I'm 28 years old. I spent the past 4 years at an Ivy-league medical school. I couldn't have been more excited to be a doctor when I first arrived on campus. Then, slowly, the truth became more and more apparent to me. I refused to swallow the dogma just because that was what was being taught in class, and always went to the primary research to see if what they were selling was truly accurate. And what I found was worse than I could ever have imagined. It would take multiple textbooks to fully articulate my feelings about the profession, but I'll try to summarize as best as I can below the horrors of healthcare in the US.
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The healthcare industry in the US is explicitly designed to suck as much money as possible out of people suffering from disease. It is the #1 cause of bankruptcy in the US. Insurance companies and pharma are protected by law in charging truly obscene prices for drugs that have been around for decades. If the patent runs out, they add a single change to the drug and re-patent it. This can be as fucking stupid as combining two drugs or changing the carrier the drug is delivered in. Drugs that should be priced in the $5-$20 range are routinely gouging innocent Americans for thousands of dollars. Many of the drugs are completely ineffective or even harmful and yet are routinely prescribed because they are "approved" and are literally bankrupting our nation and individual citizens.
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The "healthcare" industry is perfectly designed to keep you a customer for life. At one of the "best" medical schools in the country, we not only received next to no education about nutrition or lifestyle in our entire curriculum. I'm here to tell you to your face that the biggest killers (biggest $$$) in the US are 90% due to nutrition and ARE 100% REVERSIBLE. Obesity, Type II diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure, arthritis, and high cholesterol (don't even get me started. Statins are a COMPLETE scam and are the most profitable drugs in medicine) are DUE TO WHAT YOU EAT . The diabetes and heart associations promote diets that will ensure you have your condition forever. The "heart-healthy" oils promoted by the AHA in the supermarket are the highly inflammatory oils that cause heart disease. Same goes with the ADA and sugar recommendations. Many cancers should also be included in the preventable and reversible category, but say that as a doctor and you'll be ostracized. I'll give you a ~very~ quick lesson that should make your jaw drop. Your body develops microcancers (genetically defective cells) ALL THE TIME. Your innate immune system recognizes these defective cells and deals with them on a daily basis. What does "Modern" medicine do when they find a cancer? THEY WIPE OUT YOUR IMMUNE SYSTEM WITH CHEMO. No matter what they say, I promise you there are other ways to treat cancer besides chemo, surgery, and radiation, but this is all the profession has to offer because they can't charge for natural immune boosts and dietary changes. It is disgusting beyond comprehension. (I will caveat here that there are a few subtypes of cancer that do respond well to chemo. the vast majority do not, and the side effects are brutal).
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Without going to deep into the history of the profession, I'll just say that the main reason doctors don't wake up to the two above facts is because they are put into immense debt, and forced under pressure and shaming to learn MOUNTAINS of biochemical pathways, mechanisms, drug interactions etc that put them in a panic/fear state and as such they keep their heads down and simply regurgitate what they are taught. They also are routinely forced to work 80-100 hours a week for years on end during residency and literally go into survival mode where you just do what you're told so you won't ruffle any feathers after giving up 8+ years of your life to become a doctor. If you want to do a deeper dive, you can look into the Rockefeller takeover of allopathic medicine via the Flexner report and other mechanisms.
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This wouldn't be a proper post without the most relevant topic of all today - VACCINES. Again, a full exploration would be an entire book, but I cannot stress to you how unbelievably disgusting the data is when you actually look at it. Vaccines are almost never tested against placebo, they always are compared to other vaccines so no harmful effects will be found. THIS IS NOT SCIENCE. The FDA and CDC have been fully compromised for decades. Pharma is the biggest lobby in the US. How difficult do you think it is to buy the few dozen voters at these agencies? It was done a long time ago. I'll say it right to your face. Many of the childhood vaccines are 100% 100% 100% 100% causing neurodevelopmental disorders including autism, severe autoimmune disorders and allergies that will make these children dependent on the healthcare industry for their entire lives. The rates are SKYROCKETING, the link is obvious and admitted by top officials, and it is literally one of the biggest threats to humankind's future. 1 in 33 children is being diagnosed with SEVERE developmental disorders, up from 1 in 10,000 in the 70s. The mechanistic link to vaccines is clear. THEY LITERALLY TEACH US IN MEDICAL SCHOOL THAT IT IS NORMAL FOR INFANTS TO HAVE FEBRILE SEIZURES. I'M NOT KIDDING. Listen to the parents who describe their perfectly normal kids who had febrile seizures post-vaccination and became severely delayed many times to the point of inability to speak, read, or write. You need to do your own research. You can listen to documentaries including vaxxed and others where top CDC officials admit straight up that they covered up direct evidence of harm because they were told to. Further, if you actually look at the history of many of the diseases which they are now vaccinating kids for, the incidence rates in the US had already fallen by 90-99% due to water chlorination and other sanitation improvements well before the vaccines were introduced. Some particularly disgusting examples are the Hep B vaccine (given to all newborns ON THE DAY THEY ARE BORN) despite evidence of brain inflammation, and the fact that hep B is a bloodborne illness that can't even be caught by babies (unless their mother is positive which is rare) and their antibodies wane before the age at which they would ever be at risk anyways due to needles or sexual intercourse. It's SICK. HPV vaccine data is also so hilariously bad it really makes me question on a daily basis how this world we live in is possibly real. RFK Jr did an amazing expose on this vaccine in particular years ago if you are interested. Of course the brainwashing is so complete in medical school that you will be INSTANTLY ostracized if you speak out.
I honestly could keep going. The journals are compromised by pharma (editors of top journals quitting and saying straight up their journals have been compromised. Female editor of the NEJM wrote a particularly good piece about this), the ways in which studies are designed and performed are explicitly to make them look better than they are and to cover up adverse events. Choosing poor placebos, limiting follow-up time, testing healthy populations so the results will look better than reality, among 100 other ways they manipulate the trials.
