The immediate culture and the privilege of choice.
Many of the people here in the US do not understand how fortunate they are to be in this country. My face flush with hate when I hear them complain about small inconveniences and pain. Let's talk about pain a little more. No one likes to be in pain, but our reaction towards pain is in our control. It's the 5th vital sign but it's the only parameter that is subjective among the five. Even if we put numbers to measure it, we get different levels on the same type of pain on different people. I noticed that people here in the US want the easiest possible life they can have. They expect and want everything to be painless and dandy and that otherwise is unacceptable and frowned upon. Like when they undergo for procedures that they chose to have or that saves their lives, they expect an immediate fix with the absence of pain. And when they experience the slightest pain, all the interventions that kept them alive and made their lives better goes out the window. I had a recent experience where a patient had a partial colectomy that was then anastomosed (attached). This was a preventive surgery that involves cutting off a part of her colon because it was showing signs of malignancy (cancer). I have cared for a lot of people who had abdominal surgeries and it's highly likely for them to develop Ileus (the inability of bowels to contract normally) due to bowel manipulation during…