Most readers will be aware of the massive treatment backlog in the NHS. It is a matter of grave concern to all doctors, even recently retired ones like myself. So, imagine my excitement to discover that the Royal College of Physicians has found the time to produce a ‘Green Physician Toolkit’. I’m sure this important initiative will go a long way to solving the many problems in our beloved NHS. Interested readers can download the advice here.
Sadly, I must report that this brochure has not been uniformly well received by my colleagues. One contributor to a GP website went so far as to ask whether the document was a parody. On the upside it does indeed contain many amusing sections.
Knowing how popular remote consultations are with the general public, readers will be delighted to hear that the Royal College advises doctors to conduct as much interaction with patients as possible by virtual means, and goes on to advocate that doctors work from home whenever feasible to reduce carbon emissions from travelling. How very convenient – for the profession, if not for patients.
There are useful pointers in how to go about communicating concerns about climate change and health. The Royal College says doctors are “uniquely placed as a trusted member of the community to discuss public health threats with patients”. I’m not entirely sure how one might raise the subject in the consultation room. “Good morning, Mrs. Smith. I wonder, have you ever considered the impact of climate change on your breast cancer/diabetes/rheumatoid arthritis?” I imagine Mrs. Smith would shortly be seeking a second opinion.
To help with the tricky matter of introducing climate change into a medical consultation, 10 top tips are provided from the WHO including “Talk about the health benefits of climate action”, “Keep your message simple and repeat it often”, “Talk about climate change during extreme weather events” and above all “Don’t debate the science”. God forbid!
Readers may be interested to follow the link to the WHO website and download the WHO ‘Green Health Toolkit’, which I suspect is where this advice originated – though the WHO’s guidance is an even more egregious misuse of medical professionalism, containing advice on how to use a position of trust to incite patients to climate activism and lobby journalists to spread green propaganda. I strongly encourage readers to examine this WHO handbook for themselves – the principles are directly derived from “information operations” specifically designed to influence behaviour in populations by inculcating false beliefs.
According to the Royal College: “The U.K. will not be immune from the direct effects of extreme heat and flooding events, or the inevitable arrival of climate refugees.”
There then follows a helpful link to the Royal College of Psychiatrists webpage regarding “eco-anxiety” – a diagnosable condition prevalent amongst young people caused by alarmist nonsense about the “climate emergency”. This exhibits a simply stunning lack of awareness given that the type of hyperbole in the Green Physicians Toolkit is directly responsible for causing “eco-anxiety”.
Most doctors will simply ignore this nonsense and get on with their jobs, but there are serious risks lurking behind this relentless institutional propaganda.
Firstly, it demonstrates yet another professional body has been captured by climate alarmism – and no doubt the rest of the ‘woke’ agenda. The majority of doctors may ignore the Green Physician Toolkit, but I would bet money on a mandatory ‘Eco training’ module being introduced into annual appraisal assessments before long. Annual appraisal and mandatory training in medicine has expanded hugely over the last decade and now includes a compulsory module on Diversity and Inclusion. It can only be a matter of time before the medical training industry spots a lucrative opportunity to add to its portfolio of time consuming and pointless ‘e-learning’ products.
Secondly, tucked away in the corner of one page, the Green Physician Toolkit notes that the General Medical Council has included advice to doctors relating to the importance of considering environmental matters in day-to-day practice. How long will it be I wonder before registered physicians are banned from expressing views “orthogonal to the orthodoxy” in public fora like social media? (Hat tip Sunetra Gupta.) In the revised edit on “Good medical practice” issued in January this year, the GMC explicitly warned doctors that comments on any form of social media now come under its jurisdiction. The mere threat of being investigated by the GMC is sufficient to silence most sceptical doctors.
