Thank you for this column. I have been a registered nurse since 1963, I turn 80 in 2 days, and have worked clinically and in healthcare education for many years. Now retired, of course. I am dismayed at what has become of the practice of “medicine.” I was trained in patient centered care where each individual patient received the care needed for their condition. Now we have “evidenced based medicine” where a defined protocol is used for all patients. This protocol is determined by a group of physicians employed by the medical center and the rest of the physicians must abide by it. Critical thinking is out the window.
I saw the beginning of this when medical centers began buying independent medical practices. Physicians, who were independent contractors, became employees of the medical center and had to abide by their rules. I saw big Pharma controlling these medical centers and physicians with huge grants and financial rewards. Now we have them all, including medical journals, bought and paid for by big Pharma. I am dismayed.
I saw the lack of critical thinking by physicians when I was vaccine injured from the first dose of the Shingrix vaccine for shingles. I week after the shot I developed peripheral nerve pain that two physicians assured me was not caused by the vaccine. Eventually, the neurology group in the ER odetermined that I had developed Guillame-Barre Syndrome as a result of the Shingrix vaccine. I found it hard to believe that the trained physicians were unable to put together the shot with the vaccine when I saw it clearly. Even when I was insisting that this was the case. Needless to say, I rejected the COVID vaccine.
During the COVIDCRISIS we were lied to so many times. I knew from the beginning that it was being approached in the wrong way, no early treatment, lockdowns, no school for children. We needed to protect the elderly and those with comorbidities and let the rest go about their business. I am so sad that we have had to deal with this.
I hope that your ideas can be implemented so that we can again have critically thinking physicians who see the patient not the condition. I’m afraid it will be difficult because of the hijacking of our healthcare system by big Pharma.
To Tracy Bishop and JenM--Your email addresses do not show to me. I would contact you directly but can only hope that you see this and contact me: rsgonner@protonmail.com
It’s 3:10 am and I can’t sleep thinking about my children’s future. I decided to read in hopes of feeling sleepy soon. But instead God sent me to your Substack. I have a son in medical school and a daughter in vet school. My youngest, a daughter as well, is getting her undergraduate. She is also on the path to attend medical school. They were raised by conservative parents that encouraged them to follow their dreams. if I could go back, I would steered them away from the medical industry. They do not believe in the woke agenda. But do not speak up against it either. They feel like they can keep their heads down and move along. Luckily we live in the south and that’s easier to do here. My son wants to be a orthopedic surgeon and feels like he will not be immersed in there agenda. But my youngest daughter, just has her eye on the prize. The prize of just getting into medical school. My dream would be to talk her out of it. Which I try often. I don’t think she thinks it’s as bad as I tell her it is. She is a critical thinker that goes along with the game just to get where she wants to be in life. I would love for you to have a conversation with all or any of them if you would like to. If not, maybe you can point me in the direction to be able to not worry so much, and finally be able to sleep at night.
One of the challenges is that the most sought out medical educational centers are, of course, in the city, and those who want to live in cities tend to be more into "the current thing".
I’m a woman with extensive experience as a health care consumer. I dread the thought of my skin color being used against me to make up for others’ sins. Yet I’m even more apprehensive of being targeted not only by medical providers but also by our government. I’ve read Medicare is already keeping tabs on those who’ve wisely avoided the so-called Covid “vaccine.” It’s also reported our doctors will be forced to note if we’ve taken it and the many other mRNA “vaccines” coming down the pipeline.
How we’ll withstand the continual assault on our rights and our lives is the question.
I trained in Australia our universal healthcare system came in in 1971 . We lived in nursing homes and worked and studied where we lived . I started my training in 1971. We also had patient centred care. What happened here that rang alarm bells for me was a system called DRG’s - diagnostic related groupings. That meant if a patient came in for surgeries and later had complications only the surgery was funded ( as an example) I also married a doctor who became a psychiatrist and became highly aware of big pharma using practitioners who were held in high respect being paid to be “ influencers” especially with prescribing off label - often with life changing results. I first became highly aware in the 80’s. to be honest in recent years I’ve supported friends and relatives in hospital and to be honest I’d be terrified to ever enter one as a patient.
My daughter is a second year medical student, and formerly an RN. She is having trouble wrapping her mind around the new 'facts' and terminologies such as "chest feeding", and that men can have babies. Futhermore, despite having had C 19 and having her antibody response quanitifed and qualified via blood analysis, she was mandated to vaccinate, because you know, innate immunity, previously the gold standard that vaccination mimics, is now passé. After dedicating years to be admitted to medical school, she is incredibly disillusioned with what medicine has become. The victory of woke virtue signalling over biology and reality is a danger to our very survival.
