You make some excellent points. The system is so broke that it will not be fixed from within. That is just the reality. I ran head long into that system early in my career both in research and in clinical practice. Anything that did not line up with the conventional "evidence based" narrative was met with swift retribution and its own form of medical cancel culture. Many times, I was left to fight those battles alone and was frustrated in that challenging the status quo was anathema.

The only thing we can do is to establish parallel systems and rebuild when it finally collapses. I cannot imagine the BS that new students and residents have to deal with today. The pressure on them is enormous. I am glad to hear that there are a few holding the line. How to go about reeducating the indoctrinated will be the challenge going forward. They are essentially drug pushers and data collectors. Preventative care is all but a joke. They are not teaching how to provide health care that requires skillful diagnostic and treatment critical thinking. It is all data driven AI algorithm protocol case management.

For years I tried to do right by my patients and keep my head down. Since I could not educate my colleagues, I focused on educating my patients. I had been walking a tight rope trying to stay off the radar of the state licensing board. Things had been getting bad even before the Rona hit with the passage of the ACA. That legislation was in large part the scaffolding of the Covid medical tyranny we are witnessing now. Unfortunately, years ago when I was trying to sound the alarm on what they were trying to build, the warnings fell on deaf ears. I was ostracized by colleagues and labeled as "one of those."

Those trying to do the right thing and stay the course will need our support going forward. Patients themselves are going to have to start thinking differently about health care and how it is delivered. The insurance based system run by the unethical and the immoral that we currently have is broken. We are all going to have to try something different and think outside of the box. Patients and clinicians need to relearn healthcare from the ground up. Somehow, going back to the days of one or two providers caring for a community they are invested in using trade and barter, sounds like a good place to start.

You make some excellent points. The system is so broke that it will not be fixed from within. That is just the reality. I ran head long into that system early in my career both in research and in clinical practice. Anything that did not line up with the conventional "evidence based" narrative was met with swift retribution and its own form of medical cancel culture. Many times, I was left to fight those battles alone and was frustrated in that challenging the status quo was anathema.

The only thing we can do is to establish parallel systems and rebuild when it finally collapses. I cannot imagine the BS that new students and residents have to deal with today. The pressure on them is enormous. I am glad to hear that there are a few holding the line. How to go about reeducating the indoctrinated will be the challenge going forward. They are essentially drug pushers and data collectors. Preventative care is all but a joke. They are not teaching how to provide health care that requires skillful diagnostic and treatment critical thinking. It is all data driven AI algorithm protocol case management.

For years I tried to do right by my patients and keep my head down. Since I could not educate my colleagues, I focused on educating my patients. I had been walking a tight rope trying to stay off the radar of the state licensing board. Things had been getting bad even before the Rona hit with the passage of the ACA. That legislation was in large part the scaffolding of the Covid medical tyranny we are witnessing now. Unfortunately, years ago when I was trying to sound the alarm on what they were trying to build, the warnings fell on deaf ears. I was ostracized by colleagues and labeled as "one of those."

Those trying to do the right thing and stay the course will need our support going forward. Patients themselves are going to have to start thinking differently about health care and how it is delivered. The insurance based system run by the unethical and the immoral that we currently have is broken. We are all going to have to try something different and think outside of the box. Somehow, going back to the days of one or two providers caring for a community they are invested in using trade and barter, sounds like a good place to start. Patients and clinicians need to relearn healthcare from the ground up.