Nice metaphor for patients…rats. I think maybe I don’t want this guy’s services. Ultimately, those physicians who give in to the war and abandon the needs of their patients in favor of political expediency and career security might should be abandoned by their patients. Doctors are a small but powerful group. However, their power in this system is still very much limited by the patients that are willing to pay for and consent to their treatments. I think the system (which I still believe is Big Pharma), could be better influenced by educating medical consumers about this issue, rather than relying on the activism of the few expert doctors who are willing to risk their careers by saying that the emperor is naked. Those doctors are surely honorable and should be supported, but they are ultimately going to lose against this adversary. I am not suggesting that physicians who simply refuse to provide adequate treatment should be boycotted (as this is asking them to submit to almost certain prosecution), but those who use their expert status to fuel the propaganda should be boycotted. I am willing to work with a doctor who admits his/her hands are tied, and who admits that he/she is being forced to withhold proper medication, but I don’t want to add to the fortunes of those doctors who champion the cause of this drug war in order to maintain favor with the political forces that are killing us for profit.