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The system is totally broken and COVID confirmed this 100%!! How about cardiologists that currently give every person that visits a statin yet NEVER discusses diet! Where has the US gone with heart disease......let me see there is more heart disease than ever in history but they don’t care!! They just prescribe more statins..... real science is dead is the US medical system!! You are on your own and I do not remotely think that is going to change! We are in the business of making big pharma bigger to the point that they rule your entire life! Sounds crazy I know.... but just open your eyes!

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100% agree. I am a nurse and the segment of the article about healthcare workers being depressed after the Covid nonsense is exactly how I feel. I know our system has been a mess for a long time, but the Covid response was so horrible and it exposed how many believe blindly what they are told without questioning anything. Something has been very broken and I really have a hard time being at work. Everyone else feels it too. When I was it work yesterday, it struck me how little joy there is in the hospital. I know there is always some sadness, but this different. People were still happy and hopeful for the most part. Nurses had meaning in helping others, even when it was really difficult. Now it is mostly negative. I don’t see people hopeful, I feel a lot of despair. I have seriously considered leaving the profession. I don’t know where else to go. All the institutions are corrupt and at least I can try to help change peoples minds. Ask them questions and try to get them to take charge of their own healthcare and start rejecting our current model. I tried to convince people to not take the vaccines when they hadn’t yet or not get a booster and make them feel better when they thought they were crazy or alone for not getting caught up in the hysteria. I hope I can help in that way and also I don’t want to abandon all the helpless people in my community stuck in our current health care model. I don’t know what the right thing to do is, but I am going to start here and see where God leads me from here.

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Oh, I so empathize with how you are feeling. I too am feeling disenchanted and completely deflated with our once beloved medical community.

It might help you to remember how much patients really need a presence like you around. It’s important for people to be near someone who “gets it”! Whether they know it or not-you are critical to them for comfort, hope, and healing. Not equating the scenarios but think about how some of the people felt who hid the Jews during Nazi times? These people who saw the truth and atrocities but still held hope and risked themselves to saving as many Jews as they could. ❤️

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As a patient, I agree. We need supportive sane nurses, and we need to support them. And we need sane people answering the phone and scheduling. It is a real battle right now, quite frankly a nightmare and I love it when I encounter sane staff.

It is sad and depressing to see how far our world class healthcare system has been ruined.

The good news is two medical practices I go to have dropped the masks, one has a sign that if you want the healthcare staff to wear a mask in your presence to request it and they will oblige. My pharmacy has taken off voicemail the messages about getting your vaxx.

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You are right, and to me you do not sound crazy at all, the current situation is bizarre and anything but I thought it was

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The statin thing is depressing.

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I agree - incredibly irresponsible!! The sad thing is American medicine ONLY includes drugs… no cares about diet or exercise! My husband’s top rated cardiologists told him he was happy that he exercised because then we would know when he had an “event”…….seriously???? He has changed his CIMT score by 22% solely by diet and exercise!! I’m not trying to be weird but anyone can do this if they want to….. they don’t know and no one is telling them 🥲

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