[IMA-HelenT]

The full article : https://brownstone.org/articles/medicine-by-captivity-the-rise-of-the-hostage-physician/

[Fernando Proano]

EMR was the hook to entice primary care physicians to improve patient care. It quickly became means to pad the medical records to justify dishonesty higher CPT codes for increased revenue. This resulted in more time spent for us to review past medicals records which mostly consist of “copy and paste” of the initial record.

Additionally, truth telling became subordinate to obtaining “good reviews”. My conscience could not comply regarding patients seeking work disability with no objective medical findings.

[IMA-GregT]

@FERD what an observation! I’m understanding there were attempts to game the system?

[Morgan Sky]

Thank you ! Yes that is what happens when we are ruled by the shareholder class who also dictates everything based on their bottom line. It may have been fine during the Industrial Revolution for more of the population and when more of the population were the shareholders. However I was astonished years ago when I read an article detailing how the Rockefellers and Carnegie in the 1920’s basically took the reigns of the medical establishment which set forth the ‘protocols’ and vanished many prior forms of medicine they deemed inferior making those types of remedies available today to only those paying out of pocket if not obsolete. Now we have even more challenges to real humane care due to the Shareholder class having brought the law makers, Medical fellows and dictating the laws/protocols. Which is what gave the IMA the fuel to exist. Thank you IMA !

[IMA-GregT]

@martin we had a great webinar about the Flexner Report. Here’s the search on our website for Flexner – https://imahealth.org/search/?direqt_search_nonce=f955001136&_wp_http_referer=%2F&q=flexner.

The folks on here are all just gold, and you’re exactly why the IMA exists.

[Tanya Marquette]

As a non-medical person but one who has studied health (not medicine) for over 60 yrs I must say that the system that deals with our body and its woes was always a medical industry, from its very early inceptions. The Flexner Report was as fictitious as was the Paul Thorsen scam study on MMR decades later. Big money has always controlled the mainstream narrative and the medical industry was predicated on controlling practitioners and threatening them if they stepped outside the orthodoxy of big drug money. The medical schools since the early 20c became totally controlled by the allopathic drug industry. They may have been used to perform much of the research but that was under the auspices of the drug industry. No research is done unless it produces new drugs or the mass selling of existing drugs being repurposed.

While most doctors entered the field out of interest to heal, many were simply enamored with biochemistry, social status and high finances and this must be admitted. I have heard and read of many doctors who chose their specialty based on controlled hours (dentists, ophthamologists, etc) and the wealth they could accrue. How many were pushed into the field by families that wanted a doctor in the family. A dentist I once used was clearly one of these people who really preferred to be a photographer but that was not acceptable to his social climbing family. After making his money he quit and picked up the camera full time.

What this article does not depict is that nature of capitalism which has a dynamic, a process that pushes profiteering above everything else. So this becomes the main motivation of the industry which is what medicine is at base. Many doctors for a number of years bemoaned losing their independence as they were forced into HMO’s. Patients were limited to the 7 minute visit. In order to do this practitioners were forced into formulaic exams and treatment. If you didn’t fit into that model as a patient you were dismissed as I was just last week by an orthopedic man who hadn’t a clue about how to talk to me or to examine the problem needing attention. Get an Xray, take a drug and go home. I simply went home pissed at my time being wasted. But I could come back in a month if healing hadnt occurred which would have produced another bill to Medicare

I know this group here represents practitioners who wish to reclaim independence however, unless the nature of the education is not dissected with a real relearning about what health is I fear practices may feel better to practitioners but not necessarily to patients who need to be seen in a holistic manner, something medical training actively discourages.

My focus, goal and suggestions are all about looking at health from an older perspective. Peoples around the world remained healthy until old age. They ate real food, organic as they never used chemicals in the world. Their teeth were in excellent condition even without tooth brushes and paste. Read about Weston Price, DDS investigations on this very topic. His legacy today is the Weston Price Foundation which does much research on Vit D and other real nutrition. Linus Pauling, whom I am sure people know, was a 2x Nobel prize winner in chemistry and well lauded–until he wrote about Vit C and its incredible healing powers, especially for cancer! These are only 2 examples of the suppression of healing information that sits outside the medical/drug industry. I know people are well aware of the censorship and repression of anything and everyone different than the drug promoting by Fauci on behalf of the drug industry. But if that was the wake up call for many, I must direct people to study the real history of their profession which goes back at least 150 yrs. Suzanne Humphries, MD book Dissolving Illusions is a good place to begin. But even the germ theory was promoted by the same profiteering and dishonesty as with Covid, Louis Pasteur admitting on his death bed his ‘science’ was fraudulent,

So I wish all practitioners who really want to be healers to confront their belief systems, realize how they have been manipulated with drug industry propaganda and relearn healing craft. Humphries is one example. Joseph Mercola is another. Just 2 courageous people who realized how they were trained/forced to support vaccines which were causing such misery in patients. They quit, stepped outside the box they were in and reinvented themselves as true healers. I wish that for all the people here who have good intentions.