re: #37 Obdicut

Yeah, this is an important part. That this is even an issue at all reveals a major problem with public health in the US.

I think that the anti-science agenda propagated by both the ‘left’ and ‘right’, but most of all by the scaremongering media, is the most to blame for that. But I also think the institutionalization of doctors in hospitals is a large part of it.

I think that if we had far more nurse practitioners and physicians assistants doing front-line care and patient education, we’d see better US attitudes towards health and science.

But we can’t get away that some people in politics purposefully demonize science to score electoral points, which I find stupefyingly stupid.

Several of my bar-fly friends are nurses and CNAs, and when you get a couple pints of Mirror Pond into them, they say exactly this. Too much emphasis on specialists over GPs as well.