Using Kevin as exemplary of ED docs is a stretch. And the reason ED docs like @darakass & @uche_blackstock (& hospitalists/CCM) are in the media talking about this is the disproportionate effect it has on us. Like a trauma surgeon who talks about gun control. This is our lane.
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Kevin isn’t an EM doc. “He attended Boston University where he earned his B.A./M.D. in 1999, after which he completed the Internal Medicine Residency Program at Boston University Medical Center”
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Obviously, neither of you bothered to click on the link. It's to an article with an ER doc complaining that
#COVID19 science that went against the Powers That Be is being "censored" that was published on KevinMD's site.
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Anyway, here was the Tweet to which he was responding. It was about an interview with an ER doc named Dr. Joseph Fraiman.https://twitter.com/gorskon/status/1386694553671962632?s=20 …
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You are right, I didn’t read the article. I don’t read much on that blog because of the quality of stuff they promote. So, in that I agree. This blog post is not useful. But I stand by the work I have done during this pandemic.
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No one's criticizing your work. However, even you must admit that there do seem to be a lot of ER docs who turned
#COVID19 crank, fancying themselves epidemiologists without actually having done the work to become even minimally competent at statistics and epidemiology.2 replies 0 retweets 3 likes -
And there are cranks in every field of medicine. There is nothing to me that suggests any specialty is significantly more subject to this than others. And the existence of cranks doesn't negate the expertise of others in the same specialty.
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No one said it did. However, ER docs do appear to have a special status among the lay public and press during this pandemic because they are literally on the frontlines. As a result, *their cranks*, however few in number, seem to have outsized influence.
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Obviously, there are exceptions. For example, how on earth a neuroradiologist turned right wing political hack and #COVID19 crank (Scott Atlas) got so much influence, I'll still never figure out.
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And back in the day I used to be harder on my own specialty (surgery) than on pretty much anyone else. There seemed at the time to be a disproportionate number of surgeons who denied evolution in incredibly ignorant ways. I even had a joke about putting a paper bag over my head.
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