Posted on 12/13/2021 3:10:20 AM PST by Kaslin
In “normal” times, the practice of medicine has many challenges, some from within and some from outside the profession. If you let it, much of your daily practice follows specialty guidelines, insurance company criteria, hospital formularies, and other annoyances. None of those entities have any liability when it comes to our patients. For the most part, liability lies with the treating physician.
Each specialty plays a particular role in a patient’s care and specialists often view issues from different angles while wearing their tunnel-vision glasses. For instance, some physicians view elevated cholesterol as an indicator to assess other potential underlying medical issues, while a cardiologist will just write a prescription for a statin drug, just as a cat reflexively chases a mouse.
What changed overnight and across the board, was an anti-science attitude across all specialties to everything related to COVID. A viral infection is not something requiring government management, rather, its encounter is part of a physician’s daily medical practice. The government has seemingly accomplished what medical insurers, medical boards, and hospitals tried, but had not yet succeeded at: complete mind control of physicians. And with that, the last vestige of respect I had for my profession died.
I’m often in attendance at medical meetings where the fine points of immunotherapy and monoclonal antibodies are discussed as part of the treatment for cancer patients. For physicians, it is their version of science in regard to a drug’s indications, mechanisms of action, dosing, management of side effects, and the studies justifying one drug or combination over another, the latter often supported by questionable statistical analysis.
After the science-lite discussion ends, the personal chitchat begins regarding COVID and vaccines, and the point is reached where any remaining rationality becomes akin to that heard among nursery school attendees.
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The medical profession has become run by corporations.
They are far more interested in making money then caring for people.
Deep State has ensured that we now have a Big Med to go with Big Pharma.
A de facto NHS.
The medical professional in my family agrees with this essay completely. She is ashamed of what has become of the medical profession in this country.
Since I stopped listening to the medical industry I have had far less need for the medical industry. Pretty much all the advice they give is wrong in some way.
Even some doctors are starting to notice this as well.
The left has moved us closer and closer to single payer every year.
We have done nothing to move it back the other way.
They are winning and Covid just gives you a glimpse at what is going to happen in the next decade as our entire medical system is centralized under the federal gov’t.
Most cannot imagine it getting worse, but it will because that is ALWAYS what happens when things are centralized.
When I was younger every doctor had his own office.
You went to the doctors office.
They were all independent.
They got to know you and the family,
Now you are run through like cattle.
Modern medicine saved my life but it has become very dehumanized.
You can thank George Bush for that.
His Porkulus contained the electronic medical records provisions that pretty much killed the independent practice.
The second one.
My primary career was as a business process analyst, but I had some hard science in my background and watched a little House and General Hospital. Really, the book on Covid 19 often smacked a bit of the Steele dossier and the Jussie Smollett claims.
From early on, SARS-CoV-2 was unlike any other covid virus. It had magical and mystical powers, often conflicting. It was a hybrid of the Andromeda Strain, yersinia pestis (bubonic plague), and demon possession.
Schools and Doctors should be re-invented so that small, truly local practices could be followed. Toss out the teachers unions. Toss out the fancy medical equipment — if you need chemotherapy, dialysis or whatever, that sort of care might still be available, but maybe you need to travel to a major medical center (NY, Boston, etc.). Your local doctor can set your bones, give you antibiotics, and do a few other things. It will all be cheap, and he is not beholden to any faceless corporation. Pay cash. You don’t need insurance. Your costs will go down, your treatment may improve. Those who need really specialized care will face challenges — but everyone dies eventually. Perhaps society should face that fact.
NOTE: the current regulatory system makes the above scenario unlikely. Changes would have to be made in order to revert back to a cash-based local medical practice. Such situations are not unheard of today, but they are uncommon. They should be the default method of medical care, in my opinion.
Further note: If people revert to basic care, then medical school becomes cheaper and simpler and we would have many more practitioners. Plumbers, Electricians, and Doctors should be seen as skilled tradesmen.
Pharmakia. Galatians 5
Earthly fleshy devilish. Devil slavery possession.
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Some great comments on this thread, including yours.
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(And house calls return)
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MDs = politicians = journalists = used car salesmen.
“Progressive” politics is about one thing: control. As such, it ruins everything it touches. Art, film, writing, news, education, sports, neighborliness, shopping, criminal justice, business, finance, religion, the military, civility, and on and on.
And medical care is now among the the littered corpses of our culture.
I agree that many physicians seem not well equipped with good judgement, but I disagree that it cannot be learned. I have been always impressed with most doctor's abilities to assess complex diseases, especially with the myriad of symptoms, disease types, medicines, treatments, and all. Yet their responses seem to come from rote, not logic. It takes a brilliant memory to deal with all the facts involved, but I think their training has focused on memorization, not judgement. I think that judgement can also be learned.
I'm an engineer. My whole half-century pus career has been based on logic - looking at data, and 'judging' its reality, importance, cause and effect. I have been trained in making judgements. Like anything else, the more you do it, the better you get. The training came in statistics, physics, math, programming, and more. There is even a name for a part of this - Bolian Algebra, "the branch of algebra dealing with logical operations".
I agree that many doctors are not trained in this. I think it can be learned. The first step is always in accepting that you need to, and, if not, accepting that someone else can. That someone is NEVER a government bureaucrat. That's what most physicians have missed.
The medical profession stopped practicing medicine decades ago. A doctor is now practicing business and law and simply asks, “what is the most profitable treatment I can legally prescribe this patient?” (regardless of whether or not it cures the patient)
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