The Medical Profession Has Lost Its Character
Why You Can’t Trust Them
Buyer Beware!
In January
of this year I was offered the opportunity to have a guest blog published by Georgia at www.Georgiatoons.com and I was so flattered
that I actually took the time and care to write something that I now feel is
worth reprinting here in my Blog for my readership. It can be read in its
original form at The Profession Has Lost Its Character!
but this version has some minor changes made as a result of more evidence of Character Deterioration in
the performance of the Canadian Medical Association and its President: Dr. Anna
Reid.
At the time
of its first publication I was only interested in describing how in the last
century or so the medical profession had completely abandoned all the Pillars
of Character that entitled them to the Honorific title of “Doctor”. They don’t
deserve the title because I outline the history and the population dynamics
that changed the complete practice of Medicine from a benign Doctor/Patient
relationship based on compassion and trust into a malignant Corporate/Client
relationship based on Greed and the ability to pay.
I want my
followers to now read it so they understand just what sort of a Multicorporate Profit
Centered Conglomerate I am talking about when I publish my post next week
dealing with the Canadian Medical Association as a reflection of their
membership in the Conglomerate. My next post will be an expose of Dr. Reid and
the CMA as a bunch of chicken shit cowardly liars who should have their asses
kicked out for Malfeasance. It will be titled
An Open Letter to Dr.
Anna Reid and the Canadian Medical Association
They are advocating their membership
to “Go Do Harm”.
“When a patient asks
for Medical Marijuana, say
Fuck off!”
and violate their Oath.
LET HER RIP!
M.D.
?
Medical Doctor? = Mental Defective? = Morally Destitute?
The Profession Has Lost Its Character
Character
Trustworthiness. Respect. Responsibility. Fairness. Caring.
Citizenship.
The Six Pillars
of Character are ethical values to guide our choices. The standards of conduct
that arise out of those values constitute the ground rules of ethics, and
therefore of ethical decision-making.
Doctors! Who are they?
The
Canadian Medical Association represents the 67000 modern doctors practicing in Canada. To introduce you to my concept of
what Medical Practice should be, I’m simply going to compare the conduct of the
majority of those members, to that of just one man of character, a real Doctor,
still in practice at the beginning of the decline. His name was Dr. T.W.E.
Henry and he was the local physician in Ft. Saskatchewan, Alberta where I grew up. At that time the
town was about pop. 250 and we were a community who considered him next to
Jesus for his Samaritan conduct, common sense and good advice.
Dr. Henry
was the center of our social system, he was trusted above all others and he
knew every secret and personal detail about every one of his flock. He was a
part of every family in town and often if he happened to make a house call at
lunch or tea time he would stop for a coffee or to share a meal and take the
time to get updated on the family history. He was a skilled interrogator and
asked personal questions in such a manner that he created a desire to answer
because he would understand and never condemn.
One evening
near Christmas I and my family were visiting and just as supper hit the table TWE got a call and he was needed by a
sick child. 10-15 degrees below zero, snowing like hell, winds harsh and gusty,
driving clouds of icy particles that skin your face like sandpaper. No bloody
way I was going out in that! Not!
Blaine! Get with it! I might need a push
and you’re it! Crap: on with all the layers, boots, scarves, gloves! All the
bulky crap that make wading though powder snow like wading through a swamp and
then the open door and Holy Shit its nasty out here. Naturally the damned car won’t
start so I harness the team, hook up his runabout sleigh, load the old fart up
grab the reins and off we go into nowhere.
You don’t
really drive horses in a blizzard: you just sort of aim them and trust them to
figure out where the center of the road is. You just sit there and squint and
squint trying to pick out landmarks in the little gaps between white sheets of
snow. Fortunately it was a straight 5 mile run and only took about an hour and
a half to get to the destination.
Modern
people have no idea what kind of rotten conditions a lot of poor farm families
lived in the 50’s. This was one such family and they were toughing out the
blizzard in a two room clapboards shack heated by two stoves, one in the
kitchen and a barrel type wood stove in the main room. Unless you have felt it
you cannot imagine the drafts in a shack built of planks, you don’t know how
cold the air is inside a house with iced up single pane windows. Stand next to
one and suddenly your arm is radiated with cold from the glass.
