Dr. Richard Bosshardt
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first heard Feb 2025
last heard Feb 2025
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You'll get no argument from me on that. Who has more power than a surgeon? Nobody. Yeah. In that immediate moment, nobody does. Right.
The captain of the ship, basically.
anything which works against that, you have to fight. I think you have to work against that. It's disconcerting to me. I have to say, maybe I could use stronger terms, but I had a lot of private affirmation from colleagues, from surgeons.
I don't get a lot of public affirmation for that very reason, because some of them are older and don't want to deal with the blowback, the repercussions and the recrimination that can occur. Some of them, a few agree with the whole situation, crazy as it may be. all the DEI and so forth. And most of them were kind of like me.
They were just going along and too busy taking care of their patients to the best of their ability. I understand that. To... You know, I've been doing this for 38 years, and it's really not until about three or four years ago that I popped my head above the water, so to speak, and looked around and said, my gosh, the landscape out there has really changed.
This is not the field of medicine that I went into. And, you know, you'd like to think when you've devoted your life to a career or profession that, that you're gonna leave it a little better than you got it.
I built my practice on the shoulders of the people that went before, and I have a very strong sense of responsibility that I have to honor the traditions and the efforts on my behalf to get me to where I was. And you want to think that you've done somewhat the same. Now, I wasn't a professor. I wasn't a researcher.
But in taking care of patients, I've always tried to honor the efforts of the people that trained me and feel like I could go off. Well, I've got a generation behind me now. I've got a daughter who's a physician. I've got a son-in-law, her husband, who's a physician. And I feel a very strong sense of obligation now.
To someday, when I can't do this anymore, to say, okay, I did the best I could to leave medicine in their hands better than I got it. And I can't say that. And that's tragic when you think about it. To think that you're leaving a profession that you love and have committed your life to, and it's in much worse shape than when it was put into your hands.
I take responsibility for that. I take my own. But at the same time, I think it's what happened to me. If the AECS can ban me with the impunity that they have done without accountability, without even following their own bylaws, for God's sakes, and they have no... reason to engage with me, they can do this to anybody. I mean, there's nobody out there who's, who's safe.
And that's a pretty frightening proposition.
I don't. Why? My trust, COVID. Yeah. Me too. I haven't been a doctor since COVID. What happened in COVID was so egregiously wrong that I just couldn't... I mean, I don't look at the CDC, the NIH, FDA in the same way any longer, public health officials. And the other issue, I don't want to open a can of worms here, but the gender-affirming care.
I mean, how in God's name did we get to a point where you have... My profession, as far as surgery is concerned, is probably the one most closely... involved in the whole process of gender affirming care because of the work we do. And to have this concept that there's no such thing as male and female, that you can take a biological male and convert them to a woman and they're really a woman.
I mean, that is, when you talk about witchcraft and voodoo, that is witchcraft and voodoo. And all the scientific evidence is against it. Do you know anyone who participates in it? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. You know people personally? No, I don't know people that are doing the gender-affirming care in minors. And I want to be very clear.
If an adult male man thinks he's a woman, and God bless them, I feel sorry for them. Me too. They really have to. But they're an adult with agency to make decisions for themselves. That's one thing. Minors, it's a whole different thing.
uh not that i know of personally no i know some that are doing some of this what they call a few euphemistically top surgery where they take off a breast but they're doing this in in women that are adults they're taking off their breasts to to turn them into you know make them look more male-like i don't know anyone personally who's done this on children so far so you saw this with abortion even when i was a child there were doctors who said you know i just i just don't believe in it i think it's immoral i'm not participating in it
I can't speak of that because I think that there, I mean, I know from personally that that wasn't the case. I'm aware it was not the case.
Oh, I could definitely see it happening. I mean, it is happening. It is being done. Now, are people being forced to do it? I don't think that's necessarily the case. I think people that are doing it are bought into the whole thing, and they're doing that because they're bought into it.
As a resident in surgery, um, You don't have a lot of power in the sense of being able to say, I won't do this or I will do that. You can't pick and choose what you're gonna do. When I was in training, we had an experimental clinical study going on to do bariatric weight reduction surgery. We were approaching these bypasses through the chest and not the abdomen.
And the attendings in our program came to us. The residents said, listen, we understand this is an experimental program. We're not going to make you do this. We'll let you decide for yourselves if you want to do these cases. There were three of us at my level. And two of us said no. I was one of those. And the third one said, sure, he'd do it. That you did not want to participate.
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