How will this make us great again or lower the price of eggs?
A letter to the editor of the Rochester, MN local paper from the Mayo Clinic president :
I am alarmed by the recent actions by President Trump and DOGE director Elon Musk to abruptly and indiscriminately cut funding for medical research at our World Famous Medical Center in Rochester.
I spent 50 years at this center in training and practice as an infectious disease specialist. I focused on the most vulnerable patients with cancer, leukemia, end-stage organ disease requiring transplantation, diabetes, and trauma. The late Jim Hagedorn (the predecessor of Brad Finstad, our current U.S. representative) received care here before he died of recurrent kidney cancer.
The abrupt disruption of our center's medical research by this capricious edict will result in irreparable harm to medical progress in finding cures for the most challenging diseases, including those that the late Rep. Hagedorn had.
Laboratories will need to be shut down. Cutting-edge technologies will be suspended. Key laboratory personnel with many years of technical expertise will be dismissed and will have to begin new careers in completely new fields because this edict will affect the whole country. Research will be derailed and would take many years to get back on track. It will probably be other countries, including China, that will take over world-leading medical progress.
I am ashamed that Congress, and our representative in particular, is doing nothing to put any guardrails on this rogue administration. It is becoming clear we are seeing a coups d’etat, by a new oligarchy of unaccountable billionaires, right before our very eyes. This is far beyond the so-called mandate that President Trump claims he has from the election.
Dr. Randall C. Walker, president,
Rochester Mayo Clinic
Comments
Their reasoning is that they need to review the panel process when these people are not remotely trained in the field of physical and medical sciences.