Year: 2025

What has happened to our doctors?

For many people, the decision whether or not to take the COVID shots was one they preferred to delegate to their doctor. For good reason, because the vast majority of Americans trust their own doctors, especially if they have a personal relationship built up over years of advice and treatment.

For many people, their instinct when faced with a serious respiratory illness that had progressed to the point of having difficulty breathing, was to rush to the hospital where they trusted that medical professionals would treat them — and heal them, with or without a positive COVID test.

And for many people, their trust in the medical profession was shattered during the COVID years. And they are left wondering: Why?

What happened to doctors — and nurses — people who invested years of their life and countless dollars to train so that they could heal people? Why had they suddenly become part of the problem rather than part of the solution?

Cogs in the corporate medical system

Perhaps the clue is in that word: “part.” America’s doctors and nurses are part of a system, one with pressure to prioritize dollars over human lives. A potentially remorseless system.

Many of the doctors who risked their careers and spoke up ended up losing their careers, their reputations, their family lives. Those who remained silent lost their integrity, and many of them know it.

In memory of Dr. Jacob Neufeld

Perhaps the story of Dr. Jacob Neufeld will give some insight into why so many of America’s doctors are no longer healers. His story, tragically, is one of many.

It is told by Dr. Pamela Wible, M.D., a doctor and suicidologist who runs a free doctor suicide helpline and, in her words, “performs psychological autopsies.”

Many people aren’t aware that, of all the professions, doctors are the most likely to commit suicide. Dr. Neufeld took his life, and one of his last wishes was that his story would help other doctors from ending up where he did.

Dr. J and his kids

Dr. Jacob Neufeld, known as “Dr. J” by his patients, was a triple-board-certified pediatric physiatrist, one of just a few hundred doctors in the United States who specialized in treating severely disabled children with cerebral palsy, muscular dystrophy, and spinal cord injuries. He founded the Journal of Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine and published many articles in his field.

But he was best known for his huge heart and total devotion to “his kids.” Dr. Wible describes how,

He gave families his cell number. He did house calls for homebound kids (and their anxious moms). And when God called his little ones home, he was the doc parents called to sit with them and hold their hands as their children passed away.

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From Frontline News, here.