In other professional fields, you can be censured for making statements that are outside your certifications in the field.
For example, to be able to sign off on building plans, that they meet code and safety standards and won't fall over, you either have to be an architect or a licensed professional engineer in civil engineering. An electrical engineer, even a PE, a Chemical Engineer, cannot say "I am an engineer, and these plans meet code".
Okay, let's talk about doctors. So unless they have changed the law recently, legally (hospitals may be another matter) you can perform heart surgery even though you are a GP, or more likely, do plastic surgery. Legally you don't have to be board certified, you don't have to have training, you are a licensed physician that is that. Yes, you might have trouble finding a hospital willing to let you use its facilities and obviously you would have to be an idiot to use a doctor who isn't certified in the field or even a surgeon; and of course you could sue for malpractice.
Still, it is kind of ridiculous that that is even legal, but that is due to the medical profession not wanting to 'cramp what a doctor can do'.
Okay, so what is worse. Well, how about doctors who speak as authorities when they don't have the credentials? In other professions you can get in trouble if you claim expertise you don't have and speak as a supposed expert, you can lose credentials for doing so, they have all kinds of ethical constraints around it, engineering especially.
So we have a supposed MD testifying in front of the Ohio legislature and claiming that the vaccines make you magnetic, especially in the presence of 5g signals (and openly admitted she saw it on you tube and tik tok). she wasn't talking as a private citizen, she used her credentials to try and make it seem like she was an expert.
Then we have Rand Paul, an opthamologist, saying "I am a doctor, and Covid is no worse than the flu" or "I had covid, if you have had it you don't need to be vaccinated because you have immunity". Those statements called him "Dr. Rand Paul", so he was using his credentials. And the list goes on, Mahmet Oz , who is a cardiovascular surgeon, saying that covid was not a threat then promoted HQC, that idiot Dr. Phil (yes, he is an MD, not PHD, an internist) saying covid was a lie, wouldn't kill people" and the list goes on, Scott Atlas promoting herd immunity and HQC, even though he is a radiologist by training.
Basically, they have no standards. if you are a doctor you can say any outrageous shit, claiming you are an expert, literally do anything, and you won't have any repurcussions.
Next time someone talks about the traditions and the ethics of the medical profession, remind me of this. Sure, anyone can have an opinion, but when someone is titled as a Doctor it means something, I can claim covid isn't real but no one is going to listen to me, very different when you have a title.
For example, to be able to sign off on building plans, that they meet code and safety standards and won't fall over, you either have to be an architect or a licensed professional engineer in civil engineering. An electrical engineer, even a PE, a Chemical Engineer, cannot say "I am an engineer, and these plans meet code".
Okay, let's talk about doctors. So unless they have changed the law recently, legally (hospitals may be another matter) you can perform heart surgery even though you are a GP, or more likely, do plastic surgery. Legally you don't have to be board certified, you don't have to have training, you are a licensed physician that is that. Yes, you might have trouble finding a hospital willing to let you use its facilities and obviously you would have to be an idiot to use a doctor who isn't certified in the field or even a surgeon; and of course you could sue for malpractice.
Still, it is kind of ridiculous that that is even legal, but that is due to the medical profession not wanting to 'cramp what a doctor can do'.
Okay, so what is worse. Well, how about doctors who speak as authorities when they don't have the credentials? In other professions you can get in trouble if you claim expertise you don't have and speak as a supposed expert, you can lose credentials for doing so, they have all kinds of ethical constraints around it, engineering especially.
So we have a supposed MD testifying in front of the Ohio legislature and claiming that the vaccines make you magnetic, especially in the presence of 5g signals (and openly admitted she saw it on you tube and tik tok). she wasn't talking as a private citizen, she used her credentials to try and make it seem like she was an expert.
Then we have Rand Paul, an opthamologist, saying "I am a doctor, and Covid is no worse than the flu" or "I had covid, if you have had it you don't need to be vaccinated because you have immunity". Those statements called him "Dr. Rand Paul", so he was using his credentials. And the list goes on, Mahmet Oz , who is a cardiovascular surgeon, saying that covid was not a threat then promoted HQC, that idiot Dr. Phil (yes, he is an MD, not PHD, an internist) saying covid was a lie, wouldn't kill people" and the list goes on, Scott Atlas promoting herd immunity and HQC, even though he is a radiologist by training.
Basically, they have no standards. if you are a doctor you can say any outrageous shit, claiming you are an expert, literally do anything, and you won't have any repurcussions.
Next time someone talks about the traditions and the ethics of the medical profession, remind me of this. Sure, anyone can have an opinion, but when someone is titled as a Doctor it means something, I can claim covid isn't real but no one is going to listen to me, very different when you have a title.
