CONVENTIONAL MEDICINE:
A Serpentine Profession

Last Update: 31 January, 2023

The Issue:

Although we need healing and to combat disease, there are many ways to do that, and our choice to put godlike trust in conventional medicine, above all other forms, is an irrational and dangerous choice.

For example, the COVID-19 'vaccines' are a radical hack of our genetic information, but were little questioned as they were rolled out to the world by Government and taken by billions, based primarily on an automatic trust of the profession of medicine. Due to the genetic alteration involved, humanity may never be the same again, and if only we didn't automatically trust this profession so much, we should have questioned it in time to stop it.

It is the supposed infallability of the profession of conventional medicine which has been used, and seems likely to continue to be used, as justification to lock people down, mandate their injections with gene therapy, mandate them to wear masks even alone outside, close places of worship, and suspend any human rights.

When a profession is seen as infallible, everyone else is seen as the problem to fix.

Symbolism:

The conventional medical symbol is either the Rod of Asclepius, with one snake climbing a pole, or the caduceus, with two snakes climbing a pole.

At the same time, our society also considers snakes to be a symbol of hidden evil.

Assumptions of Our Society in Interacting with Conventional Medicine:

Assumption: Physicians want to cure you.
It's difficult to know someone's intent, and the profession seems to rely and marketing materials which present medical staff as caring about nothing but patient health, but the profession has no incentive to cure you. The profession is for-profit and what serves maximizing their revenue and ongoing business success is turning your problem into many, preferably endless, repeat visits. If they cure you, you stop coming. In fact, although the revenue stops if you die, they usually make more money if you die than if you are cured, since at least in dying you will usually consume some emergency medical services on the way out. The incentive is to mange your disease, not cure it.
Assumption: Your physician will spend enough time to get a complete understanding of your unique problem.
Since physicians are generally paid the same amount of money whether they spend a long or short time with the patient, the business pressure on physicians is to spend the shortest time possible with each patient (it's not uncommon, for example, to spend just a few minutes with a patient who's been waiting for hours). Even if the physician spreads the issue over multiple visits, the same problem remains that each visit the physician is under business pressure to keep the interaction as short as possible.

On the other hand, they can't effectively end the session without some kind of test or treatment plan, and treatment requires diagnosis.

The net result is that physicians are under business pressure to render the fastest possible assessment and plan for each condition which is presented to them.

Whether they admit it or not, they would be under pressure to quickly classify each patient into common categories they are familiar with, rather than see each patient as unique, with no time allotment to research things they've never seen before. They could quickly refer to someone else, but that someone else would be under the same pressure.

Assumption: Lab tests are infallably accurate.
No, every test has a false positive rate, and people who interpret lab test results are often under the same kind of business-related time pressure, ie. to spend the least possible time on each interpretation, as physicians. The profession may not admit it, but tests can be wrong or misinterpreted.

Too bad, for example, that this wasn't recognized in the COVID-19 crisis: where every positive test result was considered absolute proof of COVID-19 infection, no matter the number of cycles used in the test, or whether the patient was asymptomatic, or anything else.
Assumption: Society would be informed of suspicious deaths in hospitals.

Actually society rarely hears about non-medical death happening in domestic hospitals (or prisons or retirement homes or military for that matter). Why? Insiders have reported that there is a compulsuion not to reveal what happens there to outsiders. Ask anyone who's worked at a hospital.

The Reality

In the real world of medicine:

The purpose of the profession of medicine is profit. It is about profiting off other people's illness.
There is no requirement to cure patients, or even to make them better than they were when they came in. This is an unusual tolerance in service professions: for example, most people wouldn't tolerate their car being worse than when they brought it in, but if that happens in conventional medicine, we say something like, 'they did all they could'. In particular our society accepts highly technical explanations of why someone who came into hospital with a non-lethal problem died in hospital.

This opens the door to many charlatans being in the profession, without any public anger at their ineffectiveness. For example, when COVID-19 social restrictions, based on expert medical advice, were admitted to have failed, no advising physician was considered responsible: they are considered infallible, or at the very least above reproach, even if they have obviously failed and harmed many.
The incentive of the profession of medicine is to manage (not cure) disease. To cure would destroy the highly profitable medical dependency of people suffering ongoing disease. Many treatments are designed to be readministered for the rest of the life of that patient: turning them into a permanent revenue stream for the industry. Even a patient dying is usually more profitable to conventional medicine than a cure. That's why the Center for Disease Control isn't called the Center for Disease Cures.
There is no requirement to try more natural solutions before more unnatural ones. Physicians aren't required to correct faults in diet, sleep, and exercise before jumping to more radical treatments of drugs and surgery. If lab tests come back negative, there is no obligation to look deeper. Actually misdiagnosed patients can be more profitable in the long run because someone without a correct diagnosis is unlikely to be cured and likely to remain medically dependent.
The profession has unusual profit advantages over most othere types of business. In particular:

