By JC
Background
Concerned Doctors of Alabama is a group of physicians from around the state who decided that when something in medicine didn’t sit right with them, they would say so in public, with their names attached. During the COVID years, they asked questions about official guidance, including recommendations for young children, and requested a sit-down with the state health officer to talk it through face to face.
You don’t have to agree with every conclusion they reach to respect what they did. Doctors take an oath to their patients, not to a press release. When the safe move is to keep your head down and your license quiet, standing up costs something. Most of us have never risked our career over a question. I’ve barely risked a second helping of banana pudding.
Full disclosure: We Rock Network helps produce concerneddoctors.org. I’d tell you that even if I didn’t have to.
Through a Christian Lens
Scripture never asks us to stop thinking. It asks us to test things, weigh them, and hold on to what’s good. The Bereans got a compliment in the Book of Acts for checking what Paul told them against the Scriptures. Paul. The man wrote half the New Testament, and they still double-checked him. He seemed fine with it.
Asking questions isn’t rebellion. It’s stewardship. Our bodies, and our children’s bodies, are gifts we’re responsible for. A doctor who says “I’m not sure about this, let’s talk” is doing the job God gave him: caring for the patient in front of him and telling the truth as best he understands it.
And the rest of us have a job too. Listen to people we disagree with. Pray for those making hard decisions. Talk to our own doctors. And remember that truth doesn’t need us to shout. It just needs us to be honest.
Learn More
- Visit concerneddoctors.org
- Talk with your own physician about decisions for you and your family
“Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.”
1 Thessalonians 5:21 (KJV)
JC is a Birmingham-area musician, writer, and founder of We Rock Network.
