum on Skins’s island. To his credit, he doesn’t throw his weight around, he doesn’t enforce his “authority,†and probably he never even intended to become boss there.
It seems to be something that just happened naturally; when the Lounge primitives are in need of some sort of guidance, they immediately look to him.
The Aristus primitive is a physician’s assistant, practicing in Washington state. He was born and raised in Texas, and served in the military. (Information supplied by the Aristus primitive himself.) I’m guessing he’s probably in his early 40s.
Now, usually such an individual would turn out a decent and civilized person, but the Aristus primitive ended up being, well, being a primitive.
I’m not sure how that happened, his evolution into primitivity, but judging from examining his eyes in self-posted photographs of himself, he might’ve been a victim of “blunt force trauma†to the back of his head. And yes, it’s possible to sustain significant brain damage and still be a highly-functioning human being, if one’s lucky enough, and some are.
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The Aristus primitive, given his professional longevity, undoubtedly observes the ethics of his profession; I’m not a medical professional myself, but I’ve never seen him come anywhere near violating what I understand to be generally-practiced ethics of the medical profession.
It’s true that I grew up in a medical family where the atmosphere, the environment, was suffused with discussion of things medical, but being a late child and deaf, I didn’t have much time or talent to absorb much of it, before that home-life evaporated, and I was left a sullen, morose, woebegone orphan.
But I need to stress this point; if I were seeking medical advice and assistance, if the Aristus primitive were one of my options when seeking an ethical professional, I’d have no hesitation seeking him out.
But still, there’s something that, well, kind of bothers me.
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I’d thought about this much, when observing CaliforniaPeggy and Dennis the Menace, the “denninmi†primitive. CaliforniaPeggy is a now-retired registered nurse of long standing, and Dennis the Menace was one of the nuts.
When Dennis the Menace figured out he was being light-heartedly lampooned in certain quarters, he got all upset and bent out of shape, and went to CaliforniaPeggy for advice and counsel.
Given the ethics of her profession, CaliforniaPeggy should’ve gently suggested to Dennis the Menace that because he was nuts, he really had no business hanging around Skins’s island; that he should be seeking professional help, not primitive enablement.
But no, she didn’t do that; she instead whined to Skins about how certain people were being mean to him.
Maybe because she’s retired now, CaliforniaPeggy didn’t feel compelled to observe the ethics of her former profession; I dunno.
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The Aristus primitive however is still a practicing medical professional.
Some here might, or might not, know this, but anyway, the Aristus primitive and the greasy bloated Bostonian Drunkard are bosom-buddies, chums, pals.
(The Bostonian Drunkard by the way’s currently vacationing in England, courtesy Mama Raven.)
They get along like strawberries-and-cream.
Now, the Aristus primitive is
surely aware that the Bostonian Drunkard has a serious problem, a really serious problem, with sucking on the bottle. This is a guy who the evening of his infant daughter’s first birthday, went out and got sordidly drunk, among other things.
The Bostonian Drunkard’s weakness is destroying his body and his life, and the Aristus primitive knows it.
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However, one looks in vain for any suggestion, even the gentlest one, from the Aristus primitive, counseling the Bostonian Drunkard to cool it with the bottle, to lay off. In fact, at times the Aristus primitive seems to
encourage this self-destructive habit, suggesting it’s not any big deal, it’s only a minor, meaningless thing, the Bostonian Drunkard making an ass of himself.
And the bitch of it is, given the Aristus primitive’s standing among the primitives, if he were to suggest something to the Bostonian Drunkard, the Bostonian Drunkard’d do it.
Thus my question here, given my inadequate understanding of professional medical ethics; is the Aristus primitive violating those ethics by encouraging, rather than discouraging, a self-destructive habit?
