... and when mechanical ventilators, cardiovascular support, or dialysis won't either.
Slicer has the privilege of being in the business of trying to assist healing. He does like challenges, and the odds are frequently heavily stacked against patients who are critically ill, who often have multi-organ failure. Slicer likes to think he's sometimes successful against the odds. Of course lots of things contribute in those instances - not least being part of a great team of professionals across a range of disciplines. Then there are the medicines which have been painstakingly researched, and the high-tech hardware (some of which hasn't!), and the genetic make-up of the patient, and a stack of unknowns.
But there are all sorts of things for which intensive/critical care isn't appropriate - and there are other kinds of afflictions, which are not definable in terms of failing organ systems. They say that time is a healer, but there is another
and JLH & Carlos Santana remind us of the value of catharsis in one of Slicer's all-time favourite tooons. Blues & Latin percussion - what a combo! Click to see the vid:
Old John Lee did seem to identify strongly with the theme of Healing. Here he is in another collaboration, this time with Northern Ireland's own Van Morrison, on one of his tunes.
"Sing it out loud
Sing it in your name
Sing it like you're proud
Sing the healing game
Sing the healing game
Sing the healing game
Sing it in your name."
And Van, of course, has asked the question which can be answered both objectively and subjectively:
"Did ye get healed?"
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