In theory, people being more political sounds great. Less dreary conversations about the weather and the ‘footie’, and more watercoolers surrounded by colleagues fizzing with enthusiasm about democracy and its pleasures. [emphasis, links added]
But the actual practice of this presupposes that we will all be open-minded and curious and – unless we are extremely learned about something – that the opinion of all citizens shall be equal.
Above all, it fails to observe that pontificating about something you’re not an expert in – just because you have a more elevated station than the people you’re preaching to – totally negates this democratic dream.
It simply sets the stage for a silly symphony of busybodies.
This came to mind on reading that the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) has this week issued new guidance instructing doctors, as ‘trusted members of the community’, to lecture their poor patients about the dangers of climate change.
This is troubling enough given the average duration of a face-to-face appointment with a GP in England – when you finally get one – is just 10 minutes.
Furthermore, this 11-page document also suggests that doctors should cause even more anxiety to patients by ‘working from home’ and cutting back on tests and prescriptions – in the name of saving the planet, of course.
So basically doctors are being advised by the RCP to do less of the things doctors have historically been required to do while amping up the scolding about an area they have no training in.
It also urges doctors, after scaring their patients with talk of burning rivers and the like, to keep an eye out for the poor creatures showing signs of ‘eco-distress’ – that is, anxiety and depression allegedly caused by climate change.
I would venture that if this condition exists in any great numbers, it’s caused not by climate change itself but by people banging on about climate change, alongside the other anxieties that stem from not being able to get a GP appointment, a medical test, or a prescription.
We’re not quite at the stage of those crazy Canucks.
In 2021, a doctor in British Columbia diagnosed a woman with ‘climate change’ – thought to be a world first – after she reported having breathing problems following a hot summer featuring a slew of forest fires. How many years at medical school did it take to come to this razor-sharp conclusion?
Dr Kyle Merritt opined:
‘She has diabetes. She has some heart failure… She lives in a trailer, no air conditioning. All of her health problems have all been worsened. And she’s really struggling to stay hydrated.’
I’m sure we’ll get to where Canada is eventually, though. When a society is as single-minded about scaring itself as the Kool-Aid-quaffing Canadians have been for some time, there’s no telling what rabbit holes we’ll race each other to the bottom of.
It’s telling that the RCP document showcases such condescending gems from the World Health Organization as ‘don’t debate the science’ and ‘talk about the health benefits of climate action’.
I wonder what health benefits the people inside the ambulances blocked by Just Stop Oil over the past few years have gained from climate change action?
The NHS isn’t just keen to lecture patients about climate change; it’s also chasing the Net Zero dream.
A rather chilling report published earlier this year in the Telegraph revealed that the NHS plans to introduce electric ambulances to reach green targets.
Paramedics have already expressed concern about the dangerous effect this will have on patients, as ambulances spend hours recharging instead of collecting the sick.
Former chancellor Nigel Lawson once famously said that the NHS is the closest thing that the English have to a religion, which makes doctors the priests. When the NHS itself follows the new false gods of everything from climate change to trans rights, the stage is set for the mayhem of unbridled magical thinking.
Like the old priests, doctors are often no better than the rest of us; often, they’re worse. The majority of them may well be driven by the desire to improve the human condition – but the idea that they are somehow holy receptacles of wisdom is absurd.
I’d listen to a doctor’s advice on what to do with, say, a broken leg, because I’m aware that they studied the subjects of sickness and health into their mid-twenties, while I was chasing off to interview gormless pop stars. But take lessons from them on politics or lifestyle? No thanks.
Read rest at Spiked
If the great and the good really thought that CO2 driven warming was a problem a moments thought would reveal that a) there is nothing the UK can do about it and b) there would be a massive outcry and condemnation of China, India, Indonesia, Russia etc who are pouring the stuff into the atmosphere. This is clearly a scam!
Educate yourself and read: Lies My Doctor Told me by Dr. Ken D Berry.
There are many Doctors of Science who have very informed opinions on climate change based on active specialised study and research into atmospheric phenomena, meteorology, the physics of gases, geology, ecology, astronomy (!) etc etc who counsel against the current paranoia and anxiety about the thoroughly normal process of climate change. Medical doctors are swamped enough just keeping up with new material in their own specialties and can hardly become informed on something as patentl;y ridiculous and irrelevant to their profession as this government initiative. Unfortunately we discovered just how vulnerable doctors are to government interference in the doctor patient relationship during the COVID crisis and how vulnerable patients are to fear mongering by their elected so-called representatives. Only the truth will relieve us of this bugaboo, and to start with that requires a change in government and a subsequent program to undo the damage it caused. How likely is that?.
Back in 2020 I survived a blood clot in my right leg by the skin of my teeth. After I was discharged from the hospital I had a follow-up with my doctor and we discussed the Covid jab. Since I had elevated D-dimer levels and was on blood thinners, we both agreed I should NOT take the Covid jab because of blood clot issues with the Covid jab.
In other words, my doctor put his patients first.