As a physician, researcher, and a mother, I take issue with Vinay's comment regarding a female researcher's comments when she accepted a research award. She said she appreciated her children for allowing her to work on her research which resulted in less time with them. Vinay said it is understandable if it was due to clinical responsibilities, but not due to research. I disagree even though I worked part time for a few years when my children were young. Their regret is that their father, a full time practicing anesthesiologist, was not around during those years. Many full time female physicians and researchers' children are happy and have done well. My sister, a neurologist, never cut back her high demand clinical load. All her children told me that they did not feel neglected by my sister. AND they are leading productive lives.
Regarding Vinay's statement that the female researcher's findings were worthless: I and others agree with him that many researchers ask trivial questions that won't improve the public good. These studies are a waste and should not be funded. But as pointed out by my sister's neurosurgical physician son, who does great research, "Research is like a crap game. Sometimes you hit it big. Sometimes you come up snake eyes."
Another point: As a physician I have saved individual lives. But as a researcher, I can save so many more. A famous economist told me that countries have changed their policies based on his research to the betterment of their population. The caveat: he said that when I make a medical error, I kill one person. If he makes a data analysis and assessment error, he can kill hundreds of thousands of people. That is why he spends so much time looking for his and his colleagues mistakes. I have become a perfectionist as a researcher and as a physician, although errors will occur sine I don't walk on water.
My research has helped improve the public good. But if my future studies have no impact, I can say that I have loved the journey. My children have done well. They have a happy mother. My sister and her children are also happy.
I think Francis & Fauci are still experiencing the trump pandemic effect. Maybe they feel that most people are in tune with that seeing trump's popularity at the time & still now. I think it's all nuts. I love you all, your staff, etc whoever helps to get the word out. Thanks for all you do. I'm just a layperson as you can probably tell with this writing but I do glean some of what you have to say & I'm just grateful that I can access it.
For Adam and "masking seems to have worked for me" , not a direct quote. He could just add easily have been like one of the 8% of spouses or family members in a household who did not get COVID while it was going around within the home. Something else may have been at play regarding immunity. He could have had innate immunity. He could have had a mild unnoticed infection early on. He could have benefited from micro dosing of virus keeping his immune system at peak performance. He could have a unique biological factor that prevents infection (ace-2 receptors). My experience, I lived in a household with a spouse with COVID, unmasked through the process of the illness, slept in the same bed for the initial symptomatic state, and did not get COVID. I have the same example from two other households. I know masking was never done within all three situations. So does Adam's doctorate and personal observations trump my biology undergrad degree and personal observations. I have to agree with Dr Prasad that valid studies have never been done to show making works. Perhaps I'm missing something, perhaps even a lot, because multivariate biology is extremely complex.
Disparate impact thinking has taken root in undergraduate and graduate schools. This includes all post graduate professional schools (law, business, etc.). Between corportae medicne models requiring productivity at the expense of professional competence, and pooly prepared physicians, we are rapidly falling down the rabbit hole.
What Adam and Vinay are missing while they ruminate is the elephant in the room. I have never seen physician instructor whistleblowers in medical school go to the press about the decline in standards because the administration’s unresponsiveness to their concerns. The is a truly shocking revelation.
p.s. Mothers, what has been your experience with the work/life balance?
As a physician, researcher, and a mother, I take issue with Vinay's comment regarding a female researcher's comments when she accepted a research award. She said she appreciated her children for allowing her to work on her research which resulted in less time with them. Vinay said it is understandable if it was due to clinical responsibilities, but not due to research. I disagree even though I worked part time for a few years when my children were young. Their regret is that their father, a full time practicing anesthesiologist, was not around during those years. Many full time female physicians and researchers' children are happy and have done well. My sister, a neurologist, never cut back her high demand clinical load. All her children told me that they did not feel neglected by my sister. AND they are leading productive lives.
Regarding Vinay's statement that the female researcher's findings were worthless: I and others agree with him that many researchers ask trivial questions that won't improve the public good. These studies are a waste and should not be funded. But as pointed out by my sister's neurosurgical physician son, who does great research, "Research is like a crap game. Sometimes you hit it big. Sometimes you come up snake eyes."
Another point: As a physician I have saved individual lives. But as a researcher, I can save so many more. A famous economist told me that countries have changed their policies based on his research to the betterment of their population. The caveat: he said that when I make a medical error, I kill one person. If he makes a data analysis and assessment error, he can kill hundreds of thousands of people. That is why he spends so much time looking for his and his colleagues mistakes. I have become a perfectionist as a researcher and as a physician, although errors will occur sine I don't walk on water.
My research has helped improve the public good. But if my future studies have no impact, I can say that I have loved the journey. My children have done well. They have a happy mother. My sister and her children are also happy.
I think Francis & Fauci are still experiencing the trump pandemic effect. Maybe they feel that most people are in tune with that seeing trump's popularity at the time & still now. I think it's all nuts. I love you all, your staff, etc whoever helps to get the word out. Thanks for all you do. I'm just a layperson as you can probably tell with this writing but I do glean some of what you have to say & I'm just grateful that I can access it.
Vinay, ummm, you live in San Francisco, right??? Why are you frequently wearing a winter coat??? :)
Vinay, I so appreciate all that you do. I use a lot of your research-analysis videos in the nursing courses that I teach. Thank you, Sheila
Sheila, have you ever been to San Francisco? If so, you wouldn't ask why. ;-)
For Adam and "masking seems to have worked for me" , not a direct quote. He could just add easily have been like one of the 8% of spouses or family members in a household who did not get COVID while it was going around within the home. Something else may have been at play regarding immunity. He could have had innate immunity. He could have had a mild unnoticed infection early on. He could have benefited from micro dosing of virus keeping his immune system at peak performance. He could have a unique biological factor that prevents infection (ace-2 receptors). My experience, I lived in a household with a spouse with COVID, unmasked through the process of the illness, slept in the same bed for the initial symptomatic state, and did not get COVID. I have the same example from two other households. I know masking was never done within all three situations. So does Adam's doctorate and personal observations trump my biology undergrad degree and personal observations. I have to agree with Dr Prasad that valid studies have never been done to show making works. Perhaps I'm missing something, perhaps even a lot, because multivariate biology is extremely complex.
corporate medicine
Disparate impact thinking has taken root in undergraduate and graduate schools. This includes all post graduate professional schools (law, business, etc.). Between corportae medicne models requiring productivity at the expense of professional competence, and pooly prepared physicians, we are rapidly falling down the rabbit hole.
No medical news is ALWAYS good news. That means they don't have another way to screw up your health by pretending to cure your ills.
Besides masks...sugar pills are also extremely effective against many things....
What Adam and Vinay are missing while they ruminate is the elephant in the room. I have never seen physician instructor whistleblowers in medical school go to the press about the decline in standards because the administration’s unresponsiveness to their concerns. The is a truly shocking revelation.