It's not just that. They're restricted by hospitals that employ them, and often by government regulations besides.
It has been a big hurdle with things like "right to try", and with medical journals being quite incestuous with regards to peer reviews, it ends up being a self perpetuating problem where nothing really new happens because it's the "credible" peers that end up being bought off even more than the doctors themselves.
I don't envy their position, but they are well compensated and as you say they sold their souls.
I imagine it's easy to justify it as helping the many, at the cost of the few. I imagine it's even easier to reject any conflicting information outright, thereby denying themselves the conscious guilt that would likely come with acknowledging it.
The process is definitely broken and is, like many things, in need of a rework.
The problem is we on this board have known this for years, which means these professionals have also known. It's a pretty big problem.
Drs. are in a "hard spot".
Cure someone's illness and lose money, or treat with Big Pharma options, which brings them money.
Most sold their souls.
It is sometimes hard to park their Porsche in that tight spot
It's not just that. They're restricted by hospitals that employ them, and often by government regulations besides.
It has been a big hurdle with things like "right to try", and with medical journals being quite incestuous with regards to peer reviews, it ends up being a self perpetuating problem where nothing really new happens because it's the "credible" peers that end up being bought off even more than the doctors themselves.
I don't envy their position, but they are well compensated and as you say they sold their souls.
I imagine it's easy to justify it as helping the many, at the cost of the few. I imagine it's even easier to reject any conflicting information outright, thereby denying themselves the conscious guilt that would likely come with acknowledging it.
The process is definitely broken and is, like many things, in need of a rework.
That's an easy spot for an honest man. It will turn out that a pharmacist can dolenout ivermectin and the dosage without a single doctor involved.