Oct. 4, 2025 - Epoch Times
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| In a state like China, the medical profession does not have actual professional autonomy. | |
| Like it's an arm of the state. | |
| And I like that's the key. | |
| So when you say like doctors have become killers, it's how you d define a doctor, I suppose like because the thing that goes into doctor, so we have a lot of connotations to the term doctor, like well, they're they're kind of um they understand themselves to be a doctor, so there's like this hypocritic oath, there are professional associations, you have kind of like all this um uh kind of institutional scaffolding around this role. | |
| So in a state like China, some of those things are present, but they're also controlled by the communist party. | |
| And so I think that goes some way to explaining kind of what we see, because if kind of the medical field is an arm of the state, then it becomes less surprising, perhaps. | |
| You know, the doctors are perhaps acting in their capacity not merely as doctors, but as agents of you know, a a state entrusted with a certain responsibility, you know, to conduct this particular activity, they don't have much choice in. | |
| Or the consequences of saying no, I'm not gonna do that are extreme. | |
| Yeah, like I mean I've heard people being concerned with their own lives. | |
| If you're if you're a doctor at a military hospital and the supervisor says we're going to, you know, retrieve organs now, you can't just say, Oh, sorry, boss. |
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