"AND they made their sales reps nominally independent, they aren't paid employees of drug companies. AND they set up the independent sales reps to take the fall should society ever start looking for someone to blame for the devastating effects of vaccines."
The alt health world does this too. Stool, hair and urine tests offered through alt health practitioners only (we get a 10-20% commission). Supplements have a 50% markup. People need to learn that they are the CEO of their bodies and they need information to make good health decisions, not an authority figure to dictate what they need to do.
Absolutely agree. The mind default to ‘alternative’ health authority is equally disheartening. The belief that a mind/body divide exists is convenient, for the priests/dr business.
Best part--encouraging part--of the post: "A new awake friend, a psychologist who happens to do quite a bit or work with doctors, recently said that she can see the shame in their eyes. They look away more now, less so in the beginning of the GMC. They know what they are doing. They know what they have done."
I've followed you. Your writing and insights have both matured. Thanks for what you are doing.
Your projection about what is inside doctors' heads is a bit over the top, as is Shaw's profound cynicism. Physicians are struggling now. Most are not psychopaths and are trying their best despite the inhuman demands and pressures. In the US, medical records takes conservatively 35 percent of their time. Imagine having a 45 hour a week job that increased by 35 percent ... or you didn't get paid. Best. --RobertYoho.substack.com. Download my new book, COVID and the Global Psychopaths free at: https://dl.bookfunnel.com/t2feeen29q
I immensely enjoyed GBS' diagnosis of the moral problem with doctors and their incentives to action, in 1906. Thank you both. But I submit GBS by his own lights could offer no solution to this problem with human nature, no cure, and a National Health Service did not cure the problem either.
Amelia writes, "[Shaw] accurately describes the desire of the customer for a magic pill and the need of the doctor to make money and the relationship between the two. This is the pre-'Big Pharma' world. You and I grew up in the Big Pharma world. We grew up in the era during which doctors have been regarded as priests, present at birth and death who have the magical ability to prolong our lives."
Once upon a time, before GBS was born, a priest was called a "cure of souls". But, people never like what priests prescribe along the lines of following the ten commandments in this life in order to live happily with God forever in the next life. People have been angry about having to abide by the more difficult revealed laws since before Jesus' birth, and angry about the laws since derived, e.g. by St. Thomas Aquinas and his fellows.
So, if there is no next life, people will want a "cure of bodies" and will devote themselves to it in this life, especially as they age past their prime. Yes, doctors are then priests who give you more of this life happily: from birth to death, without suffering, ending your life quickly if you suffer.
To borrow from St. Augustine, "My heart is restless until it rests in thee (and thy pills which control the atrial fibrillation which might kill me and was brought on by the covid shot you gave me to forestall my death from covid), oh Lord."
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My mother is not a hypochondriac, nor a germophobe. But she was trained as a nurse when doctors were gods and polio vaccines were all that kept children out of iron lungs.
I was brought up short by this a few years ago when I was visiting her to help with rehab after she had broken her hip. She was desperate to get back in to see her regular doctor after weeks of hospital doctors and rehab doctors, in order to discuss ongoing pain and whether the surgeon had properly set the pin in her hip. I drove her over to his office, and got her into the wheelchair, and we waited in the tiny exam room, and I was making small talk as we waited and waited. When he entered the room, it was like she melted. It was like I was not even there. He looked her in the eye and they talked and he reassured her as to how they could manage her pain. My mother was like a child in his hands; I was observing a pastoral process. (Backed up by pain pills of every kind for years!) Well anyway Unbekoming, thanks for letting me write this out.
I simply uploaded the file into a video post. It's the New Video tab in the Dashboard. I assume everyone has access to it, but maybe it's not fully rolled out.
"AND they made their sales reps nominally independent, they aren't paid employees of drug companies. AND they set up the independent sales reps to take the fall should society ever start looking for someone to blame for the devastating effects of vaccines."
The alt health world does this too. Stool, hair and urine tests offered through alt health practitioners only (we get a 10-20% commission). Supplements have a 50% markup. People need to learn that they are the CEO of their bodies and they need information to make good health decisions, not an authority figure to dictate what they need to do.
Absolutely agree. The mind default to ‘alternative’ health authority is equally disheartening. The belief that a mind/body divide exists is convenient, for the priests/dr business.
Best part--encouraging part--of the post: "A new awake friend, a psychologist who happens to do quite a bit or work with doctors, recently said that she can see the shame in their eyes. They look away more now, less so in the beginning of the GMC. They know what they are doing. They know what they have done."
I've followed you. Your writing and insights have both matured. Thanks for what you are doing.
Your projection about what is inside doctors' heads is a bit over the top, as is Shaw's profound cynicism. Physicians are struggling now. Most are not psychopaths and are trying their best despite the inhuman demands and pressures. In the US, medical records takes conservatively 35 percent of their time. Imagine having a 45 hour a week job that increased by 35 percent ... or you didn't get paid. Best. --RobertYoho.substack.com. Download my new book, COVID and the Global Psychopaths free at: https://dl.bookfunnel.com/t2feeen29q
Brilliant. 👍
I immensely enjoyed GBS' diagnosis of the moral problem with doctors and their incentives to action, in 1906. Thank you both. But I submit GBS by his own lights could offer no solution to this problem with human nature, no cure, and a National Health Service did not cure the problem either.
Amelia writes, "[Shaw] accurately describes the desire of the customer for a magic pill and the need of the doctor to make money and the relationship between the two. This is the pre-'Big Pharma' world. You and I grew up in the Big Pharma world. We grew up in the era during which doctors have been regarded as priests, present at birth and death who have the magical ability to prolong our lives."
Once upon a time, before GBS was born, a priest was called a "cure of souls". But, people never like what priests prescribe along the lines of following the ten commandments in this life in order to live happily with God forever in the next life. People have been angry about having to abide by the more difficult revealed laws since before Jesus' birth, and angry about the laws since derived, e.g. by St. Thomas Aquinas and his fellows.
So, if there is no next life, people will want a "cure of bodies" and will devote themselves to it in this life, especially as they age past their prime. Yes, doctors are then priests who give you more of this life happily: from birth to death, without suffering, ending your life quickly if you suffer.
To borrow from St. Augustine, "My heart is restless until it rests in thee (and thy pills which control the atrial fibrillation which might kill me and was brought on by the covid shot you gave me to forestall my death from covid), oh Lord."
...
My mother is not a hypochondriac, nor a germophobe. But she was trained as a nurse when doctors were gods and polio vaccines were all that kept children out of iron lungs.
I was brought up short by this a few years ago when I was visiting her to help with rehab after she had broken her hip. She was desperate to get back in to see her regular doctor after weeks of hospital doctors and rehab doctors, in order to discuss ongoing pain and whether the surgeon had properly set the pin in her hip. I drove her over to his office, and got her into the wheelchair, and we waited in the tiny exam room, and I was making small talk as we waited and waited. When he entered the room, it was like she melted. It was like I was not even there. He looked her in the eye and they talked and he reassured her as to how they could manage her pain. My mother was like a child in his hands; I was observing a pastoral process. (Backed up by pain pills of every kind for years!) Well anyway Unbekoming, thanks for letting me write this out.
Thanks Tamsin…I found your telling of your mothers story haunting…
how did you put up the dr dr video? i wanted to post the one about matt hancock, it was genius level funny
I simply uploaded the file into a video post. It's the New Video tab in the Dashboard. I assume everyone has access to it, but maybe it's not fully rolled out.
Brilliant analysis. From the pedophile priests to the murderous MD’s.
Clearly more to learn for me…thanks.