I am disturbed by the increasing failure of today's doctors, advanced practice providers, and nurses to deliver high-quality, competent, and error-free care. Here, I explore disturbing data trends.
I would add, Pharmaceutical industry influence on medical school curricula.
Would so many doctors have submitted to these directives without question, if medical school curricula hadn’t been so skewed off the course of providing care when people get sick or injured, to conducting research, emphasizing research on drug “efficacy”, not necessarily health, with studies designed by pharmaceutical companies?
Great article. Health insurance provides too much incentive and basically a blank check to doctors, giving them incentive to diagnose patients with nonexistent medical conditions. This is a clear motive and has paid for the ‘state of the art’ cancer centers popping up everywhere. I truly believe insurance companies and the AMA will squash any altruistic attempt to cure cancer. For the evil powers that be, disease and chronic illness solves all their problems: achieves population control AND perpetual profits. My retired friends are getting raped by their doctors and I’m sure will meet untimely deaths as a result. I will never have health insurance again. The savings in taxes are not worth the risks. Additionally, you’re either going to pay the government or the insurance company… I prefer paying the government, albeit the choice of the lesser of two evils.
Powerful piece. I think your ten reasons ought to be in reverse order if considering likelihood of being prime causes. Slavish obedience to EBM kills people whose symptoms don't fit the textbook. If the textbook and protocol-bound doc doesn't recognize/doesn't know what the problem is, then they always opt for "watchful waiting" aka an excuse to do nothing. Look at military medicine as a prime example: most dependents who complain about health issues are told they are "sub-clinical" and therefore nothing can be authorized for them. This approach over 18 years cost my wife a hip, her uterus and one ovary, two bad knees, three hernias, and ultimately her ability to walk. Thanks to Army medicine she is confined to bed or wheelchair. And the VA is worse.
I also suggest you think though the heavy pressures from Big Pharma, Big Insurance, and Big Government - American healthcare is so completely corrupted that it is a wonder any of us survives any encounter with the current healthcare system. Office and Business managers having veto power over physician-ordered treatments or medicines drive patients away from such practices. I'd rather visit an honest witch-doctor than most of the "doctors" in my area near Washington, DC. Being an informed and well-read patient is one's only hope.
The main issue is Algorithm Medicine. Doctors are not allowed to formulate innovative treatment plans anymore, even if you can prove your treatment saves lives. Dr. Marik knows that more than anyone. His treatment of Covid patients at Sentara strayed too far from the treatment plans formulated by a few administrative overlords. Despite miraculous recoveries from treating COVID with ivermectin and curing Sepsis with high dose Vitamin C, he was unceremoniously fired.
The court did him dirty when they ruled against him. I was outside the courthouse with hundreds of others as his case was plead.
As to the recent jump in falls data: at least at the VA they now require that all falls be treated as sentinel events, with a full RCA for each. That will plump the numbers right there.
Agree 1000% with the lower standards and massively inadequate patient load with current coddled trainees. Also, autonomy is nearly absent. We've gone from second year residents covering 14+ ICU patients each and floating transvenous pacers at 2 am without an attending in sight, to 24/7 attending coverage and cutting ICU procedures from graduation requirements.
I also recognized what I refer to as my "real doctor" fellowship, which was the first 4 years after I finished fellowship. Theres no substitute for a pile of sick sick patients, and your neck in the noose, from a responsibility standpoint.
NPs can be great but my experience with them is they are quick to knee jerk and slow to run a differential. Exceptions exist and are unalloyed good when you find them.
My med school started a PA program when I was there, and 100% of the PA students were prior ER or ICU nurses, EMTs, combat medics, etc. They were fantastic. Eight years later I gave a series of pulm lectures to a PA class of about 50 kids. A grand total of three has prior experience. The rest complained that they only had three 30 minute breaks (separate from lunch) and had to be in class "sooo late"-- meaning 4 pm. I told them they should never ever let that complaint out of their mouths in earshot of a doctor.
