Needed: The Thanksgiving Doctor’s Message
Thanksgiving can be a mealy-mouthed sort of thing, when people feel a sort of vague gratitude that life is so good, or at least that it’s not as bad as it could be. One way to focus our gratitude would be to have the Surgeon General deliver an annual message touching upon the various things that can and do go wrong with people. It could be very entertaining and informative. And by the time s/he was done speaking, we might be better acquainted with what a miracle our present state of health (perfect or otherwise) is.
