the greater good

i still remember concluding after one Health Practice lecture months ago about how doctors are not only healers, but they are so much more, more specifically ethicist.

and embarking on med school has truly humbled me.

i used to think that i'm pretty informed about various issues around the world in the past and present. i love reading and used to think that i'm a pretty well-read individual. i love autobiographies and reading these gems of people's lives sensitize my soul to the sufferings, joys and experiences of the authors.

but just today, i was doing some reading on Aboriginal Health for my tute tomorrow morning. and suddenly, i realise that hey, i'm not that well-read after all!! after studying in Australia for the past year, i have yet to understand the Aboriginal history of Australia.

i have just went on with my study life, oblivious to the social conditions of the foreign environment that i am in, consumed by the various EAP assignments and dramas that i had to pass up!!

i am ashamed to admit that yes, i am most probably ignorant of the social climate and history that Australia has.

as i read about the various injustices that the Aboriginals had to suffer at the hands of the white colonisers, i realise that the same bloddy thing happened all around the world too!!

colonisation for the sake of the "greater good" of the people....

war for the sake of the "greater good" of people...

hold on a second, didn't Hitler proclaim that before he sent millions of Jews to the gas chambers??