Since when did Doctors get so much authority?

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When I was a kid my pediatrician was the best in the business.  That man could just look at me and know what my illness was.  I think he looked down my throat and checked my ears just to ease my mom’s anxiety.  He would prescribe some medication…make a recommendation to my mom about what steps to take next…then send me packing with a lollipop.

In a couple days I was a healthy kid.  I think the lollipop had more to do with my recovery than the medication…but that’s just my opinion.

Back then…some 40 years ago…doctors weren’t about instilling paranoia and fear into people.  If they did, they were considered bad doctors and word got around pretty quickly and they didn’t have patients to treat.  No one would go to them.  But today, it’s like the cattle in the herd desire to have doctors give them bad news so they have something to worry and fret over.  It’s really pathetic.

It’s also pathetic that a few of the cattle who decided to attend medical school get to call themselves “doctors”.  Most of them don’t have a bed-side manner so they leave private practice only to get careers in government offices where they are referred to as “chief” and/or “expert” health officials.

They work in large, cushy offices.  They get paid a very handsome salary.  Their benefits are through the roof.  They don’t actually see patients.  They don’t have any field experience, and what’s worst of all is that they get to advise the general public without ever being held accountable for their stupid recommendations.  No one ever challenges them, and 99% of the herd will follow every word they speak because after all…they are “experts” in their fields.

Ironically, those “experts” don’t normally last more than 5 years in their respective positions before moving on to take another cushy, high-paying office job with a different company or government agency.  Normally it’s in hospital administration or taking a CEO job with a major insurance company.

Having said that, I’m brought back to the question proposed in the title of this blog:  “Since when did doctors get so much authority?” 

It’s astonishing how the doctors today have way more power than they did 40 years ago.  Back in the 1980’s if someone in the healthcare field mandated that the majority of the general population stay home because they might spread a disease to the masses, they would have been scoffed at and people would have ignored their mandate and continued living their lives.  Had a pandemic happened back then, people might have been concerned, but there’s no way on God’s green earth people would have stayed home.

But today…today is different.  We’re worried and afraid of everything, especially dying and death and that’s what’s caused so much panic among the herd.  That fear of death has caused a lot of pathetic and unnecessary anxiety.  It’s also caused a lot of confusion about who we should listen to or what information we should trust.

• One person in the medical field says we should wear a mask.  Another person says not to wear a mask.
• Another person in the medical field says we should all stay home and social distance, yet someone else in the medical field says we shouldn’t social distance but let the disease take its course.
• One “expert” says athletes shouldn’t participate in sports.  While another medical “expert” says athletes should participate in sports.
• Another “expert” says that the virus doesn’t live in warmer climates, but then a different “expert” says that it lives in all climates.

So, who’s right?

Who do we listen to when the majority of the medical/science community doesn’t hold the same consensus?  It almost feels like the “experts” are making recommendations based on what they read from WebMD.com.  Furthermore, since they can’t hold the same consensus, why do we give these people in the medical/science community so much authority?

Is it because of the fears they instill by warning us that we or someone we love could die?  If that’s the reason, it’s a pathetic reason because we could die from a lot of things.

We could die from choking on food, does that mean we should stop eating?  Does that mean we stop feeding our children?

We could die from a car accident, does that mean we should all stop driving cars?  Does it mean auto manufacturers should stop producing vehicles?

Of course, these are only two examples and there are millions of other ways any one of us could die, but we don’t spend a lot of time worrying about these things.  Therefore, using the threat or warning that COVID-19 can kill us is just instilling unnecessary fears in the weak and feeble minded members of the herd.  Quite unfortunately, there are A LOT of cattle in the herd who are weak and feeble-minded.

So, should the medical community really have as much power and authority as we’ve given them to decide or recommend that an entire economy should be shut down or how we can socialize?

In my opinion… No.  Especially when the majority of those in the medical/science field aren’t on the same page.  It’s pathetic that we’ve given the medical “experts” of today so much authority to make mandates on how we live.  It’s even more pathetic how easily the cattle will blindly follow the advice of these people without question.

Again. . . That’s just my opinion, but going forward I don’t plan on living my life in fear of dying from COVID or any other disease, and neither should you.

Let’s stop giving the medical “experts” so much authority.  They just don’t deserve it, and it’s pathetic to think otherwise.

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