When The Job Descriptions For Doctors and Madmen Converge...
Plus: Too Many Catholics, and Matt Walsh as The Least Racist Man in America
Remember how, in The Dirty Dozen, the powers-that-be recruit a gang of criminal psychopaths to do the missions the regular troops won’t do? Great fun as a movie, perhaps not the wisest approach when it comes to caring for the nation’s children…
In the latest issue of the somehow still prestigious medical publishing insane asylum called JAMA, a pair of med school professors lament the nationwide shortage of pediatricians. According to them, a main reason so few medical students are dedicated to caring for children? Those pesky townspeople are making it too darn hard to cut off any healthy teenage breasts! You see, if only it were easier to chemically castrate the prepubescent, the ranks of compassionate pediatricians would swell.
No, I’m not kidding. Read for yourself. Key excerpts:
[M]any state legislatures are enacting laws that limit care allowed by pediatricians and pediatric subspecialists. In some states, limits have been placed on physicians’ ability to provide confidential care to adolescents, reproductive management, or care for transgender patients, as well as education on topics related to diversity, equity, and inclusion. […] We worry that applicants are concerned about the scope of their training and practice being limited, as well as their own safety in these states. […] The nation needs to become a more inclusive place for patients and clinicians from diverse backgrounds and advocate to lift restrictions being placed on medical care, so that physicians can optimally care for patients and families.
If you can’t permanently sterilize a child or two, what is the point of becoming a pediatrician? Watching young children grow up into happy, healthy, thriving adults, who then have adorable children of their own to bring to you? Poppycock! It’s all about the castration. Eliminate that – outlaw the ability of doctors to mutilate young children – and what’s left, handing out lollipops? No thanks. I mean, maybe once in a while you get lucky and are able to slice a bit of foreskin off, but try cutting off something a bit more substantial and all of a sudden the cops are called, sheesh. I’m sorry, I thought this was a free country.
Black humor aside, an alternate theory: maybe there are fewer recruits into pediatrics because all the influential figures in the field, from professors like these to the all-powerful American Academy of Pediatrics, have lost their everloving minds and now make a habit of pushing the sterilization and mutilation of children. Who would want to go into a field run by monsters? At least in dermatology the only things your bosses pressure you to slice off are moles – and only the unhealthy ones.
(I also marvel at the authors’ other argument: that so few doctors want to go into pediatrics because of the dramatic increase in childhood mental health problems “as society emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic.” You mean, the mental health crisis caused by the nation’s leading pediatricians cruelly masking and locking up all the kids for no reason for years, while calling all of us who warned of the impending mental health catastrophe ‘science deniers’? Because of that mental health crisis? Ok, deep breaths, deep breaths…)
I am beyond blessed to work at one of the few remaining practices in the state, if not the country, that hasn’t been captured by soulless mega-corporations. That’s the only reason I’m still able to do what I love. Had I remained in the large, corporate/academic bureaucracy I was trained in, I would never have had a chance to speak out against trans madness, since I would have already been fired for speaking up about Covid…
On a very related note, pay close attention to this other recent JAMA article. The writers are panicked about a very dangerous development: Christian doctors won’t kill babies! This is the kind of fear that keeps JAMA editors up at night. The problem the article highlights is that, in certain towns, the only hospitals around are those built by devout Christians. I mean, listen to this nightmarish statistic: “From 2001 to 2020, the number of Catholic hospitals increased by 28.5%” Can you imagine? But wait, it gets worse: “There are now many counties in which all available hospitals are religious institutions.” And those close-minded jerks who go around building hospitals for the least of these stubbornly refuse to murder patients, castrate children, and do all the other procedures beloved by the prestigious doctors who care so very deeply, so very ethically, about these poor patients but, you know, have better things to do than actually go and live and work among them. Thus we have the grave problem of what the Harvard, Stanford, and NYU authors dub a “religious monopoly” – and they argue that it is high time to take a page from Teddy Roosevelt and bust up those trusts!
You hear a lot these days about the disruptions about to be caused by AI, as many jobs that once required a human touch will be replaced by algorithms. A word of warning to these authoritarian physicians who seek to crush what remains of human conscience in the medical profession: you do realize that, if you succeed, you only guarantee your own professional demise, right? I mean, talk about a physician shortage – there won’t be any left at all! If medicine is to be stripped of God, of the soul - of anything that disagrees with the latest AAP practice guideline - what do we need a human doctor for? After all, guideline is just another word for algorithm. A computer can recommend castration just as breezily as you can – and it doesn’t have to sell its soul to do so, it works for cheap!