Physicians, not patients, decide the treatment options. The physician only needs to limit those options to profitable ones to ensure business success.
Extreme price inelasticity: When someone's life depends on a treatment, or they believe it does, they will usually come up with a way to pay for it, if at all possible, no matter what the price is. It's not a lot of services which people will sell their house to pay for, but medicine is one of them.
Competition restriction. It's difficult to 'shop around' for different prices on the same procedure because patients are not permitted to decide their treatment options, but only accept or decline. Any new physician would need to arrive at their own conclusion of treatment options, which might not be the same as those of the first phsician.
Urgency. Due to suffering or danger of worsening condition, once a medical procedure is realized to be needed, it's usually not good to wait. Urgency stokes the sale process.
Government funding. In many cases Government will spend Public money as much as required for a medical service, if it serves their political objectives. It can be very easy to sell a very large quantity through Government, who isn't afraid to buy even much more than needed, such as they did in the COVID-19 pandemic.
Government mandates. When Government demands that people vaccinate, wear masks, or take medical tests, that is guaranteed revenue for the medical industry which the Public has lost control of choice over.

Conventional medicine degrades patients as lower than physicians. Patients are called patients, rather than clients, because physicians not patients decide treatment. Patients do have the right to refuse treatment, but any refusal or criticism of one treatment can be considered refusal of all treatment; also consent is assumed for any medically defensible procedure when the patient is unconscious. Patients do not have the right to see their own chart and usually not their own test results, either. This is the only profession where waiting hours, despite having an appointment, is consdiered fair treatment of clients, and where you can actually be charged to wait.
Our society considers physicians to be above God. For example, when physicians recommended the closing of places of worship (of God) during the COVID-19 pandemic, they were closed, while effective worship of leading physicians continued, such as on daily news, for guidance on how to save us.
Hospitals are run like their own society. Once patients go in, you find that everything happens first and foremost to serve hospital rules, whether hey make sense or not. Physicians decide all medical matters, and our society doesn't permit any non-physician to challenge a physician in medical matters. Patients and their families have restricted access to visit and to information. There are usually no cameras for patient protection, and strict non-disclosure agreements (example here) as condition of employment in such places: enough to discourage reporting anything which happens there to the outside world. What happens when there are no visitors is anyone's guess.
Friends and family are not usually permitted to witness surgery, and not usually video recorded, but patients and loved ones usually only hear the results as described by the same surgeon. The work is not usually checked by any other surgeon. There's a lot of leeway there to cover up mistakes.

Deceptions of the Medical Profession

The pretense that unnatural pharmaceuticals are unquestinably the substances we should use to support our health, while pretending that herbs are dangerous. Actually our bodies are not designed to work with chemicals which don't exist in nature, and herbal remedies, though sometimes less tested, typically offer the same results with less cost and less adverse effects. Unfortunately for the public, since natrual substances cannot be patented but unnatural ones can, because of our patent laws, it is vastly more profitable to make an unnatural modification on a natural substance and sell it as your own, than sell the natural substance.

What it's Like to be Receive Medical Services

In Theory:

You are the client. The medical professionals provide assessment of your medical information, and present it to you, with risks and alternatives, for your decision.
Only in the case of an emergency, when you are unconscious or otherwise mentally incompetent, and no legal decision maker established or reachable in time, may they may medical decision for you.
You have lots of rights. You have a right to all of your own information, and nothing happens without your say-so.
The patient, and their family where appropriate, are always kept informed of the latest diagnosis and decisions of the medical team for that patient.

In Practice:

You are the patient. You are expected to wait in the medical profesionals' decisions for what to do with your health.
You have few rights and the system tends to work against them towards your dependency and submission. Here are some of the issues:

As the patient, you are expected to wait on the medical staff: wait to be seen, and wait for them to decide your assessment, diagnosis, and treatment.
As the patient, you are not expected to challenge any medical input, for which the professionals' view is always considered superior to yours, because our society doesn't tolerate non-medical people challenging medical people on medical issues.
You cannot order your own surgery, medications, or even tests: not even refill medications you've become permanently dependent on.
You may accept or decline treatment which the physician proposes. If you decline you can be considered no longer the patient of that physician. Similarly, you are usually allowed to check yourself out of the hospital, but if you do so, you might never be allowed back.
You're usually not allowed to see the results of your tests, and neither is the technician performing the test permitted to discuss them with you. They send the results directly to your physician, whom you have to pay for at least one more visit to obtain the results of, and even that is usually a verbal summary rather than a copy.
You're not allowed to see your own chart.
Your physician writes your chart, not you. The physician decides what parts of the interaction were worth writing down.
Physicians aren't socially expected to be punctual with their appointments with patients, but may leave you waiting for hours (the physicians' schedule is presumed to take precedence over the patients', and some will even charge patients for waiting). Patients are expected to be punctual, however.
Pre-surgery liability waivers tend to be excessively generous, in favour of protecting the hospital from liability, in many cases even from obvious medical mistakes. This is cruel because the patient has little choice to refuse to sign when they need that procedure.
Usually no one checks the physicians' work; they can usually operate with impunity..

Basically, the more you seek medical services, the more you tend to lose rights over your own body, and the more you tend to become dependent on medications and treatments you, or whoever pays your medical bills, must continually pay the medical industry for.

