http://www.sott.net/article/263623-Are- ... -or-afraidAre Doctors stupid or afraid?
Larry Frieders
The Compounder
Fri, 14 Jun 2013 06:23 CDT
It's common to hear that "doctors aren't taught about nutrition in medical school". Does that mean that everything a doctor knows was learned at medical school? Did the professors teach how to fish, repair cars, write novels, play a guitar? Of course not.
The idea that a doctor is somehow deficient because he/she didn't learn about nutrition in medical school is just an excuse. Essentially, "The poor dolt wasn't taught about nutrition, exercise, clean water or even probiotics, so we can't expect her to know anything - or do anything - other than what they were taught in medical school." At times I've been guilty of this myself, but I want to stop using that kind of statement to either justify ignorance or explain why this or that doctor always falls back on what they were taught - how to read lab tests and prescribe drugs, surgery, or radiation treatments. Starting from the premise that doctors are intelligent, I must accept that they are capable of rational thought and using reason to arrive at answers - ones that agree with their medical school professors, and ones that don't. A mature rational person reacts in certain ways when confronted with information that conflicts with their education and experiences. They can ignore the new information. They can use their reasoning skills to refute it. They can even evaluate the new material and begin a process for changing their old belief based on the new findings and rationale. In all three of those possibilities, the intelligent person can still decide not to change their actions. In the case of a doctor, she can decide to not move away from what she's been doing, regardless of the contrary evidence. Why would she do that? One reason might be comfort. She could say, "I've been doing it that old way for decades and I don't see any reason to change my practice." That's the response we would expect from a lazy person. Some people are lazy. Doctors are people. Therefore...
I suggest that a more powerful reason for not changing is fear. We can all be driven by fear. Doctors are fearful of being sued, of losing their well-paying job, of being disrespected by their peers, of being branded a rebel and not fit for promotion, of not being able to purchase liability insurance. There are probably other fears, but it seems reasonable that fear is a very powerful motivating force. Still, fear is not an appropriate motivator for a rational person who claims to be a professional and who holds the safety of another human in their hands. People who impact doctors (administrators, lawyers, insurance salespeople, drug representatives, etc.) know that they can use fear to their advantage. An insurance salesman can tell the doctor that their company won't cover him in the event there's a problem related to something outside usual and customary. Someone could explain that the "way we are doing medicine" is considered by professionals - and the law - to be the golden standard of practice. To do anything other than this standard of practice is to technically and legally engage in MALPRACTICE - and we all know what happens to doctors in a malpractice suit. They "will probably lose everything they've worked for".
A short story: A famous doctor - the head of a department at a large teaching hospital, was lecturing at a multiple sclerosis conference. Almost one thousand people were in attendance, including me. During the QA part of the presentation a woman asked about a treatment that was becoming popular. The famous doctor put on a politely quizzical face and claimed that he hadn't heard of it but that he would check into it. The person who had invited me to the meeting had to physically restrain me from jumping up and screaming. You see, that very doctor was ordering the treatment in question - from me. I had even talked to him several times about it and how so many people were pleased. He lied in front of crowd of people because he was cowardly and fearful. Most of all, he was completely unprofessional. I see this kind of thing often and it makes me sad and angry.
It is time to stop giving doctors a pass for being cowardly and/or fearful. They should live by higher standards of conduct than the average "Joe". They have a professional ethic to uphold and any suggestion that "lack of training in medical school" lifts their responsibility to do their best for their patient is nothing more than a lame excuse. They are obligated to live and learn. Even their associations insist on continuing education, ostensibly because the doctor must be up to date with current ideas. Sadly, they often continue their education at the feet of the very people who use fear tactics to keep doctors in line with "the way things are done around here."
De factor dat artsen eerder bang zijn dan dom als je bedenkt dat ze dagelijks hun patienten mishandelen terwijl ze hun naasten bij zelfde calamiteiten niet zo zouden behandelen:
Er is al eens een onderzoek gedaan naar of oncologen een bepaalde chemokuur die ze wel aan de patienten moeten aanraden, of ze die ook aan zichzelf of hun naasten zouden aanraden: in 75% van de gevallen was dat niet zo http://www.dailypaul.com/57536/75-of-on ... take-chemo : dit geeft aan dat doktoren in staat zijn om patienten anders te behandelen dan zichzelf/naasten als het om gezondheid gaat en dat voor artsen de gezondheid van de patient niet altijd/vaak niet het uitgangspunt is. Ik denk met name niet als de richtlijnen niet bijdragen aan de gezondheid van de patienten: immers in het geval van die specifieke chemotherapiebehandeling zeiden de artsen dat ze die zelf niet zouden nemen omdat volgens hen die chemotherapiebehandeling te toxisch/niet effectief (genoeg) was. Het zijn wat mij betreft in eerste instantie moordende richtlijnen die de artsen tegen patienten opzetten.
Naast natuurlijk onvoldoende goede scholing van artsen en te weinig vrijheid: en natuurlijk een gezondheidszorg die gestuurd wordt door een bedrijfsleven van het satanische soort.
Over het mechanisme dat artsen hun patienten wel volgens de satanische richtlijnen behandelen en ervan durven afwijken voor zichzelf en familieleden: denk aan de Stanley Milgramproeven: een groot aantal mensen is bereid elektrische shocks te geven, ook vermeend dodelijk aan de medemens als ze instructies krijgt. Dit heeft te maken met dociele karaktereigenschappen van de mens om te handelen of dingen na te laten in weerwil / ten koste van de eigen wijsheid, ethiek en gezondheid van zichzelf en dat/die van de medemens: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcvSNg0HZwk
En wat gebeurt er dan als de top van deze wereld wordt aangestuurd door de psychopathen onder de mensheid?
De mens loopt zo veel mogelijk in de pas bij de instructies die hij / zij krijgt.
Niet alleen komt moord door artsen dus veel voor, maar ook zou zelfmoord onder artsen relatief vaak voorkomen: meer dan onder welke andere beroepsgroep dan ook: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the ... icide-rate.
Hoe zou dat toch komen?
Misschien omdat de artsen last krijgen van hun geweten door hun lastige positie waarin ze gedwongen worden mensen te mishandelen/vermoorden?
Dit zijn dingen die mensen zich onvoldoende realiseren bij een bezoek aan een arts.
Keer op keer weer.
Anderzijds is het misschien echt zo dat artsen gemiddeld echt dommer zijn dan mensen uit andere beroepsgroepen:
It has been remarked [...] that one of the chief causes of the unscientific nature of medicine and the antiscientific character of doctors lies in their inflate credulity and inability to think independently. This contention is supported by the report on the intelligence of physicians recently published by the National Research Council. They are found by more or less trustworthy psychologic tests to be lowest in intelligence of all the professional men, excepting only dentists and horse-doctors. Dentists and horse-doctors are ten per cent less intelligent. But since the quantitative methods employed certainly carry an experimental error of ten per cent or even higher, it is not certain that the members of the two more humble professions have not equal or even greater intellectual ability. It is significant that engineers head the list in intelligence. In fact, they are rated sixty per cent higher than doctors.
http://soilandhealth.org/02/0201hyglibc ... oxemia.PDF