I've been acquainted with far too many of these hospital-haunting do-littles during my short stint. Stubborn, short-tempered, lazy, slovenly, hypocritical spendthrifts.....and those are the BETTER descriptions I'm able to muster. The worst are the ones who candidly admit to their professions being stained-glass "shell games", but aren't candid enough to hang up their robes and straddle a real-world job. Handed power and privilege, their hubris soon finds spacious lodging within the verdant walls of their meddlesome social clubs, hell-bent on wringing another twenty dollars out of an aging trustee who couldn't afford the previous thirty-dollar soakings. Thankfully, there are those who've stepped off and away from this rusted calliope, to take a more-direct approach in positively affecting the lives of those most in need (instead of subsidizing rigid dogma, questionable pay raises and middling maintenance sundries), in effect, slowly emptying the traditionalist's dossier of its retrograde itinerary. One of the better quotes I've heard concerning the clergy: "folks who undertake the management of our spiritual affairs as methods of bettering their temporal ones".
