Just asking (30): white coat?

It’s above my pay scale.
So I’m just asking.

In an interview a couple of days after the Minneapolis shooter gunned down two and injured a dozen more Catholic grade school kids, David Drew Pinsky, also known as “Dr. Drew”, warned that the society ought not to “bureaucratise” a “one size fits all” treatment for kids seeking transgender treatments.
Essentially physicians should pay special individual attention to each case where medications and even surgeries are provided to young people in puberty. 
It makes a lot of sense.

Doctors know best.
The unspoken wisdom speaks loud and clear.

Around the same time and on an unrelated issue, the CDC removed the emergency authorisation of covid vaccines meaning that government can no longer impose a mandate on vaccination.
Rather, vaccines are still available but it would be decided between a patient and the doctor.

“Consult your doctor.”

That’s almost always the reply whenever you ask a friend or relative, including in my case my physician daughter, in America.

There’s s lot of wisdom.
Particularly in leaving government out of the decision.

The years of unscientically proven mandated vaccination of all people—even strong youths, masks, and six feet distancing amply, albeit painfully, demonstrated the wisdom of not letting Government mandating our health decisions. 

But leaving it all entirely between one and one’s doctor, is that the silver bullet?

Doctors know best.
The unspoken wisdom speaks loud and clear, again.

In late 1990s, then not as famous theologian Kevin Vanhoozer told his class: the white coat replaced the priest’s robe.

His point?

As enlightenment dawned upon civilisations, it was no longer popular or trustworthy “to ask your priest”.

Instead, people exchanged the priestly robe with the white coat.

Pain? Prescription for pain killers.
Depression? Insomnia? Book a counselling consultation or see a psychiatrist.

The white coat was of course a synecdoche.
In a way was also the priest’s robe.

They formed a metaphorical story.
Uttered in the late 1990s, it’s shown to be prophetic too.

But of course Kevin Vanhoozer is now much more famous. 

His metaphor actually meant to point to the great exchange that humans short-changed themselves, doesn’t it?

Just asking.

Since they have rejected the word of the LORD, what kind of wisdom do they have? (Jer 8:9 NIV)