Let's wait until a full moon to bleed him

Surprise! I continued reading Godplayer by Robin Cook. There has been little development in the plot, but we do find a reason to believe that George (a medical guy) and Dr Ballantine (the chief cardiac surgeon) have something to do with the deaths occurring the hospital. This is discovered by Dr. Kingsley (aka Thomas) when there is a drastic cut in his OR time, removing four surgeries from his schedule every week. Of course, being the adrenaline-addict he is, Thomas freaks out, calms down, and realizes its just another attempt to get him to quit his private practice…or is it? Duh duh duh duh!! But honestly, this passage was not very entertaining. I mean, the fact that I thought was the most entertaining was the fact that there was a philosopher named Rodney at this meeting of cardiac surgeons. Hmm…what does a philosopher do for medicine? I know in the early European history philosophers were really the medical experts, but now days its more like palm reading… “Yes, I do agree that this man will die of a tragic broken heart…” or “Let’s wait until a full moon to bleed him…” But wouldn’t it be nice if philosophy could cure things? You wouldn’t have to go through all that training if you had a half-decent mind…you could just throw a thought into the air and see if anyone saw it. This passage then led me to thinking about how far man kind has progressed. I mean, we started out like monkeys. Then we got brains and turned into insanely advanced creatures. Just think about our existence and how much we actually think and create and love. It scares me sometimes… yeah…