What is the purpose of all this? WHAT in the name of all that is holy is this cardiac patient's physician supposed to DO about bankers, real estate developers, or labor unions? When did the purpose of medicine shift away from *helping the patient* to....whatever this is?!?
The purpose of this is virtue signaling, the wish to look "holier than thou". This appears in many institutions such as academia and the MSM. Prof. Graboyes is pointing out its baleful appearance in medicine.
As I read ‘Bastiat’ this morning I thought to myself this Graboyes fellow--as learned and clever as I’ve come to appreciate he is--has gone too far to make his point. No one in their right mind will believe his spoof of the medical establishment....
but then I realized, holy🤬
(all my thoughts that followed have been redacted to protect your reader’s sensibilities)
In eighth grade, I learned how to diagram sentences. This article took me right back there and demonstrated the connection between clear thinking and clear writing!
Are you saying the medical students are being fed this stuff from the front of a classroom?!
If the AAMC is involved, there are questions on the National Medical Board Exams (if those are still given) about it.
Yup
This should be required reading for all med school faculty and officers of the AMA and the AAMC
You should let them know. :) Go for it.
What is the purpose of all this? WHAT in the name of all that is holy is this cardiac patient's physician supposed to DO about bankers, real estate developers, or labor unions? When did the purpose of medicine shift away from *helping the patient* to....whatever this is?!?
The purpose of this is virtue signaling, the wish to look "holier than thou". This appears in many institutions such as academia and the MSM. Prof. Graboyes is pointing out its baleful appearance in medicine.
The emphasis has shifted repeatedly. And it never works out well.
As I read ‘Bastiat’ this morning I thought to myself this Graboyes fellow--as learned and clever as I’ve come to appreciate he is--has gone too far to make his point. No one in their right mind will believe his spoof of the medical establishment....
but then I realized, holy🤬
(all my thoughts that followed have been redacted to protect your reader’s sensibilities)
:)
YES! I am fortunate enough to be able to retire from this circus.
And it occurs to me that Paddy Chayefsky was a prophet. We are living out the ending of "The Hospital."
Ah, but you retire from the circus as a performer and remain in the circus as one of the dancing bears.
Oof. Yeah, thanks.
In eighth grade, I learned how to diagram sentences. This article took me right back there and demonstrated the connection between clear thinking and clear writing!
I was one of the rare kids who really enjoyed diagramming sentences. :)