It’s 3:10 am and I can’t sleep thinking about my children’s future. I decided to read in hopes of feeling sleepy soon. But instead God sent me to your Substack. I have a son in medical school and a daughter in vet school. My youngest, a daughter as well, is getting her undergraduate. She is also on the path to attend medical school. They were raised by conservative parents that encouraged them to follow their dreams. if I could go back, I would steered them away from the medical industry. They do not believe in the woke agenda. But do not speak up against it either. They feel like they can keep their heads down and move along. Luckily we live in the south and that’s easier to do here. My son wants to be a orthopedic surgeon and feels like he will not be immersed in there agenda. But my youngest daughter, just has her eye on the prize. The prize of just getting into medical school. My dream would be to talk her out of it. Which I try often. I don’t think she thinks it’s as bad as I tell her it is. She is a critical thinker that goes along with the game just to get where she wants to be in life. I would love for you to have a conversation with all or any of them if you would like to. If not, maybe you can point me in the direction to be able to not worry so much, and finally be able to sleep at night.
It’s 3:10 am and I can’t sleep thinking about my children’s future. I decided to read in hopes of feeling sleepy soon. But instead God sent me to your Substack. I have a son in medical school and a daughter in vet school. My youngest, a daughter as well, is getting her undergraduate. She is also on the path to attend medical school. They were raised by conservative parents that encouraged them to follow their dreams. if I could go back, I would steered them away from the medical industry. They do not believe in the woke agenda. But do not speak up against it either. They feel like they can keep their heads down and move along. Luckily we live in the south and that’s easier to do here. My son wants to be a orthopedic surgeon and feels like he will not be immersed in there agenda. But my youngest daughter, just has her eye on the prize. The prize of just getting into medical school. My dream would be to talk her out of it. Which I try often. I don’t think she thinks it’s as bad as I tell her it is. She is a critical thinker that goes along with the game just to get where she wants to be in life. I would love for you to have a conversation with all or any of them if you would like to. If not, maybe you can point me in the direction to be able to not worry so much, and finally be able to sleep at night.
Thank you for this column. I have been a registered nurse since 1963, I turn 80 in 2 days, and have worked clinically and in healthcare education for many years. Now retired, of course. I am dismayed at what has become of the practice of “medicine.” I was trained in patient centered care where each individual patient received the care needed for their condition. Now we have “evidenced based medicine” where a defined protocol is used for all patients. This protocol is determined by a group of physicians employed by the medical center and the rest of the physicians must abide by it. Critical thinking is out the window.
I saw the beginning of this when medical centers began buying independent medical practices. Physicians, who were independent contractors, became employees of the medical center and had to abide by their rules. I saw big Pharma controlling these medical centers and physicians with huge grants and financial rewards. Now we have them all, including medical journals, bought and paid for by big Pharma. I am dismayed.
I saw the lack of critical thinking by physicians when I was vaccine injured from the first dose of the Shingrix vaccine for shingles. I week after the shot I developed peripheral nerve pain that two physicians assured me was not caused by the vaccine. Eventually, the neurology group in the ER odetermined that I had developed Guillame-Barre Syndrome as a result of the Shingrix vaccine. I found it hard to believe that the trained physicians were unable to put together the shot with the vaccine when I saw it clearly. Even when I was insisting that this was the case. Needless to say, I rejected the COVID vaccine.
During the COVIDCRISIS we were lied to so many times. I knew from the beginning that it was being approached in the wrong way, no early treatment, lockdowns, no school for children. We needed to protect the elderly and those with comorbidities and let the rest go about their business. I am so sad that we have had to deal with this.
I hope that your ideas can be implemented so that we can again have critically thinking physicians who see the patient not the condition. I’m afraid it will be difficult because of the hijacking of our healthcare system by big Pharma.
To Tracy Bishop and JenM--Your email addresses do not show to me. I would contact you directly but can only hope that you see this and contact me: rsgonner@protonmail.com
It’s 3:10 am and I can’t sleep thinking about my children’s future. I decided to read in hopes of feeling sleepy soon. But instead God sent me to your Substack. I have a son in medical school and a daughter in vet school. My youngest, a daughter as well, is getting her undergraduate. She is also on the path to attend medical school. They were raised by conservative parents that encouraged them to follow their dreams. if I could go back, I would steered them away from the medical industry. They do not believe in the woke agenda. But do not speak up against it either. They feel like they can keep their heads down and move along. Luckily we live in the south and that’s easier to do here. My son wants to be a orthopedic surgeon and feels like he will not be immersed in there agenda. But my youngest daughter, just has her eye on the prize. The prize of just getting into medical school. My dream would be to talk her out of it. Which I try often. I don’t think she thinks it’s as bad as I tell her it is. She is a critical thinker that goes along with the game just to get where she wants to be in life. I would love for you to have a conversation with all or any of them if you would like to. If not, maybe you can point me in the direction to be able to not worry so much, and finally be able to sleep at night.