I doubt it will stop there. The Royal College highlights several virtuous projects already underway in our ever more perfect NHS. Some doctors will see this as an opportunity to move into full time climate activism funded by the taxpayer. A chance to escape the tedium and hard grind at the clinical coalface by masquerading as an ‘eco lead’ or ‘climate change champion’ within their NHS organisation – for which they will be remunerated at the same rate of pay as their colleagues toiling away on the wards. To achieve sustainability in such posts, more output will be required, so one can expect multiple green initiatives to sprout up all over the sacred NHS – zero impact on the climate, but substantially increased friction in the working lives of coal face clinicians. The ratchet will tighten a couple of notches, making the real practice of medicine slightly less appealing.
In my recent reading I came across an appropriate quote from an 18th Century writer:
All religious sects, however they may differ in other points, agree in one, which is the pursuit of power, and this by the same progressive steps. Firstly, by imploring toleration, next claiming equality and then struggling for superiority over the rest.
Soame Jenyns, Disquisitions on certain subjects
Green Power does not just refer to Ed Miliband’s plan to cover Britain in windfarms. It’s also coming to your GP surgery.
Thank God I’ve retired.
The author, the Daily Sceptic’s in-house doctor, is a former NHS consultant, now retired.
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JSO vs Pride. The lefty wamminz worst nightmare – who to support??
I’m looking forward to the battle of hurty words – because the gods know that there isn’t enough muscle power in either group for an actual battle – and who the police will give greater protection to….
“Huge Nebraska Solar Park Completely Smashed to Pieces by One Single Hailstorm!”
Yeah! Dance on nature!
best news I’ve heard for ages!
I’ve got news for you Dinger.. that wasn’t nature that did that. It was a consequence of massive geoengineering. Weather modification/warfare. A rather nice irony in it though just the same..
Take a look at this..
https://www.geoengineeringwatch.org/aftermath-of-chemical-ice-nucleation/
Wow! I really don’t know how to take that? Is it real? are we meddling that much? surely not, please tell me its just a conspiracy theory!
It is not a conspiracy theory Dinger. Its frighteningly real, and if you start to do some research on the subject there’s a good chance your jaw will drop to the floor.
I’ll say something I’m 100% confident is true.. there is NO natural weather any more, and the methods they are using to control it are mind boggling. Want some forest fires – easy, want to wreck the autumn harvest – easy, want to cause havoc by flooding – easy, want an earthquake – easy, and every MET office in the world knows its going on but they say nothing..
Absolutely….it’s true..and not new…
..there is a UN treaty on the ‘Convention of the prohibition of military or any other hostile use of environmental modification techniques’ 1976…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_Modification_Convention
This is a long article from the US National Science Foundation…’A report on the Special Commission on Weather Modification’
..from 1965
https://www.nsf.gov/nsb/publications/1965/nsb1265.pdf
Both are worth a look just for some background….
Don’t know about you , but I detect an air of brewing, deepening anger taking over the general demeanour of the headlines and posts today! I wonder why?
Just more athletes in prime physical condition dropping dead and/or being rushed to hospital. Rugby players in this instance, and two from the same club. Just par for the course that people in the prime of their lives and who have superior health and fitness to the general population should experience these unforeseen tragedies. Mere white noise nowadays….
”Two promising players from Auckland’s Suburbs Rugby Football Club have been rushed to hospital in a critical condition after suffering separate on-field medical events in the space of a week.
One of the players was seen collapsing on the field before being rushed to hospital and undergoing surgery to remove a blood clot from his brain.
In the other incident, Auckland Rugby has praised spectators who rushed to the aid of a player over the weekend who is believed to have suffered a seizure and stopped breathing. The spectators performed CPR on the stricken man until paramedics arrived.
The events come after a Bay of Plenty rugby league player and a rugby union player from Ruatoria both died after on-field incidents.”
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/two-auckland-suburbs-rugby-club-players-suffer-critical-life-threatening-injuries-in-consecutive-weeks/RKKTBRLSCNAXLCFFI4UIZTSLRE/
“Safe and effective” in action!
Yep..spotted this one to add to the growing numbers…
https://sandrarose.com/2023/06/tv-doctor-and-vaccination-expert-dr-alfredo-victoria-dies-suddenly-at-42/
A popular Mexican TV doctor who regularly appeared on “Mexico Today” as a “vaccination expert” died suddenly from a myocardial infarction, according to reports.
