This is a fantastic article, so many holes in one. The problem is though when you do become ill, you are vulnerable and are dependent on others. Those others, the medical community, family and friends push for drugging you, as most have 'faith' in doctors and the sick system. If you rebel and your symptoms get worse, they will blame you for neurotic and fringe ideas about holistic health. You are hamstrung financially too, because insurance covers only the mainstream damaging medical system. Sure, you can do your best to live healthy and avoid the death camps, and the drug pushers, but accidents happen, and then you are screwed. Also, when you are terrified by a condition and that fear is leveraged against you, it is inevitable almost to lose hope. It is amazing the level of hubris I have encountered dealing those in the medical profession. They get their backs up if you question them, they believe since you have not gone to medical school and they have, you know nothing and they know everything, and why are you wasting time questioning their expertise. They quickly go from speaking civilly to the patient to contempt as though you were a fool. This system is so inhumane, I don't believe it can be fixed. A parallel system will cater to the wealthy. The rich are generally healthy in fact because of money. Nurse advocates are a support, but it is not enough. Getting a family on board with avoiding drugs is like convincing families not to take experimental shots during covid, most did. I think it was Samuel Hahnemann who treated mentally ill patients with kindness and treatments that were not cruel, but the Rockefellers made sure the homeopathic hospitals were shut down, so that pharma could get on with the business of poisoning people for billions. In fact, it has become much harder to buy homeopathic medicines in the U.S. Perhaps with the entry of many into regenerative farming, an outgrowth of that will be a return to using the wisdom of nature to heal. Laws though will have to change to give this opportunity to the sick, and pharma will oppose them every step of the way.
Great summary. For anyone who wants to learn more about this topic, the harms of pharmaceuticals, and wellness based health care, I highly recommend the substack The Forgotten Side of Medicine (A Midwestern Doctor). I have learned so much valuable information from it!
This is an excellent overview of many aspects of the subversion of the health ideal into its opposite within the medical institution. I am very interested in this topic.
Iván Illich wrote a number of institutional critiques, which between them offered a way in which institutions such as these can be conceptualized and explored. I very much appreciated that amongst Illich's interests was the church, because this offered the added possibility of depth into the spiritual and deep import of what this kind of medical corruption effects. For example, Illich explored somewhat the phenomenon of seeing ourselves and others as bodies, with medical measure. There is also the changing relationship over time with illness and death.
I would like to revisit these kinds of questions with pause alongside the institutional features you are laying out here.
I don't know if I'll get the time for it, but I desire greatly to see more development in this way.
I avoid docs as much as I can now. But have a growth on my ear that didn’t look right so found a dermatologist and had it checked out. I was in white plains ny and all staff was masked. But would only pull mask up when you came close to the desk. Ridiculous. Then the doctor asks me half way through my exam if I was up to date on my mammogram and colonoscopy. I made a quick decision to just say yes. I wasn’t in the mood to have an argument or be judged. But wanted to be truthful and say no, I will never be putting myself through either of those again. I notice that at every medical appointment I have for years now they ask about those tests or if you have had your flu shot. I’m sure the doctors are told by administration to ask. And I’ll bet it’s quite effective at pushing people towards these tests.
This is a fantastic article, so many holes in one. The problem is though when you do become ill, you are vulnerable and are dependent on others. Those others, the medical community, family and friends push for drugging you, as most have 'faith' in doctors and the sick system. If you rebel and your symptoms get worse, they will blame you for neurotic and fringe ideas about holistic health. You are hamstrung financially too, because insurance covers only the mainstream damaging medical system. Sure, you can do your best to live healthy and avoid the death camps, and the drug pushers, but accidents happen, and then you are screwed. Also, when you are terrified by a condition and that fear is leveraged against you, it is inevitable almost to lose hope. It is amazing the level of hubris I have encountered dealing those in the medical profession. They get their backs up if you question them, they believe since you have not gone to medical school and they have, you know nothing and they know everything, and why are you wasting time questioning their expertise. They quickly go from speaking civilly to the patient to contempt as though you were a fool. This system is so inhumane, I don't believe it can be fixed. A parallel system will cater to the wealthy. The rich are generally healthy in fact because of money. Nurse advocates are a support, but it is not enough. Getting a family on board with avoiding drugs is like convincing families not to take experimental shots during covid, most did. I think it was Samuel Hahnemann who treated mentally ill patients with kindness and treatments that were not cruel, but the Rockefellers made sure the homeopathic hospitals were shut down, so that pharma could get on with the business of poisoning people for billions. In fact, it has become much harder to buy homeopathic medicines in the U.S. Perhaps with the entry of many into regenerative farming, an outgrowth of that will be a return to using the wisdom of nature to heal. Laws though will have to change to give this opportunity to the sick, and pharma will oppose them every step of the way.
Great summary. For anyone who wants to learn more about this topic, the harms of pharmaceuticals, and wellness based health care, I highly recommend the substack The Forgotten Side of Medicine (A Midwestern Doctor). I have learned so much valuable information from it!
This is an excellent overview of many aspects of the subversion of the health ideal into its opposite within the medical institution. I am very interested in this topic.
Iván Illich wrote a number of institutional critiques, which between them offered a way in which institutions such as these can be conceptualized and explored. I very much appreciated that amongst Illich's interests was the church, because this offered the added possibility of depth into the spiritual and deep import of what this kind of medical corruption effects. For example, Illich explored somewhat the phenomenon of seeing ourselves and others as bodies, with medical measure. There is also the changing relationship over time with illness and death.
I would like to revisit these kinds of questions with pause alongside the institutional features you are laying out here.
I don't know if I'll get the time for it, but I desire greatly to see more development in this way.
I avoid docs as much as I can now. But have a growth on my ear that didn’t look right so found a dermatologist and had it checked out. I was in white plains ny and all staff was masked. But would only pull mask up when you came close to the desk. Ridiculous. Then the doctor asks me half way through my exam if I was up to date on my mammogram and colonoscopy. I made a quick decision to just say yes. I wasn’t in the mood to have an argument or be judged. But wanted to be truthful and say no, I will never be putting myself through either of those again. I notice that at every medical appointment I have for years now they ask about those tests or if you have had your flu shot. I’m sure the doctors are told by administration to ask. And I’ll bet it’s quite effective at pushing people towards these tests.