Some have called me cynical in my outlook on life and the people in it. I however, have the opinion that it is not cynicism but a more practical approach to the World at large.

I offer these essays as proof of this position and in turn offer no defense or rebuke of my own position or of those who disagree.

Don't Trust Anyone

In our World of experts and pundits, we have become too accustomed to believing everyone. This is foolish. You can have belief in someone without always believing them. We are by nature deceitful creatures. It is one of the ingrained basics of humanity. It goes back to self preservation. From the earliest age we lie when pressed in certain occasions. It persists throughout our lives. From "did you break that?" up and through "are you looking at my girlfriend?" we lie or at are evasive when presented with limited options.

The problem with this we as a people have come to forget this basic fact. We have now transferred this lack of questioning to those we should question the most vigorously.

Let's begin with the medical profession, shall we?

Doctors and other medical professionals are highly trained and experienced and are often to be trusted, but never trusted implicitly. Everyone who performs a task is going to be presented with a situation that they are inexperienced with, unfamiliar with, or just catches them by complete surprise. In many cases those situations call for the individual being consulted to fall back on their experience to come to a logical and sensible conclusion. This is a nice way of saying "making a guess" albeit an educated one, it is still a guess. If this were your under the counter garbage disposal, it might be ok to follow through with a course of action based on a guess. But when it comes to the one body we are given on this trip through, a guess is unacceptable. We have been taught, from the earliest age, to never question what the doctor says. "He has the education, he's an expert, He is the Doctor."

It is time to question what the Doctor says. If you don't understand, then ask them to explain. If the explanation isn't clear, ask them to clarify. If you still have doubts , then you should still have questions. If something about what the Doctor is saying is a sufficient answer but still "doesn't sound right" then you still should be pressing the issue. They are Doctors, graduated students of a school of higher learning, not omniscient Gods. They are people, people who by the nature of what

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