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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Good point!
Thanks for the links.
“Infectious Disease Specialists” like Fauci typically work for the government, so this is to be expected.
“two-thirds of infectious disease specialists are Democrat”
I would like to ask all the New Yorkers who have relatives in nursing homes how they feel about this particular specialty now.
OK who ya gonna believe?
This from a politically motivated deep state operative
or this from ScienceDirect International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0924857920300881#bib0055
and this:
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