What else could you expect? The quality of people has been on a steep decline over the past 50 years. Couple that with the lies taught by the industry itself and you have a recipe for complete disaster. Doctors endorse poisonous foods, vile lifestyles, and pharmaceuticals over nutrition and sound lifestyle choices. Please!!! It shouldn’t have take us since 1900 to figure out this was an elimination program.
Science is only beginning to find out that mental illnesses largely have been the result of poor nutrition. There are only two things that cause dis-ease: deficiencies and toxicities.
I stopped reading when you asked for comments about poor medical care. I also don't need the spike in blood pressure from reading about medical fraud (lying, malfeasance, incompetence, big pharma profits, etc.) from the rest of your article.
My direct experience. My wife was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's. The doctors sent her home to die. I knew nothing about biology past high school biology. When Covid struck, I began reading. The summer of 2020 was hard. No reliable data anywhere. (46 yrs in industrial R&D. I understand data) September 7, 2020; Ivor Cummins, now on Odysee, showed the monthly data for death from all causes from Sweden going back to about 1865. Finally, real data and Covid was a complete fraud. There was no increase in total deaths from covid. Just the year-to-year variation as colds and flues killed of the frail old people that were the winners, lived out their entire lives until a minor virus would kill them.
I spent three years reading stuff about covid, five books on the immune system, a couple of hours per day. I took Vitamins C&D, zinc, and quercetin for 6 months and likely caught COVID-19, version one. I awoke from an incredible fever sweat. Thanks to Dr. Bossche's book, I understand that the prophylactics I took for months worked. Viral replication was slowed so much that my innate immune system destroyed my infected cells long before my adaptive system could react. I was tested and have no antibodies against Covid-19. Tested twice. Don't need them. My well-trained innate immune system has handled all the variants without illness. I continue with the prophylactics and have not had a cold or flue since before Covid. A cure for the common cold?
At the same time this was occurring, my wife developed horrid bed sores do to my poor care. I panicked and broke out emergency use drugs, vet grade ivermectin and fenbendazole. They worked immediately, her swollen arm was back to normal with 24 hours, the sores cleared up and closed over the next month as I greatly improved her diet. Before this crisis, she had declined month by month. I was expecting her to die, so I was lackadaisical about caring for her. Well, she has not died and has been stable for over 18 months. I conclude that she had a brain infection and the ivermectin and fenbendazole cured her. Possibly a fungus. The brain damage cannot be undone.
More incompetent MD's stuff. When she was first diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's and sent home to die, she was still competent enough to take her medications and was quite protective about them, not wanting my help. As she rapidly declined, I paid no attention to the prescribed medications. Why would I? They did not work. She stopped taking them, I ignored them but continued to buy the inexpensive drugs when the pharmacy sent text messages. Finally, I looked them up.
Vitamin E. Fine, no harm.
A SSRI antidepressant. Yikes. An effing Prozac like drug to mess with her brain?
A statin to suppress cholesterol. My reading describes how the brain needs cholesterol and has special gial cells to produce cholesterol inside the blood brain barrier. Of course, statins interfere with that, causing more damage to her brain.
I learned about SSRI drugs and statins from the "Midwestern Doctor, the Hidden Side of Medicine."
My wife is alive and stable. Thanks to me, and me being lucky with the emergency use drugs. I do not trust doctors. I will cure any cancer on my own. Another example, I'm paying for a tooth implant rather than a root cannel as residual infection from an infected tooth can cause long term problems.
As a retired highly educated Registered Nurse of fifty years, I can categorically assert that every one of your statements is applicable to the medical associations, university medical teaching facilities, Nursing associations, hospitals and Public Health institutions in Canada.
We still have the memory of what good healthcare looked like, still think we are entitled to said medical care and still whine like crazy when our expectations don’t align with the service.
If we do not beat down the doors and demand good healthcare now we are going to die behind closed doors, alone and in agony!
Shove your medical assisted suicide where the sun doesn’t shine and give me the care I worked for and paid for all my entire adult life!
