How Now to Stop Donald Trump
How Now to Stop Donald Trump Is It Still Possible? Or is It Too Late? Bandy X. Lee Mar 05, 2026 People who know me are aware that I was never a political person before, that is, a seriously psychologically dangerous and disturbed person became the U.S. president. Medicine is all about intervention (and prevention). Even when I took the initiative to convene the conference at Yale School of Medicine, shortly after the inauguration in 2017, I stressed that it was not a political conference, but a medical conference. We were merely keeping with our professional responsibility as psychiatrists, as must all medical professionals, to protect the public—which is in the very preamble of our ethics code. The theme of the conference was fully in keeping with the medical oaths and the universal pledge we take as psychiatrists, as all health professionals do, called the Declaration of Geneva—instituted after the Nuremberg trials, so that doctors would never again collude with dangerous regimes. Wh...
