You as a former MD, I have choice words for those in your profession. You may or may not take this as straight criticism directed towards you yourself, but may take it as my own implied anger towards the profession itself. This is the best polite way before what I will say, as they say, these are fighting words. I understand there are good apples and bad apples, but it seems there are far more bad apples. I'm not asking you to defend yourself or your peers in the profession. Think of this as a very gentle rhetorical vent without all the anger inducing cussing and offensive attacks.

Why is that most in the medical profession hold themselves so morally superior in their hubris, their arrogance, their sense of self righteousness that they think just because they hold something that is considered valued as prestigious as a medical degree think that they can belittle, condescend, mock, and take advantage of the normal lay people who come seeking help when they are at their lowest in life? People who choose to come to medical professionals are at lost in what it is they need to do to treat their ailments. They give their trust, their sacred trust with their very lives to feel some semblance of being well.

Why is it that sick people get punted around between specialists, why are patients punted around with mismanagement of scheduling? Why are patients ridiculed for what they truly feel is an ailment is "just in their heads?" Why all the indefinitely to infinity prescribed drugs to put a band aid on a problem, never truly solving a problem?

Why is it that lay people are ridiculed and ostracized for doing their own research? Why is it when lay people try to bring an intelligent conversation that medical professionals are instantly on the defense only to berate lay people. We aren't here to argue or put your credentials on attack, we're simply trying to have civil discourse because we ultimately just want to be well. Why is it that some nobody car mechanic who likes to read medical papers, journals, field reports, abstracts, or whatever cannot make some discernment on a concept? Why is it that we need credentials to be able to learn more on our own free time? Why is it that we had to "trust the science" when true science is civil discourse between ideas freely able to criticize every angle of a concept? Why are testimonials completely disregarded compared to controlled and variable experiments?

I'm that no name car mechanic. I was ridiculed and berated beyond belief for trying to ask questions that went against mainstream doctrine. I had doctors who were old buddies with my own father from the middle east wars who looked down on me because I chose to be blue collar and work with my hands. My father trusted his medical lieutenant subordinate to his son, me, in the hands of someone who ended up de-valuing all that trust built on the fields of war. I trusted that medical professional because my father saved his life. I got the ring-around treatment, emptied my savings, dropped out of university, costing me my mental health, and costing me what future I had hoped I would have.

I ended up figuring out my own solutions from literature written by MD's, lab PhD's, field PhD's, and most importantly, normal ass people's own testimonials. This worked for me, because I read through their words. Their writings showed that they cared. They didn't care that I did physical labor for a living, they only cared because I was willing to learn, open to ideas, open to experiments, and open to having polite conversations. They showed the one thing these modern professionals lack, compassion and understanding.

This is just my example. There are countless other examples. I'm not special. This is the level of separation of trust being completely erased from a profession that was to hold the most honor in the world, the trust between doctor and a patient at their lowest. This is why mental health is an issue. Who do people go to when the value of trust is broken?

Last thing I will say, and it is indeed offensive. If I can still breathe and have some energy, I would rather die on my feet trying to figure out my own solutions then die in a hospital bed by being a cuck to professionals who have tarnished their own great reputations built by millennias of trust built. I'm sure there is a growing number of people who will agree to this sentiment.

This is not directed at you personally, but to all the members of your profession. I have lost a LOT of respect for your profession through this criminal rollout of untested drugs that, apparently, all the Deep Thinkers in the pharmaceutical-medical complex knew had troublesome side effects, inefficacy, and lack of thorough clinical trials.

I once regarded Medicine as a science, driven by research and a search for actual cures. Ten years ago I went through cancer and my doctors were successful in getting rid of it. What happened in the intervening years up to the covid hoax, I can only imagine, but the post above and many, many more like it point to profiteering, pseudoscience, and criminal conduct.

