Saturday, October 19, 2013

Obscurantism

I love this word.  It describes the actions and attitudes of medical minions perfectly in regards to Versed.  Here's the definition of 'obscuratism'.


Obscurantism (French: obscurantisme, from the Latin obscurans, "darkening") is the practice of deliberately preventing the facts or the full details of some matter from becoming known.
"The essential element in the black art of obscurantism is not that it wants to darken individual understanding, but that it wants to blacken our picture of the world, and darken our idea of existence."

Perfect!  "...the practice of deliberately preventing the facts or the full details of some matter from becoming known."  Isn't that what all the attacks are about when we complain about Versed?  Isn't this why we patients are almost invariably told some phony platitude about just what Versed is and what it's for?  Medical people are deliberately obscuring the truth about this poison.

Versed is absolutely to blame for darkening individual understanding, AND our picture of the world and our idea of existence.  This one word manages to contain almost the whole gist of our complaints about Versed.  Versed, one dark black hole, into which one is sent by people who are using obscurantism.

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