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Tuesday, January 11, 2011DEFINING SMUG (or when I'd like to nail a hugger to his friggin tree) Just recently, I read a blog post which left me with a real mixed bag of emotions. I've been a follower of this particular blog for a couple of years now. I guess my interest in the blog relates to my early working life in South Africa. Hundreds of years ago, I was a nurse - or should I say - a trainee nurse, so a South African medical based blog tends to hold my interest.In the latest post, Dokotela Bongi really brought home the horror of what some of our doctors have to cope with on a daily basis. In his latest post, Doc Bongi was informed by an alleged 'friend' that he was smug. The friend can't seem to comprehend why Doc Bongi doesn't have any sympathy or understanding for the violators of certain crimes, the results of which, end up on Bongi's operating table. The following paragraph is from this post: i remember the baby violated by her uncle. i was just a house doctor, but i had to examine her. the pediatrician couldn't face it. it is quite a thing to see the perineum of a four month old after it has been ripped apart by the penis of one of the people my friend understands so well. faeces runs out of the vagina. it leaves a mark on the soul. but worse than that is the cry. the child did not scream anymore. i think it used up all its scream for its entire life during the deed. all that was left was a quiet constant moan. it is the ghostly moan of someone who has learned in her four month existence that there is no one who will come to her aid. there is no one to understand her. it will never leave me. my friend who is quick to understand the violator will call me smug, but may i suggest i might just be jaded? The alleged 'friend' will no doubt be quick to leap to this particular violators defense, by perhaps explaining that the myth of having sex with a 'pure' female will cure AIDS, which is STILL circulating amongst the masses of our 'historically disadvantaged' population. The myth is heard, it's acted upon & Dokotela Bongi is one of the people who has to try & 'fix' the result. Surprisingly, the 'myth' of raping a baby or toddler (as a cure for Mother Nature's way of thinning the population), has now extended to the raping of elderly females, particularly grandmothers. The supposed logic behind this is that they must also be 'pure' because they've lived for so long. It's sickening, truly, truly sickening. Yet when a violent crime is committed - one that will leave an innocent persons life in physical & psychological tatters, certain individuals bleat that we should sympathise with the criminal who committed the crime. To Dokotela Bongi's tree hugging, ultra-liberal, living-in-a-dreamworld 'friend', I would like to suggest he assists - just for one day - in the emergency room of a major hospital. Maybe, after he faces the husband of the woman who has been gang-raped, he could hold his hand & explain to him that really, it's not the rapists fault. Perhaps he could comfort the parents of a 2yr old little girl, who will never have the opportunity to bear children of her own. Surgeons had to perform a hysterectomy & because the damage was so violent, their little girl will have a colostomy bag for the rest of her life. Maybe he could persuade the 80yr old farmers wife not to press charges against the criminals who hijacked her husband, stabbed him repeatedly & then left him on the side of the road, to bleed to death, because really, in his opinion, the criminals weren't to blame. We're all entitled to our opinions - I understand that, but for someone to call Dokotela Bongi 'smug', in part I'm assuming, because the poor doc has seen more than his fair share of horror, simply defies my understanding. Bongi, like so many of our doctors, deserves more than a medal. He deserves respect. He deserves all manner of congratulations for an amazing job well done. What he doesn't deserve, is to be labelled as 'smug'. Read this post & you'll see what I mean.  
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