Starting any dialogue with a question has always been
uncomfortable for me, ‘do you as a writer have anything to add to your
subscribers or are you going to thumb suck your way through your interface?
I have very little choice here as my reality for almost half
a century of medicine has been skewed. Women yearn to be size 28, want to be
independent business directors and drive a M class merc. Men are gym freaks or
hope to inherit a six pack, have two women on each arm with a combined mass
of less than a hundred and twenty kilograms and plenty of money and time to
satisfy their needs.
Welcome to KZN, the home of proportionately the most
populated of our provinces. The pace of life is a lot more sedate. The needs of
the communities are totally in reverse. You will die of hunger opening a weight
loss establishment here; you will keep your streptokinase till expiry every
time lest a more experienced of the lot makes you aware of what should be in
your emergency rooms.
Disease profiles are obstets and tropical disease and that’s
it. For the amount of obesity rolling along the streets one would expect a lot
more diabetes and hypertension which is not the case. The incidence of
schizophrenia/toxic psychosis is through the roof.
And most important and for obvious reasons HIV is epidemic
and will take a lot from the professionals to reverse. Culture differentials
are extreme to say the least and add most to the continued mass culling of
teenage girls.
We have in our constitution the power to stop the mass
infection but we seem very helpless irrespective of the pleas we make as
professionals. Young girls below eighteen are infected every day plucked by
older men who are more likely to be positive. The statutory rape passing
through my hands on daily basis is said in hushed voices. The issue I am told
is that culture supersedes life and the right of the girls to be negative.
If we took the law literally and placed a police station in
each hospital, we would have very few men left in KZN. We would also have less
HIV I hope and lots of prisons to accommodate the mandatory 15 year minimum
sentence for rape. The beauty of the situation is that the cases would be the
easiest of the rape trials to try, you have proof of contact in the baby, and
the man cannot say he never saw the culprit unless it was in the dark which makes it worse. The product is there to indict
him.
If biochemistry and physiology are the elements of every mix, then results are assured
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