All the people who insist on keeping politics out of medicine are very quiet about how politicians are now trying to destroy medical schools. Maybe now they see even if you don’t do politics, politics will most definitely do you.
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Last week my 13-year old said, “I’m not into politics.”
I replied, “Well, politics is into you.”
I come from a very politically involved family where it was discussed at the supper table. My parents helped explain it to him. I think he’s just tired of the firehose of *everything* right now.
What ISN’T politics? Every facet of our lives is tied to an elected official or body who makes decisions on our behalf. You should ask your kid to name something that isn’t related to politics.
Everything in patients’ lives are impacted by politics. Everything in medicine in the public sector is funded by government, a.k.a. Impacted by politics. Clinicians need to recognize what a privileged stance it is to not have to care about politics.
This is why I don't like those who tell others to "stay in your lane" and not get involved in politics. Everything is political. Never has this been more clear than in the three weeks.
Wait until they have a seriously ill or injured child/grandchild. Children’s hospitals will suffer first since they are high users of Medicaid. They won’t understand until it affects them personally. Why aren’t physicians and physician group loudly protesting?
Because they voted for Trump. There is Fox news and ultra-conservative radio blaring at Dr.’s offices I attend. This is the constituency and there will be no push back until it affects their money.
Do you know what being in medicine entails?
Those I know still practicing get up at 5:3AM every day and don't always make it home for dinner. They will organize and protest in some way, but they are busy trying to keep a lot of us alive.
Indeed I do know. RT married to ED, Peds ED MD. Professional organizations, both in speciality boards and local, state and national, need to be actively involved!
Temember the medical profession has just gone through hell with Covid19, and many have contracted long covid, left the profession, or died.
The remaining practioners are seeing far more patients as a result of the same aftereffects as well as delayed detection and care for other things.
But why, why don’t they want us to have world class medical schools, doctors and treatment centers? Just another cruel act against the people they are supposed to be helping?
They found they loved the power that came with medical misinformation during the pandemic. They got a million Americans killed…and they made mountains of money selling them bunk “cures”
Remember, basic authoritarian doctrine; information is power. He who controls information owns power.
Yeah, the Nazis (pre-1945 version) were noted fans of "nature cures". And methamphetamine. Maybe not so different from the current batch. Here's Streicher getting read his justly deserved sentence at Nuremberg:
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Someone else in the room said, "Cool. Politics gonna DO you whether YOU do politics or not."
W/ USDOE next on Musk's attack list,we're about to have some politics done to us in K-12.
I replied, “Well, politics is into you.”
I come from a very politically involved family where it was discussed at the supper table. My parents helped explain it to him. I think he’s just tired of the firehose of *everything* right now.
Those I know still practicing get up at 5:3AM every day and don't always make it home for dinner. They will organize and protest in some way, but they are busy trying to keep a lot of us alive.
The remaining practioners are seeing far more patients as a result of the same aftereffects as well as delayed detection and care for other things.
Remember, basic authoritarian doctrine; information is power. He who controls information owns power.
Every one of those goals benefitted from ingesting medicine and academia.
They exterminated the mentally ill by exerting control over psychiatric hospitals
They absorbed and destroyed it, but the Nazification of medicine and academe is a dark dark dark story of compliance with evil.