Professor and the Madman 2

Welcome to the professor and the madman with Wes Cecil uh PhD and Milo Redwood. I don't exactly know what u what we're talking about today. I do know that my name is Tim Quackenbush and I'm a little bit out of my element and frankly I hope you are too. So what's been on your mind, Wes and Milo?

Well, we're going to have to start today with the the Republic the Republic laws. Oh, yeah. Laws. The laws chapter 4.

Uh Milo brought this to my attention about a week back. And what does that say there in old chapter 4, Milo? Uh it it distinguishes between slave doctors and free doctors. That's the gist of it.

And what's what's the passage say? uh you know, you'll have to read it for yourself, but but as I recall, it's something like um the slave doctor, his or her main job is to get the slave back to work. And so, so having people come by, and they do say dispensaries, come by the dispensary to be given a drug and sent back because it's good for the whole system to keep the masters happy. So it's not as much about deep healing at all.

It's about not the health of not the health of the slaves. No. No. Uh do you remember what the free doctor is all about?

The free doctor comes in and this is actually this is in in book four of the laws. You can look this up there. Plato. Um, the free doctor will visit the patient, talk to the patient, earn the patient's trust, talk to the patient's family, talk to the patient's friends to discover what's wrong with the person in a holistic sense.

And then only when he comprehends what's happening in the person's life and the origins of whatever is illing them, ailing them, um then he will recommend a course of treatment in conjunction with the patient because he's earned the trust and admiration of the patient at this point. That way they can return them together to full health. Do you have that guy's business card? which when Milo pointed the passage out to me, I thought, well, in 2,000 years, uh, the only thing we've done is lost free doctors.

Good point. which which got us thinking about this whole notion also of you know we ...