At American Mind, Steven
Goldsmith laments the decline of the medical profession:
The Profession
Formerly Known As Medicine
. . . To estrange themselves
further from their calling, doctors bow as never before to the state and the
corporation. They grovel before the altar of the “electronic health record,” or
EHR, a corporate creation that widgetizes and dehumanizes doctor and patient.
In 2016, MDs spent almost 40% of their patient care time (now surely higher)
pecking on computers. No wonder they retire or leap from ledges.
With the advent of EHRs, weekly
meetings of the clinical staff where I once worked no longer included
discussions of actual patients. Instead we war-gamed how to enter EHR data so
as to satisfy insurers, the government, and our corporate overseers. Such
trends are as congenial to good medicine as spike proteins are to coronary
arteries. . . .
. . . Events of the past three years
highlighted an even more ominous problem. Physicians jettisoned their souls and
became felons as they shilled for their new gods. They hacked off body parts of
confused minors. They foisted dangerous drugs—remdesivir and gene shots—upon us
without informed consent, that is, the transmission of truthful information
about risks, benefits, and alternatives. Some practitioners even refused
treatment to those unwilling to acquiesce.
. . .
The profession to which I have
devoted five decades is sinking fast. I hesitate these days to seek a medical
appointment for myself, so dissolute has medicine become. Doctors, in order to
save yourselves, you must decentralize your work away from large groups with
their soul-sucking cultures and toward small, intimate groups and solo
practices. True, you will earn less—perhaps a lot less—and in the process you
will need to decide your purpose in life, why you are here. Stop being Big
Pharma’s bitches, and learn about natural treatments. Be healers, not
ideologues. Develop parallel systems of medical training and care that
emphasize prevention and the treatment of the whole person. . . .
The complete article is here.
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