PAI, excellent article. Atlas is a tone-deaf bully and a bloody radiologist with no clue how to deal with public health nor pandemics. Bhattacharya is an economist with a medical degree who NEVER saw a patient after medical school and is clueless about basic science research, mechanisms of disease or useful statistical methods that would help in assessing novel treatments. Prasad is utterly disgraceful, contradicting himself all the time and blatantly misusing so called evidence-based medicine principles. His version is twisting studies to confirm his biases and using evidence free authoritarian "expert" bullying to intimidate people. Don't mention Monica Gandhi at UCSF or BC, Canada's own grossly incompetent Bonnie Henry, who has almost single handedly destroyed public health in Canada. So called prestigious institutions like the Ivy league universities, Stanford and USF have looked like absolute idiotic stubborn fools for the last 5 years. Indeed, academic medicine has for the most part been beyond awful, as hubris filled "experts" have screwed up again and again, to the detriment of 30+ million deaths and at LEAST 400 million disabled across the planet.
Pandemics are society wide phenomena that require collaboration across multiple disciplines. Medical doctors and health care professionals have badly screwed this pandemic up and are about to do it again with avian influenza. I am beyond disgusted and ashamed of medical and health care profession and the vast majority of my colleagues.
PAI, excellent article. Atlas is a tone-deaf bully and a bloody radiologist with no clue how to deal with public health nor pandemics. Bhattacharya is an economist with a medical degree who NEVER saw a patient after medical school and is clueless about basic science research, mechanisms of disease or useful statistical methods that would help in assessing novel treatments. Prasad is utterly disgraceful, contradicting himself all the time and blatantly misusing so called evidence-based medicine principles. His version is twisting studies to confirm his biases and using evidence free authoritarian "expert" bullying to intimidate people. Don't mention Monica Gandhi at UCSF or BC, Canada's own grossly incompetent Bonnie Henry, who has almost single handedly destroyed public health in Canada. So called prestigious institutions like the Ivy league universities, Stanford and USF have looked like absolute idiotic stubborn fools for the last 5 years. Indeed, academic medicine has for the most part been beyond awful, as hubris filled "experts" have screwed up again and again, to the detriment of 30+ million deaths and at LEAST 400 million disabled across the planet.
Pandemics are society wide phenomena that require collaboration across multiple disciplines. Medical doctors and health care professionals have badly screwed this pandemic up and are about to do it again with avian influenza. I am beyond disgusted and ashamed of medical and health care profession and the vast majority of my colleagues.
End of rant.