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DarkRoast posted...

Edit: Before anyone points it out, no, I'm not comparing Dark to the man in the photo. I was simply using it as a means to discredit his statement that because he is a doctor, he is the morally righteous one by default.

1. Comparing physicians to Nazis and vaccines to "medical experimentation" is one of the oldest and most awful propaganda tactics used by anti-vaxxers.
2. The reason I pointed out that I'm a hospitalist is because THIS IS LITERALLY MY AREA OF EXPERTISE. It's what I do everyday. Having direct, firsthand, professional knowledge of the subject matters.

Then you completely missed my point. I wasn't using it as a method to discredit your medical knowledge or expertise. We aren't debating that. You obviously know more about medicine than me.

But you did try to use your position of medical authority to set the bar for what is, and isn't moral. Even if I lack medical knowledge, I can see when something isn't right. The fact that you won't extend the grace to see that maybe what's happening in this case isn't great for anyone involved, and that the hospital IS morally right, says a lot. And frankly, it's upsetting. Because if what you've said is true, than you clearly are intelligent. And it hurts to see if mixed with such unflinching callousness.

I have to go to work as well in the morning. This topic has already kept me up later than I want. I'd like to turn down the hostility and discuss this further tomorrow. May I DM you tomorrow when I'm out of work?

Goodnight.

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