My own GP offered me the jab back in 2021 and I refused. He did have the decency to ask why, and I told him all that I knew back then, having done a lot of independent reading. He merely said, "OK" and dropped the subject. Since then at other checkups, I have also now begun rejecting even the flu vaccine, which I used to take regularly each year.... such is my skepticism of Medicine now.

I still go to my doctor for semi-annual checkups and to keep my few prescriptions (BP and gastric reflux) up to date, but other than that, I've now learned to keep the profession at arm's length, and do my due diligence to be responsible for my own health.

If I have lost that much confidence in your profession -- from cancer patient wholly depending on it for a 'cure' to thinking about it as a modern form of snake oil salesmen -- one has to wonder how the general public feels. I have yet to see any statistics on public confidence in the medical profession, but I would imaging it is down there with the approval ratings of Congress (7%), root canals, and colonoscopies.

What has been done to your profession is as damaging as what Jack Smith, Fani Willis, et al. have done to the Justice system in our country. Faith in ALL our institutions, including Medicine, has been eroded to a degree that I'm not sure it's going to be recovered in my lifetime.

I'm reminded of a scene in "A Man For All Seasons" where Thomas More says to Richard Rich, the false witness who just condemned More to death with his false testimony, ""Why, Richard, it profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world," sighs More, "but for Wales?"

Medicine sold its collective soul in recent years...for what? ... for a few dollars, and then a few dollars more. What has been revealed is a near-criminal enterprise, where patients are mere chattel, where "cures" are considered a bad business model, and frankly, few people trust you anymore. Snake Oil Incorporated.

That is exactly what your profession has earned... a lot of dollars and the disdain of thinking people everywhere.

Very impressive post. I copied many of your links and am looking forward to reviewing them!

Yep, I implicitly trusted the medical establishment for many years. Things used to be a lot different. We, as nurses, in addition to following physician orders, treated the whole patient. How would you want your mother or father, husband or child to be treated? Hands on care, comfort measures, ambulation, good nutrition, skin care, etc., whatever that particular patient required. Then things really started going downhill in the late 1990's.

The past 5-6 years, I developed a strong interest in herbal/plant medicine and have a fantastic herbal teacher nearby who teaches a few programs every year. I have learned so much from her.

Yep, they should, but the ones I know are not. It is DENIAL, through and through. I don't understand the mentality of anybody who cannot say, "I was wrong."

I'll never forget when this whole CoVID bs started in Jan. 2020. I was initially concerned. At that time, I was recovering from a total knee replacement, going to PT, and had a lot of "down time" which I took advantage of to learn as much as possible about this new and fatal virus. Very quickly, I discovered things were not adding up correctly at all and, additionally, my favorite response to the many frightened people was this: "I'll be concerned when I start seeing random people dropping dead in the streets."

Anyway, fast forward to the very end of 2020 and early 2021when the vaccines became available and people were losing their minds and traveling for hours to get their shot. So, I am on the phone talking to best girlfriend who still works as a nurse in an inner city local hospital. She knew that I was not going to obtain the vaccine. Her immediate response was she would not take care of a patient if they refused the vaccine, and I said, "So, If I came into your ER and required life saving treatment, you would refuse to treat me and care for me? Without any hesitation, she said "YES." I'll never ever forget that.

I totally and wholeheartedly agree - just can’t happen “sooner” enough”. KEK

My only regret is NOT finding out sooner than later that as an M.D. I was actually the “quack” healthcare provider so I could have gotten out earlier😤😡🤬

Society starts to dramatically collapse when the social contract is broken. The social contract is having trust in people in their professions and communities to do what they give their oaths to. It's just that much harder to trust people these days, it's even harder when the clues are silent and subtle.

I trust a guy who's printing the fuck out of his concealed carry at Walmart who's making eye contact and looking behind his shoulder at every aisle more then I do with local police. At least he makes eye contact with me and can tell that I'm carrying too. We both knowing that we both stand a chance together.

And I just learned about it yesterday, and WOW.