Perhaps selection for the caring professions, especially medicine, could be made less by good grades in chemistry and more by such considerations as sensitivity and sympathy.
The conception that everyone has a right to an education appropriate to his potential is a highly democratic and compassionate standard, says Marven Breselor, a professor at Princeton University.
Laureys said that patients' requests for euthanasia "should be received with sympathy, but our data suggest that a moratorium should be proposed" until the patients' condition has stabilized.
Lighten up, the guy is frustrated (I work in Saudi Arabia and so sympathise massively) and on an epic trip, and yet still has some humour left, give him a break!