One of the more troubling developments over the past few years has been the politicization of medicine.

I have written about this several times in the past few months, and it bears repeating as I have seen a few posts on Twitter (now X) in the past few days that made me realize that it bears repeating.

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— StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) October 16, 2023

Of all the people who one might expect to put politics aside, the “caring” professionals should be at the top of the list. Unfortunately, in recent years politics have become so central to people’s identity that it’s like the ethical core of people has been overridden.

Doctors and nurses, as with first responders and military members, put themselves in harm’s way in order to save people from horrible fates, right?

Right?

When John F. Kennedy was shot, nobody questioned the party affiliation of the doctors. The same held true of Lee Harvey Oswald. We just expected doctors to do their job regardless of their own political commitments. Reagan joked after his assassination attempt that he hoped the doctors were Republicans, but it was only a joke.

These days it may actually be a smart question to ask.

I see Hamas supporters on the streets celebrating the deaths of innocent civilians and now she makes me wonder how many in the health care field would not give me proper care for my beliefs and be happy about my death.

— AloeWhale (@AloeWhale) October 16, 2023

Doctors celebrating torture and murder isn’t just a bad look; it is genuinely scary. Nurses celebrating the death of their political opponents is not just an indictment of a single person, but of a system that now celebrates “antiracism” and “decolonization” as key components of public health.

NHS Doctor MOCKS the 260 festival goers massacred by Hamas fighters and mocks those fleeing the gunman.

Dr Mennah Elwan who works for the UK’s National Health Service tweeted:

“if it was your home, you would stay and fight.”

The tweet was in response to footage of Hamas… pic.twitter.com/cqTPrGeFm0

— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) October 9, 2023

I wrote about this phenomenon in August, highlighting an article by Vinay Prasad in which he recounts his own experience with politicized medicine. He attributes the acceleration of this phenomenon to the rise of Trump Derangement Syndrome, but I suspect that the politicization precedes this time by quite a bit. Medical schools, like much of academia, have become hotbeds of Leftism.

My latest Substack revisits something that happened to me in the hospital in 2016

I didn't realize at the time, but it was the start of naked politics among doctorshttps://t.co/KydHP1kjxY pic.twitter.com/JWsqBVJ9yd

— Vinay Prasad MD MPH (@VPrasadMDMPH) July 15, 2023

Doctors, as with all people, have a right to opinions. But those opinions not only should be private, but nobody who actively wishes harm upon others is qualified to come close to treating a single patient–they just don’t have the temperament to be in a profession where universal compassion is a job requirement.

Dr. Shiraz Farooq is a proctologist/colorectal doctor in Tampa, FL

What was his response to the October 7th massacre in Israel that resulted in 1300 murders, 200 kidnapped in Gaza, women raped and babies beheaded?

"About time!!!"

Alert your Jewish friends and family to STAY… pic.twitter.com/XiButqzlXc

— StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) October 15, 2023

Yet here we are. Medical professionals are so sure of the Left-wing politics of their colleagues that they feel free to openly wish for the death of their patients.

Anybody who has lived through the past 3 years has seen up close the politicization of medicine, and regardless of your politics, you should worry that you now should vet your caregiver for their political leanings.

Yet here we are. The same thing happened in communist countries and Nazi Germany, where medicine became an arm of an ideology.