Have you been to a doctor recently? Or seen a nurse? Lucky you if your doctor or nurse graduated long ago!
Americans’ trust in the medical profession has tanked — from 73% confidence in medical leaders in 1966 to a feeble one-third in 2022, with only one in five people feeling confident about the health-care system.
Anthony Fauci certainly contributed, equating himself to science while contorting it, covering up and mismanaging during the COVID pandemic, but set him aside.
Two recent stories show why Americans increasingly distrust the profession.
The smaller repugnant story: A Virginia nurse (now fired) urged medical providers to sicken ICE agents with laxatives, paralytics or poison ivy.
Whatever happened to “First, do no harm,” medicine’s most basic commandment?
Continue reading the entire piece here at the New York Post
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Wai Wah Chin is the founding president of the Chinese American Citizens Alliance of Greater New York.
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