You wrote: "Jay doesn’t go quiet. He is old enough to not give a fuck". I will be 81 in April 2024. I also do not give a "Fuck" about prissy pronouncements from pussyfooting Deans and their various craven underlings. Thanks for posting the info about this truly Embarrassing Episode at Stanford.
VP knows about the threat of university chairperson silencing first hand. You experienced it yourself when a post was construed to be inappropriate and your chair at UCSF threatened to remove you. Some of us wrote to the chair and explained then, way back then, that new approaches toward health issues required open debate and not closed door policy. Look where we are today....
I would add that universities etc as well as our professional organizations are part of a manipulated system. California is one of the most egregious examples. CMA is in bed with the governor, the legislature, the medical board, insurers, pharma and unions. Representing doctors is just not on their list.
The atmosphere of fear continues in academe post-Covid. I have been trying to talk to my students about Covid policies in a science writing class. They do not have the critical thinking skills to do it because debate has been cast as dangerous. It's quite a mess.
Then there was the 3/23 Medscape smugfest Topol/Harrington/Verghese (who I greatly admire) speaking about “rogue faculty” clearly referring to JB. ALL faculty should be rogue. We want innovators in medicine not sheep. Harrington is a dinosaur who fails up in academic administration.
As for the buying medical centers, the small family owned practice where I work is the only one in the area that hadn’t been taken over by a hospital system this century! Every other one got bought out… and shockingly all their policies on masking, vaxxing, etc are identical to the big hospital systems that own them… the directives come from the corporate Borg queen. More on what this means practically for our patients’ daily lives at my substack later today:
WE should NEVER have closed down. This would have been time to experiment in offices with staggered work shifts with some at home virtual and so many other interesting ideas. People are like wind up toys. Unable to unwind and then rewind. NOW we have a real estate crisis which could destroy the economy. The CDC wanted the lock down because of the obesity fraud. They knew that 65% are not even close to healthy because they are OBESE. That's why they are categorizing obesity as a disease so that Ozempic and Mounjaro will be covered by insurance. WHY is everyone afraid to point out the BMI fraud?
History will show the dean will be shown in a very bad light, if not criminal. We all must stand for the truth, not just the doctors and educators. This is a lesson for future confrontations, which will be coming.
VP, thanks for reminding me about what it means to be an American. As Lord Acton said, "Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought". As American physicians, we have a duty to search for truth in unending fashion, and then to stand for it when it's being infringed upon. You have been a major leader in your stance for truth.
Vinay, Even worse than the situation at Stanford, the University of California has 6 academic health centers. I feel certain that there must be a critical mass of faculty members who see things the way you do. These could have joined , and given cover to weak politicians like Gavin Newsom and London Breed, and saved the lives and livelihoods of many Californians and their families. I am disappointed in my alma mater. Scott Robinson, MD UCSF 1973.
You wrote: "Jay doesn’t go quiet. He is old enough to not give a fuck". I will be 81 in April 2024. I also do not give a "Fuck" about prissy pronouncements from pussyfooting Deans and their various craven underlings. Thanks for posting the info about this truly Embarrassing Episode at Stanford.
VP knows about the threat of university chairperson silencing first hand. You experienced it yourself when a post was construed to be inappropriate and your chair at UCSF threatened to remove you. Some of us wrote to the chair and explained then, way back then, that new approaches toward health issues required open debate and not closed door policy. Look where we are today....
I would add that universities etc as well as our professional organizations are part of a manipulated system. California is one of the most egregious examples. CMA is in bed with the governor, the legislature, the medical board, insurers, pharma and unions. Representing doctors is just not on their list.
It is Wachter. Go figure.
and Bibbins-Domingo
The atmosphere of fear continues in academe post-Covid. I have been trying to talk to my students about Covid policies in a science writing class. They do not have the critical thinking skills to do it because debate has been cast as dangerous. It's quite a mess.
Write this quote on the blackboard before every class.
"To learn who rules over you, simply find out who (or what) you are not allowed to criticize."
Thank you!
Then there was the 3/23 Medscape smugfest Topol/Harrington/Verghese (who I greatly admire) speaking about “rogue faculty” clearly referring to JB. ALL faculty should be rogue. We want innovators in medicine not sheep. Harrington is a dinosaur who fails up in academic administration.
“ The primary goals are buying or merging with local medical centers, and public private partnerships.”
To be even more blunt, public private partnerships = multimillion dollar contracts with Big Pharma.
https://thefederalist.com/2023/03/02/big-pharma-is-unopposed-in-its-domination-of-medical-education/
As for the buying medical centers, the small family owned practice where I work is the only one in the area that hadn’t been taken over by a hospital system this century! Every other one got bought out… and shockingly all their policies on masking, vaxxing, etc are identical to the big hospital systems that own them… the directives come from the corporate Borg queen. More on what this means practically for our patients’ daily lives at my substack later today:
Gaty.substack.com
As promised:
https://gaty.substack.com/p/uncuriouser-and-uncuriouser
WE should NEVER have closed down. This would have been time to experiment in offices with staggered work shifts with some at home virtual and so many other interesting ideas. People are like wind up toys. Unable to unwind and then rewind. NOW we have a real estate crisis which could destroy the economy. The CDC wanted the lock down because of the obesity fraud. They knew that 65% are not even close to healthy because they are OBESE. That's why they are categorizing obesity as a disease so that Ozempic and Mounjaro will be covered by insurance. WHY is everyone afraid to point out the BMI fraud?
History will show the dean will be shown in a very bad light, if not criminal. We all must stand for the truth, not just the doctors and educators. This is a lesson for future confrontations, which will be coming.
VP, thanks for reminding me about what it means to be an American. As Lord Acton said, "Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought". As American physicians, we have a duty to search for truth in unending fashion, and then to stand for it when it's being infringed upon. You have been a major leader in your stance for truth.
Vinay, Even worse than the situation at Stanford, the University of California has 6 academic health centers. I feel certain that there must be a critical mass of faculty members who see things the way you do. These could have joined , and given cover to weak politicians like Gavin Newsom and London Breed, and saved the lives and livelihoods of many Californians and their families. I am disappointed in my alma mater. Scott Robinson, MD UCSF 1973.
Truer words...