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Margaret Anna Alice's avatar

I love hearing from Mr. Charrington! Such a pity about his doctor.

I’m reminded of a song I once heard, “Oranges and lemons, say the bells of St. Clement’s, You owe me three farthings, say the bells of St. Martin’s!”

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Perplexity's avatar

It's always so heart-breaking to hear stories of people whose health care providers have abandoned their responsibility to their patients. It was a shock when our family encountered it from several physicians, and I'm so sorry for all who are being mistreated in this way.

However, because medical professionals have invested so much time, effort, and cash into obtaining their education and licensing credentials, I'm not all that surprised to hear how many of them are vulnerable to blackmail by licensing authorities and others in positions of power.

Bureaucratic entities of licensing and regulation which may have started out to protect the public from unscrupulous doctors and others, have now switched places with any (potential) predators. And, being in the position to end the careers and nullify all the efforts of well meaning, highly trained medical practitioners, have rendered many physicians powerless (at least from their perspective) to help those placed in their care.

I'm in the USA, but at least in the state I reside in, the doctors and pharmacists were all warned by our state licensing bureau early on that using drugs such as HCQ off-label for COVID outside of a study, would result in their losing their license to practice.

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