Shift

Contrary to her usual self, my friend TW appeared hot and upset with my blog recently (see her comments during Christmas).

In my opinion, however, the annoying bit of the policy was not the resulting delay or cost to human life (by consuming everybody's time) - but the blind of shifting the responsibility.

You see, the policy of checking allergy record was put up by extra-terrestrials and executed by creatures on Neptune, but it is the duty of those who work on the Earth to decide (sugar-coated in the term "discretion on individual basis") if a particular patient needs the injection urgently. The impression to any onlooker is, therefore, all delay is the result of wrong judgement by Homo sapiens and has nothing to do with mollusks living on other planets.

And, you see, that's the general principle: Professionalism and responsibility is the two side of the same coin, which should always go together with the right to make decisions. I am always against those s0-called professionals who claim the right to decide but do away with the whole of their responsibility (often by shifting just a tiny bit of the right to the others).

Contrary to my usual self, I am serious.