One of the challenges is that the most sought out medical educational centers are, of course, in the city, and those who want to live in cities tend to be more into "the current thing".
This is a wonderful post, I love it. (Love Tolkien too :) Thank you so much for the work you do - gives me great hope for the future 🙏🏻♥️
I’m a woman with extensive experience as a health care consumer. I dread the thought of my skin color being used against me to make up for others’ sins. Yet I’m even more apprehensive of being targeted not only by medical providers but also by our government. I’ve read Medicare is already keeping tabs on those who’ve wisely avoided the so-called Covid “vaccine.” It’s also reported our doctors will be forced to note if we’ve taken it and the many other mRNA “vaccines” coming down the pipeline.
How we’ll withstand the continual assault on our rights and our lives is the question.
In Tolkiens' The Hobbit..there weren't any men and women distinctions brought up, it was about character and intention.
Brilliant analogy of the modern world we live in. Thanks you.
I trained in Australia our universal healthcare system came in in 1971 . We lived in nursing homes and worked and studied where we lived . I started my training in 1971. We also had patient centred care. What happened here that rang alarm bells for me was a system called DRG’s - diagnostic related groupings. That meant if a patient came in for surgeries and later had complications only the surgery was funded ( as an example) I also married a doctor who became a psychiatrist and became highly aware of big pharma using practitioners who were held in high respect being paid to be “ influencers” especially with prescribing off label - often with life changing results. I first became highly aware in the 80’s. to be honest in recent years I’ve supported friends and relatives in hospital and to be honest I’d be terrified to ever enter one as a patient.
My daughter is a second year medical student, and formerly an RN. She is having trouble wrapping her mind around the new 'facts' and terminologies such as "chest feeding", and that men can have babies. Futhermore, despite having had C 19 and having her antibody response quanitifed and qualified via blood analysis, she was mandated to vaccinate, because you know, innate immunity, previously the gold standard that vaccination mimics, is now passé. After dedicating years to be admitted to medical school, she is incredibly disillusioned with what medicine has become. The victory of woke virtue signalling over biology and reality is a danger to our very survival.
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It’s 3:10 am and I can’t sleep thinking about my children’s future. I decided to read in hopes of feeling sleepy soon. But instead God sent me to your Substack. I have a son in medical school and a daughter in vet school. My youngest, a daughter as well, is getting her undergraduate. She is also on the path to attend medical school. They were raised by conservative parents that encouraged them to follow their dreams. if I could go back, I would steered them away from the medical industry. They do not believe in the woke agenda. But do not speak up against it either. They feel like they can keep their heads down and move along. Luckily we live in the south and that’s easier to do here. My son wants to be a orthopedic surgeon and feels like he will not be immersed in there agenda. But my youngest daughter, just has her eye on the prize. The prize of just getting into medical school. My dream would be to talk her out of it. Which I try often. I don’t think she thinks it’s as bad as I tell her it is. She is a critical thinker that goes along with the game just to get where she wants to be in life. I would love for you to have a conversation with all or any of them if you would like to. If not, maybe you can point me in the direction to be able to not worry so much, and finally be able to sleep at night.
It’s 3:10 am and I can’t sleep thinking about my children’s future. I decided to read in hopes of feeling sleepy soon. But instead God sent me to your Substack. I have a son in medical school and a daughter in vet school. My youngest, a daughter as well, is getting her undergraduate. She is also on the path to attend medical school. They were raised by conservative parents that encouraged them to follow their dreams. if I could go back, I would steered them away from the medical industry. They do not believe in the woke agenda. But do not speak up against it either. They feel like they can keep their heads down and move along. Luckily we live in the south and that’s easier to do here. My son wants to be a orthopedic surgeon and feels like he will not be immersed in there agenda. But my youngest daughter, just has her eye on the prize. The prize of just getting into medical school. My dream would be to talk her out of it. Which I try often. I don’t think she thinks it’s as bad as I tell her it is. She is a critical thinker that goes along with the game just to get where she wants to be in life. I would love for you to have a conversation with all or any of them if you would like to. If not, maybe you can point me in the direction to be able to not worry so much, and finally be able to sleep at night.