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12 - Medical Experts

from Part III - Trump’s Team

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 September 2021

Barbara Kellerman
Affiliation:
Harvard University, Massachusetts
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As the title of the chapter makes clear, it is all about the role played by medical experts in enabling President Trump, in enabling his presidency, and in enabling his administration badly to manage/mismanage the pandemic. This chapter will be controversial, for among other reasons the widely admired Dr. Anthony Fauci is among the cast of characters. So be it. Questions must be asked, and answered, about what should be the response of a good follower who has a bad leader. Some of the physicians discussed in the chapter are the previously mentioned, Drs. Fauci and Birs – and Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams and head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Dr. Robert Redfield. In each of these cases their professional credentials should not inhibit us from asking what was, what should have been, their proper role. Their proper response to a president who was as unethical in his management/mismanagement of the pandemic as ineffective.

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The Enablers
How Team Trump Flunked the Pandemic and Failed America
, pp. 234 - 260
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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  • Medical Experts
  • Barbara Kellerman, Harvard University, Massachusetts
  • Book: The Enablers
  • Online publication: 03 September 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108974417.013
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  • Medical Experts
  • Barbara Kellerman, Harvard University, Massachusetts
  • Book: The Enablers
  • Online publication: 03 September 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108974417.013
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  • Medical Experts
  • Barbara Kellerman, Harvard University, Massachusetts
  • Book: The Enablers
  • Online publication: 03 September 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108974417.013
Available formats
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