tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37286253.post8919267642417838220..comments2024-03-09T11:08:34.910+02:00Comments on other things amanzi: cutsBongihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12918640034313468627noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37286253.post-22989645821315961052007-11-15T02:48:00.000+02:002007-11-15T02:48:00.000+02:00Dear Holly Golightly,We were taught that owing to ...Dear Holly Golightly,<BR/><BR/>We were taught that owing to "deep spritiual beliefs", 80%of our patients present first to the Sangoma, before the hospital.<BR/>I guess we had to just get "used to it" and shake our heads at disgust that Sangomas were not held accountable for dehydrating babies by prescribing dishwashing liquid enemas and scarring corneas permanently with battery acid...<BR/>There just isn't any justice!Amanzi Down Underhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12235667869792256049noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37286253.post-90757795585744387062007-11-14T22:34:00.000+02:002007-11-14T22:34:00.000+02:00WOW... It must be very hard to deal with this kind...WOW... It must be very hard to deal with this kind of stuff...<BR/><BR/>Would you get irritated if the situation had actually been made worse by not coming to you first? Or do you just "get used to it" and just work harder on your part?<BR/><BR/>I guess that when it is part of someone's tradition you can't really change a lot.<BR/><BR/>Great post... very insightful :)Ms-Ellisahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14222338450219683633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37286253.post-31493361120210900682007-11-14T16:44:00.000+02:002007-11-14T16:44:00.000+02:00It makes me angry that still people trust sangoma'...It makes me angry that still people trust sangoma's. <BR/><BR/>Especially when they take their children there! <BR/><BR/>Traditions like these are ridiculous, and goes to show that the ancestors CANT heal you. They're dead for goodness sake!!Dizzy Deehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11508169795533673150noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37286253.post-39453540791656863032007-11-09T16:29:00.000+02:002007-11-09T16:29:00.000+02:00The above comment made me chuckle. ^^The above comment made me chuckle. ^^Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37286253.post-75126115651452651172007-11-08T18:25:00.000+02:002007-11-08T18:25:00.000+02:00Gosh, and here I thought being a plumber was the p...Gosh, and here I thought being a plumber was the pits.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37286253.post-86726464375331848772007-11-08T02:09:00.000+02:002007-11-08T02:09:00.000+02:00Bongi, have you submitted this or any of your othe...Bongi, have you submitted this or any of your other ones to the next SurgeXperience? <BR/>http://surgexperiences.wordpress.com/2007/11/02/surgexperiences-108-to-be-hosted-at-aggravated-docsurg/rlbateshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15236331355857884458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37286253.post-18094303223379343212007-11-07T05:13:00.000+02:002007-11-07T05:13:00.000+02:00No, no, no.It's: Stained Liquor! Playing their lat...No, no, no.<BR/>It's: Stained Liquor! Playing their latest song, "Fighting Feces with Feces" at the colossal Meconium Theater!Greg Phttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18422487877167541900noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37286253.post-61729640840449488452007-11-06T17:13:00.000+02:002007-11-06T17:13:00.000+02:00A friend of mine always said that if he had a band...A friend of mine always said that if he had a band, he'd name it "Meconium stained liquor". I think "fight faeces with faeces" would be a better name for a song. Meconium stained liquor could sing it.amanzimtotihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00547897825508141342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37286253.post-46956194722400910162007-11-06T11:34:00.000+02:002007-11-06T11:34:00.000+02:00good point, greg. amanzimtoti (schweet name by the...good point, greg. <BR/><BR/>amanzimtoti (schweet name by the way), maybe that would be a good name for a rock and roll band. "and now let me introduce 'fighting feces with feces!!!'" and the crowd goes wild!Bongihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12918640034313468627noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37286253.post-62706504252498186672007-11-06T11:18:00.000+02:002007-11-06T11:18:00.000+02:00Fight faeces with faeces... Hahahahahah! Brilliant...Fight faeces with faeces... Hahahahahah! Brilliant!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37286253.post-7171668625283209492007-11-06T05:04:00.000+02:002007-11-06T05:04:00.000+02:00It seems smearing cow dung in a wound is more of a...It seems smearing cow dung in a wound is more of a test than a treatment. If you were well enough to handle that, you were going to make it.Greg Phttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18422487877167541900noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37286253.post-48218650715199984942007-11-05T22:24:00.000+02:002007-11-05T22:24:00.000+02:00sid, interesting state of affairs. i remember you ...sid, interesting state of affairs. i remember you mentioning something like this in your book (everyone reading this, buy the book). inn south africa, we have a slightly different situation. dare i say better. upper git bleeding is considered a surgical condition. we get them from presentation. we don't have to wait for some physician to give us the go ahead. true most we don't operate, but we do operate the needed ones in time...usually.<BR/><BR/><BR/>yes, ceremonial. the cuts above are for beautification, not treatment. the picture is random. not south african. on my post, two heads are better than one (http://other-things-amanzi.blogspot.com/2007/03/two-heads-are-better-than-one.html), if you look carefully on the second photo, you can see one set of the typical south african cuts. usually, though, there are more and they are easier to see.Bongihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12918640034313468627noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37286253.post-77586112404738622982007-11-05T21:19:00.000+02:002007-11-05T21:19:00.000+02:00I've just written (but not yet posted) on that oth...I've just written (but not yet posted) on that <I>other</I> site of mine, a post about how, in training, medical docs would delay referral of GI bleeders, megacolon, etc, because sending them to surgery meant they'd die. So they'd wait until the patient was moribund, call surgery, and often the patient would die, to which they'd say "See?" At least they didn't rub feces and scratch in into the belly like your sangomas; so in that, we had it much better. Still, evidently some attitudes are more universal than one would think.<BR/><BR/><BR/>And once again, your stories are amanzi. I assume the picture, though, is of ceremonial rather than medicinal cuts?Sid Schwabhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14182853083503404098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37286253.post-26339039088866611892007-11-05T19:22:00.000+02:002007-11-05T19:22:00.000+02:00apartheid is so convenient an excuse. don't get me...apartheid is so convenient an excuse. don't get me wrong. i've said it before and i'll say it again, there is no justification for apartheid. ever. at all. but it's over. move on. face the present. <BR/><BR/>p.s, not to put too fine a point on it, but if you could even almost smell what went down in theater that day, you would be in no state to comment on this or any other blog. necrotic bowel with 3 day old fermenting feces sears something irrevocable into your psyche. maybe i should use it as an excuse for whatever i can't do from now on. no, wait, that would be apartheid. so i'm scarred for nothing!!!Bongihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12918640034313468627noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37286253.post-32611886502139147762007-11-05T19:08:00.000+02:002007-11-05T19:08:00.000+02:00I agree with Arnold. Nothing more I can add.I agree with Arnold. Nothing more I can add.rlbateshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15236331355857884458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37286253.post-23221678766964953692007-11-05T16:57:00.000+02:002007-11-05T16:57:00.000+02:00Well written Bongi. I could almost smell the smell...Well written Bongi. I could almost smell the smells in that operating theater.<BR/><BR/>I do not have an answer to why people are not held accountable for anything anymore. All I do know is that this tendency can be seen throughout our society.<BR/><BR/>All anyone is concerned about is to figure out who to blame for anything that goes wrong. Once we have done that we ourselves are absolved from any accountability.<BR/><BR/>In this our country, the crime rate, hiv/aids, poverty and many other things are all laid at the door of 'apartheid' and then nothing further is done to solve the problems.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com