Not offending anybody
We're still kind of new to writing open forum and we keep bumping into fear of offending. While we were in private practice we made sure nobody knew our political views so as not to potentially turn off half of our patients. Our social views were easily to see given we were a happily married pediatrician and family practitioner raising two children. Strongly pro family and pro what was best for children was a given. Want to know about childhood vaccinations? Either wade through all the garbage on the Internet or ask the docs if their kids got this or that shot and why. Doc, what did you tell your kid after he watched the news last night? Doc, do you take such and such to prevent whatever. A majority of patient were with us for more than ten years and many were with us for twenty years. They figured us out. I'm sure some left because their world view didn't agree with ours, but it felt like they were few and far between.
Flash forward to writing open forum where you are pretty much an unknown. It feels like somewhere out there any given viewpoint can be perceived as offending this or that group and an honest viewpoint can get you pigeon holed as this or that not pleasant group. I could just list off my opinions of everything going on in the social and political world and let the chips fly. But I think that would sink our substack and end our substack voice. We've spent over thirty years dispensing advise to patients, knowledge and wisdom we learned over a career of taking care of people. I’d like to figure out a forum for continuing to dispense this honed knowledge and wisdom without getting my voice silenced. And we're back to the fear of offending.
Maybe after we slowly introduce who we are, we can slowly let our opinions about current events out. Given our background, our opinions may or may not differ from most people's, but our reasoning might be different and hopefully interesting. I guess the goal would be to turn off only a few people but not in a way that causes them to try and silence us. I don't know, it seems like a touchy world.