Food, water, soil, and air (all 4) in this country contains poisons from Industry and the government does nothing about it. If you want me to go deeper into this topic in particular, DM me.
When you have done the literally thousands of hours of research into the reality of healthcare as I have done, some of what is going on currently makes more sense, although it is enough to make anyone on earth cry. Pharma control was so entrenched, doctors so brainwashed, and the population so dumbed down that it literally might have taken something as disgusting as the covid vaccine (worse than normal vaccines which are already bad by at least 2 to 3 orders of magnitude) to wake the population up. It breaks my heart. but maybe, just maybe, it will bring down the empire of lies.
If any of you have any questions about anything I wrote or want more direction, I'm always open to talk.
TLDR: spent 4 years in a top medical school to become a doctor. Left it all behind because the reality is so, so, so much worse than you could ever have imagined.
Great post. Your paragraph about the reality of going through residency in this sick system couldn't be more accurate. It is ASTONISHING what doctors have put up with, as you say largely because of ignorance - they were never taught the business in the first place or how to stand up for themselves. I majored in healthcare management and have an MD/MBA father so I was exposed to both sides which gave me a much more critical eye about what was really going on.
And yes, covid was the perfect excuse for the Type A egos in medicine to finally feel like their years of slaving away could be put to use by being the "authority" their friends and family could trust in. Sadly even in this they failed, by following objectively retarded (sorry for the language) orders from the CDC instead of thinking for themselves. Seriously, how can anyone look at themselves seriously in the mirror after refusing to treat covid patients before hospitalization for TWO YEARS in the most advanced country on earth. "Nope, come back when you can't breathe." Beyond imagination.
I met a lot of wonderful people in medicine, and I'm sure I would have learned a lot working under your husband, but I simply found the BS outweighed the good moments 10 to 1 in medicine and the thought of 4-6 years in residency being forced to keep my true opinions a secret was just too much for me.
Thanks for this post. You articulated the issues very well and I am sure it was an eye opener for some of the frens lurking here. We have new people every day finding us and these red pills are not always easy to swallow but are necessary to take.
I had been in clinical practice for a couple of decades after starting out in research. Everything you stated in your OP is dead on the money - pun intended. I got out of research because I just couldn't take the politics of it all any longer. Most research is a profit driven smoke screen to lend false validity to some already predetermined outcome. The noble pursuit of finding answers to help better mankind is the idealistic rationale given for public consumption while the true nature and purpose of what is occurring in labs around the world is far from the altruistic image in the public's mind. The jockeying for funding by these labs is sickening to watch as they whore themselves and dance for the money.
Since Covid hit I've been sitting on the sidelines. Funny that this last year I finally paid off my loans - go figure. Just could not take the insanity of it all any more and I refuse to be part of the killing fields. For years I focused on nutrition and only used prescription drugs as a stop gap until lifestyle and nutritional changes could take effect. I was privileged in that I had a small patient base of individuals that lived off grid so to speak. The children were mostly home schooled. I saw first hand children that were actually healthy because they shunned vaxxines and did not take pharmaceuticals. There was not one child in this cohort that had neurodevelopmental disorders like autism, food allergies, or autoimmune disease. There was a sharp contrast between these children, many of them now young adults, with those raised according to the more widely accepted model of what is considered "healthy." Even the adults in this group were in far better health than the average person one may see as a patient. You are right in that none of the truly healthy ways of living are taught to us in our so called institutions of higher learning. If anything, these ways are marginalized and demeaned. We have to spend the time to reeducate ourselves in the truth rather than the death cult model indoctrination promoted in medical school. Healthy people do not make profit.
There had been a small collection of practitioners where I live that still maintained private practices and colored outside of the lines. But, attrition has seen those numbers dwindle. Private practice is a huge financial undertaking that is hard to justify on top of an already crushing burden just getting licensed. I saw the first huge change come with the passage of the ACA. With this digital takeover, many of my colleagues decided then that it was time to go and they retired. Most of the newer practices coming on the scene to take their place were corporate medical entities. Over the last decade or so, one by one those of us that lean more alternative have been disappearing. The landscape has completely changed from when I first started decades ago. I really don't recognize it any longer and I certainly don't fit. I keep telling myself that when this beast they have created finally collapses under its own weight that there will be room for a new way of delivering health care where people like us can actually help and not harm. Let us pray that day be sooner rather than later.
Thank you so much for your post. Nothing makes me feel better than seeing other HCPs, especially those who have been at it for years, who agree with what I say. It is very easy to feel alone in this fight.
The corporate takeover has been unrelenting and has taken away a large percentage of physician's autonomy. I too am hopeful that this could be the event that spurs a groundswell of positive change in healthcare.
Thanks again!
You are not alone fren. There are more of us out here than you realize. Most of us have learned to operate under the radar and keep our heads down not to be in the sights of our respective licensing boards. Going public in many cases is committing professional suicide. I just pray that the large percentage of fence riders on our professional bell curve will come off that fence and finally take a stand. They know in their hearts that things are not right but they continue to go along to get along. Compromise with tyranny is never a winning strategy. They just do not realize how powerful they really are if they came together.
In these challenging times I am also grateful to know there are those like yourself from this wheelhouse able to help our frens seeking answers. It may not be what we would prefer, but they depend on us to help them navigate this medical minefield. Our training and experience has a purpose - just maybe not in the way that we first imagined. Welcome aboard fren.
Take a look at aapsonline.org. They're a good group, with many doctors that left the insurance and Medicare reservations. Whatever happens, it'll be good to know about a group of doctors that are already trying to fix things.