Post by Cliff Mickelson on Aug 2, 2006 3:05:15 GMT -5
Hi Cliff
I wonder now how much it will take to set the medical and scientific communities on fire and research funded?
I've read some of Kuhn's commentary on the paradigm wars and seen the mind-set of derms about DOP and it has made me think getting recognition and research projects underway may be much more challenging than I previously believed.
-G:
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Hi G:
In a phrase?....A LOT! I suspect that what we are now witnessing, courtesy of the Morgellons and the Chronic Lyme phenomena, is a ringside seat at the opening arguments in the trial of the modern American medical behemoth before the bench of future history.
The charges? ...Terminal systemic intellectual and moral bankruptcy.
However, with that being said and...with the charges now stated, I feel that the malaise or cancer that currently affects the American medical system is, in my opinion, institutional and NOT individual.
In other words the disease of squandered intellectual wealth, stillborn scientific curiosity, and medical moral turpitude has worked its devious way through the medical community from the top down and from the outside, in, and not the reverse.
The end product created out of the forces that drive the unholy intellectual hamburger grinder is a blinder-wearing, pill pushing, population of practitioners who, not unlike public education teachers, have nearly every spark of the "joy" of their craft systematically beaten or terrorized out of them.
The sources of this horrific plague that affects modern medicine are several.
Not all of them originate from dynamics found within the medical community itself but they shape the general demeanor of the practitioners nonetheless to fit forms and doctrines that in most cases dovetail to an external corporate agenda or to an unspoken internal fiat from on high.
It goes without saying that none of this is in the long term best interest of the medical profession's rank and file, not to mention the immediate interest of the patients of said rank and file.
What has developed in American medicine over the last 70 years, then, is a restrictive and oppressive form of mediaeval guild mentality. This comes to fruit, complete with a hierarchal thought and perceptional control system not unlike that of the Universal Church of the Middle ages.
This acts as a highly contagious social disease and is past on without fail to each succeeding generation of practitioners.
Such onerous and somewhat elitist afflictions are thus foisted upon an unwitting or cowed membership, that arrives complete with its own form of inquisition and overt methods for the suppression of any unorthodox heresy that may rear its head.
Creative suppression comes, (as well) from the top down and from the outside/in.
In effect, what we end up with is the gray insipidness of a Soviet style system of medicine but one that is an intellectual incarnation of the Gulag instead of an economic or physical one.
These are the charges with which future history will indict current Medicine.
-Cliff Mickelson
I wonder now how much it will take to set the medical and scientific communities on fire and research funded?
I've read some of Kuhn's commentary on the paradigm wars and seen the mind-set of derms about DOP and it has made me think getting recognition and research projects underway may be much more challenging than I previously believed.
-G:
***
Hi G:
In a phrase?....A LOT! I suspect that what we are now witnessing, courtesy of the Morgellons and the Chronic Lyme phenomena, is a ringside seat at the opening arguments in the trial of the modern American medical behemoth before the bench of future history.
The charges? ...Terminal systemic intellectual and moral bankruptcy.
However, with that being said and...with the charges now stated, I feel that the malaise or cancer that currently affects the American medical system is, in my opinion, institutional and NOT individual.
In other words the disease of squandered intellectual wealth, stillborn scientific curiosity, and medical moral turpitude has worked its devious way through the medical community from the top down and from the outside, in, and not the reverse.
The end product created out of the forces that drive the unholy intellectual hamburger grinder is a blinder-wearing, pill pushing, population of practitioners who, not unlike public education teachers, have nearly every spark of the "joy" of their craft systematically beaten or terrorized out of them.
The sources of this horrific plague that affects modern medicine are several.
Not all of them originate from dynamics found within the medical community itself but they shape the general demeanor of the practitioners nonetheless to fit forms and doctrines that in most cases dovetail to an external corporate agenda or to an unspoken internal fiat from on high.
It goes without saying that none of this is in the long term best interest of the medical profession's rank and file, not to mention the immediate interest of the patients of said rank and file.
What has developed in American medicine over the last 70 years, then, is a restrictive and oppressive form of mediaeval guild mentality. This comes to fruit, complete with a hierarchal thought and perceptional control system not unlike that of the Universal Church of the Middle ages.
This acts as a highly contagious social disease and is past on without fail to each succeeding generation of practitioners.
Such onerous and somewhat elitist afflictions are thus foisted upon an unwitting or cowed membership, that arrives complete with its own form of inquisition and overt methods for the suppression of any unorthodox heresy that may rear its head.
Creative suppression comes, (as well) from the top down and from the outside/in.
In effect, what we end up with is the gray insipidness of a Soviet style system of medicine but one that is an intellectual incarnation of the Gulag instead of an economic or physical one.
These are the charges with which future history will indict current Medicine.
-Cliff Mickelson