The organizational structure of doctoring

[Guest guest]

I don't want to just rag on doctors or be perceived as doing that so

let me explain a bit.

Due to the public electing corrupt politicians and ignoring what they

do, assorted bad people got laws passed to hold health care hostage so

they could make a lot of money.

These laws aren't the fault of most doctors, but the doctors suffer

from them even more than we do.

The doctors suffer because the way these laws work prevents them from

getting a real education. Due to this systemic collapse of medicine as

a legitimate academic field, most doctors are out there with the

responsibility to provide care, a lack of understanding of how to do

it, and the threat of lots of punishment if they actually try to do it

instead of blindly following drug company and QuackWatch orders.

The peculiar combination of arrogance and ignorance we sometimes

mention is something that doctors are strongly socialised to and it is

hard for them to break out of this.

This results in the following very messed up situations:

Many doctors are very prejudiced about different forms of care than the

one they offer since everyone who trained them, and all their

colleagues, and their licensing board continually reinforce this

prejudice, expect it, harass them if they don't display it, and provide

lots of false, fabricted, fraudulent, and very well manicured sophistic

explanations and justifications for it. It is very hard for someone

who learns in this system to break out of it and be open minded.

Those who break out of this prejudice often do it by rejecting all

reason and believe in every wierd, wild, far out fantasy there is. E.

g. the DAN! chelation protocol, allithiamine, emotional NAET.

You now have the alternative doctor who has a wide eyed childlike

acceptance of any wild story his buddies tell him laid on top of a not

yet suppressed mixture of arrogance that whatever s/he does cures

people and ignorance of how that happens. Quite a combination. And

this is where the good, decent people who went into medicine to help

others end up. It is the best they can do given the total collapse of

medicine as an intellectual endeavor.

To make matters more interesting, you have the problem of psychiatry.

In a technical sense this cannot be considered a real field since none

of its central tenets is testable and none of its basic interventions

is curative. That is to say, the prognosis for psychiatric

intervention is quite poor. Essentially nobody who has significant

psychiatric disease gets better under mainstream care. This is the

dirty little secret of the field. Of course, most physicians are well

aware of this, so the ones who start going crazy often have the sense

to turn alternative and try something other than mainstream psychiatry

on themselves. After all, they know they have no hope if they seek the

accepted treatments (and at some point their therapist also has to turn

them in to their licensing board for not being together enough to

practice medicine). With no hope in the mainstream, they might as well

try the dark unknown of the alternative!

So you have a field largely filled with crazy, arrogant, ignorant

doctors who will believe whatever fantastic story some other doctor

tells them (it is a tenet of the medical religion that whatever a

doctor says is true, whatever anyone else says is irrelevant). But

these at least are the people with the sense and decency to try to help

instead of chanting sanctimoniously " there is nothing that can be done "

when they see a condition they didn't get taught how to treat in

school.

So this is alternative medicine. The doctors in it are just as much a

victim of the system as you and your children are. It is easier for

you to do what you need to help your kid or yourself get better if you

underwstand where they are coming from.

This is part of why I say you have about equal chances with an open

minded mainstream doc who is willing to try things but has no clue

where to start and with an alternative doctor who believes they have

the relevant expertise.

How the rest of medicine got so screwed up is another story that is

less clear to me, but largely involves the least clinically competent

physicians promoting themselves positions on med school faculties and

licensing boards then insisting everyone do things their way.

Andy . . . .. . . . . .