{"id":1405,"date":"2021-04-21T20:43:30","date_gmt":"2021-04-22T03:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danschmidtforsenate.com\/blog\/?p=1405"},"modified":"2021-04-21T22:48:10","modified_gmt":"2021-04-22T05:48:10","slug":"im-sorry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danschmidtforsenate.com\/blog\/?p=1405","title":{"rendered":"I’m Sorry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"\"<\/a>
Please read this<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s been a while since I haven\u2019t written a weekly column. I have tried quite a few times. I\u2019ve saved five drafts. But they were all pretty bitter. That\u2019s not a good sentiment, so I have decided to forgo the weekly column. I apologize.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We don\u2019t hear many apologies these days. I was taught as a child that when you make a mistake, or injure someone, their person or feelings, you should apologize. I\u2019m apologizing here for not fulfilling my obligation for a weekly column. I doubt anyone reads these columns, so I don\u2019t know if I\u2019m hurting anyone\u2019s feelings. Maybe I\u2019m apologizing to make myself feel better about not fulfilling my obligation. You can see why I shouldn\u2019t be writing a column this week. I\u2019m not in the right mindset to persuade anybody. I\u2019m sorry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In medical school and residency training we were taught not to apologize to patients if you made a mistake. \u201cThey could use your apology as evidence against you in a lawsuit\u201d was the teaching. I didn\u2019t follow it. And in my thirty years of practice, I\u2019ve only been sued once, and they decided to dismiss it after a year of preliminary hearings. Fear of lawsuits is an excuse for doctors to do bad things. I could tell you other stories, some of them quite touching, but I\u2019m not going to write a column this week. I apologize.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have wondered if Officer Chauvin ever felt he owed anybody an apology. Nine minutes of kneeling on a handcuffed man\u2019s neck that led to his death seems like harming a person. But cops probably get the same lawyer\u2019s advice I got in medical school. We have given the authority for justice to our legal system. That\u2019s a mistake. It resides with us; each of us. The legal system should not be an excuse for bad behavior, just like medical training doesn\u2019t make you infallible. We all make mistakes. And we all should be able to apologize.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But it seems some folks don\u2019t think about an apology. They just don\u2019t care if they hurt other people. What are we going to do about that? I think that\u2019s why we developed our legal system; to help right unaddressed wrongs. But we all should still behave responsibly. Some of us just don\u2019t. No law, no justice system will eliminate evil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am not saying that an apology for killing someone is justice. It\u2019s not. Lady Justice, blindfolded, holds scales. Balance is healthy. But I write about health and balance all the time, not this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have read some social media posts that turned me sour too, so I\u2019m not going to rant about them. Some folks were pushing the idea that Officer Chauvin was mistreated by our justice system, that he didn\u2019t get a fair trial; that got me riled up. But I\u2019m not going to respond to those folks. Their perspective is not mine, so I\u2019ll let it go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And I\u2019ve been paying close attention to the Idaho legislature. That was three of the five drafts. I haven\u2019t heard any apologies from that direction. No apologies to the universities or colleges for the lack of faith displayed by our representatives when they killed their budget. No apologies for failing to fund the teachers who have worked pretty darn hard through this pandemic. But those drafts were dismal and bitter. Nobody wants to read that. So, I\u2019m sorry; no column this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The spring here on the Palouse has been beautiful, some wind and cool, but over all very fair. We have done a lot of yard work and I\u2019m getting the siding up on the barn I\u2019m building. That takes my time so I can\u2019t get the column done this week. I\u2019m sorry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apologies should be directed toward a person if they are to be sincere. So, Martha, my dear and loving wife who reads this column every week, I\u2019m sorry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you have the time, watch this <\/a>and learn what happens when we don’t, or can’t properly apologize.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s been a while since I haven\u2019t written a weekly column. I have tried quite a few times. I\u2019ve saved five drafts. But they were all pretty bitter. That\u2019s not a good sentiment, so I have decided to forgo the … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1406,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danschmidtforsenate.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danschmidtforsenate.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danschmidtforsenate.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danschmidtforsenate.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danschmidtforsenate.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1405"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/danschmidtforsenate.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1410,"href":"https:\/\/danschmidtforsenate.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405\/revisions\/1410"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danschmidtforsenate.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danschmidtforsenate.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danschmidtforsenate.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danschmidtforsenate.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}