A glimpse of the future, if Team JAMA has its way: robot doctors lining MegaCorp’s pockets by performing sterilizations to precise AAP guidelines in the big city academic hospitals, while out in the countryside, small, underground “religious monopolies” linger on, doing their best to heal the sick…
Here’s hoping at least we’ll still have lollipops…
To end on a lighter note, my wife and I had the pleasure of seeing Matt Walsh’s latest documentary, Am I Racist?, this weekend. I couldn’t recommend it any more highly to y’all, though due to some language and, er, a t-shirt, not something I’d advise bringing the kids to. Long time readers will remember my praise for his debut feature, What is a Woman? I still think What is a Woman? is a far more important movie, but Am I Racist? is much funnier – I laughed out loud throughout. The movie follows Walsh on his “antiracism” journey as he becomes a certified DEI expert and “does the work.” You know, the work of doing the work. Along the way, he interviews (and enriches, as they charge outlandish fees) several of the nation’s most prominent antiracist activists, including a must-see encounter with Robin DiAngelo, author of White Fragility. I do not know how Walsh and his co-conspirators keep such straight faces while pranking these ridiculous race hoaxers – except that, as we learn throughout the film, smiling itself is racist, which makes Walsh clearly the least racist man alive.
It is hard to remember now, thanks to the film’s culture-changing success, but at the time What is A Woman? came out, the pro-trans argument was winning the popular narrative. Far too many ‘normal’ people were going along with madness – because they, alas, trusted the American Academy of Pediatrics and similar experts. Walsh saved countless children with that film (and the subsequent laws his activism led to, the same laws lamented by JAMA above). He showed the whole world that the emperor had no clothes.
Am I Racist? follows a different dynamic, as pretty much the whole world already knows the DEI emperor is in his birthday suit. The running theme of the film is that whenever Walsh goes out into the ‘real world’ – talking to normal people, on the street, in churches, in small business, in bars – everyone, black and white, knows that race doesn’t matter, we are all made in God’s image, we all bleed the same color, etc, etc. There’s no danger of a mass outbreak of racism among normal people, as there were trans outbreaks at countless schools at the time Walsh made his first documentary. This means that Walsh doesn’t have to use up screen time arguing for the truth, he just gets to have a great time pranking the wealthy academic elitists who built their lives around inventing racism where there is none (Spencer Klavan aptly points out that it’s really more a film about class than race – you have to believe, or at least pretend to believe, this stuff if you want to belong to the self-perceived ‘elite’).
Hopefully, being thoroughly humiliated in the year’s most successful documentary will put a serious dent in the careers of these DEI hucksters. Consider the film a good companion piece to Meg Basham’s fantastic recent bestseller, Shepherds For Sale, about the Church leaders who sold out their congregations for worldly prestige (and lots of cash). Except that Basham, as great as she is, won’t have you laughing uncontrollably at a dramatic reenactment of the 2am Chicago Jussie Smollett bleach attack.
I don’t want to give the impression that Walsh’s new film is all fun and games. The most powerful scene is a chilling struggle session – something straight out of Maoist China – that takes place in real life, modern day America, right before your eyes. The encounter warns us of the real evil that these ridiculous, self-centered, Godless people can cause as they make their fortunes.
But mostly it’s just hilarious. Do go see it, it’s a lot of fun. Just try your best not to smile in the theater afterwards…
Thank y’all for reading, and have a wonderful rest of your week!
"If you can’t permanently sterilize a child or two, what is the point of becoming a pediatrician? Watching young children grow up into happy, healthy, thriving adults, who then have adorable children of their own to bring to you? Poppycock! It’s all about the castration."
Brutal.
Great essay, sir
Medicine was lost as a profession when the private practice doctors' groups came under the functional control of the hospitals. As the hospital chains merged the industry became an oligopoly; the doctors became relatively weak since they were composed of small groups. Hospital credentialling became a potential cudgel. The large corporate hospitals pushed algorithmic treatment protocols saying it was more efficient and "evidence based" (lol). Doctors had already faced a long struggle to practice as they saw fit since payments were controlled by third party payers, but this was the final straw. Now they're just corporate cuckolds as we saw clearly during the Covid debacle. They even receive bonus payments like any other sales force for meeting certain targets in distributing vaccines.