Doctors were afraid to violate the guidelines. If they had used their “best judgement” survival rates would have been much higher but their still would have been deaths. In those deaths predatory lawyers would have exploited the tragedy and those doctors would have lost their licenses. A doctor has a much stronger defense in court if he\she can show he\she followed the “official guidelines”. It doesn’t matter that they turned out to be wrong.
Yes, this has been a nightmare from day one. I experienced in horror the fear and continuous refusal of “top” doctors for two years - right up until recently - to issue a prescription for ivermectin or for hydroxychloroquin, even when logic said that was the thing to do. U.S. doctors have been turned into paraprofessionals, and paranoid ones, to boot. California has in fact made it official that the state will boot them, if they don’t repeat the government mantra du jour.
“Doctors were afraid to violate the guidelines. If they had used their “best judgement” survival rates would have been much higher but their still would have been deaths. In those deaths predatory lawyers would have exploited the tragedy and those doctors would have lost their licenses. A doctor has a much stronger defense in court if he\she can show he\she followed the “official guidelines”. It doesn’t matter that they turned out to be wrong.”
Yes, indeed. They were rendered afraid to violate the guidelines...and STILL ARE.
Yes, my GP told me to get the shots at the earliest possible appointment available, when I asked him whether he thought that taking the Pfizer shots was something I should do - I had big doubts. He replied, “Get the shots at the earliest opening available.” I will likely never know whether his announcing with energy his retirement from the practice of medicine eight months later was an accelerating choice.