I have already stated it in so many words. It is incumbent upon you to resist your profession’s own death by a thousand cuts.
What is merely voluntary or ‘best practice’ now will become compulsory with draconian punishments for the slightest infraction lest the political types have their statistics skewed by reality. You will become IRS agents in scrubs and stethoscopes, more concerned with patient compliance with tax law than with healing. This is why I included the Trotsky pseudoquote. Passivity and the Hippocratic Oath will do nothing to prevent your conscription into the People’s Army Of Socialized Medicine.
You say you can’t or won’t go on strike yet that very thing is occurring in the United Kingdom, home of the NHS, as I write this. Doctors (junior doctors, to be precise) are striking. I fully understand your stance but the strike, beyond hindering patient care, is another example of what will happen under government control. Medicine will become another public sector union, relying on militancy and threats.
Politicians rely on incrementalism to sap resolve. It’s easy to armchair quarterback, I admit, but resistance to the bureaucratic beast must be subtle but firm, widespread but quiet, polite but unyielding. Placards, signs, and marches for the benefit of the media and to impress the simple-minded are the tools of the left; they are propaganda, nothing more. If the truck’s gearbox is hindered or missing altogether then it cannot move. Question, challenge, and refuse when necessary. To paraphrase Caprain Kirk, find a reason and make it stick.
I don’t care what they’re doing in Europe if they’re going on strike they shouldn’t be Dr’s or nurses. You cannot leave pts high and dry. Sorry but there are just some professions where you can’t do that, Firemen would be another example.
Now off shift, of course do what you can do, and I have. Quoting a tv character isn’t helping your rant sound any more intelligent.