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I see this in the medical groups I’m in online. Only THE SPECIALISTS opinions are heard from, are valid, any refuseniks are mere morons.

I’m reminded of the old definition of “specialist” as “somebody who knows more and more about less and less until he knows everything there is to know about nothing.”

Or, as Heinlein said, “specialization is for insects.”

My bona fides: graduated med school in 1991. Army flight surgeon/family medicine, finally board-certified in 1999. Passed boards 3 times total.

Undergrad: Cum Laude grad (GPA 3.927), dual major (animal physiology and german literature), phi beta kappa, regent’s scholar (UCSD), research grant in cardiology one summer from Am. Heart Association, so you might think I was pretty smart.

I graduated dead middle of my class in med school.

I marveled at the observation then, as now, that one doesn’t need to be SMART, of high IQ, only knowledgeable and persistent.

I have an endless fascination for how many truly STUPID, incapable of simple reasoning, unable to think for themselves doctors are practicing medicine on an unsuspecting public.

The most egregious of these are the specialists who routinely prescribe whateverthehell the big pharma detailer is pushing that week for blood pressure. Never mind it costs the patient $400 a year out of pocket when a cheap, generic medicine from walmart can do the same job for about $12 if he had only thought to try it, as it’s been recommended by the NIH JNC guidelines FOR TWENTY FRICKIN YEARS!

But hey, “the experts say”, especially THE most highly paid civil servant in the country, the Sainted Anthony Faux Xi, so it’s got to be true and, lemming-like, all the little MD, DO, PA, NP hordes happily follow each other off the cliff.

I mean, of course, isn’t the first line of the Hippocratic oath “Do what Anthony says and nobody gets hurt”?

I’m amazed, astounded, disgusted, thoroughly flummoxed that after 30 years’ as a licensed physician, some dipwad poly-sci major “representative” with ZERO initials after his/her/Xe’s last name is making decisions on what I can prescribe either on or off-label in the interests of treating my patients.

I’ve received notice from my state medical board that anyone prescribing hcq, ivermectin will be brought before the board.

Board of lemmings.

Some idiot on doximity just made snarky, scornful, derisive comments about “oh, all the experts must be wrong then.”

I responded “well, Barry Marshall was wrong about H. pylori causing peptic ulcer disease. Until he wasn’t. You need to think for yourself.”

It’s not Info Wars giving advice, it’s non mainstream sources giving us information which is being censored by the mainstream media cabal along with information the CDC and NIH is IGNORING (like the Stanford study on masks not working published just a few months ago).

NEJM ran an article 5 years ago on a study showing the NON-effective use of phenylephrine as a nasal decongestant. Peer reviewed, a group even sued the FDA to take it off the market - a suit the FDA never responded to.

FDA told us around the same time to STOP using fluoroquinolones as first-line treatments - even put a BLACK BOX warning on the stuff - and they’re still prescribed like candy by my colleagues.

FDA is useless. NIH is worse.

Groupthink is the death knell of true progress.