At least some lawmakers in California want to dictate what your doctor is allowed to tell you. With proposed legislation, doctors could be disciplined for spreading "misinformation" about Covid, the effectiveness of vaccines and other treatments. What would constitute "misinformation?" Apparently, opinions that veer from the "standard of care," and do not comport with "contemporary scientific consensus."
Before you suggest that medical science has evolved countless times over the decades and centuries, allow me to assure you that openness to new ideas is not a value that is shared by the Left. As a reminder, Leftists run the state of California. And, as noted in the preceding post, only certain speech is favored by Left. Contrary voices are not welcome.
Here is one doctor's letter in the Wall Street Journal: "Medical science is ever changing. Today's contrarian concepts often are tomorrow's standards of care."
Here is another doctor's letter: "Every innovation in medicine goes against existing standards of care. Today's standard becomes substandard as new treatments develop. Medicine progresses when doctors have the freedom to practice their profession without interference from political agendas."
The Left has infected medical schools as well. Writes one doctor in an Op-Ed in the 4/19/22 WSJ: "Medical schools increasingly are preparing physicians for social activism at the expense of medical science. Such student groups as White Coats for Black Lives demand that administrators reframe curriculum around reparations for slavery, decarceration of prisoners, and other topics with no bearing on training doctors to care for individual patients."
Maybe one day soon you can walk into your doctor's office in California, be taken to an examination room, and be told "your state legislator will be in to see you shortly."
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