Re:American Academy of Pediatrics loses HHS funding after cr...
by JumpCrisscross on Wednesday December 17, 2025 @07:31PM
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> They don’t actually treat anybody
Neither does a pathologist. Or, more removed, anyone in research. Not everyone in medicine who doesn’t see patients is fluff.
I’m open to the idea that they’re a BS organisation. But saying they’re upstream from patient care is naïvely obvious; not every engineer is a car mechanic.
Re:American Academy of Pediatrics loses HHS funding after cr...
by db48x on Wednesday December 17, 2025 @08:21PM
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I agree that it’s obvious, which is why I disagreed with someone who said that this decision would “kill” people. They clearly can’t tell the difference.
Neither does a pathologist. Or, more removed, anyone in research. Not everyone in medicine who doesn’t see patients is fluff.
I’m open to the idea that they’re a BS organisation. But saying they’re upstream from patient care is naïvely obvious; not every engineer is a car mechanic.