Friday Night Wine-Buzz. Ask me anything.

[Aristus]

Happy Memorial Day Weekend, Loungers!

[TexasTowelie]

1. Which philosopher do respect the most

and try to emulate that philosophy within your own life?

[Aristus]

2. I don't read a lot of philosophy,

but there is a quote, attributed variously to Plato, Aristotle, Socrates, or one of the minor Athenians, that I try to live my life by:

"Be kind; everyone you meet is fighting a great battle."

[cilla4progress]

4. As I hang out with my 90 year old mother in law

This weekend, who fell and broke her arm a couple weeks ago.. this very quote has been running through my mind.

What’s your wine of choice this fine PNW evening?

[Aristus]

6. Yellow Tail Cabernet.

[mr_lebowski]

8. Always been a fan of David Hume ... don't have any particular quotes, but that dude ...

He had shit pretty damn well figured out, at least based on what I read back in my Philosophy 101 course back at Uni.

We also studied Plato and Descartes, and while they're obviously both brilliant in their own ways, Hume I thought had far greater insight and wisdom than either of the former (though admittedly Plato was, for his time, pretty damn amazing). He actually really made me 'think' in ways no other philosopher I've ever read ... has. His thoughts on 'what constitutes sameness' afa various entities goes, were pretty mind-blowing. Especially trees, but the same concepts apply to pretty much anything.

Descartes I felt was compromised by his NEED for God to be 'real', IMHO. But aside from his religion-based ramblings (Meditations on First Philosophy, anyone?) he was a sharp cat, particularly of course amazing at math

[vercetti2021]

3. If a friend tells you you'll be on her back burner one day do you keep her as a friend?

I told her I did fear losing her as a friend and she said eventually we'll grow up and not see each other much and all that to where I'll be on the back burner while telling me someone she knows now never would be on there and she hasn't seem him in 3 years and I've done so much for her and her little girl. So I'm not special in anyway to her and she's suppose to be my bestie. Do I keep this friendship or end it?

[Aristus]

5. Are you kidding? I'm doing that right now!

Two friends.

[vercetti2021]

7. But I'm serious

[Aristus]

9. Sure. A friend is a friend.

If nothing else comes of it, you still have a friend.

[vercetti2021]

10. I suppose

I just want a bestfriend that'll stick with me for life. A true friend

[LisaM]

11. Do you think BOTH Woody Allen and Mia Farrow are creepy

or just one of them?

[Aristus]

12. Nope. Both of them.

I look at Mia Farrow and wonder: what's the attraction? She's a boring, pale beanpole.

[LisaM]

13. But apparently quite the magnet back in the day....

Andre Previn's first wife would ha e attested to that!

[Aristus]

14. And Frank Sinatra. Not an easy get.

But the first thing I ever saw her in, Death On The Nile, I kept scratching my head, wondering what it was supposed to be that made her a femme fatale...

[LisaM]

17. I find her rather wispy.

I am not a big fan of the waif look. But Woody Allen's charisma eludes me as well.

[Aristus]

18. You and me both.

His stand-up stuff was funny. But he's not a guy I look at and think: "Yeah, let's adopt a kid together..."

[LisaM]

19. Or put together a brood.

Poor kids. I mean, one of them was named after Satchel Page. Good Lord.

[Aristus]

20. Great baseball player, Satchel Page.

But not a name I go running to when I have a new kid in the family.

[Freddie]

22. That kid is now

Ronan Farrow. Mia changed his name after she and Woody broke up.

[Heartstrings]

15. Wasn't Frank Sinatra in that mix as well

Or is that fake news?

[Heartstrings]

16. Yea just saw your post

On my phone...sloooooow!

[dawg day]

21. Red or white?

[Aristus]

23. Red.

Yellow Tail Cabernet.

And not too much, either. No hangover this morning!

[First Speaker]

24. The Dress: White and Gold, or Blue and Black?

[Aristus]

25. Ah, I remember that one.

I saw it as white and gold.

[samnsara]

26. did i miss the buzz?

[Aristus]

27. Afraid so.

There's always the next time.

See you then?

[3catwoman3]

28. I know the buzz is over, but here I am anyway.

How often do you find yourself wishing you didn't always have to diplomatic when talking to patients (in my case, parents) who have ridiculously unrealistic expectations?

I saw a kid yesterday with a 3+ year history of a problem. The parents are wondering if they should take him to see a specialist. They are moving out of state IN 2 WEEKS!!!

I politely explained that there was pretty much ZERO chance of being able to arrange a specialist appointment in that short time table. My brain was shouting, "Are you kidding me? Why did you wait so damn long." (Not a life threateining situation, by the way.)

Maybe working with adults allows one to be more blunt. In pediatrics, you always have to tread carefully.

[Aristus]

29. Sometimes I'm diplomatic, and sometimes I'm not.

Depends on the patient and the circumstances.

I've had patients present to the clinic with an advanced case of something, usually not even life-threatening, and find out that they put a consult off and kept procrastinating until the condition becomes difficult to treat.

When I ask them why they waited so long to get it evaluated, they'll say something like: "I just don't like doctors."

My response (sometimes): "Well, you sure showed us, didn't you?"

Or for patients with severe respiratory problems and a persistent cough, if they are life-long smokers, I ask them if they are surprised by what happened. Most of the time, I'm patient with my smokers and use humor to point out the absurdity of the habit. I try to hide from them the emotional toll it takes out on me. I love my patients and can't stand to see them suffer. But if the suffering is self-inflicted and (often) irreversible, I treat them, ameliorate their suffering as best I can, then go home, or just back to my office, and cry quietly for awhile.

You know as well as I do that the diseases we hate the most are the preventable ones.

[3catwoman3]

30. I fantasize about coming back in another life...

...as either a restaurant or movie critic, and being able to enjoy saying, "That's really stupid," or "That really sucked," while getting paid to do so.

Actually, if I were going to choose a different career, I think it would be a blast to design toys for kittens and puppies, and then test them to see which ones they liked. I can't imagine ever having a bad day at work if that were your job.