I see opportunity here.
Americans and people around the world are gonna have to get tougher, more self-reliant and more self-sufficient.
“Trusting the experts” is suicide these days—and eventually folks will figure it out—or face the consequences.
This is a law of nature—the fit and smart will survive and prosper, and the stupid will be crushed.
I understand, but having worked in patient care for the better part of 40 years, there are a lot of people (and not just the elderly and infirm) who need a trusting relationship with their healthcare team.
They have to.
I think you and I might see it differently as we may come at it from different angles. I fully feel that people SHOULD be actively involved in their own healthcare, but I also think it is unrealistic for everyone, having seen the wide variety of people in all emotional states and all intellectual capabilities.
In my opinion, we need to find a way to give those people someone they can trust. That should be their doctor.
But as you and I know, 50% of the doctors graduate in the lower half of their class, and the ones that didn’t, now you have to hope they aren’t involved in a clinical trial that might conflict their wallet with your well being, because what have found out repels and disgusts me. That anecdote about the state of California Medical Board threatening to remove the license to practice medicine of anyone who prescribes things like Ivermectin or Hydroxychloroquine.
I found that wholly disgusting and repellent.
I must tell you, these last two years have been extraordinarily disillusioning for me. But, life goes on, as must we.