I didn’t anticipate that my latest required clinical training, which we undergo every few months to stay current, would focus on the Fourth and Fifth amendments of the U.S. Constitution.
I didn’t realize it because I’m a doctor, not a lawyer.
But there it was, sandwiched between the review on bloodborne pathogens and quizzes about HIPAA — information on unreasonable search and seizure and the right to remain silent. It was then that I realized that I was being prepared to be a doctor in an emerging police state.
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When I came back to clinical medicine this spring after taking a years-long break in the aftermath of working as a Covid doctor, I figured the anti-vax fever pitch would be the nexus of my struggle and heartache in the clinic. Instead, it has been the anxiety and depression questionnaires that have really caught me off guard.
