It is always moving to UD, a writer and literature professor, when historically silenced groups finally find a way to express themselves.
And so it is with America’s doctors, long muted behind ghostwriters in their scientific articles, and corporate scriptwriters in their public presentations. Suddenly this group has discovered its collective voice, its specific forms of speech, and the results are riveting.
At the University of Wisconsin, for instance, a professor of rheumatology, protesting a recent university ban on medical faculty giving promotional talks for drug companies, writes an email to his fellow medical school professors:
We must ACT NOW unless we want (the) administration telling us how to get our education, how we supplement our income and what our ‘ethics’ should be.
ACT UP! Our ‘ethics’ are under assault!
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This particular doctor is interesting. He thinks performing surgery on people with chronic fatigue syndrone — itself a controversial diagnosis — is a great idea.
He’s particularly keen on this surgeon, whose license to practice medicine was recently suspended.