As a retired HCP I view with truly saddened emotions how the medical establishment has sunken into the cold depths of the ocean….dark with no idea of direction. For the very people who help sell the covid scam…to agree with Faucci…who kept their mouths shut snd allowed this travesty descent upon the World’s population….they who are STILL in their Dept Chair position awaiting the call again to jackboot their patients again…they stayed quiet when they should have claimed Faucci as a fraud . These “teachers” dishonored medicine and are “teaching” the new MDs/DOs…in both DEI and wokness along with helping to use the same scam at the State licensing boards are quick to keep all physicians quiet or else. Patient’s Rights have received the same damaging trauma…I wish I die quietly at home…having watched my wife’s terminal battle with mets from breast cancer and the never ending list of non-effective expensive high tech drugs…I wish someone would have used ivermectin…over 1 1/2 yrs of worthless drugs in a supposedly responsive slow growing cell type was unsuccessful… I learned a great deal about breast cancer though not my speciality…but being very analytical there really appeared to be a disconnect even the idea of chemo first and mastectomy second; strong chemo may be causing early mets.
Pierre, I haven’t checked in for awhile. I see that you are that same dynamic force that I first met via video in 2021 before Ron Johnson’s Senate Sub Committee. I remember so well the Chairman’s, Gary Peters, insulting remarks to you personally, to your skill set as a practicing clinician and his immediate ruffled departure from his hearing designed one would think to see how the profession is tackling Covid care. Up to that point as an octogenarian, I was huddled in my apartment naively following the increasingly bazaar and more authoritarian directives of my public health authorities.
I clearly remember your impassioned and electric response to his personal and professional insults. From that point on, I became an inspired sceptic. I see that you haven’t let up. I appreciate that. You are a national hero. Please keep it up.
Wow who’d of guessed my source of information would be a maligned credential(s) stripped MD! Thank you Dr Kory ❤️🔥we love you and your bravery. May The Lord Jesus Christ provide, protect and bless you and yours always! IJN Amen!
Our family has lost faith in all allopathic medicine after losing our 11 year old grandson in April 2022 to misdiagnosed and untreated bacterial meningitis. He was treated for "complex migraine". The medical care was horrendous. Our lives will never be the same.
I would add, Pharmaceutical industry influence on medical school curricula.
Would so many doctors have submitted to these directives without question, if medical school curricula hadn’t been so skewed off the course of providing care when people get sick or injured, to conducting research, emphasizing research on drug “efficacy”, not necessarily health, with studies designed by pharmaceutical companies?
Great article. Health insurance provides too much incentive and basically a blank check to doctors, giving them incentive to diagnose patients with nonexistent medical conditions. This is a clear motive and has paid for the ‘state of the art’ cancer centers popping up everywhere. I truly believe insurance companies and the AMA will squash any altruistic attempt to cure cancer. For the evil powers that be, disease and chronic illness solves all their problems: achieves population control AND perpetual profits. My retired friends are getting raped by their doctors and I’m sure will meet untimely deaths as a result. I will never have health insurance again. The savings in taxes are not worth the risks. Additionally, you’re either going to pay the government or the insurance company… I prefer paying the government, albeit the choice of the lesser of two evils.
Powerful piece. I think your ten reasons ought to be in reverse order if considering likelihood of being prime causes. Slavish obedience to EBM kills people whose symptoms don't fit the textbook. If the textbook and protocol-bound doc doesn't recognize/doesn't know what the problem is, then they always opt for "watchful waiting" aka an excuse to do nothing. Look at military medicine as a prime example: most dependents who complain about health issues are told they are "sub-clinical" and therefore nothing can be authorized for them. This approach over 18 years cost my wife a hip, her uterus and one ovary, two bad knees, three hernias, and ultimately her ability to walk. Thanks to Army medicine she is confined to bed or wheelchair. And the VA is worse.
I also suggest you think though the heavy pressures from Big Pharma, Big Insurance, and Big Government - American healthcare is so completely corrupted that it is a wonder any of us survives any encounter with the current healthcare system. Office and Business managers having veto power over physician-ordered treatments or medicines drive patients away from such practices. I'd rather visit an honest witch-doctor than most of the "doctors" in my area near Washington, DC. Being an informed and well-read patient is one's only hope.
