I was thinking the same thing and you said it better than me. I can't ignore the truth, and because of it the world is lost to me. I know lots of great healthcare workers out there, but even before covid I had ran into plenty of healthcare workers that I would not trust to give me a Band-Aid. You never know how good a healthcare worker i…
I was thinking the same thing and you said it better than me. I can't ignore the truth, and because of it the world is lost to me. I know lots of great healthcare workers out there, but even before covid I had ran into plenty of healthcare workers that I would not trust to give me a Band-Aid. You never know how good a healthcare worker is going to be until you desperately need them, and if you get sick beyond their area of practice they have to call in someone that you don't know anything about and will find out the hard way if they are decent people or not. And now having seen hospital patients denied visitors even in end of life situations, even though those restrictions are being loosened now, I still would rather die alone at home then let the hospital try to save my life.
This huge lack of trust in the healthcare system is likely going to take decades off my life expectancy, and just recently I lost a relative who shared my lack of trust in the healthcare system, although they went through many more hospitalizations than I would have ever tolerated to try to treat their condition. But in the end, my relative decided that dying at home was preferable to taking a chance on letting the hospital try to keep them alive longer. I am glad that my relative is no longer in pain and was able to die comfortably at home with family present, but I'm angry with the healthcare system that is so obsessed with what they can do they don't stop to think about whether or not they should. Because of this we have to refuse the possibility of extending someone's life a few years because that possibility carries the intolerable risk of dying alone and in pain in the hospital.
Is it possible what you describe so well comes mostly from the fact that hospital care is mostly rote now, dictated from on high by insurance companies and administrators, not doctors who practice the art of medicine? In a time of fear and confusion, no one on the ground was ready to make rational decisions on their own. Well, a few did. Kory, Marik, a couple more. Our system made intentional murder, not just covid malpractice, possible; it took only a few greedy or malign people to make all the decisions that destroyed so many.
Years ago my cousin went into the ICU with necrotizing pancreatitis, for which there is no specific medical treatment, just palliative care. I'm a biostatistician, so I went hunting in the research literature and found that there is an experimental treatment with IV N-acetyl cysteine (just an amino acid really). Every hospital has this on hand in the ER because it is what saves the life of someone who's overdosed on acetominophen (e.g. one brand name is Acetadote). I got a new medical resident interested in this treatment. He had questions about dosing, I suggested a mg/kg dosage range from animal studies. He talked the senior doctor into trying it, they even called my cousin's brother to say that they would be beginning an experimental treatment and told him what it was.
And then a hospital administrator found out. She was not an MD. She said that they do not take orders from patients' families and they would not be trying this treatment. And that was that. I'm not saying this would have saved my cousin's life, but now we will never know, and nor will that brand new doctor have learned anything new, one way or the other, about this possible treatment. (Most) hospital administrators deserve their own special circle in hell.
Your very sad and disturbing story needs to be shared widely, so that people become aware of the extent to which our medical system is broken by hospital bureaucratic creep. Similarly the ban on ivermectin still in place in Australia is currently preventing someone I love getting treatment for a kidney tumour which is known to respond well to this drug. The cancer treatment-repertoire takeover and suppression of alternate promising treatments is an older story than the current deadly pandemonium, as too is the vaccine industry with so much collateral damage in its wake. Covid has excoriated the whole pus-filled wound of corruption, conflicts of interest and downright malintent.
"Is it possible what you describe so well comes mostly from the fact that hospital care is mostly rote now, dictated from on high by insurance companies and administrators, not doctors who practice the art of medicine?"
I new menace is coming onboard now in corporate hospital systems. Protocols determined by AI, Artificial Intelligence. It dictates marching orders for treatments.
I think the name of one of these systems is EPIC. The most profitable procedures and drugs are programmed into it. This leads to dangerous and substandard healthcare.
Yes, it's funny how some Americans fear "socialized medicine" when that's exactly what you have when insurance companies and administrators decide your fate.
