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.

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.