Surgeon: Medicine Is Lost in the Wilderness - Intellectual Takeout

I once was proud of my profession. - Ross Gonnering

There were warning signals, to be sure...

The policy of medicine gradually became the politics of medicine. 

And as is often the case, where there is politics there is also corruption...

• I saw how money, power and flattery could cause physicians to shade their recommendations... 

We reached a point where, relating to COVID, attempts to treat disease were not just ignored but penalized...

However, in COVID, Informed Consent was criminalized…but only for that disease. 

• Those who still felt an obligation to their patients were, and continue to be, vilified, slandered, fired from their position, and in some cases, prosecuted.

If a physician from even 10 years ago would look at the contents of most of our medical journals today, I am sure he or she would think they were reading fiction. 

These are the four articles that make up the Viewpoint section of the September 19, 2023 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.

• Affirmative Action Ruled Unconstitutional: Options for Building a Diverse Health Care Workforce
• Eli Y. Adashi, MD, MS; Philip A. Gruppuso, MD; I. Glenn Cohen, JDThe Supreme Court’s Rulings on Race Neutrality Threaten Progress in Medicine and Health
• Harald Schmidt, PhD; Lawrence O. Gostin, JD; Michelle A. Williams, ScDThe Supreme Court Decision on Affirmative Action—Fewer Black Physicians and More Health Disparities for Minoritized Groups
• Valerie Montgomery Rice, MD; Martha L. Elks, MD, PhD; Mark Howse, PhDHolistic Admissions at UC Davis—Journey Toward Equity
• Mark C. Henderson, MD; Tonya L. Fancher, MD; Susan Murin, MD