It’s Okay to Ask For a Physician
Pointing out facts is not antagonistic. Pointing out facts should not get people cancelled.
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Many patients (if not most) do NOT know who is treating them. The term “doctor” has been hijacked now due to professional appropriation.
Share this so that the public can be educated.
First: the concepts of “capitalist” and “socialist” are not terms from American economics, throw them out. People have been maneuvering to make a buck off of medicine for a long, long time. We have been suckered into a world with two falsehoods – that all labor can be monetized, i.e. all work can be turned into a “salary” (see Karl Marx for this error which is also a fundamental of American business – and that the “dollar” has some sort of intrinsic value other than the paper they’re printed on.
You make money if you take all consumer desires and decisions, and stuff them into bins I call “choices.” You can’t market decisions – they are arbitrary subjective wishes and valuations of free-thinking individuals. You CAN bamboozle people into selecting a small number of discrete and limited choices, and busnesses play three-card-monte with the “choices.”
Do you choose a NP, a PA, an MD, a DO, a specialist? This is a clever question, because it takes “you” out of the equation, and makes you scramble unthinkingly for the “best” at the “lowest cost.” There is no “best provider,” but the individual capable of discovering, addressing and maintaining the best direction for your health.
For a long time, hucksters and quacks were given free reign until the FDA cracked down on the peddling of phoney treatments to desperate people. When America was at its peak, it had a century perhaps of being drawn to the summit of excellence, such that the average person was not expected to know what “quality” was without being supported by the structure of the society which valued best medicine.
Now we are in the coming dark ages, where “quality” is not a personal decision, but a cacophany of unrealities and mis-statements geared to peddle what is in the boxes. Pretty soon, the national retail pharmacies will have a puppet in a box, a Punch or Judy with the proper credentials, to vend what the company wishes to be vended. That is your choice, no? Perhaps they will even get the annoying “prescriber” out of the way of the citizen, and allow free purchase at the pharmacy – with, of course, the pharmacist’s opinion. It works in Botswana, why not Boston?
Fighting over the rights and privileges of the “bins” is a sucker’s game. As long as medicine is viewed as a way to suck cash out of the customers, it will decline to the lowest tolerable minimum, no matter what the Ivory Tower Hoovers of the Right have to say about the self-cleansing character of “capitalism.”
Let them have cake, cake for all.
Excellent points as always, Steve. My only addition is that there is no “Right”, only a spectrum from the Left, to the individual. And this isn’t capitalism, only mixed corporatism-collectivism.