Totally agree. Most doctors I know are true believers, all vaccinated & have vaccinated their kids. I’ve left circles of friends because they are deaf.
Medicine is… very authoritarian at heart. Seniority is serious. Then there is being a good boy or girl to match for a residency. For fellowships. For research funding.
Then add to all that the few 100k in student loans to be paid off.
Then the hours. Keep em working >80, >90 heck over >120 hours a week every now and then & they’re too tired to do anything other than follow accepted treatment guidelines. No energy or critical thinking for independent research or digs.
Then health insurers… not present in all countries but afaik in the US even if a doc is following treatment protocols they need to get the health insurance company to “approve” it. Bureaucracy is a pain apparently.
Then the electronic medical records… designed for billing & auditing afaik and I think most doctors find them… tedious.
Medicine these days… I believe most doctors are as hoodwinked as normies. But they have a responsibility to do due diligence. Primum non nocere. I empathise but they have neglected those responsibilities.
Ben Goldacres books are a good read. I also think of the Noam Chomsky / Andrew Marr interview. People with the right views (or easily manipulated) get advancement more easily.
https://youtu.be/lLcpcytUnWU
Totally agree. Most doctors I know are true believers, all vaccinated & have vaccinated their kids. I’ve left circles of friends because they are deaf.
Medicine is… very authoritarian at heart. Seniority is serious. Then there is being a good boy or girl to match for a residency. For fellowships. For research funding.
Then add to all that the few 100k in student loans to be paid off.
Then the hours. Keep em working >80, >90 heck over >120 hours a week every now and then & they’re too tired to do anything other than follow accepted treatment guidelines. No energy or critical thinking for independent research or digs.
Then health insurers… not present in all countries but afaik in the US even if a doc is following treatment protocols they need to get the health insurance company to “approve” it. Bureaucracy is a pain apparently.
Then the electronic medical records… designed for billing & auditing afaik and I think most doctors find them… tedious.
Medicine these days… I believe most doctors are as hoodwinked as normies. But they have a responsibility to do due diligence. Primum non nocere. I empathise but they have neglected those responsibilities.
Ben Goldacres books are a good read. I also think of the Noam Chomsky / Andrew Marr interview. People with the right views (or easily manipulated) get advancement more easily. https://youtu.be/lLcpcytUnWU