https://graboyes.substack.com/p/take-your-clothes-off-oppressor

“When Doctors Discard Sacred Oaths”
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Do you want someone who despises you, your opinions, or your ancestry to demand that you remove your clothing? Because as medical schools and other healthcare institutions see patients as members of demographic groupings rather than as individuals, that will be the end result.

Long ago, I developed a classroom exercise for my graduate students—most of whom were doctors, nurses, and allied health professionals. I asked whether anyone in the room had had serious surgery in the past few years. Invariably, some had. I would choose one and ask a battery of questions, to which they always had ready answers:

“Who performed the operation?” // “Dr. Smith.”
“Where did she study medicine?” // “Georgetown University.”
“How long had she been practicing?” // “10 or 15 years.”
“Was she highly regarded by peers and patients?” // “Yes. Great scores.”
“Why did you check all this information beforehand?” // “Because my life was in her hands.”

I then asked the same student a second series of questions:

“Have you flown on a commercial aircraft recently?” // “Sure.”
“Who was the pilot?” // “I don’t know.”
“Where did he learn to fly?” // “No idea.”
“How experienced was he?” // “Haven’t the faintest idea.”
“Did you check his credentials beforehand?” // “How would I?”
“Was your life any less in his hands than in the surgeon’s hands?” // “No.”
“Can you explain why you were more diligent with the surgeon than with the pilot?” // “(Shrug.)”

Asked to explain the differences between the surgeon and the pilot, the students—all medical professionals—struggled. Most of their explanations crumbled upon probing. Both scenarios involve complex, delicate, life-and-death procedures. Only once did I ever receive a truly unassailable answer as to the difference. A nurse said:

“Because the pilot never asks you to take your clothes off.”

Her answer was profound. Perhaps the real value in the doctor-patient relationship is, as she suggested, comfort in a deeply discomfiting situation.

The entire essay is worth reading.

The left has labeled him “Gym Jordan” to tie him to the scandal. Jordan has claimed to have not been aware of the abuse.

It’s not that simple.

From a Wikipaedia article:

“Strauss was hired as an assistant professor in the OSU College of Medicine in September 1978; shortly afterward, he began volunteering as a team physician at Larkins Hall, OSU’s physical education building. He was appointed to a position in the Athletics Department in 1981, and to Student Health in 1994.[2]:?2? In Athletics, Strauss served as a team physician for multiple teams, including men’s wrestling, gymnastics, fencing, lacrosse, and swimming and diving; he additionally treated students on the hockey, cheerleading, volleyball, soccer, track, golf, baseball, tennis, water polo, and football teams. Strauss was not formally appointed to a position at Student Health until 1994, but was known to have started performing treatments there as early as 1978.?”

“The investigators conducted interviews with 177 students who provided evidence that Strauss had committed sexual abuse; although not all of the students felt his behavior was abusive, consultation with independent medical doctors confirmed they were not appropriate patient–doctor interactions. The majority of abuse (143 victims) was categorized as genital fondling associated with medically unnecessary genital or rectal examinations. Of the 177, 153 were student-athletes, of which a plurality (48) were members of the men’s wrestling team.”

It wasn’t until 2018 that the allegations about Strauss’s abuse became public knowledge and Jordan was accused of knowing of the abuse but failing to do anything about it.

Sound familiar? Sound like a hit job?

Many of the athletes didn’t think it was sexual abuse at the time, but just part of the examination, where Strauss would touch their genitals.

As an aside, Perkins Coie investigated the incident around 2019.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio_State_University_abuse_scandal

I had something similar happen when I was having a physical to play soccer at a college in Southern College in 1968.

It wasn’t a team doctor, but a private physician in the town. I was told to completely strip by the nurse, before the doctor came into the room. While he examined me (mostly by just looking at me), he did the turn your head and cough routine. At the time I though it strange I had to strip naked– but whatever. I have no idea whether Strauss spent more time touching than this doctor did– but while I was uncomfortable, I never considered it some kind of abuse– sexual or otherwise. How naive of me.

I hope Americans will see that what Strauss did as a homosexual predator was reprehensible, but that the allegations much, much later against Jordan is just the left’s attempt to smear Jordan.

Himmler was one of the architects and chief perpetrators of the Holocaust. But even this profoundly evil and depraved individual knew somewhere inside him how horrible it was. Contrast that with Hamas, as well as Isis, Al Qaeda and the other Islamic fanatics who glorify the worst of their own violence for the purpose of humiliating their enemies. I am Jewish and grew up in the shadow of the Holocaust – very close in age to neo – so could not imagine anyone stooping that much lower than even the Nazis. But here we are.

The last time Hamas kidnapped an IDF soldier he was ransomed by releasing 1027 terrorists from jail. That’s a ‘proportional’ exchange of Pali scumbags for Israeli citizens.

So with the current Israeli victim count around 1350 we have:

1350×1027=1,386,450

Come back and squawk about proportionality after Israel kills a million Palis.
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From an Israeli meme circulating widely in Hebrew.

Or ask some of the Climate Change warriors to loan out their private jets for the work, since we know they don’t have any noxious emissions to worry about.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/10/private-jets-are-awful-for-the-climate-its-time-to-tax-the-rich-who-fly-in-them
“Private flights pollute up to 14 times more than commercial ones – yet are taxed less. Let’s change that”

That is the same calculus the thieves and thugs looting and rampaging in Blue Cities use: the Democrats have established an acceptable level of crime, and it is very high.
Ditto border incursions, election fraud, corruption in politics, etc etc etc.

The Palestinian situation is even worse because of the other unalterable reality of the Biden Inc foreign policy perversity: what you subsidize, you get more of.

It went something like this: “Proportionality in a war? That will never happen. It’s like fighting someone on the playground- if you punch someone in the forehead, he or they will want to punch you back twice.
If you punch somebody in the head, they’ll want to kick you 30 times in the b*lls. Nobody’s going to make a war or a fight…fair for you.”

Also, in my point of view-
if you got [Israel’s military] + Hamas to agree to equal fighting, such as: “OK, day one…we will attack with tanks, and then you attack with tanks.

Then: day 2…we will attack with armored cars, and then you attack with armored cars.

Then: day 3…we will attack with rifles, and then you attack with rifles.”.

If both sides of a war to agree on things, as much as that, then [they would be willing to NOT have a war at all].