Assuming this link works, I'm going to say:
Assuming this link works, I'm going to say:
1. Not surprised.
2. Comments - insight that medicine is not a monolith. Lots of objections re: ACA roll-back (and where I got the link to the opposing view), also linked.
I have minor comments, but those are the big ones. It's worth reading both links, as well as the comments on the AMA one. No, really. These are thoughtful, if angry, comments that add insight, and only one was from someone who is very obviously a person who you'd have to work very hard to convince me is anything other than a dogmatic religious bigot. Even then, that one is polite, if revolting.
The comments on the other one are not as polite. Some are, but some are not. One that was reasonable is that there isn't much immediately accessible info on what Clinician Action Network is. It appears to be a relatively new organization, but it is a legitimate point that you'd like to know who or what a group is and their website isn't totally informative. It's interesting then, that it was linked to by someone on the AMA page.
Nevertheless, it's not the only group or place where objections have been raised and this is getting some coverage in the wider press.
https://wire.ama-assn.org/ama-news/why-we-support-dr-price-lead-hhs?utm_source=BulletinHealthCare&utm_medium=email&utm_term=120316&utm_content=physicians&utm_campaign=article_alert-morning_rounds_weekend
https://medium.com/@ClinicianAction/the-ama-does-not-speak-for-us-d697511267d5#.bi0yxzeom
https://wire.ama-assn.org/ama-news/why-we-support-dr-price-lead-hhs?utm_source=BulletinHealthCare&utm_medium=email&utm_term=120316&utm_content=physicians&utm_campaign=article_alert-morning_rounds_weekend
1. Not surprised.
2. Comments - insight that medicine is not a monolith. Lots of objections re: ACA roll-back (and where I got the link to the opposing view), also linked.
I have minor comments, but those are the big ones. It's worth reading both links, as well as the comments on the AMA one. No, really. These are thoughtful, if angry, comments that add insight, and only one was from someone who is very obviously a person who you'd have to work very hard to convince me is anything other than a dogmatic religious bigot. Even then, that one is polite, if revolting.
The comments on the other one are not as polite. Some are, but some are not. One that was reasonable is that there isn't much immediately accessible info on what Clinician Action Network is. It appears to be a relatively new organization, but it is a legitimate point that you'd like to know who or what a group is and their website isn't totally informative. It's interesting then, that it was linked to by someone on the AMA page.
Nevertheless, it's not the only group or place where objections have been raised and this is getting some coverage in the wider press.
https://wire.ama-assn.org/ama-news/why-we-support-dr-price-lead-hhs?utm_source=BulletinHealthCare&utm_medium=email&utm_term=120316&utm_content=physicians&utm_campaign=article_alert-morning_rounds_weekend
https://medium.com/@ClinicianAction/the-ama-does-not-speak-for-us-d697511267d5#.bi0yxzeom
https://wire.ama-assn.org/ama-news/why-we-support-dr-price-lead-hhs?utm_source=BulletinHealthCare&utm_medium=email&utm_term=120316&utm_content=physicians&utm_campaign=article_alert-morning_rounds_weekend
Yeah, it's been very interesting watching old friends of yours and mine from medical activist days line up on opposite sides of this on Facebook.
ReplyDeleteI disappeared down the physician-scientist rabbit hole a long time ago - when being a member of ASBMT, ASPHO, ASH, and for a while, ISSCR was professionally necessary, it's hard to justify AAP and AMA on top of all that. But I still keep an eye out and a ear cocked, and a lot of our old friend still active are on Facebook.
I get the political side of saying you support having a physician in the cabinet. I even get saying it and including the disclaimers about his positions. Maybe a savvy politician uses this sort of thing to try to hint that he should modify his prior positions. Maybe they are doing what everyone else is and running scared of Trump and his cronies and their obvious vindictiveness.
ReplyDeleteI just don't believe any of that works under the Trump aegis and the Ryan doctrine. Not to mention I do not think that just because someone is [insert status here], in this case a physician, that they have any better insight than a well motivated civilian. Frankly, I truly do not think he has the requisite compassion that might matter. And I don't know if you can have compassion and be a politician.