Posted on 05/19/2020 7:46:39 PM PDT by DoodleBob
We know that Americans are increasingly sorting themselves by political affiliation into friendships, even into neighborhoods. Something similar seems to be happening with doctors and their various specialties.
New data show that, in certain medical fields, large majorities of physicians tend to share the political leanings of their colleagues, and a study suggests ideology could affect some treatment recommendations. In surgery, anesthesiology and urology, for example, around two-thirds of doctors who have registered a political affiliation are Republicans. In infectious disease medicine, psychiatry and pediatrics, more than two-thirds are Democrats.
The conclusions are drawn from data compiled by researchers at Yale. They joined two large public data sets, one listing every doctor in the United States and another containing the party registration of every voter in 29 states.
Eitan Hersh, an assistant professor of political science, and Dr. Matthew Goldenberg, an assistant professor of psychiatry (guess his party!), shared their data with The Upshot. Using their numbers, we found that more than half of all doctors with party registration identify as Democrats. But the partisanship of physicians is not evenly distributed throughout the fields of medical practice.
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Why is it that Democrats cluster in careers where the main product produced is conjecture while Republicans go to fields where results matter?
OK, that actually makes perfect sense. And it is scary as h3ll when you think about it. ~Easy
That would explain why all the coronavirus models and predictions were so totally f**ked up.
Any field that relies on concrete quantifiable results by someone, is generally filled with more conservative people.
Because there usually far more disciplined training and schooling required, and libs don’t like doing that.
I have spent quite a bit of time in and around ERs and Operating rooms.
I never heard anyone, in the table or around the table, talk politics.
And when you are looking at a surgeon at 9 pm on a Sunday night telling you they are going to “do their best”, you don’t ask their politics.
Aside from FR, I don’t see it that much in the real world.
I believe that, everytime I went for surgery I had a prayer spoken before they put me under. They told me if I wished they would speak it silently but I told them the louder the better.
The smarter ones go to higher-paid specialties, because they can. They also tend to the right, because that is the more intelligent choice.
pussies
55% of current psychiatry residents are women; 32% of general surgery residents are women. Perhaps lifestyle differences among the specialties has something to do with attracting men or women and that is reflected in their political preferences. Interventional radiology, for example, is predominantly a male specialty. Some people just don't like to roll out of bed at 3AM to do a procedure.
I'm an independent. I've not voted for a Democrat since 1972, but since Reagan the best thing that I can say about the Republican presidential candidates is that they weren't as bad as the Democrat candidates. (Except for Trump, who has vastly exceeded my expectations.) The only thing that could embarrass me more than registering as a Republican would be registering as a Democrat.
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Interesting.
Hold on here now...you voted for McGovern? I think a lot of diehard Democrats back then didn’t vote for McGovern...
Anesthesiologist and urology surgeons are amongst the smartest Med School grads, and those two make the most money.
It depends more on where you went to school than specialty. The most doctor I know at our hospital is a surgeon.
The internists most conservative.
VERY well said!
Probably focused on AIDS.
And when you are looking at a surgeon at 9 pm on a Sunday night...
God help you
In the hospitals I’ve worked in most of the RN’s tend to be liberals. They think that everyone should have the ‘’right’’ to health care and it should be free. They’re mostly young, between 23 and 44. A good number of the older one’s tend to be more conservative and just as many don’t care one way or another.
Most psychiatrists/psychologists’ patients are “Democrats or liberals”. I’ve never seen such crazy behavior and statements from the Liberals/Left/Dems as I have now.
I mean, Wu Han Bats are less “batty” than the US Left, and that’s no “Guano”, amigo.
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