A profound difference of opinion
The word oratory usually conjurers up memories of Churchill or a debate in Parliament where "our finest public school boys" trained in the Machiavellian art of debate toss words to and fro as if in a joust, the formulation and delivery of the words more important than their meaning. Clear enunciation aided by an upper class accent does wonders in confirming the mystification we have in this country of the importance in our lives the upper class have if only to be able to listen to the musical intonation of a speech well delivered.
This morning I was brought up short as they say. The man speaking on the radio, clearly no Etonian, his accent placed him from Liverpool was speaking from somewhere within his mind set, his truths were his own and his wife's as he articulated the case for obtaining the release, from Alderhay Hospital of his baby boy to be brought home and be cared for by his Mom and Dad.
Alfie Evans a baby over who's life the Courts have pondered and pontificated their judgement, refusing the parents the right to go aboard and seek other expert medical help from other doctors who are perhaps less rule bound and more willing to try other alternatives as a last ditch chance to save the baby.
It's a rerun of the scandal where the parents of Ashya King were refused the opportunity
to take their child to Prague where a Proton beam machine would it was claimed give the 5 year old child the opportunity of delicate brain surgery not available at the time in this country. The parents of Ashya took matters into their own hand and secreted the boy onto the continent. The harrowing and disgraceful attempt by British police to have the parents arrested in Madrid turning them into criminals was finally overturned and the boy allowed to undergo surgery in Prague. He is now fully recovered from his cancer and one wonders what the high and mighty medical authority in the U.K. now think when they consider their actions, especially since the first Proton beam machine has now been installed in one of our hospitals and another due to start soon.
Once again unedifying sight of the 'might' of our medical establishment preventing a child from receiving treatment, not available in this country but available in another, especially gulling since the treatment would not cost the NHS anything.
Unfortunately they have the power of God Almighty, once you are in their hands. The 'risk averse conformity' which seems bred into all professional services here, doctors, teachers, civil servants, invested as they are with the fallacious story that "we are the best" and "know what's best" only magnifies their blinkered short sightedness and can cause untold grief when the parents are hamstrung and impotent, unable to seek help elsewhere for the thing they love most, their child.
This morning I was brought up short as they say. The man speaking on the radio, clearly no Etonian, his accent placed him from Liverpool was speaking from somewhere within his mind set, his truths were his own and his wife's as he articulated the case for obtaining the release, from Alderhay Hospital of his baby boy to be brought home and be cared for by his Mom and Dad.
Alfie Evans a baby over who's life the Courts have pondered and pontificated their judgement, refusing the parents the right to go aboard and seek other expert medical help from other doctors who are perhaps less rule bound and more willing to try other alternatives as a last ditch chance to save the baby.
It's a rerun of the scandal where the parents of Ashya King were refused the opportunity
to take their child to Prague where a Proton beam machine would it was claimed give the 5 year old child the opportunity of delicate brain surgery not available at the time in this country. The parents of Ashya took matters into their own hand and secreted the boy onto the continent. The harrowing and disgraceful attempt by British police to have the parents arrested in Madrid turning them into criminals was finally overturned and the boy allowed to undergo surgery in Prague. He is now fully recovered from his cancer and one wonders what the high and mighty medical authority in the U.K. now think when they consider their actions, especially since the first Proton beam machine has now been installed in one of our hospitals and another due to start soon.
Once again unedifying sight of the 'might' of our medical establishment preventing a child from receiving treatment, not available in this country but available in another, especially gulling since the treatment would not cost the NHS anything.
Unfortunately they have the power of God Almighty, once you are in their hands. The 'risk averse conformity' which seems bred into all professional services here, doctors, teachers, civil servants, invested as they are with the fallacious story that "we are the best" and "know what's best" only magnifies their blinkered short sightedness and can cause untold grief when the parents are hamstrung and impotent, unable to seek help elsewhere for the thing they love most, their child.
In this mornings interview Alfie's father Tom had an eloquence born of this love. His clear sighted dismissal of the sanctity of the medical opinion and his belief in what he thought was best for his child was concise and spoke volumes where the professional could only pontificate.
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