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The Roux Comes First

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6. I Totally Agree. If These Organizations Cannot Even Do a Semblance of Integrity, Why Bother With All the Licensing and
Sat Dec 27, 2025, 06:59 PM
6 hrs ago

And oath-taking crap and all? Hippocrates and others would be tying themselves in knots.

I recall being appalled back in the '60's and '70's with the incredible self-protective brotherhood of the AMA, at least as I perceived it at a time when, admittedly, the world seemed more B&W than it does now. More recently it has been police guilds with a vow that loyalty and not snitching is far more important than service to the citizenry. Alas the legal community and to a lesser extent medical profession, and of course most particularly the MSM, almost without exception, have apparently taken the vow that He Is Not to Be Challenged or Thwarted.

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