It was a
little guy about three and he was sick, you knew he was simply by looking. I
don’t know what was wrong but after a long examination by TWE he was given a tablespoon of some
syrup, handed back to his mother and she was told that he didn’t think it was serious
but he’d like that fever to break. “Take that goose grease you have on the
front stove warmer, warm him up, rub him down with it then wrap him up in that
flannel blanket and put him to bed. He’s already so tired he’ll fall asleep
quickly. He should feel better in the morning but if he doesn’t give me a call
and we’ll take care of it.”
We got
ready to leave and the husband came over to TWE and explained they were a little
short on cash, would he take a couple of chickens as payment. TWE simply told him “John you’ll need
them more than I do right now. Tell you what you’re good with a hammer and saw.
Come over when the weather gets good in the spring and I’ve got a back porch
that needs some repair. What do you say to an Even Steven deal?” John simply looked
at him and I thought he would cry, but he just swallowed hard, nodded his
agreement and shook TWE’s hand. We left
That was
one example of his character at work: it is also the reason why he represents
the best aspects of the generations of his predecessors. His position as a respected and admired man of character made
him worthy to bear the title Doctor
Cannabis
has been prescribed by Doctors, Medicine men, Shamans for now 4800
years. For 4750 of those years this medication was freely prescribed by a
person of trust who had the best interest of the patient in mind. The witch
doctor was trusted because he knew every aspect of his patient’s life. He was
part of a tight community that no longer exists, and his reward was not
financial gain at patient expense but a position of respect and trust far above
that of any other profession. The current crop of medicine men, and I call them
that because they do not deserve the title of Doctor, are simply skilled
technicians who lack the moral and ethical quality to earn the respect they are
granted as physicians.
From that
point in the past, we fast forward to the present and it is only men of my age
has the knowledge of what the title Doctor Represents in terms of how it is earned
and expects little from his current Physician. We knew a Model for Comparison
and there is no Expectation of Samaritan acts that demonstrate the qualities
inherent in the 6 Pillars of Character: Trustworthiness. Respect.
Responsibility. Fairness. Caring. Citizenship. These have been lost by the
Profession.
The
Destruction of Ethical Medical Practice
The
practice of medicine has gradually changed into a commercially structured and
oriented system designed to derive maximum profit. This was created from the
sheer volume of patients that became available as a result of post WWII
urbanization. Instead of a couple of dozen or hundred patients in his
community, every doctor had a chance to bag any number of visits from the
occupants of the hundreds of tenements surrounding them.
Appointments
got shorter and further apart separated by many intruding and competing
strangers’ entries into a doctor’s capacity to remember his diagnosis and
previous treatment for the new volume of patients. Thus came into being the
Personal Medical Record to serve as a reminder when a physician’s memory
failed. The natural result was simple neglect to bother to remember Mickey
Mouse details: a one minute skim of the patent’s last visit began to serve as
the entire content of a physician’s knowledge of his patient. There began the
complete lack of empathy now apparent in the profession at large and its
absence was accompanied by the eventual loss of all character from the
profession. That is simple fact.
A modern
day patient with any problem needing medical attention assumes that when they make
an appointment with their physician they are going to see a Doctor.
They are not: they are making an appointment with an M.D. (Medical Doctor) a
university graduate who had the minimal qualification to join a College of Physicians with lack standards and qualify to
open an office.
His first act after qualification to practice was not to do
Samaritan work at the local shelters, but rather, a call to his lawyer and
accountant and to approve the creation of his new practice, Dr. False Front,
MD, Inc. Shyster and BeanCounter
Consulting already had the necessary plans approved, the forms got filed
and the fees got paid. From this point on the man across the desk; the MD in
the modern medical office, presents himself as worthy to wear the honorific
title Doctor
and expects all the respect and trust due him for a title based on Character. He is actually talking to
President CEO of the TYMAR Corp acting as the sucker mechanism for the TakeYourMoneyAndRun
machine.