The main issue is Algorithm Medicine. Doctors are not allowed to formulate innovative treatment plans anymore, even if you can prove your treatment saves lives. Dr. Marik knows that more than anyone. His treatment of Covid patients at Sentara strayed too far from the treatment plans formulated by a few administrative overlords. Despite miraculous recoveries from treating COVID with ivermectin and curing Sepsis with high dose Vitamin C, he was unceremoniously fired.
The court did him dirty when they ruled against him. I was outside the courthouse with hundreds of others as his case was plead.
As to the recent jump in falls data: at least at the VA they now require that all falls be treated as sentinel events, with a full RCA for each. That will plump the numbers right there.
Agree 1000% with the lower standards and massively inadequate patient load with current coddled trainees. Also, autonomy is nearly absent. We've gone from second year residents covering 14+ ICU patients each and floating transvenous pacers at 2 am without an attending in sight, to 24/7 attending coverage and cutting ICU procedures from graduation requirements.
I also recognized what I refer to as my "real doctor" fellowship, which was the first 4 years after I finished fellowship. Theres no substitute for a pile of sick sick patients, and your neck in the noose, from a responsibility standpoint.
NPs can be great but my experience with them is they are quick to knee jerk and slow to run a differential. Exceptions exist and are unalloyed good when you find them.
My med school started a PA program when I was there, and 100% of the PA students were prior ER or ICU nurses, EMTs, combat medics, etc. They were fantastic. Eight years later I gave a series of pulm lectures to a PA class of about 50 kids. A grand total of three has prior experience. The rest complained that they only had three 30 minute breaks (separate from lunch) and had to be in class "sooo late"-- meaning 4 pm. I told them they should never ever let that complaint out of their mouths in earshot of a doctor.
Anyway, thanks for fighting the good fight.
Technicians, not “Doctors”.
What else could you expect? The quality of people has been on a steep decline over the past 50 years. Couple that with the lies taught by the industry itself and you have a recipe for complete disaster. Doctors endorse poisonous foods, vile lifestyles, and pharmaceuticals over nutrition and sound lifestyle choices. Please!!! It shouldn’t have take us since 1900 to figure out this was an elimination program.
Science is only beginning to find out that mental illnesses largely have been the result of poor nutrition. There are only two things that cause dis-ease: deficiencies and toxicities.
I stopped reading when you asked for comments about poor medical care. I also don't need the spike in blood pressure from reading about medical fraud (lying, malfeasance, incompetence, big pharma profits, etc.) from the rest of your article.
My direct experience. My wife was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's. The doctors sent her home to die. I knew nothing about biology past high school biology. When Covid struck, I began reading. The summer of 2020 was hard. No reliable data anywhere. (46 yrs in industrial R&D. I understand data) September 7, 2020; Ivor Cummins, now on Odysee, showed the monthly data for death from all causes from Sweden going back to about 1865. Finally, real data and Covid was a complete fraud. There was no increase in total deaths from covid. Just the year-to-year variation as colds and flues killed of the frail old people that were the winners, lived out their entire lives until a minor virus would kill them.
I spent three years reading stuff about covid, five books on the immune system, a couple of hours per day. I took Vitamins C&D, zinc, and quercetin for 6 months and likely caught COVID-19, version one. I awoke from an incredible fever sweat. Thanks to Dr. Bossche's book, I understand that the prophylactics I took for months worked. Viral replication was slowed so much that my innate immune system destroyed my infected cells long before my adaptive system could react. I was tested and have no antibodies against Covid-19. Tested twice. Don't need them. My well-trained innate immune system has handled all the variants without illness. I continue with the prophylactics and have not had a cold or flue since before Covid. A cure for the common cold?
At the same time this was occurring, my wife developed horrid bed sores do to my poor care. I panicked and broke out emergency use drugs, vet grade ivermectin and fenbendazole. They worked immediately, her swollen arm was back to normal with 24 hours, the sores cleared up and closed over the next month as I greatly improved her diet. Before this crisis, she had declined month by month. I was expecting her to die, so I was lackadaisical about caring for her. Well, she has not died and has been stable for over 18 months. I conclude that she had a brain infection and the ivermectin and fenbendazole cured her. Possibly a fungus. The brain damage cannot be undone.
