2020 and the pandemic: A year of (some) physicians behaving badly
Looking back on 2020, if there’s one thing that the COVID-19 pandemic has taught us, it’s that crises reveal character. Unfortunately, the character of too many physicians has been found wanting, as they spent 2020 denying the pandemic, peddling quack cures, or spreading misinformation in the service of defying public health interventions. What can be done?
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As I sat down yesterday to write this post, it suddenly occurred to me: This will be my last post of 2020. Out of curiosity, I scrolled back to the very first post I published in 2020 and noticed that it was a post about acupuncture for chronic pain (and, of course, how it doesn’t work).