ABSTRACT
Cuban medical texts are overtly political, showing how socialist medicine must be practised and then ideologically interpellating doctors into society. Particularly in emergency medicine, American doctors are called upon to treat injuries from firearms costing an estimated $230 billion annually, while there are 40,000 deaths annually from gun use, just behind deaths caused by opioid and other drug uses. While scientific medical practices can rise above party politics, medical provision is necessarily the subject of ideology. Politics and ethics of treatment are then linked. Eitan Hersh and Matthew Goldenberg looked at the relationship between doctors’ political affiliations and choices of treatments culled from hypothetical cases. Daniel E. Dawes shows how political machinations practically wrecked the plan for healthcare for all, and how, since Donald Trump’s election as president in 2016, strenuous efforts have been made to sabotage and dismantle the proposal.