To clarify the difference between a Doctor
and President, MD, only one
simple comparison is required. Imagine wandering down a deserted wasteland road
and encountering a man with a severe wound needing medical help. His wound is
not fatal but without treatment soon will be if not helped. How would each
react to that situation?
I think:
1.
The
Doctor
would stop, assess the situation, accept the man as a a patient, pack the
wound, stop the bleeding and then arrange for his care until recovery.
2.
The
President, MD would stop, frisk the
man to see if he had the cash or credit to pay for treatment, if not kick him
in the ditch. It would probably never occur to him to call an ambulance to get
charity involved. That would take too much time and he already had a cash
customer waiting for the sales pitch. “Sorry. I can’t be bothered guy, die in
peace.
If I am disillusioned it is rightfully so. The machine has
no recognition of the patient, only his symptoms are used to maximize the
medical billing opportunities and tap them all. Office visits = Prescriptions
benefits = repeat = referral to higher priced care of specialists=
over-reliance on technology= excess testing = everybody happy and rich = CMA.
The President, MD across
the desk does not know his patents,
has no idea how they live, or anything about them beyond their ability to pay
and the chart details of the last visit.
They do not want to know or be bothered by their patients outside of
Office Hours. They move in invisible circles away from the common herd, superior circles by virtue of greed!
Away from the place of business they do not exist and cannot be found. They
have no addresses, unlisted home phones, and undisclosed and rigidly guarded
e-mail. They long ago abandoned house calla and after hour phone calls are
answered by recorded direction to go to emergency.
Suddenly the majority of these 67000 MD’s fly in the face of
common sense and are balking at allowing Medical Cannabis, and its benefits, on
the basis that they don’t have sufficient knowledge of the long term harmful
effects of smoking it.
Bullshit! They discount 4750 years of testimonial evidence
passed down by all the preceding generations of real Doctors who freely advocated it for its curative power and lack of
risk in its use.
Bullshit!
Today’s Doctors all claim to honour what was the primary tenet of the Hippocratic Oath: “FIRST, DO NO HARM”. Nobody reveals that this guiding principle has been removed from the Hippocratic Oath Modern Version and has not been replaced by an equivalent prohibition.. The Watered Down Oath may be seen in its current form as approved by John Hopkins at
The Watered Down Oath
http://guides.library.jhu.edu/content.php?pid=23699&sid=190964
I find it interesting that given the respect they are sworn
to hold for their predecessor’s intelligence, in another part of the oath they
dismiss all the traditional knowledge that Cannabis has shown no harm from
occasional or even lifelong use. They swear: “I will respect the “hard-won
scientific gains” of those physicians in whose steps I walk, and gladly
share such knowledge as is mine with those who are to follow”.
To claim harm for a product all preceding generations of
doctors recommend is to hold their collective intelligence in contempt. To
dismiss all of it in favour of the hard-won
scientific gains of last 50 years of billing possibility experts, who don’t even know who their patients are,
is probably the grossest display of the lack of simple common sense I could
have imagined from any profession. They have completely lost touch with the
populace they are supposed to be serving.
I hear no outcry from the medical ethics experts: Where are they? because the ethical deficiency list is horrendous! I could keep on ranting forever but I don’t have to. Following is a simple listing of the components of Character from
Making Ethical Decisions: The Six Pillars of Character
http://josephsoninstitute.org/MED/MED-2sixpillars.html
Simply reading the Index
is enough to awaken almost anyone to the manifold shortcomings of the
Profession. It seems every little word harkens memories of little things
noticed that didn’t add up until now
Character:
• Trustworthiness- Honesty
- Integrity
- Reliability (Promise-keeping)
- Loyalty
• Respect
- Civility, Courtesy and Decency
- Dignity and Autonomy
- Tolerance and Acceptance
• Responsibility
- Accountability
- Pursuit of Excellence
- Self-Restraint
• Fairness
- Process
- Impartiality
- Equity
• Caring
• Citizenship
Can you smell the rot too?
Blaine Barrett
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