Valentine’s Friday, 2020. A quarter century practising medicine. Half in hospitals, half in general practice. I’d been treating unseasonal, politely-coughing, relatively-well patients for the previous two and a half weeks. Extraordinarily, on Saturday at 4am I was abruptly awoken by uncontrollable, whole body, flailing movements. They continued without relent for 5 hours. I’d hypothesised I was having a
Wow, this is a brilliant piece of work. How have I been so blind and not seen it before yesterday when you posted on Notes?
I’ve read your other works but missed this one for some reason. Oh, how I wish I’d seen it earlier. Reading it at the time would have helped to balance my wholly savage and negative view of those in the medical establishment when common sense left the building in Spring 2020. I kept railing at myself - and others - ‘they should know better’, ‘what are they doing?’, and ‘why?’. Why?
As far as I’m concerned, the NHS was / is thoroughly complicit with the ‘Big Lie’, with too much emphasis on covid at the expense of diagnostic, therapeutic and rehabilitative health measures. The alleged national treasure - the NHS - failed the patients and the public. Begs the question why, doesn’t it? Never mind about ‘protecting’ the NHS, who or what is protecting the public from the NHS?
Good souls like yourself, Dr. TCP, who have, retain and display personal and professional integrity and help to restore faith that all is not lost in the medical fraternity.
I've read this before but it was good to revisit to see just how prescient TCP was at the time.
Wow, this is a brilliant piece of work. How have I been so blind and not seen it before yesterday when you posted on Notes?
I’ve read your other works but missed this one for some reason. Oh, how I wish I’d seen it earlier. Reading it at the time would have helped to balance my wholly savage and negative view of those in the medical establishment when common sense left the building in Spring 2020. I kept railing at myself - and others - ‘they should know better’, ‘what are they doing?’, and ‘why?’. Why?
As far as I’m concerned, the NHS was / is thoroughly complicit with the ‘Big Lie’, with too much emphasis on covid at the expense of diagnostic, therapeutic and rehabilitative health measures. The alleged national treasure - the NHS - failed the patients and the public. Begs the question why, doesn’t it? Never mind about ‘protecting’ the NHS, who or what is protecting the public from the NHS?
Good souls like yourself, Dr. TCP, who have, retain and display personal and professional integrity and help to restore faith that all is not lost in the medical fraternity.
Thank you.
Oh dear, the causative agent of AIDS was announced inn 1983 by a press secretary at a press conference, it was in no way a normal and good example of science, in fact the very opposite https://georgiedonny.substack.com/p/the-importance-of-intellectual-freedom
Jo