More incompetent MD's stuff. When she was first diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's and sent home to die, she was still competent enough to take her medications and was quite protective about them, not wanting my help. As she rapidly declined, I paid no attention to the prescribed medications. Why would I? They did not work. She stopped taking them, I ignored them but continued to buy the inexpensive drugs when the pharmacy sent text messages. Finally, I looked them up.
Vitamin E. Fine, no harm.
A SSRI antidepressant. Yikes. An effing Prozac like drug to mess with her brain?
A statin to suppress cholesterol. My reading describes how the brain needs cholesterol and has special gial cells to produce cholesterol inside the blood brain barrier. Of course, statins interfere with that, causing more damage to her brain.
I learned about SSRI drugs and statins from the "Midwestern Doctor, the Hidden Side of Medicine."
My wife is alive and stable. Thanks to me, and me being lucky with the emergency use drugs. I do not trust doctors. I will cure any cancer on my own. Another example, I'm paying for a tooth implant rather than a root cannel as residual infection from an infected tooth can cause long term problems.
As a retired highly educated Registered Nurse of fifty years, I can categorically assert that every one of your statements is applicable to the medical associations, university medical teaching facilities, Nursing associations, hospitals and Public Health institutions in Canada.
We still have the memory of what good healthcare looked like, still think we are entitled to said medical care and still whine like crazy when our expectations don’t align with the service.
If we do not beat down the doors and demand good healthcare now we are going to die behind closed doors, alone and in agony!
Shove your medical assisted suicide where the sun doesn’t shine and give me the care I worked for and paid for all my entire adult life!
As a retired HCP I view with truly saddened emotions how the medical establishment has sunken into the cold depths of the ocean….dark with no idea of direction. For the very people who help sell the covid scam…to agree with Faucci…who kept their mouths shut snd allowed this travesty descent upon the World’s population….they who are STILL in their Dept Chair position awaiting the call again to jackboot their patients again…they stayed quiet when they should have claimed Faucci as a fraud . These “teachers” dishonored medicine and are “teaching” the new MDs/DOs…in both DEI and wokness along with helping to use the same scam at the State licensing boards are quick to keep all physicians quiet or else. Patient’s Rights have received the same damaging trauma…I wish I die quietly at home…having watched my wife’s terminal battle with mets from breast cancer and the never ending list of non-effective expensive high tech drugs…I wish someone would have used ivermectin…over 1 1/2 yrs of worthless drugs in a supposedly responsive slow growing cell type was unsuccessful… I learned a great deal about breast cancer though not my speciality…but being very analytical there really appeared to be a disconnect even the idea of chemo first and mastectomy second; strong chemo may be causing early mets.
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Pierre, I haven’t checked in for awhile. I see that you are that same dynamic force that I first met via video in 2021 before Ron Johnson’s Senate Sub Committee. I remember so well the Chairman’s, Gary Peters, insulting remarks to you personally, to your skill set as a practicing clinician and his immediate ruffled departure from his hearing designed one would think to see how the profession is tackling Covid care. Up to that point as an octogenarian, I was huddled in my apartment naively following the increasingly bazaar and more authoritarian directives of my public health authorities.
I clearly remember your impassioned and electric response to his personal and professional insults. From that point on, I became an inspired sceptic. I see that you haven’t let up. I appreciate that. You are a national hero. Please keep it up.
Wow who’d of guessed my source of information would be a maligned credential(s) stripped MD! Thank you Dr Kory ❤️🔥we love you and your bravery. May The Lord Jesus Christ provide, protect and bless you and yours always! IJN Amen!
Our family has lost faith in all allopathic medicine after losing our 11 year old grandson in April 2022 to misdiagnosed and untreated bacterial meningitis. He was treated for "complex migraine". The medical care was horrendous. Our lives will never be the same.
Excellent post, as always Dr. Kory. Trust has declined and the supply of talent has also evaporated.
There appears to be someone impersonating you
https://substack.com/profile/337376280-pierre-kory-md-mpa-sub-stack
You may not be able to get him removed from Substack but you should purge his comments when he replies to people below.