Want to see more of Jonathan Miller on the Dick Cavett Show? Here he discusses his frightening experiences of boxing at school: kzread.info/dash/bejne/ial1rsinm9uXdLQ.html

I come from a small town. We were fortunate to have a great doctor who made house calls even stitched me up a few times

The disparity of medicine & healthcare from the "leader" of the "free" world is striking. Once upon a time in America, house calls were common even as late as the 1970s. The shift towards the corporatization of The Commons and the grip of monied interests on our shallow democracy is abominable.

@jasonpowley4913

3 жыл бұрын

It's a beautiful example and good philosophical fodder. As a socio-economic and purely social comparison it rings true more than ever.

@edwardmclaughlin7935

3 жыл бұрын

kickinvideo333 This is a very old interview and things have changed much. The NHS has many failings that are little reported. A house call by a doctor is a very rare thing.

@kickinvideo333

3 жыл бұрын

Edward McLaughlin The underlying causes of the shift from house calls is threefold. The first is the liability to the physician. Second, the cost of per capita healthcare. Lastly, the emphasis of profit over patient. The source of these changes are the mega-duopoly of global healthcare and insurance corporations. They have systematically drummed the humanity from the care of human beings and reduced the people to bottom-line statistics. As imperfect as NHS is in the United Kingdom, it is far more preferable to the imploding for-profit system of the USA.

@marcotee709

3 жыл бұрын

@@kickinvideo333 The NHS comparison is always with the US system. Why not compare with Germany, Canada or the Scandinavian countries? Probably not, because they are far superior to the NHS. This myth about the saintly NHS is getting exposed now.

@edwardmclaughlin7935

3 жыл бұрын

@@kickinvideo333 I haven't used the US system but I know the NHS is a bucket with big holes in it. Too many people who have never contributed to the pot, allowed to partake of the services.

Doctors making house calls.....wow!!!! how times have changed!!

"I remember you" entry music. Rest in peace Jonathan Miller. 2019?

A beautiful answer 6:56

3:45 Didn't stop Harold Shipman did it?

got the cane on the bum and hand also the ruler on the hand and the back of the leg....in the 70s and early 80s

@pauldurdan1549

8 ай бұрын

We had the cane, didn't really bother me as i got far worse at home. What was the most stokes of the cane you received in one sitting ? 😅

House calls? Now they practise medicine by phone, even then if you're lucky to get an appointment, just to receive a phone call from your doctor. Bleeding joke lol

'Belligerent ghouls Run Manchester schools, Spineless swine, Cemented minds.' --The Smiths

have nothing against the other celebs that were on this show but is this channel ever going to show the Dick Cavett shows where he interviews Jackie Gleason or Art Carney? How about any Honeymooners actors that were part of the main cast? These are rare much like the other Cavett ones.

Caning Age about 9 too - caned on the hand.

don't make house calls anymore quit often the surgery is closed

@ronmackinnon9374

Жыл бұрын

'Come through!' -- Doc Martin

Is this channel ever going to show Dick Cavett shows where he interviews Jackie Gleason and/or Art Carney? I don’t have the Decades. I got nothing against the celebs that appeared on this show BTW.

My experiences of using the NHS is one of people employed that are absolutely run of the mill and amateurish with a self important attitude and air of superiority without professional quality or care of service. People that feel they have a job for life and are a few rungs up the ladder towards God over everyone else. When you take someone with an already bad attitude and put them in NHS roles, this makes for a bad recipe!

@acchaladka

3 жыл бұрын

Not my experience at all, and I’ve had an unusual amount of experience with public health care in a number of countries.

@2Majesties

3 жыл бұрын

On the other hand, the average uninsured American (or any working class world citizen) who suffered some major medical crisis while on holiday in England would think he were in some utopia, given the treatment in the NHS.

@garethwigglesworth8187

3 жыл бұрын

The NHS is fantastic. Dont know what dimension your living in.

@crapitoutjim

3 жыл бұрын

Jack Clements what utter bollocks are you talking? Wait until you experience the (for example) US medical system where you have to pay an exorbitant amount of cash for relatively mediocre medical care.

@garethwigglesworth8187

3 жыл бұрын

@Plz don't Ban this too nhs is brilliant in the uk

The cane was banned the very year I left school and it's been down hill ever since.

@gregh5061

8 ай бұрын

My catholic teachers used LOGS, tree logs, not canes and beat us so hard it would hurt for weeks ( they'd make sure to hit the other hand or leg the next time) . Made no difference. Enforcing discipline that way only made it worse. Now, 14 years later (I'm 23) , all the successful kids weren't the one beaten the most, simply the smartest ones who had the best guidance in their lives, nothing related to caning.

@zaftra

8 ай бұрын

@@gregh5061 why stop at logs make it tree trunk

@gregh5061

8 ай бұрын

@@zaftra She was 4'9. If she could carry something bigger she would. All those teachers were complete psychos. Glad caning isn't allowed anymore. Society is better off.

@zaftra

8 ай бұрын

@@gregh5061 yes, I look at the news, society is better off indeed.

@gregh5061

8 ай бұрын

@@zaftra Agreed. cheers.

While I might admire Miller's principles, charisma and fluency, his persistent references to 'he/him/his' and 'englishmen' has not aged well. Especially disappointing given his wife was a doctor.

@memoryhero

7 ай бұрын

fluency in what? also, "references" is a plural noun, requiring a verb that agrees with it, namely "have" and not "has". this "might" come with fluency. dunno.

@OlipherSG

7 ай бұрын

I was drunk when I wrote that. I hope you are, too, otherwise you’re correcting the grammar of random people on the internet while sober, and that’s very sad indeed.

I wonder how he'd view the reduction of the NHS to an amoral, treacherous, pseudo religion. Never mind, he'd enjoy the tik tok dancing videos...

@johanps4893

Жыл бұрын

What on Earth are you on about?