How the sickness industry traps the practitioners

People are sick, doctors are sick; each and every person connected to modern healthcare is sick.

Part 2

In the first part we discussed what is wrong with the system: It is not designed to ensure health and therefore it is no wonder that all who adopt and follow it fall sick.

Now let us look at how doctors are oriented by the system so that we can suggest how they can turn towards health.

• Medical education is controlled by the pharmaceutical industry. Therefore it is about orientation and programming. This process begins the moment a student is admitted into the college
• The teachers inculcate a sense of pride in them for having entered the halls of science. They are led to believe that consequent to extensive knowledge and research medical science is perfect and infallible and the only way
• The education is designed to cram information rather than create wisdom. Questioning is not permitted
• What is written in the books is considered infallible almost akin to the word of God
• It is enforced that all other systems are quackery and are to be actively opposed through whatever means possible. They are antique, outdated, nonsensical, impractical, and intensely harmful
• There is intense peer pressure to belong to the system and hate the other forms of healing. The students are programmed to defend their turf at any cost, failure is akin to death
• The medical terminology boosts the ego of the students and makes them feel important. They get accustomed to the lingo and thus they set themselves apart from the rest of the society. The alienation begins here
• Pharma companies sponsor events and assets in hostels and this relationship with students lasts for ever

The student is not educated but trapped. Whatever is studied and inculcated is a cage from which it is impossible to escape. This knowledge once acquired shapes the brain and attitudes to an extent that nothing else can be accepted.

• In private colleges students are sanguine they will pass out as they have paid a lot of money. Not that there is any difficulty in the government colleges that too have become lax
• The students are expected to study medicine as a lucrative career opportunity. They become willing fodder for the system that uses them to generate business, revenue, income, and profit

The passouts believe they are doctors but the system calls them practitioners; wary that they may consider themselves to be doctors and end up thinking for the welfare of their subjects. The practitioners are forbidden to study other systems, let alone practice them.

Medical associations act as the bridge between the pharmaceutical industry and the practitioners and they keep strict vigil to ensure that pharma interests prevail above all else. They also keep an eye on competition and try their best to eliminate it through whatever means possible.

Never has such a form of medical education ever been imparted in the long history of human civilization. Medicine has always been about learning from a broad spectrum of services and synthesizing what is best considering the case before them. Doctors have been free to think and learn from their experience, sharing their cures with others. Various systems have coexisted and borrowed from each other. From philosophy to individualized medicine, the path has been about understanding and alleviating suffering.

The above anomalies that crept in are not imaginary but narrated by doctors through books, articles, and lectures. Doctors have told me that it takes but three to four years of modern practice to understand that one is well and truly trapped as the genuine problems of the patient are never addressed. Then begins the process of cognitive dissonance as the mind pretends that all is well even as the soul feels the pinch.

In their books doctors have narrated that their frustration began in the medical college itself. There is the realization that this system is mechanical in approach and makes robots of those who practice it through enforced protocols. It is a brilliant form of programming.

 But the human being is an entity that seeks freedom and the truth. It can fathom falsehood and it naturally rebels against all forms of unjust restrictions and prisons. Ultimately it breaks free of all shackles.

Consequently we witness strong opposition to the system from within. When I used to actively interact with the medical community I used to be invited to meetings and conferences where dissent was expressed. I have been blessed to witness senior doctors speak out against protocols that have no place in a sane system of medicine. These doctors are greeted with silence and sometimes with defiant hatred. But there are also those among the audience who understand and agree even though they prefer to remain silent.

The medical world needs freedom. This is the most vital requirement. If a powerful force can emerge to genuinely protect them against pharma interests many would, despite challenges, start changing on their own.

Many have started doing so. They follow protocols in their clinics and hospitals but while treating themselves and their families they are now adopting different stances. From being aggressive in their workplace they are becoming watchful and patient while dealing with their own.

There are heroes that must be saluted who have cocked a snook at pharma and broken away. They are exposing pharma. They are devising patient friendly protocols. They are bringing back family medicine. They are innovating and integrating different systems of medicine. They are protecting patients from harm. They are a blessing we should acknowledge and respect.

This trend has increased manifold post Covid. But it really began with doctors who underwent painful experiences themselves or in their loved ones and this motivated them to turn towards healing.

I am extremely proud to be associated with such doctors and silently learn from them. They provide hope and light amidst the darkness that has enveloped the medical world.

They are the visionaries who will ultimately change the system.

End of Part 2