I gave up as well. But, honestly, it wasn’t just Goobers that failed us. I left corporate and academic medicine when it became clear there was no longer support for grants and research into the treatments and the diseases that affected people no longer “in vogue.” It was not by my choice. It was because I was RIFFED. Reduction in force. Corporate $$ Academic Medicine. Much more money spent in hiring “Grant Writers” than in those of us who taught and did the basic, bench and applied/clinical research. I was so sorry to leave a career’s work in ethics, in underserved populations, research that I absolutely loved, because of federal government’s lack of support for research, and big pharma’s control of medical priorities, and control of CME and the FDA, and the priorities in HHS and CDC and Medicare and Medicaid during Republican control of so much of Federal Government.
You and I, both, have always considered ethics, science, and humanism, as our lodestars, our guiding inspirations… We decided long ago, in our early years, that science was the way forward. I cannot honor you enough in your life choice, and your vocation. I think you know that I am with you, brother.
As for others, who do not share those values:
I, also, don’t get that at all. Those who do not value science and education are totally lost. We need to change their world. If we don’t, we are forever lost and doomed.
Deep Bow,