Doctors as Ring Masters

As I was reading the chapter Being Humaned: Medical Documentaries of the Hyperrealization of Conjoined Twins by Clark and Myser it completely changed my outlook on conjoined twins. I realized that I have been looking at the subject not through the patient’s eyes but through the doctors. The articles said that we as a society are “making spectacles out of spectacles”. The only person who is really befitting from the separations is the doctors. They are seem as heroes or god-like because they can make the impossible possible. They are “humanizing” the children; they are making humans out of monsters. These “monsters” have names, faces, feelings and they are ALIVE. I believe this is even more horrible than dissecting dead bodies or even women’s bodies because at least they had a voice and could express themselves. The children they are taking apart are too young to have a opinion let alone express it. Put yourself in their tiny shoes, how would you feel being brought from another country, where no one speaks your language (or even tries), being poked and prodded for several months, eating different food, sleeping differently, and your only true friend in the world is attached to you until some old scary man puts you to sleep, cuts you up and then your only friend is not attached to you anymore but laying in a bed beside you with tubes and wires. Yet, you just have to lay there and wonder why I hurt so much? …. What happened?... But you can ask many question to be able to make sense of your new world because no one speaks your language…. Confusing right?

 Shame on the doctors who believe that they are heroes and can fix anything and make people “Normal”. 

-Sarah Fiorella