How to Fight the Left’s Politicization of Medicine

‘A sick society must think much about politics, as a sick man must think much about his digestion,” C. S. Lewis wrote. “To ignore the subject may be fatal cowardice for the one as for the other.” In the national delirium of a presidential election, the maladies of politics impose themselves on our minds to an even greater degree.

Unfortunately, the current state of the medical field is not much of an analgesic. In recent years, left-wing ideology has thoroughly penetrated medicine. But new research undercuts one of the more popular academic buttresses of this blatant politicization. It’s more than enough to make one wonder if a movement that bills itself as pro-health might actually be iatrogenic.

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Jack Butler

Jack Butler is a former submissions editor at National Review.

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‘A sick society must think much about politics, as a sick man must think much about his digestion,” C. S. Lewis wrote. “To ignore the subject may be fatal cowardice for the one as for the other.” In the national delirium of a presidential election, the maladies of politics impose themselves on our minds to an even greater degree.

Unfortunately, the current state of the medical field is not much of an analgesic. In recent years, left-wing ideology has thoroughly penetrated medicine. But new research undercuts one of the more popular academic buttresses of this blatant politicization. It’s more than enough to make one wonder if a movement that bills itself as pro-health might actually be iatrogenic.