we were all conditioned through the
years, being convinced that the medical establishment was telling us the truth about our health and looking out for our well being.
***Sorry for the rant***
I don't prescribe medications anymore. I'm an eye doctor, but when a patient complains of dry/itchy eyes... I "prescribe" baby shampoo lid scrubs. I'll tell them to gently wash their lids and lashes... and for most that works. In fact, I had a long time patient who developed dry eye, but told her PC instead of coming to me. He sent her to, and I quote, "the top dry eye doctor in the state." His medications didn't help, but when she washed her lids & lashes after coming to see me for a routine exam... she was cured.
I don't believe all branches of medicine are bad. Emergency/trauma medicine is excellent. I'm supposed to dilate every patient, but I haven't had a dilated eye exam in 20 years! I can't be a hypocrite, so I offer, and when they ask if they
need it done... I tell them how long it's been since I had one, and they laugh then decline. People used to come to me because they knew I wouldn't pressure them to take the drops. They just wanted glasses and/or contacts, and so they appreciated being treated as a grown-up, and given choices. They accepted that sometimes things happen, and we can't prevent every problem by over doctoring. That said, due to some people's lifestyle diseases, annual dilations are necessary.* This is my disclaimer. lol
I could tell so may stories about how wrong the medical system is. I have a friend who makes about a million a year because he practices to the full extent of his license.... others make more than that. What does this mean? I have to accumulate 40 hours of continuing education every 2 years to renew my license. Some of this CE can be "practice management" courses, where you're taught how to bill insurance. We're now being actively encouraged, coerced even, to find and bill out EVERYTHING. One rouge eyelash is touching your eyeball? I pluck it and bill out $150. Your eyes feel a little dry? RTC in 1 week for a $600 dry eye work-up the techs perform. It's disgusting, so I quit. I closed my practice after I realized I would have to drain my patients financially due to their ever increasing co-pays. It's horrible, doctors have become salesmen. We aren't free to practice how we want anymore, because most have been forced to sell their practice and work for large corporations who want us to bill out everything.
We've been propagandized into worshipping doctors as demi-gods. This has all been carefully orchestrated over the past 100+ years as the medical industry shifted from a cure centered approach to a maintenance centered one. Now medicine is in the final stage of it's purpose, euthanasia. There has been an explosion of schools built to spit out robots who will follow orders and NOT think critically. My cousin's daughter told me she wants to become a doctor and I told her it's a waste of time. I told her that eventually medicine will be this... a technician conducts multiple tests, an algorithm adds them up, and the doctor reads the diagnosis and treatment plan, NOT the cure.
I want to CURE problems, not treat them! I'm an eye doctor, yet I "cured" a woman's knee issue back in 2018. She came in for a routine eye exam, and in the course of discussion I learned she was going in for a knee replacement in a month, so I recommended she take curcumin/black pepper combo to help with recovery. She came back 2 months later, hugged me and said her surgery was canceled because her knee pain went from an "8/10 to 1/10." The surgeon was most likely annoyed, because he lost $40,000! I recently "cured" my mom's melanoma only thanks to her narcissism. She had a large spot on her nose that a dermatologist was going to remove, but it would have left a nasty scar... so I recommended she use oregano oil to shrink/remove it. She did, and the surgeon didn't give it any thought. If he knows you can avoid surgery by simply using an essential oil, but he instead cuts and bills out $1,000s... he's either a sociopath or deeply asleep. I place "cured" in quotes because it was Jehovah who cured them, I just showed them how.
Sorry for the rant, but I'm so sick of this COVID lie! I've be seeing and treating patients who take HCQ for over 20 years... now all of a sudden it's a poison? I received emails from the state warning us we could lose our license if we prescribed improperly. We were taught how to use medications "off label," but not in the case of COVID? Why? Where are the studies? There are none. We were taught to NEVER vaccinate a pregnant woman, but now it's OK? Where are the long term studies? We were taught to suspect HIV/AIDS when we see shingles in a patient below 40, now it's monkeypox? Again, where are the studies? Ahhh... studies. Do you know how many times a drug rep would show me a "study" confirming their medication was the best? They ALL can't be the best, yet each one had a "study" in hand proving their expensive chemicals worked better than every other companies chemicals. Then I realized there's a whole industry built around designing studies to give you the results you want.
I feel sorry for the new grads who owe $400,000+. They're debt slaves who lack critical thinking skills... much the same as new lawyers. I predict we're going to see mass suicides in medicine once these young doctors, anyone practicing 10 years or less, wake up and realize they've been lied to. Those doctors who actually went to school because they care, these are the ones who will quit, change to a holistic approach or kill themselves... then society is left with the narcissists and sociopaths. God help us then!