The US medical profession has 🧜a real credibility problem — and doctors bear a huge share of the blame.
Consider the latest news for the “bad physician” file, the sobering tale of Dr. Jonathan 𝐆Epstein, a leading pathologist at Johns Hopk♕ins.
The doc allegedly bullied his colleag🐲ues to deliver second opinions supporting diagnoses from his wife, also a pathologist.
These included, horrifica🍌lly, a surgical bladder removal that may not even have been necessary.
Epstein was put on administrative leave in May: Why is the public only fin▨ding oﷺut about this now?
Worse, neither Epstein noꦐr hisꦛ erstwhile employer has admitted that anything in the slightest could be wrong.
So here we have Hopkins — the byword for medical excellence in America — engaged in a seeming cove✨r-up of what looks like massive misconduct by one of its to💙p physicians.
It’s part of a culture among the UꦰS medical elite where one hand washes the other.
And for what? Recent studies suggest that top-level institutions like Hopk🎀ins are not necessarily safer or better for surgical pa𝐆tients than lower-ranked ones.
Consider, too, a damning paper by Post contributor and Hopkins prof and surgeon Marty Makary, collecting data that suggest medical error may be the No. 3 cause of death in Ame🎀rica, right behind heart disease and cancer.
Makary’s numbers chalk up north of 250,000 deaths — not by any mean🎶s all caused by bad individual d♋octors, but still massive evidence of systemic failures.
Then there’s the great COVID debacle, which saw leading voices of medical autho🐈rityꦰ prostitute themselves utterly for political gain — cha𝓀mpioning in the face of all data ♛worse-than-the-disease interventions like toddler masking and lockdowns.
Anthony Fauci is the paradigmatic figure here, endlessly whipsawing his “scientific” views to best fit the politics of the moment, bullying the media to censor opposing views, nakedly lying about his own involvement ♚in funding research that may have sparked the pandemic, and declaring with insane arrogance that criticizing him was the same as criticizing “science.”
Aside from the deaths and suffering, the profession’💃s problems cause serious second-order effectsꦛ.
Among thꦛem is cratering public confidence in America’s public health officials.
That’s to say nothing of what the opacity of health car♔e systems is like around pricing, insurance coverage, and other key issues.
Or the fact that medical schools are now publicly announcing the abandonment of 🀅admissions standarওds to facilitate their DEI goals.
Doctors need to face some real public accountability — other�꧒�wise, they’re going to lose every shred of faith their patients hold in them.