When I trained in the late 1970s early 1980s at Northwestern, we were trained to be apolitical. Our primary concern was giving or finding the best care for our patient. Now medical students and young practitioners are all social justice warriors and their professional organizations of (frequently non-practicing) administrators reflect th…
When I trained in the late 1970s early 1980s at Northwestern, we were trained to be apolitical. Our primary concern was giving or finding the best care for our patient. Now medical students and young practitioners are all social justice warriors and their professional organizations of (frequently non-practicing) administrators reflect that. Physicians actually identify themselves as medical liberal, medical conservative. Now studies are touted or ignored in deeply political ways. All this is heartbreaking to see. I feel the same way about the ABIM threatening your certification for the ill-defined “misinformation” or organizations like NoLicenseFor Disinformation that threaten your your state license, weaponize the patient doctor relationship to report you from straying from CDC guidelines. A CDC that has caved repeatedly to political pressure and ignored studies that challenged their current policy. I think the power that all these organizations wield should be disbanded if they show themselves to be political.
When I trained in the late 1970s early 1980s at Northwestern, we were trained to be apolitical. Our primary concern was giving or finding the best care for our patient. Now medical students and young practitioners are all social justice warriors and their professional organizations of (frequently non-practicing) administrators reflect that. Physicians actually identify themselves as medical liberal, medical conservative. Now studies are touted or ignored in deeply political ways. All this is heartbreaking to see. I feel the same way about the ABIM threatening your certification for the ill-defined “misinformation” or organizations like NoLicenseFor Disinformation that threaten your your state license, weaponize the patient doctor relationship to report you from straying from CDC guidelines. A CDC that has caved repeatedly to political pressure and ignored studies that challenged their current policy. I think the power that all these organizations wield should be disbanded if they show themselves to be political.