I'm currently researching a piece on politics and neurosurgery, and I just came across this amusing snippet.
David McKalip MD is a brain surgeon from Florida. He attained 15 minutes of infamy in 2009 when he deemed a virulently racially insensitive Photoshop of Barack Obama to be "funny stuff" and emailed it to some Tea Party pals. McKalip was opposed to Obama's then-planned healthcare reforms. Well, four years later, and he's still fighting The Man. Here's a letter McKalip sent to the Journal of Neurosurgery, in which he criticizes a paper that concluded that shaving the patients' head before performing brain surgery provides no benefit:
...Sadly, all of this [opposition to shaving] is a result of continued government and corporate intrusion into the practice of medicine and our unwillingness, as a profession, to reject faulty assertions and substandard studies as a basis for interference in our profession—this as even more ...
