Hoffman Wendell W
Sanford Clinic - Infectious Disease, Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
University of South Dakota Sanford School of Medicine, Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
S D Med. 2020 Aug;73(8):372-374.
Within an unrelenting COVID-19 pandemic, the burden of helping without harming has grown under the weight of destructive political bias which is harming without helping. This pandemic has created three flashpoints surrounding patient, population and policy. As science is further politicized, the coronafication of medicine is now a subset of the politicization of everything and is challenging these obligations. It is not the presence of personal political bias which degrades science, it is the absence of institutional acknowledgment as conflict of interest. Physicians must interrogate in Socratic fashion, seven deadly sins of destructive bias - character assassination, raw animus, cynical omniscience, historical amnesia, false choice, divisive labelling and selective truthing, which undermine our coming together. At a time when public trust is at risk, we must defend the best interest of the patient against politicized science - for this bias has reached the bedside.
在持续不断的新冠疫情大流行期间，在有害无益的政治偏见的重压下，做到帮助而不伤害的负担日益加重，这种政治偏见正在造成伤害却毫无帮助。这场大流行在患者、人群和政策方面引发了三个爆发点。随着科学进一步政治化，医学的新冠化如今已成为一切事物政治化的一个子集，并正在挑战这些义务。贬低科学的并非个人政治偏见的存在，而是机构未将其认定为利益冲突。医生必须以苏格拉底式的方式审视破坏偏见的七宗罪——人格诋毁、纯粹敌意、愤世嫉俗的全知、历史健忘、错误选择、分裂性标签和选择性真相陈述，这些破坏了我们团结在一起的努力。在公众信任面临风险之际，我们必须捍卫患者的最大利益，使其免受政治化科学的影响——因为这种偏见已经延伸到了病床边。
