Sanat Dixit MD FACS
@sdixitmd
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Neurosurgeon, Vanderbilt MBA, entrepreneur, immigrant, integrity junkie and guitar player. Opinions are mine. Healthcare / Free Speech/ Tech / Entrepreneurship
Nashville, TN
Joined August 2009
“Do you know what it takes to perform a brain operation? Do you know the kind of skill it demands, and the years of passionate, merciless, excruciating devotion that go to acquire that skill? That was what I could not place at the disposal of men whose sole qualification to rule me was their capacity to spout the fraudulent generalities that got them elected to the privilege of enforcing their wishes at the point of a gun. I would not let them dictate the purpose for which my years of study had been spent, or the conditions of my work, or my choice of patients, or the amount of my reward. I observed that in all the discussions that preceded the enslavement of medicine, men discussed everything — except the desires of the doctors. Men considered only the ‘welfare’ of the patients, with no thought for those who were to provide it. That a doctor should have any right, desire or choice in the matter, was regarded as irrelevant selfishness; his is not to choose, they said, but ‘to serve.’ That a man’s willing to work under compulsion is too dangerous a brute to entrust with a job in the stockyards — never occurred to those who proposed to help the sick by making life impossible for the healthy. I have often wondered at the smugness at which people assert their right to enslave me, to control my work, to force my will, to violate my conscience, to stifle my mind — yet what is it they expect to depend on, when they lie on an operating table under my hands? Their moral code has taught them to believe that it is safe to rely on the virtue of their victims. Well, that is the virtue I have withdrawn. Let them discover the kind of doctors that their system will now produce. Let them discover, in their operating rooms and hospital wards, that it is not safe to place their lives in the hands of a man whose life they have throttled. It is not safe, if he is the sort of man who resents it — and still less safe, if he is the sort who doesn’t.” - Thomas Hendricks, Neurosurgeon
#1 reason for MD shortage is Med schools admitting students who aren’t going to practice. Only 60% of med students today plan on practicing clinical medicine. Med Schools need to focus on admitting students who want take care of patients, not just get their MD.
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@DrSiyabMD Run the numbers at twitter/X pre and post Musk. Literally the greatest business turnaround I’ve seen in a long time.
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Churchill referred to Gandhi as a “half naked fakir” and frankly demoted the idea of Indian self rule. Churchill also held the line against the Nazis after France fell but before the US entered the fight. Gandhi swore allegiance to the Crown to assist the war effort during WW2, but still maintained the satyagraha initiative for swaraj. History isn’t tidy. Her cast is far from perfect or consistent; but her best actors tend to get the big ticket items correct.
Here’s the thing: Indians are rising. And that is actually why anti-Indian sentiment is rising. Not because Indians are so weak, but because Indians are once again becoming strong. CEOs of companies. Leaders of countries. Founders and investors. Doctors, writers, professors. Not just slumdogs. Millionaires. Now, I know what people will say. Not all Indians are doing well. More than a billion are still poor! And of course that’s true, and will be for a while. But Indians abroad have risen as individuals: And India is now rising as a country: Indeed, India is the fastest growing large economy in the world over the last decade: And I think Indians have a lot of headroom left. Where does it end up? We don’t know, but if even 5% of 1.4B Indian nationals are at the same level as the ~5M strong Indian American diaspora that currently produces ~6% of US tax revenue, that’s ~70M people capable of producing ~72% of current US tax revenue. So I think it’s at least possible that India returns to its historical level of relative prosperity: As a plausibility argument, recall that before America was even a twinkle in anyone’s eye, Marco Polo sought out China and Columbus risked his life to trade with India. So those civilizations were giant economic centers for thousands of years. And are becoming so again. This perspective demands a different approach. Not the victim mindset where Indians mimic Western wokes in whining piteously upon every slight. But a mature, tit-for-tat morality befitting a rising people where you cooperate with those that cooperate, ignore what is best ignored, and (proportionately) punish only when necessary. Because even from a purely realpolitik standpoint, constant cancellation doesn’t work. Recall that wokes tried that for the last decade, and all it got them was epic political defeat. They overused the penicillin called anti-racism, and now we have antibiotic-resistant actual racism. Indians will need different tactics. And that starts with moving from victim mentality to Vedic mentality, if you'll permit the poetic license. Because India isn't just a rising civilization, it's a returning civilization. And wokes are proven losers, but Indians can be winners.
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Indians have been through a lot, especially this past century. The generation that emigrated from the 1960s on were arguably the greatest. They took the brunt of the force while building a foundation for folks like me - their sons and daughters. The mantra was excel and achieve so they have to acknowledge you. They didn’t ask for permission to be here - there’s no time to play victim when you’re building something. The “diaspora dominance” will diminish if we embrace the victim mindset. Unfortunately the mindset of gaining a tier in the victim hierarchy has increasingly become the purview of affluent Western democracies. For 400 years Indians were told we were incapable of self governance. 75 years after achieving independence, an Indian was elected to lead the same nation that parlayed that idea. Some of us are focusing on the wrong thing.
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@madamscientist Can you share a reference for that ROI number? I’m legit curious where that comes from.
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RT @redsteeze: I don't know. What happened when Biden ignored the court rulings and moved ahead with student loan scheme? You guys are ge…
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RT @realdocspeaks: Private practice physicians should be able to bill the government for indirect costs. We would love to have a 15% add…
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RT @DutchRojas: There was a time when medicine was a noble pursuit, a realm for the skilled, the driven, the brilliant. A time when physi…
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