The Cruelty of the Medical Profession

Actually this profession isn't just about compassion, despite marketing materials preseenting them that way. Please consider:

Abortion. They invented it, they perform it, and too few of them speak out against it, if all they care about is protecting human life. Elective abortion is outright murder of children at the demand of their own parents at the hands of medical professionals.
Animal Experimentation. They invented it and they perform it: the lethal exploitation of the other creaturs which share our planet as our expendable scientific research tools.
Destructive Surgery. On the scare of some disease, such as cancer, some physicians will actually destroy healthy tissue of your body. Example article September 11, 2022: Think surgical mutilations are a WOKE thing? The gruesome practice has been carried out for DECADES by cancer surgeons who cut off women’s breasts in the name of “medicine”
Excessive multiplication of visits. They may not admit it, but some physicians seem to spread over multiiple visits what could be accomplished in one visit. For example, to remove a mole, a surgeon could do it in one visit, but typically will spread it into three: initial consultation, surgery, follow-up. Sometimes even one procedure will be split into more than one session despite that it could be done in one: for example, multiple colonoscopies to remove multiple polyps when they could be removed in one procedure. Or simply demanding the patient come back for a return visit to repeat a drug prescription they are long dependent on with no expectation of change. This is unnecessary costs and inconveniences to the patient, but pads the future business demand of the medical professionals: it keeps lines of people waiting to see them at any price.
Excessive charges to the uninsured. Where medical fees are charged to the Government, they are usually very reasonable, but where they are charged to insurance companies or especially individuals, the very same service is sometimes charged at a far higher rate, and this is nothing but cruel exploitation of vulnerable people. For example, where registration at an emergency ward is usually free, if they discover you are uninsured, they can charge you hundreds of dollars just to register, or even to wait, before and not including any medical services.

Medical Myths

Medical research is performed and presented in the highest ethical integrity.

February 02, 2015: Merck senior management tried to pay off its own vaccine scientists to remain silent about scientific fraud
Article September 06, 2022: Former BMJ editor: Health research should be considered fraudulent until proven otherwise

Myth: Hospitals are Places of Care to your Best Health. No, they are places of medical service by hospital policies for profit.

Here are some references discussing what hospitals have become:

Myth: Medical professionals always know what they're doing.
There's an attitude that medical professionals, like all professionals, know what they're doing in their subject area, intead of being humans of limited knowledge. No, they can make mistakes, as well as not know some things.

Are Medical Mistakes the Leading Cause of Death in the US?

Myth: Your physician will always find what's wrong.

Actually you can't find what you don't look for, and what the physician looks for comes down a lot of non-medical things like: administrative priorities, payor pressures, how much they care about your health, their beliefs about the accuracy of what you say, and their beliefs about your intentions. For example, physicians are often discouraged from ordering tests for by Government and insurance companies who are not eager to pay for tests which rarely show a problem and which they argue are not necessary (such as vitamin levels). Even the most brilliant and funded physician in the world is unlikely to find your problem if they prejudge that it's imaginary.

The more rare your condition, the less unique your symptoms, and the less physically obvious your symptoms are to others, the more you need a physician who cares about and believes you enough to not only find the symptoms, but find and address the underlying problems causing them.

Myth: It's safe to be tough on anyone complaining of illness whom a physician says is OK.

Even if a physician says they're fine doesn't always mean they're fine. There are lots of reasons why a physician could be wrong.

Furthermore although the patient may not have a medical education, they should be granted some respect that they speak from living in and experiencing that body (which the physician does not).

If the person complains of illness, and you can see their lifestyle falling apart against their own goals, and they're not significantly benefitting from claiming to be ill, these are signs that the illness is real.

Just because a physician's word may be a legal justification for how to react to someone's medical complaints, it is not a moral one. We are responsible for whose word we believe, and choosing to believe a physician over a patient is a choice which could be wrong and which we are morally responsible for.

It's also morally dangerous to find ways to justify cruelty.

Evidence of the Truth:

Dec. 5, 2022: 'He could've been treated differently': Toronto man dies at home after several visits to local hospital

Conclusion/Clearsight: What's the problem with conventional medicine?

Conventional medicine is normally purposed for profit, which aim tends to go against what's best for your body, particularly because patentable synthetic medicines tend to be far more profitable than herbal ones, and because curing you of all disease tends to stop your demand for medical services. Keeping you medically dependent, including never fully well, and even without the authority to self-renew prescriptions on drugs you are provably and permanently dependent, is the surest way to profit and social control for this industry.

Like with many businesses, conventional medicine leads customers towards dependency, but in conventional medicine there is far more ability to do so and far less ability to resist than with most other businesses.

Clearfacts Presentation: Conventional Medicine

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CONVENTIONAL MEDICINE: A Serpentine Profession

The Issue:

Symbolism:

Assumptions of Our Society in Interacting with Conventional Medicine:

Assumption: Physicians want to cure you.

Assumption: Your physician will spend enough time to get a complete understanding of your unique problem.

Assumption: Lab tests are infallably accurate.

Assumption: Society would be informed of suspicious deaths in hospitals.