Wednesday, July 14, 2021
Mecher's ancestor
Bumped into this while looking for info on Kepler.
An editorial in 'International Record of Medicine', 1922.
Carter Mecher's ancestors at work!
Medical men are rarely politicians, and for this the medical profession should be devoutly thankful. At the the same time so long as doctors are impotent politically they are likely to be shorn of their rights. The ordinary citizen, now that the medical practitioner has been divested of the mystery that enshrouded his calling of yore, is likely to subject the medical profession to an analytical consideration based on ignorance and on a superficial education. The rise of preventive medicine, largely in Great Britain under governmental control, has tended to imperil the independence of the doctor, and to place him somewhat at the mercy of a bureaucracy whose policy seems to be guided by expediency. The American people understand far better than those of Great Britain the importance of hygiene and are more open to educational propaganda on the subject, despite the fact that the medical profession do not count for much in politics. When the masses have learned thoroughly the lesson that good health is the most valuable asset that a nation or individual can possess, and that doctors can or should be able to show how this invaluable possession can be gained and retained, then they will insist that medical men shall be invested with such political power as shall enable them to carry out plans designed to promote health.Relentless propaganda for wellness and testing led us to insist that doctors should have the power to carry out PLANS. And sure enough they did. Eugenics, torture, mass murder. PLANS. Compare this with the more open and honest pressure exerted by the Public Death Officers in Sweden, as documented by Ibsen in 1900.
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