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About those white medical coats in the Capitol
Idaho Freedom Foundation ^ | March 27, 2019 | Dr. John M. Livingston

Posted on 03/30/2019 7:13:37 AM PDT by Twotone

I have noticed over the past 12 years that a very small number of physicians have posed, in their white coats, with politicians. There are more than 3,000 physicians practicing in Idaho today and when a small group — five or so — pose in the Capitol building in their white coats the general public may believe that this small group speaks for the medical profession as a whole.

Nothing could be further from the truth.

The majority of the 3.000 Idaho physicians are working so hard seeing patients that they don’t have time to take off from their practices to testify or demonstrate at the Capitol. Physicians, by nature, are not politically active. Most believe that the duty to patients is a responsibility to patients — particularly sick patients — and not to a political cause.

In 2009, I was in Washington, D.C., representing the American College of Surgeons on their executive committee when I was asked if I wanted to meet President Barack Obama. I said of course I did, but when I got to the White House, I was told that there was a white coat waiting for me to pose in the Rose Garden with the president. I, along with the majority of my colleagues, walked out of the ceremony prior to its even starting. We refused to allow a symbol of the medical profession to be used for political purposes.

I believe that many of the people posing in their white lab coats don’t understand the history of the coat. They may also not understand that in allowing politicians to lever a symbol of their profession, they are in fact demeaning the values represented by that symbol.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: Idaho
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; abortion; banglist; genderdysphoria; globalwarminghoax; greennewdeal; history; homosexualagenda; infanticide; medicareforall; nra; obamacare; secondamendment; whitecoats

1 posted on 03/30/2019 7:13:37 AM PDT by Twotone
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To: Twotone

Recall the faux doctors in their white coats in the white house cheering on the cramming of obamacare down the nation’s throat.


2 posted on 03/30/2019 7:18:52 AM PDT by lurk
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To: Twotone
… I was asked if I wanted to meet President Barack Obama. I said of course I did, … We refused to allow a symbol of the medical profession to be used for political purposes

Hypocrite! Why the hell did he think Obama wanted to meet with his group when he accepted the invitation.

3 posted on 03/30/2019 7:20:33 AM PDT by libertylover (Democrats hated Lincoln too.)
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To: Twotone

I thought the article was going to claim that wearing a white lab coat was a symbol of white supremacy and must be banned.


4 posted on 03/30/2019 7:22:48 AM PDT by libertylover (Democrats hated Lincoln too.)
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To: Twotone

Don’t worry friend, I give medical coats no more credit than I do diplomas hung on an office wall.


5 posted on 03/30/2019 7:30:27 AM PDT by CharleysPride (Peace, Freedom and Prosperity. Thank you, President Trump.)
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To: Twotone

There once was a smarmy (leftist) local politician here in NY, who featured a TV ad of himself with a group of “professionals” with white lab coats.

It turned out those people were simply his friends and staff - wearing white lab coats.

Of course, the local TV and failing fish wrap newspaper never called him on it.


6 posted on 03/30/2019 7:50:04 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: Twotone

A sea of health-care-reform-supporting doctors was assembled to be photographed listening to Obama tell them what a sea of health-care-reform-supporting doctors they are, and they were supposed to all be wearing white lab coats — so they’d look like a sea of health-care-reform-supporting doctors.

But some of them — despite getting the memo to wear their lab coats — came dressed, well, appropriately. They wore business suits/dresses for their audience with a President. Oh, no!

White House staff had to scramble to get a bunch of lab coats, and the photo-op of the staffers passing out lab coats to the doctors was much more amusing than the a sea of health-care-reform-supporting doctors the White House wanted.

https://althouse.blogspot.com/2009/10/obamas-photo-op-with-doctors-gets.html?m=1


7 posted on 03/30/2019 7:54:15 AM PDT by Libloather (Global warming is AWESOME!)
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To: lurk

I do recall that as a silly stunt - they weren’t there to meet patients, were they afraid of getting bodily fluids or policy on their clothes?


8 posted on 03/30/2019 7:54:47 AM PDT by posterchild
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To: Libloather

It’s the new Socialist system. Buy a white coat and get a free doctors degree.

Some colleges give out free economist degrees so why not a free MD license?


9 posted on 03/30/2019 7:56:24 AM PDT by oldasrocks (Heavily Medicated for your Protection.)
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To: oldasrocks

The men in white coats are coming for severaal members of both houses of Congress.


10 posted on 03/30/2019 8:14:09 AM PDT by Rapscallion (Shun them until they say they are sorry.)
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To: Rapscallion

White Coats? Should be prison guard uniforms.


11 posted on 03/30/2019 8:31:47 AM PDT by oldasrocks (Heavily Medicated for your Protection.)
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To: libertylover

Ha! I thought this article would be about the many physicians who needed to be kept on call on behalf of our aging, dementia-imperiled Congress. There was an anonymous item a couple of years ago written by a D.C. pharmacist familiar with the many prescriptions required by our esteemed representatives. He (or she) said the American people would be shocked at their many very serious ailments and the strong meds required to keep them upright. Anti-dementia and Parkinson’s meds were especially common.


12 posted on 03/30/2019 8:38:11 AM PDT by Blurb2350
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To: Twotone

You tell ‘em, Doc!


13 posted on 03/30/2019 9:36:07 AM PDT by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: Blurb2350

Congress is a modern medical miracle!


14 posted on 03/30/2019 10:00:14 AM PDT by cgbg (Democracy dies in darkness when Bezos bans books.)
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