Dance-in-Your Face Totalitarianism
April 30, 2020
TONY S. writes:
In the comments to your recent post, Air Force and Navy Fly “Operation Desperate”, Zeno mentions that “dancing doctors” and the need of doctors and nurses for “applause” as being unprofessional.
As a physician, I can tell you that this is extremely upsetting to witness. Zeno is exactly on the mark; this is over-the-top unprofessional. When I attended medical school 25 years ago at a prestigious Ivy League medical college (meaning left-wing) one of the required seminars for all 1st year students was how one is to conduct oneself professionally. Ostentatious dress, abundant jewelry, the use of slang in speech or discussing one’s lifestyle (this meant one’s socio-economic status, not what the word implies today, i.e. sexual orientation) around patients was strictly off limits. I would guess this seminar has been removed from the curriculum.
My take is that this is another manifestation of the push of moving our culture downward, to the lowest common denominator. Doctors and nurses were always held to a higher standard with regards to behavior. If they are successful in having people give up restraint in how they conduct themselves, even in the workplace, they have achieved another level in the psychological warfare being conducted for the last 50 years to demoralize the descendants of those who built Western civilization.
And I would also predict that this Covid-19 panic-demic will lead to a hard push in the next 1-2 years to unionize all hospital nurses (and maybe even physicians). Read More »