Superheroes and Breast Cancer Awareness

Breast cancer awareness is an important topic and one I am very familiar with because I work in a medical clinic and come in contact with many women who have concerns, symptoms, and even cancer. Last month when the Superheroe campaign was making the rounds through all of the sci fi blogs and interesting sites like BoingBoing, I liked it, found it interesting, and loved the drawings. I believe that it is good to reach as wide an audience as possible, because breast cancer is a real issue and information and education is the best defense against this disease. I have seen women diagnosed with breast cancer and take the steps necessary to fight it, I have seen other women who denied anything was wrong and ended up dying, and I have seen women who would rather keep their new BMW luxury auto than sell it and have a surgery. When did things start to have more value than our own lives? I have seen in over the almost two decades I have been working with doctors and patients, a real decline in the self-respect and respect in general of patients towards their own health, the health of their children, and towards health-care workers. Most are rude, complain, and want everything for free, and many people disagree with me, but nothing in life is free and health-care is not a right. If it is a right, then it should be all or nothing: free medical school, free university, free food, free water, free shelter, free clothes, etc. Then we would be like Earth in the Star Trek Universe: we would have one government, everything controlled, no money, and humans would work to better themselves, sounds good, except, how to rid ourselves of greed, jealousy, murder, rape, abuse, control, war, etc. Well,  I have wandered quite a bit from our Superheroes, however, I hope that in this New Year 2012, we can all find a little superheroe in us all and have self-respect and then respect for others, no matter how difficult times are and care for our health.