I like your systems approach to understanding how the medical field turned into what it has become. At its worst an on-demand killing machine.
Doc Ahmed Malik is a former British orthopedic surgeon turned medical freedom podcaster who has thought deeply on this subject. He likens medical training to being in an indoctrination program, cult-like in its power. Here is an intro quote from one of his essays explaining how he did not, and only later began to questing his training.
For most of my career, Dr Andrew Wakefield was a figure who had lurked in the periphery of my awareness. I was studying for my medical finals during the MMR fiasco that Andrew found himself in early 1998. Back then, I had more important things on my mind, like graduating and finding a job as a junior doctor. All I knew about Andrew was that he was a disgraced doctor who was ridiculed by colleagues and shunned by the profession. It had something to do with vaccines, which was strange because aren’t vaccines safe?
I look back in amazement. How did I manage to go through 5 years of medical school training with not one lecture on vaccines, their mode of action, ingredients, research demonstrating safety, etc., but still come out of the system with the absolute unquestioning belief that vaccines were safe and a miracle drug? Talk about mind control and indoctrination. Kudos to the Faculty of Medicine. Substack video:
Andrew Wakefield And What Really Happened With The Whole MMR Fiasco
It is telling that doctors emerge from education with an absolute belief in something without that belief every being overtly propounded. Rather it is learned and hardened through cultural diffusion.
Oh, Lord! Thank you Fuzzy. You have brought fact and actual experience-based testimony to my rather theoretical commentary.
likens medical training to being in an indoctrination program, cult-like in its power
Yes, if you listen, you hear echoes of this reality all through the system.
Not to be overly trite, but I also watched the whole Scrubs series several times, and even in that comedic portrayal, one sees elements of the system and its impact.
I like your systems approach to understanding how the medical field turned into what it has become. At its worst an on-demand killing machine.
Doc Ahmed Malik is a former British orthopedic surgeon turned medical freedom podcaster who has thought deeply on this subject. He likens medical training to being in an indoctrination program, cult-like in its power. Here is an intro quote from one of his essays explaining how he did not, and only later began to questing his training.
For most of my career, Dr Andrew Wakefield was a figure who had lurked in the periphery of my awareness. I was studying for my medical finals during the MMR fiasco that Andrew found himself in early 1998. Back then, I had more important things on my mind, like graduating and finding a job as a junior doctor. All I knew about Andrew was that he was a disgraced doctor who was ridiculed by colleagues and shunned by the profession. It had something to do with vaccines, which was strange because aren’t vaccines safe?
I look back in amazement. How did I manage to go through 5 years of medical school training with not one lecture on vaccines, their mode of action, ingredients, research demonstrating safety, etc., but still come out of the system with the absolute unquestioning belief that vaccines were safe and a miracle drug? Talk about mind control and indoctrination. Kudos to the Faculty of Medicine. Substack video: Andrew Wakefield And What Really Happened With The Whole MMR Fiasco
It is telling that doctors emerge from education with an absolute belief in something without that belief every being overtly propounded. Rather it is learned and hardened through cultural diffusion.
Oh, Lord! Thank you Fuzzy. You have brought fact and actual experience-based testimony to my rather theoretical commentary.
Yes, if you listen, you hear echoes of this reality all through the system.
Not to be overly trite, but I also watched the whole Scrubs series several times, and even in that comedic portrayal, one sees elements of the system and its impact.