Conscience Protections For Healthcare Professionals: Reality Bites

A few days ago, I channeled me some Joe Guarino.

Joe graciously linked the post on his blog.

A conversation ensued. It's my contention (based on sad experience - nightie, night Roch) that the way things are going, doctors might as well tattoo 666 on their foreheads and be done with it.

A very nice young man, from "The Protection of Conscience Project" appeared to tell me not to give up hope. Many young people in medicine believe that right and wrong and individual conscience still matter in medicine. "All is not lost", he said.

My response:

Sean, eleven years after what happened to me in Asheboro (because I followed my conscience), the sad fact is that the SAME damned thing could happen to one of those fine young medical professionals tomorrow . . . and they would be in the same boat I found myself in . . . alone and abandoned by the very regulatory bodies that are supposed to be their safety and haven.

NOTHING HAS BEEN DONE. NOTHING.

Take it from me, Sean. All is pretty much lost. The reality is that medicine has already leveled off at about the eighth circle of Hell.

I had to face that reality young . . . during the Clinton (whose 1993 inauguration I am currently watching re-run on C-Span) & Hunt administrations.

I'm not holding out a lot of hope that life will be any better under Saint Obama . . . who is married to a hospital administrator.

Alas, according to the politicians and MSM, we doctors do not fit the current lefty qualifications for victimhood. Our problems are not relevant or worthy of championing.

Reality Bites.