It sometimes pays to act like a psychopath … sometimes not

Here is an interesting article about a bully (psychopath) that terrorized an entire town for years and what happened to him.

This is an UNUSUAL case and an UNUSUAL RESULT, and I am not saying that we should have to take matters into our own hands, but it is usual that when two people know a secret, it only works if only one of them is alive. For an entire town to keep a SECRET this big is amazing to me, and shows just how much these people had “taken” from this man.

There was also a television program about the death of this man that I saw, can’t remember the name of it or the date, just that I saw it.

Interesting case of it NOT PAYING to be a psychopath though. Thought you guys might like the link.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/16/us/16bully.html?_r=1&WT.mc_id=NN-PS-E-OB-PS-TXT-TH-ROS-1010-NA&WT.mc_ev=click

I come from a long line of physicians (back before the civil war on P-sperm d0nor’s side.) Grandfather and Grandmother both docs, P quit school in 3 rd or 4th grade and started running away so never graduated grade school but VERY bright and educated himself in many fields, but 2 of his sibs were MDs, 1 of his other kids is an MD, and his uncles and so on on his paternal side. I never wanted to be a physician though, but did want to go into nursing and my egg donor didn’t want me to, because BELIEVE THIS OR NOT, women who were nurses actually SAW NAKED MEN and that made them less than “moral.” DUH!!!! Yep! Actually that wasn’t just my egg donor’s idea but a hold over from when many nurses were either Nuns, Ugly old maids, hookers or tramps and it was not an honorable profession in some cultures.

After I divorced I needed a job/profession I could make a living with, so went into a 4 yr nursing BS program, then in mid stride, transferred to a Medical University for an advanced practice program called “Registered Nurse Practitioner” and went on from there. Worked as both an RN and as an RNP in free standing rural health clinics and psych out patient clinics and in patient clinics/locked units.

After my husband died in a plane crash here at our farm/airport, I was so shell shocked I wasn’t safe to practice any more—short term memory for cheet! So took disability and retired. Retirement was difficult, as nursing had been such a part of my identity for so long, now it is not so bad, I have plenty of other interests too, and it has allowed me to not have to “function” in the real world at work (very stressful and precise) at the same time I am fighting off psychopaths. It does push one into adjusting their spending, but I’ve got everything I need and most of what I want and don’t owe anyone anything so I am a very blessed person in so many different ways.

God has been good to be and though I gripe about my low sodium diet (I WANT SALT!!!!!! OH LORD HOW I WANT SALT! Cheese, ham, bacon, etc!) LOL if that is the worst thing I have to grouse about, it can’t get much better!

I finally gave in to the coder and the office manager at the clinics and learned about what I had to do to qualify for what code as far as patient care was concerned. and Most of the time I could find some code that would take care of what the patient needed and the clinic still get paid, but if it was the patient or the code, the patient always won!

Dear lesson learned,

I’ve known quite a few physicians that I think were HIGH in the traits of a psychopath, my grandmother was one, though I did not know her as she died a few eyars before I was born but from all the stories I heard she would have qualified.

Most of the MDs I know who are physicians that are surgeons and high in P traits are pretty good at what they do and their interaction with patients is limited, they mostly vent their spleens on staff, in fact one that I despise and think is a complete psychopath is the one I would call if I needed surgery.

Ones that are in clinical practice with patients and are so arrogant they don’t listen to patients or value patients as people, they are some pretty sorry physicians I think.

What do you call the doctor who finished last in his medical school class—doctor of course! LOL But some of the nastiest most hateful people who are physicians and high in arrogance and narcissism I don’t think make good physicians because they are too arrogant to learn from the patients. I have found that if you listen to the patient the patient will TELL you what is wrong with them. They may not know the medical term for it but they will point you in the right direction.

The historical idea that nurses were not “nice women” was from years and years ago, even back before the Civil War era, and there was some hold over in my community and culture. My step dad’s sister was a nurse but she was a nun, and an “old maid” so it was OK I guess for her but not for me.

Hospitals were also considered “pest holes” as well and the only people who went there were the poverty stricken, without families to care for them, or to die. It was only in the last few generations that hospitals were not feared by certain segments of the population. My grandfather built the first hospital in this county in 1920 and many of the people were still afraid to bring their loved ones to a hospital, and they would come and camp on the lawn with their teams and wagons. He still did some surgery in homes, and most babies were born in the home, even then.

After his hospital went bankrupt and some nursing sisters (Catholic) built a 14 bed hospital the local people feared it for several reasons, one being that the Catholics would never allow the baby to be sacrificed to save the mother (which in those days early or pre-C-section was fairly common) I have heard my grandfather tell of having to dismember a LIVING infant caught in the birth canal and take it out in pieces to save the mother’s life. This was not allowed in the Catholic hospital even to save the mother’s life or even if the baby was known to be dead just in the “off chance” the baby might have been alive. In the primarily protestant community, the mother’s life was more valuable than even a living infant, especially when there were other kids at home that needed the mother more than the family needed another mouth to feed. That pretty well prevailed until C – sections became common in that kind of situation when I was in high school in the mid 1960s.

How much of western society has changed its views on some things and not on others, and how for example gays are generally more accepted now in the US but in several countries it is still a capital offense. I can remember when it was a crime and people went to prison for it even if it was consensual and private (if they could prove it). It was like a witch hunt.