Fascism Doctor Style

A number of Wisconsin doctors were videotaped writing fraudulent Doctor's excuses to state employees so that they could shirk their jobs and keep protesting.   So there you have it:  people with a privileged status helping public servants divert time and labor away from the people it is owed to and instead spend it on their quest for money and power.  Fascism is as fascism does. Here's what the Atlantic had to say about it.

But last week some of these weary warriors carried their patient advocacy too far. In videos breathlessly presented throughout the conservative mediasphere this weekend [scroll down to see], doctor after doctor is videotaped writing patently fraudulent sick notes so that the protesting teachers (whose contracts specify that missing work without an excuse can result in dismissal) can keep marching on against the state's union-busting Republican government.

After viewing the videos at my request last night, Dr. Arthur Derse called me up exclaiming, "Holy mackerel! It's much worse than it looked in the paper. I'm stunned, absolutely stunned." Dr. Derse is the Director of Center for Bioethics and Medical Humanities a the Medical College of Wisconsin. "When all's said and done, it's really the profession of medicine that has the black eye in this case," he says.

There is no question these doctors are masking political opinion in the white coat of the medical profession, Dr. Derse believes. "The videos are pretty damning."

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Hat tip Instapundit.