Rachel Thomas: "Medicine is Political". This is a very dangerous slogan that blurs the lines between descriptive and prescriptive. Naked politics is dysfunctional, to say nothing of partisan politics, which is basically the kiss of death.
Medicine, like all of science, is political:
- which questions get asked
- which projects get funded
- how debates get framed
- who the researchers are
- context of data (what categories, what labels, which biases, what is left out)
- whose suffering is counted 1/
There is a world of difference between 'sadly, there is a degree of corruption in the system' and 'the system is corruption'.