QUOTE: If you read Part I of this post and found yourself nodding along, thinking “Wow, cardiologists are real creeps, there must be serious structural problems in the cardiology profession, something must be done about them,” consider it evidence that a sufficiently motivated individual – especially a journalist! – can make you feel that way about any group.

The article was a basic, 'you're stupid if you didn't read to the end'; yet it compares cardiologists to police by way of racism towards ethnic Chinese for robbery? Okay, sure, why not compare to unicorns, mermaids, or any other profession where there's no relevance?

The first half of the article thrashes, and trashes cardiologists, with plenty of links to support said position, then switches to police by way of comparison to older almost colloquial beliefs; yet fails to produce any links with the second part.

All we need to look at for po-lice brutality, is Youtube, worldstarhiphop, and liveleak. We all know there are literally hours of bad deeds done. Anyone with half a brain knows all po-lice departments operate off of 2 sets of books; the statues, and internal policies. For an example of internal policies, loitering is often times a crime, but to charge someone with that alone amounts to pissing in the wind for said officer. So, what to do??? Some genius figured out that if you're loitering, then you're taking in all the sites, and sounds of the given environment where such actions are taking place; hence loitering is combined with a very very very bad thing to have on your record: PROWLING. So now, if loitering, you're actually 'loitering, and prowling'.... Prowling is the step before actual physical crime; very bad, and when loitering both go on your record.....

So again, wtf is the comparison between cardiologists to police by way of racism to Chinese, by way of 'especially a journalist'(in reference to what, wordsmiths, LOL).

What's my point? there are bad in all professions, there are cheats, fakes, and liars who have the necessary credentials in any profession to pull off the great cons, and have people applaud them for that. Are there bad cardiologists, by way of the article absolutely, are there bad po-lice; LOL.

No matter the amount of regulations created, it won't change the fact that people cheat there way into credentials, and keep on faking after making it.

Hence personal responsibility to be fully informed, know your standing, know that everyone may not be what they claim; I'm sorry that's the world, there's no changing it.

The alternative is to go blindly, and more so ignorantly through life believing all that your told, without ever anything resembling an original thought.

Now having that said, an anecdote of my own personal experience that I've already shared somewhere.... A friend of mine, was a Colonel in the US Army. He is also still licensed as a perfusiologist. He shared with me why he doesn't do it any longer. He was living in Maryland, making over $150k around 2000. He worked at the VA, and was on call for several surgeons at various hospitals; they were his friends.

Long story short, he got sick of the lack of care, and the deviancy he personally experienced. He told me of VA doctors that would take a patient that needed several separate surgeries, and just combine them into one, so it'd be cheaper for the VA. He relayed one story of an older gentleman that was having major organ surgery; I believe it was a bypass, but the surgeon decided to go ahead with a leg amputation at the same time. They didn't have the right saw, so it was described to me, that the surgeon used some sort of wire rope cutter; with all his effort he couldn't make it completely through the bone; so snapped the bone like a twig; amputation, and surgery complete! Other than lack of patient wellbeing at the heart of their concerns, nothing else wrong.

My friend though, as he became closer friends with the different surgeons would go golfing with them. It's in these games of golf that he decided he was done with his career as he'd known it(Now a naturopath/holistic healer), he said the differing surgeons would trade off their patients as prizes for games won; the primary doctor would then refer their patient over to the winner for procedures that were never recommended. He made it clear it wasn't just a couple of doctors, but many.

Do I distrust doctors, yes, do I distrust, po-lice, yes. Will I call the either, for help? Sure, but with steadied measure of the need, and with plenty of research.

Only fools rush into anything.