Subtitled: My Fight Against Medical Cancel Culture
Nonfiction by Simone Gold.
This book is written by a California emergency room doctor who had some success treating COVID-19 patients with HCQ until she was apparently ordered by her supervisors to stop prescribing it, with no real reason given. Basically, she maintains, once President Trump advocated HCQ use, it was political suicide to ever prescribe it. Dr. Gold went to Washington DC with some other doctors to try to stop politics from infiltrating medicine, with not much success. Politics have a way of leaching into everything. The problem was not solved at the end of this book, and Dr. Gold is no longer practicing medicine.
She has some interesting things to say, although not necessarily a whole book's worth. Fortunately the book was less than 90 pages, although I thought it still belabored the point too much. To be fair, most nonfiction seems to repeat itself too much for me.
So, this book was informative but not much fun. (Not that it was supposed to be, of course.)
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