Dr. Alfredo Victoria Moreno was only 42 years old when he died in his sleep early Monday. He was a vocal advocate of COVID mRNA vaccines.
Dr. Alfredo’s massive global fanbase took to social media to mourn his untimely death. They referred to his passing as a “tragedy.”
Watch: Not a single Question Time audience member shows support for Rwanda policy
The constant propaganda on issues like immigration, climate change, affirmative action, gender transitioning, etc mean that people are reluctant to indicate publicly what they actually believe. To hold out that this QT audience poll proves that the Government is way out of line with the public is massively disingenuous, and is simply another propaganda tool.
“Yorkshire Building Society ‘closed vicar’s account after trans protest’”
This is getting more and more alarming. Is anyone out there compiling a list of banks and building societies which will summarily close customer accounts for not complying with The Narrative™, and are there any recommendations for banks that have stricter rules on this sort of ideological persecution?
The best thing about the Rwanda policy is that it shows so clearly how all the lefty do-gooders are really a bunch of racists at heart, over compensating for their feelings of guilt.
If the policy were to ship immigrants to Switzerland or Norway or Canada you wouldn’t hear a peep.
The problem is that it’s Rwanda which they assume without having been there that there is something fundamentally wrong with the place.
I agree except for one picky point – they are racists by their definition of racism, which is to notice differences based on race. My definition of racism is to have a blanket belief about an entire race that disregards individuals, which just seems a bit weird to me.
“Huge Nebraska solar park completely smashed…”
Probable MSM reporting: “Extreme destructive weather events are getting worse! Build more solar parks.”
,to save the solar parks from extreme weather events,.. Shish!
There is absolutely no way that any of this money is even ‘real’..is there?
https://www.dossier.today/p/new-york-quietly-shuts-down-its-250?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=69009&post_id=132199406&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email
New York State officials announced on Friday afternoon that they are discontinuing their controversial mobile phone vaccine passport program, known as “Excelsior Pass,” citing “reduced demand for access to digital COVID-19 test and vaccine records.”
The Excelsior Pass program began in early 2021 with an estimated cost burden of $2.5 million. It later balooned to a sum approaching one hundred times over the original budget, with an approximate amount of $250 million dollars being handed out to IBM, Deloitte and Boston Consulting Group.
Deloitte and Boston Consulting Group have billed New York taxpayers approximately $200 million for “marketing” and “buildout” costs associated with the program since 2021, while IBM has billed around $40 million plus $200,000 a month since 2021 in “data storage” fees, according to state records…..
You don’t have to green with him, but this is a very calm and collected speech from Max Blumenthal’s as he addresses the UN about the Ukraine/Russia conflict
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eq4643bsH8w
……it links to the study and report on where the money for Ukraine has and hasn’t gone….! These questions need to be asked and answered….
All aboard the gravy train: an independent audit of US funding for Ukrainehttps://thegrayzone.com/2023/06/27/gravy-train-independent-audit-ukraine/
Edward Dowd
@DowdEdward
Hey Doctors out there…is 25 sigma above trend too high for Haematological System disorders? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
We are going to need your help on our next report.
The so called governmental health authorities won’t be able to run from this data.
Stay tuned.
(Apparently he and Dr Kelly Victory will be giving out more information soon….I will keep us updated..along with fellow Twitter watchers, I’m sure!)
https://maryannedemasi.substack.com/p/no-more-moderna-jab-for-children
No more Moderna jab for children under 12 in AustraliaThe Australian government has quietly pulled Moderna’s (Spikevax) covid-19 vaccine for children under 12 years and won’t explain why.
It’s now not possible to look at Twitter at all without a twitter account. Could you post the Martina Pastorelli interview on a publicly accessible platform please
I think Twitter is down..I can’t see anything..and the Daily Mail have said it’s crashed!!?
..according to the Mail..the lack of access to non-subscribers is only temporary….so you might be able to access once it’s back up..