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Can we ever trust the medical establishment again? Yes, there were always problems with big pharma, but we may have excused the medical professionals with "They know not what they do". Now we know the major institutions will abandon medical ethics, and a majority of medical professionals will look the other way. The Nuremberg code shou…
Can we ever trust the medical establishment again? Yes, there were always problems with big pharma, but we may have excused the medical professionals with "They know not what they do". Now we know the major institutions will abandon medical ethics, and a majority of medical professionals will look the other way. The Nuremberg code should be first and foremost amongst the thoughts of the general population, just as it was after WWII.
In addition, might not we start celebrating the human body as it exists in nature? Making people aware of its awesomeness and how physically intervening in complex systems always will have a cost. Can we develop the human capacities via normal means, such as education, nutrition, and physical training? A counteroffensive is one form of resistance.
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I may get spanked for this but "medicine" began a slide into murky ethics with its wholehearted acceptance of Medicare in 1965. A good number of physicians questioned this move as its sinking numbers of AMA membership proved but not enough. A new breed was bred in the med schools more interested in chasing the holy dollar than learning medical ethics and like any slippery slope it led us to the last 2 yrs of widespread malpractice
The Romans had an answer “caveat emptor” literally let the buyer beware. Learn all you can about the science and find a doctor you personally trust.
I don't think I ever will, except for the few who have shown integrity during this current crisis. Perhaps those doctors can somehow create an alternate system, although the financial considerations and the possibility of governmental attacks, such as has recently happened with the bill in CA which censors doctors, make it daunting to consider.