"unremitting bludgeoning and intrusion is what drives despair."
Confiscatory taxation, regulation, inflation, over-reaching legal risk... as a doc so many of my colleagues express frustration. The professional class in this country is a captured and subdued cadre . A lot of us make higher than average incomes and dont want to do any…
"unremitting bludgeoning and intrusion is what drives despair."
Confiscatory taxation, regulation, inflation, over-reaching legal risk... as a doc so many of my colleagues express frustration. The professional class in this country is a captured and subdued cadre . A lot of us make higher than average incomes and dont want to do anything to buck the system. Because of massive government intrusion into the practice of medicine, the administrative burdens and costs have become too much for one or even a small group of doctors to handle. More and more doctors sell out to private equity and large not for profit medical systems. The docs become cogs in a giant crony fascist machine. We swore an oath, many of us are well meaning and well intentioned but now many of us feel trapped in a dysfunctional system; dependent on the state for licensure and income. The cognitive dissonance is disturbing to many. Many choose to simply ignore the perverse incentives and conflicts of interest and keep their heads down, follow the script and do the best they can.
Most of the docs I know in NNJ who are younger and healthy took the covid shot and allowed their minor children to get it as well. If they didnt get the shot they risked losing hospital privileges . Their children would not be able to attend colleges.
Almost everybody caved in to fear and peer pressure and were infected with group think.
and this is the best description I can find of "stakeholder".
You get put into a position where you have to comply or lose everything. The kicker is that everything can be taken from you whenever it suits someone who has power over you, anyways.
That is your "stake" and the situation makes you desperate to keep it. Once we get to that place, any action becomes justifiable as long as it preserves your hold on it.
We decided to move from our state after the local school district started addressing us parents 'stakeholders' in all their emails. It started at the beginning of COVID, when everything trended toward "comply or ....".
"unremitting bludgeoning and intrusion is what drives despair."
Confiscatory taxation, regulation, inflation, over-reaching legal risk... as a doc so many of my colleagues express frustration. The professional class in this country is a captured and subdued cadre . A lot of us make higher than average incomes and dont want to do anything to buck the system. Because of massive government intrusion into the practice of medicine, the administrative burdens and costs have become too much for one or even a small group of doctors to handle. More and more doctors sell out to private equity and large not for profit medical systems. The docs become cogs in a giant crony fascist machine. We swore an oath, many of us are well meaning and well intentioned but now many of us feel trapped in a dysfunctional system; dependent on the state for licensure and income. The cognitive dissonance is disturbing to many. Many choose to simply ignore the perverse incentives and conflicts of interest and keep their heads down, follow the script and do the best they can.
Most of the docs I know in NNJ who are younger and healthy took the covid shot and allowed their minor children to get it as well. If they didnt get the shot they risked losing hospital privileges . Their children would not be able to attend colleges.
Almost everybody caved in to fear and peer pressure and were infected with group think.
and this is the best description I can find of "stakeholder".
You get put into a position where you have to comply or lose everything. The kicker is that everything can be taken from you whenever it suits someone who has power over you, anyways.
That is your "stake" and the situation makes you desperate to keep it. Once we get to that place, any action becomes justifiable as long as it preserves your hold on it.
We decided to move from our state after the local school district started addressing us parents 'stakeholders' in all their emails. It started at the beginning of COVID, when everything trended toward "comply or ....".