Promoted from the Comments: Medicine Used to Be for Helping People Live - Not Die - Granite Grok

Promoted from the Comments: Medicine Used to Be for Helping People Live – Not Die

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We are still looking for legal help to get our ‘Grok friend, John Irish, moved from Lowell General Hospital in MA to Mass General. The former seems to have gotten stuck “on protocols” that sound like Einstein’s admonition of what is insanity.

“Doing the same things over and over but expecting different results.”

I talked with Karen, his long-time girlfriend, at length last night so I’ll have more to put up later.

And once again, I’m hoping our smart readers are also well connected and can send us leads to some lawyers that can get the job done. Some of you already have sent in tips and those have already been forwarded to folks feeding them to Karen.  More are still in my Inbox and I’ll be dealing with them shortly.

That said, long term ‘Grok Commenter Bryan W had a long comment at my “Help Needed – John Irish” post. Long but pointed and worthy to be Front Page content instead of buried in the Comment section:

 


 

It used to be the practice of medicine was a noble endeavor with the primary goals of alleviating suffering and helping people live better, healthier lives.

It used to be that the large pharmaceuticals had similar goals. I remember visiting Eli Lilly HQ in the early 90’s on a support call. I was there for a month. During that time, I got to speak with several higher ups and researchers. They were spending tens of millions every year to try to CURE diabetes, including on one of the few Cray supercomputers.

It used to be that the medical schools wanted to turn out doctors who would save lives and change the world. It used to be that they taught and instilled the values of integrity in research, ethics, and the scientific method. It used to be that peer reviewed journals were where you went for the best research results, and where researchers sought out people to repeat their results or challenge with their own. Debate was welcomed.

Vaccines actually prevented the disease they were created for. Smallpox, MMR, DTP. Tetanus is bacterial and you need to get a booster, but it works.

It used to be that the CDC and NIH were trusted agencies staffed by people who would be believed. They even made movies where these workers were made out to be the heroes.

Now, in 30 years, the world is completely flipped around.

Even though we knew there would be an explosion of demand for medical services & products once the baby boomers reached retirement age, the accreditation agencies refused to allow increases in class sizes and refused most new schools. Instead, we allow foreign and foreign trained doctors to practice here to fill the gap, and it’s still not enough. We allowed the government to almost nationalize the health care system. It’s still a fascist setup – private ownership but government control.

Peer reviewed journals are more about the narrative than about science. This isn’t limited to medical journals – from what I can tell, so-called “climate journals” started the path towards narrative-driven science instead of truth-driven science. Other areas of science are falling one-by-one.

The large pharmaceuticals’ goals of curing important diseases has fallen by the wayside. Now the driving force is money for treatments instead of cures. Instead of allowing drugs to become generic, they do everything they can to keep the patent rights extended by getting alternate uses approved. Pharmacies are refusing to fill prescriptions written by doctors because they are not “approved” by the narrative. Try to get a script for Ivermectin or HCQ filled at CVS or Walgreens.

The CDC and FDA have proven to be staffed power hungry bureaucrats or those cowed into silence. They are drunk on the power of forcing us to do stuff, no matter how ridiculous.

A drug being pushed as a vaccine doesn’t work like any other vaccine we’ve ever had — they even had to change the definition of a vaccine in order to continue to call it a vaccine instead of what it is – a therapeutic. Other drugs that even anecdotally have shown to be effective against COVID are rejected by the TV doctors and the power-mad bureaucrats at all levels.

And finally, doctors are dividing into two camps – those with connections who follow the narrative, or conspire with the Leftists to push the narrative on TV or social media. The other doctors are pressured and even threatened to toe the line or be silent.

This is just one aspect of our society. Imagine the damage being done to all the others now that these bands holding our society together have been cut, loosened, or destroyed. We need to double down on freedom, as all of this is a direct assault on freedom itself. If we get through this, we will need to do everything we can to take back control from these mental Lilliputians trying to destroy America, and put guardrails into the laws – maybe the Constitutions – to prevent this mental illness from trying to run our lives again.

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