Raybon Kan
has been affected by technology.
Doctors, who don’t want to work 72 hours a week, have to compete now with other providers of medical expertise, such as the internet. Sites like WebMD, or “sponsored post”, do the hard yards and show up at work 24 hours a day — if not more.
Modern technology gives you free information, often with gross photos, and there’s no need to be in a waiting room.
And that’s if you go conventional. If you prefer alternative medicine — or horoscopes, or advice about how much to hate your relatives — there’s plenty of second opinions available too, from doctors such as Woman’s Day, right through to Women’s Weekly.
So let those doctors protest. We know that Dr Google doesn’t sleep at all.
Besides, if doctors genuinely needed sleep, the Government would support them. The Government does good things. This is why the Government is spending a billion on prisons, to add 1800 prison beds. A housing crisis is one thing: what we can’t have is a prison crisis.
Prisoners are people you definitely
Modern technology gives you free information, often with gross photos, and there’s no need to be in a waiting room.
don’t want cranky. So it’s important to give them beds.
We can’t treat prisoners like normal people, and expect them to sleep in cars, or be looked after by some Good Samaritan marae.
Nor can we expect prisoners to sleep in shifts, like workers hotdesking, or doctors. (Although, imagine if you could shorten your prison sentence by just doing nights, and getting time-and-a-half.)
I don’t know what to call a billion spent on prisons: is it a correctillion? A crimillion?
Recently, Judith Collins rejected child poverty as a cause of crime. What she should have done next, to prove her point, was to list the names of rich people who are also criminals.
Now that would have won the argument, instead of making her seem uncaring. Instead of the Rich List, there should be the Rich Crim List, where criminals are ranked in descending net worth, or at least, according to how nice their cars are.
The growth in our prison population is a sign the economy is being run well. Construction is good for the economy, and prisons employ a lot of people. If doctors really want sympathy, maybe they should go and catch some crims.