I am a retired physician and astonished at how much respect and credibility the physician community has lost in the last three years. Most physicians went on taking care of patients and practicing their usual diligence but deferred to spokespeople and department and hospital leaders. Now, ironically, the last institutions to give up unnecessary masking are doctors' offices and hospitals. Physicians are well educated but really ignorant about what is going on in the public marketplace. Our "representative" organizations like the American Academy of Pediatrics have shamelessly issued policy statements and perspectives with zero effort or interest in finding out what the average pediatrician or pediatric specialist really thinks. The transgender clinics and movement, in my opinion, represents the greatest medical malfeasance of recent memory and there is no forum or pediatric organization to discuss the issues at hand. This is catastrophic. Take the totally reasonable Great Barrington Declaration, which reads better and better with age, and how "our leaders" imposed censorship and shaming on its authors. Few practicing physicians protested and how would they? There is no forum for independent discussion. It is now up to physicians to radically change our representation. Thanks for this piece. We absolutely need to demand dissenting opinions and minority interpretations of data that Alex Berenson is so good at. Physicians have been trained to read the medical literature critically but more and more journals like JAMA are publishing opinion pieces as objective reports.
I have made the anorexia – transgender parallel several times. Growing up in an affluent southern suburb in the 90s, I knew plenty of girls who struggled with anorexia and bulimia. When/if they finally got treatment, no one affirmed their beliefs that they were overweight. When someone is suffering from a delusion, you don’t play along. You help them see their delusion for what it is and move past it.
Again, right on point! I find the complete illogical nature of what is transpiring not only to be frightening but so completely unbelievable that it makes me feel for those struggling with certain mental illnesses in a whole new way: to be so very out of touch with reality, not perceived feeling-based reality but actual reality, is an incredibly vulnerable state but being under the control of those who can not separate fact from feeling (and arrogant false assumption),is truly terrifying, especially for parents of young children.
I am a retired physician and astonished at how much respect and credibility the physician community has lost in the last three years. Most physicians went on taking care of patients and practicing their usual diligence but deferred to spokespeople and department and hospital leaders. Now, ironically, the last institutions to give up unnecessary masking are doctors' offices and hospitals. Physicians are well educated but really ignorant about what is going on in the public marketplace. Our "representative" organizations like the American Academy of Pediatrics have shamelessly issued policy statements and perspectives with zero effort or interest in finding out what the average pediatrician or pediatric specialist really thinks. The transgender clinics and movement, in my opinion, represents the greatest medical malfeasance of recent memory and there is no forum or pediatric organization to discuss the issues at hand. This is catastrophic. Take the totally reasonable Great Barrington Declaration, which reads better and better with age, and how "our leaders" imposed censorship and shaming on its authors. Few practicing physicians protested and how would they? There is no forum for independent discussion. It is now up to physicians to radically change our representation. Thanks for this piece. We absolutely need to demand dissenting opinions and minority interpretations of data that Alex Berenson is so good at. Physicians have been trained to read the medical literature critically but more and more journals like JAMA are publishing opinion pieces as objective reports.
I have made the anorexia – transgender parallel several times. Growing up in an affluent southern suburb in the 90s, I knew plenty of girls who struggled with anorexia and bulimia. When/if they finally got treatment, no one affirmed their beliefs that they were overweight. When someone is suffering from a delusion, you don’t play along. You help them see their delusion for what it is and move past it.
Um, the locking up of doctors in "insane asylums" is still happening: https://rairfoundation.com/soviet-canada-doctor-locked-in-psych-ward-who-exposed-stillbirths-explosion-in-vaccinated-moms-interview/ (this is just ONE example of many!)
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Again, right on point! I find the complete illogical nature of what is transpiring not only to be frightening but so completely unbelievable that it makes me feel for those struggling with certain mental illnesses in a whole new way: to be so very out of touch with reality, not perceived feeling-based reality but actual reality, is an incredibly vulnerable state but being under the control of those who can not separate fact from feeling (and arrogant false assumption),is truly terrifying, especially for parents of young children.