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I'm amazed at how many of the physician readers here are opthamologists. Something about your specialty seems to make people better at seeing what's going on ;)

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I think alot of us tend to be loners who dont play well in groups. There arent that many of us as a percentage of all the docs out there and we tend to practice alone or in small groups.

Your post today was excellent.

I’ve been trying to formulate a letter that I would send as a paper letter to my local hospital CEO and copy all of the board members and medical executive staff and all the other colleagues or persecuted me and ostracized me.

I’ve hesitated because I’m not sure it would really make any difference and every time I try to write said letter I’m filled with such a region, anger and resentment that I feel like my head is going explode.

I want these people to understand why and how they were wrong. I want the ones who knew or suspected the truth yet said nothing to understand what moral failures and cowards they are . I want the ones who were brainwashed and went along with the whole sordid program to feel how gullible and stupid they were despite their “educations”

You mr mid western doc might be able to express this better than many of us certainly better than I can

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I often find if you imply why people should be angry without being angry or telling people they should be angry, that is normally the most effective way to get through to people.

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I dont understand

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Basically letters like that are more persuasive if you don't come across as being really angry.

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Tell her she’s wasting her precious time and energy in that arena.

Pediatricians??

The cognitive biases and years of indoctrination, incentives and social conformity habits are too heavily ingrained.

She’s trying to tell a religious person that their god is bad and non existent

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Yes I agree

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What do you call a medical student that finished last in his/her/shims class??

Doctor

Many can go to school for a PHD!!They are overrated and too common now. Especially in Boulder.

Most doctors are functionaries of society.

Almost like Dr Lexus on IDIOCRACY with their I pads telling them how to proceed.

Brilliance can’t be taught. It’s innate in individuals.Mostly men.

Look at top 100 chess players or fields with high level focus on brilliance. Disproportionately men in Quantum mechanics, physics and materials research types.

These are hard facts for our equality society.

Cowards outnumber the brave by far.

Most of the world are losers. Literally.

Look at the v rates.

Who is proud now ??

The truth is usually ugly

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Remember, if you take the cowardly path you become cowardly. If you take the courageous path you become courageous. We need to push for a society of courage. A society of strength and wisdom wouldn't be bad, either.

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You also need a heart to balance that brilliant mind so that it can be activated with common sense benefits for society. All starts there I believe. Men need to have backbones, women need to have brains. Both of us need the heart to push each other and be our own support.

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All my friends and colleagues are glad I’m on the right side of history

If I

Applied my asymmetrical thinking to the bad dudes

I’d have microarray needle patches in shoe soles, socks, BP monitor cuffs, aerosolizing sprayers and on and on

It’s very easy for a mad genius scientist to use his gifts for good or evil

Scientist do their best work unfettered by financial concerns or other controlling masters

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yikes

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Not in healthcare, worked for a university in IT, but I have similar trouble trying to write a reply to the lone coworker who reached out after I failed to meet the jab mandate... My anger has reduced over time, but so has the urgency to reply. I'm not sure what, if anything, is worth saying anymore.

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We need a Nuremberg 2. but sadly, the bad guys still still seem to be in charge. I wondered when iif ever justice will be done.

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"rimshot meme"

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