The wholesale of naive, young medical souls beggins in med school where the godlike figures introduce them into highly structured, regulators run, all-for-profit health system. The programming continues into residency and then "independent" practice with hoards of collegues turned salesmen for Big Pharma shower them with luncheons, ticke…
The wholesale of naive, young medical souls beggins in med school where the godlike figures introduce them into highly structured, regulators run, all-for-profit health system. The programming continues into residency and then "independent" practice with hoards of collegues turned salesmen for Big Pharma shower them with luncheons, tickets, gadgets and privileges in return for unquestioning application of advertised products. Combined with high social position, considerable wealth and debt to the ears the process creates a lifetime self-rifghteus, arrogant but insecure slaves, for whom the fear of losing privileges and considerable wealth far outweighs the ethical obligations "primum non nocere" imposed by the Hippocratic oath.
"We were just following the orders" are the usual and most frequent excuses when asked for explanation some time later.
Thanks for all your insightful comments and deep thinking epimetheus. There is a slight chance for humanity only if at least 51% of population starts showing similar independent approach to superimposed perception of reality.
The wholesale of naive, young medical souls beggins in med school where the godlike figures introduce them into highly structured, regulators run, all-for-profit health system. The programming continues into residency and then "independent" practice with hoards of collegues turned salesmen for Big Pharma shower them with luncheons, tickets, gadgets and privileges in return for unquestioning application of advertised products. Combined with high social position, considerable wealth and debt to the ears the process creates a lifetime self-rifghteus, arrogant but insecure slaves, for whom the fear of losing privileges and considerable wealth far outweighs the ethical obligations "primum non nocere" imposed by the Hippocratic oath.
"We were just following the orders" are the usual and most frequent excuses when asked for explanation some time later.
Thanks for all your insightful comments and deep thinking epimetheus. There is a slight chance for humanity only if at least 51% of population starts showing similar independent approach to superimposed perception of reality.
Happy Easter!
Thank you for your kind words.
Happy Easter, in my way, by pointing you to Goethe's 'The Awakening of Epimenides', specifically Act II, Scene 4:
SPIRITS:
Though he who has boldly risen from the abyss
Through an iron will and cunning
May conquer half the world,
Yet to the abyss he must return.
Already a terrible fear has seized him;
In vain he will resist!
And all who still stand with him
Must perish in his fall.
HOPE:
Now I find my good men
Are gathered in the night,
To wait in silence, not to sleep.
And the glorious word of liberty
They whisper and murmur,
Till in unaccustomed strangeness,
On the steps of our temple
Once again in delight they cry:
Freedom!
Freedom!
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