Dread & Awful Czar,

If a picture is worth a thousand words, than this video link is worth a short story.

We have been seeing in the news that there are doctors taking the streets in Madison (home of the University of Wisconsin Medical Center, not a bad institution if you’re sick), writing medical excuse notes for protesters. But, to see Mr. Jenkins do a ‘man on the street’ report, albeit somewhat clumsily is pretty telling.

First and foremost, the teachers raising Cain about contributing to their pension, YES PENSION and having to contribute to their health insurance is pretty small minded. Indeed, they are acting unprofessionally given that they beg to be taken seriously as the professionals that they love to remind us that they are. Keep in mind that these professionals have a trade union whose most famous leader, Albert Shanker once said, “When school children start paying union dues, that’s when I’ll start representing the interests of the school children.” Classy.

But, the fact that University doctors, who are typically considered the best and brightest (regionally, at least), are out in the street writing excuse notes is not only pathetic, it is both unprofessional and fraudulent. Dr. J. Is asked every once in a while to fill out excuse notes, disability paper work, etc… Given that someone else is on the hook for the time I give, or the disability I rate, I fill it properly so as not to steal from the person on the other end, while ensuring that my patient has the time he needs to adequately recover.

The highlight of this reel, however is when the doctor and teacher/union thug/protester are reluctant to answer questions because it is like he is ‘barging in on a private doctor visit’ IN THE MIDDLE OF THE STREET IN A CROUD OF THOUSANDS.’

It’s doctors like this that give The Doctor a bad rap.

Best,
Dr. J.

Well, it ain’t just you. Other doctors are irate over this. In fact, unabashedly liberal doctors are irate. At least one is. And for pretty much these same reasons. The difference between Dr. J’s screed and the one in The Atlantic is that the latter positively identified four of the doctors, and is so shocked by who was doing it that he says the ultimate loser in the Unions v. Walker issue will be professional medical ethics.

The Czar also hears through his okhrana that the University of Wisconsin realizes the enormously bad publicity this is bringing their prestigious Medical Center, and is moving fast to punish or penalize. We will see what occurs.

The Czar of Muscovy

Божію Поспѣшествующею Милостію Мы, Дима Грозный Императоръ и Самодержецъ Всероссiйскiй, цѣсарь Московскiй. The Czar was born in the steppes of Russia in 1267, and was cheated out of total control of all Russia upon the death of Boris Mikhailovich, who replaced Alexander Yaroslav Nevsky in 1263. However, in 1283, our Czar was passed over due to a clerical error and the rule of all Russia went to his second cousin Daniil (Даниил Александрович), whom Czar still resents. As a half-hearted apology, the Czar was awarded control over Muscovy, inconveniently located 5,000 miles away just outside Chicago. He now spends his time seething about this and writing about other stuff that bothers him.