I was thinking the same thing and you said it better than me. I can't ignore the truth, and because of it the world is lost to me. I know lots of great healthcare workers out there, but even before covid I had ran into plenty of healthcare workers that I would not trust to give me a Band-Aid. You never know how good a healthcare worker is going to be until you desperately need them, and if you get sick beyond their area of practice they have to call in someone that you don't know anything about and will find out the hard way if they are decent people or not. And now having seen hospital patients denied visitors even in end of life situations, even though those restrictions are being loosened now, I still would rather die alone at home then let the hospital try to save my life.
This huge lack of trust in the healthcare system is likely going to take decades off my life expectancy, and just recently I lost a relative who shared my lack of trust in the healthcare system, although they went through many more hospitalizations than I would have ever tolerated to try to treat their condition. But in the end, my relative decided that dying at home was preferable to taking a chance on letting the hospital try to keep them alive longer. I am glad that my relative is no longer in pain and was able to die comfortably at home with family present, but I'm angry with the healthcare system that is so obsessed with what they can do they don't stop to think about whether or not they should. Because of this we have to refuse the possibility of extending someone's life a few years because that possibility carries the intolerable risk of dying alone and in pain in the hospital.
Is it possible what you describe so well comes mostly from the fact that hospital care is mostly rote now, dictated from on high by insurance companies and administrators, not doctors who practice the art of medicine? In a time of fear and confusion, no one on the ground was ready to make rational decisions on their own. Well, a few did. Kory, Marik, a couple more. Our system made intentional murder, not just covid malpractice, possible; it took only a few greedy or malign people to make all the decisions that destroyed so many.
Years ago my cousin went into the ICU with necrotizing pancreatitis, for which there is no specific medical treatment, just palliative care. I'm a biostatistician, so I went hunting in the research literature and found that there is an experimental treatment with IV N-acetyl cysteine (just an amino acid really). Every hospital has this on hand in the ER because it is what saves the life of someone who's overdosed on acetominophen (e.g. one brand name is Acetadote). I got a new medical resident interested in this treatment. He had questions about dosing, I suggested a mg/kg dosage range from animal studies. He talked the senior doctor into trying it, they even called my cousin's brother to say that they would be beginning an experimental treatment and told him what it was.
And then a hospital administrator found out. She was not an MD. She said that they do not take orders from patients' families and they would not be trying this treatment. And that was that. I'm not saying this would have saved my cousin's life, but now we will never know, and nor will that brand new doctor have learned anything new, one way or the other, about this possible treatment. (Most) hospital administrators deserve their own special circle in hell.
Your very sad and disturbing story needs to be shared widely, so that people become aware of the extent to which our medical system is broken by hospital bureaucratic creep. Similarly the ban on ivermectin still in place in Australia is currently preventing someone I love getting treatment for a kidney tumour which is known to respond well to this drug. The cancer treatment-repertoire takeover and suppression of alternate promising treatments is an older story than the current deadly pandemonium, as too is the vaccine industry with so much collateral damage in its wake. Covid has excoriated the whole pus-filled wound of corruption, conflicts of interest and downright malintent.
I'm so sorry your family/friend does not have proper access to ivermectin. It's so wrong. We need self-determination in medicine.
Look into TheUniversalAntidote.com
The Telegram group is great!
Can you get access to fenben?
NAC is wonderful! That's why they're trying to ban it!
I absolutely agree.
"Is it possible what you describe so well comes mostly from the fact that hospital care is mostly rote now, dictated from on high by insurance companies and administrators, not doctors who practice the art of medicine?"
I new menace is coming onboard now in corporate hospital systems. Protocols determined by AI, Artificial Intelligence. It dictates marching orders for treatments.
I think the name of one of these systems is EPIC. The most profitable procedures and drugs are programmed into it. This leads to dangerous and substandard healthcare.
Yes, it's funny how some Americans fear "socialized medicine" when that's exactly what you have when insurance companies and administrators decide your fate.