What Do You Do When Your Medical Provider Wants You Dead?

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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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.

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.

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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.

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.

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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.

 

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