2024-10-16 08:03:00
Reporting the adverse effect of a drug to the pharmacovigilance center is certainly a sneaky move against the pharmaceutical industry. In the same way that accusing a member of the Le Pen clan of racist remarks, fictitious jobs or embezzlement can only amount to low political maneuvering. Asking for reimbursement for a useless medication is pharmacophobia, just as evicting a Muslim who has not paid his rent is Islamophobia. Daring to say that a drug is dangerous is anti-big-pharma radicalism, just as condemning Israel for its strikes on Lebanon is anti-Semitism.
Refusing cannabis to a woman to treat nausea during the first trimester of pregnancy is tyrannical and strongly advising her to breastfeed is macho. Telling a woman to undress for a clinical examination is outdated clinical conformity and offering her a vaginal smear is tantamount to sexual harassment. Asking a woman to remove her veil is obtuse secularism, just as telling her that her CV is not suitable for the position sought is sexism.
Being interested in dermatology on black skin is as racist as taking a black drug dealer into custody. Being passionate about population genetics is fascism. To ignore it is contempt for minorities.
A practitioner who questions the effectiveness of medical screenings is an obscurantist. When he questions telemedicine, transhumanism and artificial intelligence, he reveals an absurd archaism, and when he promotes it, it is because he has blissfully subservient to GAFAM.
Refusing sex reassignment surgery to a 16-year-old is transphobic, just as having reservations about GPA is homophobic.
Promoting walking is akin to punitive ecology. Minimizing an epidemic risk is reckless, while talking about an environmental disease is catastrophic. Demanding one vaccine is fundamentalism, doubting the effectiveness of another is conspiracy.
Subsidiary question: were the doctors who had the courage to refuse a benzodiazepine to someone who was not sleeping or morphine to someone who suffered from osteoarthritis prophets or barbarians?
Practicing general medicine in a liberal democracy is an opportunity and an honor. This nevertheless exposes us to numerous and unusual criticisms which we must learn to put into perspective.
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