From the long running General Hospital, to greys anatomy, house, ER, Scrubs, etc... hollywood has used predictive programming to make us sympathetic towards the medical profession. Until recently, a spotlight has never been shown on the reason why. Big Pharma is just as evil if not worse than the 3 letter agencies. This trickles all the way down to our local communities. These are supposed to be people we can trust with our lives. People who took an oath to help us to the best of their abilities. Now more than ever we hear medical professionals screeching “trust the science” when they damn well know that there are mountains of evidence against that narrative. Yes, there are a handful of good guys out there, but the overwhelming majority are either hell-bent on protecting the narrative or too chickenshit to stand up for what’s right in fear of losing their jobs. I pray that there will be severe consequences that also trickle down to the local level. Personally, I will have a very difficult time trusting any medical professionals into the far and distant future. And there is no excuse for “not knowing better” or “just doing what my superiors told me to” or “I didn’t want to lose my job”. The lives of men, women, and children are already at stake. To the ones strong enough to stand up, God bless you and I thank you with all my heart. To the rest, very simply, FUCK YOU. Each of you deserve what is coming and I pray none of you escape it. There’s a special place in hell for all of you. Nuremberg 2.0 cannot come fast enough.
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Good for you. Timing matters. There was a time when med school was honest, and had honest competition from Osteopaths and other branches with a different perspective... But that was long ago.
I'm sure med school has gotten progressively worse over the years. Graduating into The Match is a lot like going into massive debt to be a journeyman mlb player with a longer contact. But less exciting.
I once had a plan to lobby for reform, and wrote to governors and medical boards, thought I had identified all the regulatory tools to fix it. But it required honest government, and at this point breaking everything and starting over is better. Godspeed to all things Q and the great awakening.
Yep. That was the most difficult realization for me as well. I spent YEARS (also majored in healthcare management in college and spent all my free-time on medicine + healthcare) thinking about how to fix the system, figuring out where the exact problems were, and how we could work around solutions.
The soul-crushing reality is that they don't want it to be fixed. It's very, very profitable for them just the way it is. But like you I am hopeful that we are headed towards a better future (despite some serious turbulence in the near future).
I really appreciate your comments. It has been a very lonely journey with plenty of gaslighting from friends and family along the way but I stick to the hard data instead of the MSM slogans so I believe I made the right choice for myself.
I had 3 working plans: 1) I figured Trump could do it with an antitrust suit against the ACGME, start a separate accreditation system for military doctors, and then persuade a few populist states to allow cross-licensing. Another way was 2) to get a large state, or a few smaller states, to start their own med schools, with state accreditation, with the guarantee of a state license on graduation. Non-transferable, but lower cost, helping aspiring in-state students while lowering costs. Third plan was even more devious. 3) go to Indian reservations, and use their sovereignty to offer medical services the same way they did an end-run around gambling. They could offer medical tourism like Colombia and India by importing foreign doctors, and cherry pick the most lucrative services, and get the doctors to offer lower cost basic services to tribe members. A lot of tribes would happily diversify away from gambling with a proven business model, and the idea would spread faster than the state medical boards could react. I still think that's a great idea, and was getting ready to reach out to them, but Q will likely make this idea irrelevant soon. Which is better in the long run.
#3 is highly interesting to me. Maybe I could even look into that for myself.
I can't even imagine how much it would piss off the feds if real cancer treatment + natural therapies could be legally given on reservations. Would be some true poetic justice.
Indian reservations were guaranteed health care by the feds. As a result, tribes have really, really bad medical service as a general rule. So they have a collective knowledge of the need. And most of them don't like gambling, but use it to provide employment and shore up infrastructure where no other income streams seemed viable. To me it seems like a winning strategy for the tribe as a revenue generator, using the medical tourism business model. But you'd have to speak with a tribal expert, to see if they'd have troubles with visas or international travel for foreign doctors to lead the programs, or if they'd be comfortable building from scratch with students. I foresee problems with the ability to write prescriptions and obtain basic meds, but I think those could be dealt with.
Also just saw your post. Awesome. Recommend posting again around 8am or 4pm Eastern time for more visibility, if it doesn't get traction. Night shift is tougher...
True, didn't think of that. Might double down tomorrow.