An even bigger problem is that almost all healthcare institutions (medical schools, academic centers, hospital systems, professional organizations, etc) like to associate with the worst right wing frauds & grifters, even when they don’t actually work, which allows them to pretend to have legitimacy.
Not being a physician, what I see is a toxic push for collegiality among medical professionals that has people not calling out bad actors, or as here, going out of the way to praise them, hoping they’ll reform and fly straight, when what they needed was to be called out and disempowered.
