Winston Churchill Gets a Doctor’s Note to Drink Unlimited Alcohol While Visiting the U.S. During Prohibition (1932)
Interesting piece of cultural history, I wonder if a doctor's note like this would work in 2023.
@bonifartius @zleap @tipjip It's not the job of the doctor to decide whether rules are arbitrary or not and writing courtesy certificates should get them banned from working.
@goedelchen @zleap @tipjip it is the very job of the doctor to help people by whatever means necessary, not to follow bullshit rules which are written by technocratic rulers as they see fit.
e.g. i see no reason to not assume that the guy in prohibition was alcoholic and the doctor wrote this to prevent suffering. might as well have been a favor. one just doesn't know. stop forcing people.
@bonifartius Yeah right, people in power with good connections should totally not be bound by laws. Who needs laws when you’re rich and powerful? Just holds you back.
And on the specific case of Winston Churchill going to a prohibition country… you are seriously assuming there was a medical reason? 🤣
@tipjip look at churchill.
@tipjip the point isn't that someone in power can bend the rules, the point is that everyone has to submit to bullshit rules made by the rule benders.
@bonifartius @zleap @tipjip It is not the job of a doctor to support this. It is the doctors job to write certificates based on medical reasons not based on what they think are arbitrary rules.
You made a general statement about "today doctors", not about Churchill's drinking note and I replied to that general statement - and stand to it that, if a doctor writes a certificate not based on the medical condition of the patient but based on their private beliefs they are not fit for the job.
@bonifartius @zleap @tipjip The guy in prohibition? You mean Winston Churchill?
@zleap @tipjip today doctors get banned from working for dissenting from arbitrary rules like these.