…even my life.
Imagine being willing to die for the freedom to catch a virus and potentially die, but also to potentially spread it to others who might then die.
Once again, “give me liberty AND give me death!”
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An unvaccinated anaesthesiologist, eh? It sounds like he got a decent INT; but used WIS as his dump stat.
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seems like the Hippocratic Oath would be a thing that applies here, too, but i guess not for this guy:
“I will apply, for the benefit of the sick, all measures which are required, avoiding those twin traps of overtreatment and therapeutic nihilism.”
“I will not be ashamed to say “I know not,” nor will I fail to call in my colleagues when the skills of another are needed for a patient’s recovery.”
“I will remember that I remain a member of society, with special obligations to all my fellow human beings, those sound of mind and body as well as the infirm.”
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Fixed
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He has ‘the freedom’ to be unemployed; works for me.
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Now he’s put his foot in his mouth who should he go see?
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My ex was a nurse in the ED of our local hospital and lost her job because she refused to work without a mask. They locked up the supply so nurses could not access them, so she brought some from home. She was given the choice to stop masking or leave. Xhd is immunocompromised. She left. This was back at the beginning of this, but lots of us could read the writing on the wall, even then.
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I have mixed feelings about he ending up with Covid then having to take up an ICU bed because of his stupidity. (Interesting situation if the bed ends up in is one in the UCLA MC.)
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I hope she’s taken a new gig making serious bank as a traveling nurse, or something like that now. Enough to drive up to her ED’s doors in a new Mercedes, wave at her friends, then flip off her old boss.
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I suppose it doesn’t matter, but… did she say what management’s “thinking” was? Trying to save money? Trying not to scare people? No reason given, do it or else?
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Sucker.
You want to work in a hospital, in operating rooms, where you put a tube directly into their airways while people are being cut into and not be vaccinated?
Good luck opening a practice….outside of a hospital or outpatient surgery clinic? He’s got to be the stupidest man who made it through med school.
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Sue then into penury.
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Related to all this nonsense, I found it strangely therapeutic to go through my twitter feed, find a couple of sensible comments by actual doctors and immunologists responding to some utterly moronic reply, then looked through that doctor’s timeline. Every time I found an idiot replying to them with some “Nuh-uh, the vaccine twisted my cousin-in-law’s ballsack”, “ivermectin, man, do your own research”, or similar despicable fuckwitted droolings, I’d block them. Didn’t care who they were, I just clicked around and spent about 10-15 pleasant minutes blocking morons. If their post actually made a false claim, I’d report it first, then block them.
I know I didn’t accomplish anything useful, but it felt good. And maybe my timeline might be 0.001% improved as a result.
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The next one will probably stand on his right to never wash his hands, because freedum!
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Trying not to scare people. But stupid, regardless.
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If he were a martyr, he’d be dead and incapable of further infecting people.
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Did you get a sense of whether this was a “hospitals are run like businesses now, and these business people have the wrong incentives” problem, or more of a genuine “These people are our responsibility and are scared, we have to show confidence to calm them” problem?
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Is Barnum and Bailey still hiring?
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This gif makes me so sad. Stupid Bezos garbage machine cancelling The Tick
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Among professional number crunchers, doctors are notorious as “smart people who don’t get stats”. Probably no more than an average person, but how much they have to learn to become doctors intensifies the contrast about how much they sometimes don’t understand about how large data sets work. Put another way: most of them are trained to deal with the patient directly in front of them, not whole crowds or cities or countries. And for many of them, the intensity of their training can lead to a blind spot about the limits of their knowledge (as an engineer, I’m deeply familiar with that blind spot - it’s an old friend of my profession).
Epidemiologists, on the other hand, are solid on the whole “relative risks” thing. I trust what they say about vaccines and risk.
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