From the long running General Hospital, to greys anatomy, house, ER, Scrubs, etc... hollywood has used predictive programming to make us sympathetic towards the medical profession. Until recently, a spotlight has never been shown on the reason why. Big Pharma is just as evil if not worse than the 3 letter agencies. This trickles all the way down to our local communities. These are supposed to be people we can trust with our lives. People who took an oath to help us to the best of their abilities. Now more than ever we hear medical professionals screeching “trust the science” when they damn well know that there are mountains of evidence against that narrative. Yes, there are a handful of good guys out there, but the overwhelming majority are either hell-bent on protecting the narrative or too chickenshit to stand up for what’s right in fear of losing their jobs. I pray that there will be severe consequences that also trickle down to the local level. Personally, I will have a very difficult time trusting any medical professionals into the far and distant future. And there is no excuse for “not knowing better” or “just doing what my superiors told me to” or “I didn’t want to lose my job”. The lives of men, women, and children are already at stake. To the ones strong enough to stand up, God bless you and I thank you with all my heart. To the rest, very simply, FUCK YOU. Each of you deserve what is coming and I pray none of you escape it. There’s a special place in hell for all of you. Nuremberg 2.0 cannot come fast enough.
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For someone considering this career, what do you suggest?
The world will always need good doctors. I would never try to tell someone to not do medicine if they are considering it, but I would say that if you're thinking about 7-10 years of med school + residency, you really really really need to look at the totality of the field + shadow doctors both in hospitals and in private practices to see what it looks like and be honest with yourself about how much you are enjoying it on a day to day basis. There is a LOT of bs. There is a lot of brainwashing. There is a LOT of paperwork (3 to 1 is the average amount of time spent documenting patient interactions vs actually seeing patients. In surgical fields you document a lot less but also work much harder. Surgical residency is very tough). If you make it through residency, there are ways to set up private practices with much less BS and better controls over how you interact with your patients.
My DMs are always open to particular questions/concerns you have. I will be there to answer things for you.