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Thank God my primary care doc is a gun owning hunter packers fan Air Force reservist from rural Wisconsin

And I‘ve been married for almost 25 years to the woman that is the supervisory pediatrician at the pediatric practice where my kids go, which I also happen to own.

Didn't even crack a smile on this one and couldn't make it to the end.

JP is rarely funny anymore. It's a shame as he used to really crack me up and I used to follow him on YT.

Very funny but very true, this is straight out of any teaching hospital in the Northeast.

I like JP. His views don't always exactly align with ours (he's put out some stuff pretty critical of firearms owners as I recall), but he generally seems like he's grounded in reality. I recall him cancelling a show somewhere (WA?) because the venue required proof of vaccination. He disagreed with it in principle, and because he, himself was not vaccinated (but they weren't going to stop him from performing).

JP always had libertarian leanings, but has come around fully on a lot of issues since the Biden admin opened his eyes, so to speak. That includes gun control. In fact, his last gun-related video was basically an apology for the previous one explaining how he was wrong and got educated.

JP is newly conservative. Kind of like happened to John Stossel way back when, only more funny.

-Rob

My doc is a county-level trap and skeet shooter - with a flintlock shot gun that belonged to his GG-father - also a doctor.

I neither know, nor care, about his political leanings. Here in UK we don't seem to have your strange marriage of politics with professions that give you so much grief.

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Originally posted by tacfoley:
Here in UK we don't seem to have your strange marriage of politics with professions that give you so much grief.

If I recall correctly, less than 10% of healthcare in the UK is via "private" (versus NHS) providers. My uneducated guess? The 90% wouldn't derive any benefit from being politically-involved, because the status quo is pretty much hardened at this point (and works for practitioners who've come up in the post-war years.) There's also no point to the 10% being politically active (same reasons. The system works for them.)

In the States, there's a HUGE stake in the AMA (which is as much about "medicine" as the DPRK is about "democracy") having their hands on the levers of power, because the healthcare industry is profit-motivated, heavily subsidized, and regulated out the wazoo.