Medical Nemesis
@Medical_Nemesis
Questioning the legitimacy of the medical establishment and the disabling impact of medicine on citizens
“Man’s consciously lived fragility, individuality, and relatedness makes the experience of pain, of sickness, and of death an integral part of his life. The ability to cope with this trio autonomously is fundamental to his health.
Rather than accepting the story of an abstract thing we call disease, this is a book about how particular people in “Britain” (wherever that is) came to understand, name, and order some facet of reality as it relates to wholeness/health of the (body of) the nation state.
Only somewhat! Abigail Woods has written a good and incisive book on the topic (routledge.com/A-Manufactured…) but the TLDR is that stringent, “stamping out” methods are inseparable from the emergence of a particular—and, until quite recently, local—understanding of FMD.
Many people have considered the course of a life as a kind of "walking on foot," as in the Hindu world, or as a pilgrimage, so important still to Moslems. Ivan Illich
“Writing a book is a journey, and in my case, it was a pilgrimage.” ~ Victoria Belim This is a book about people who think and live in physical ways different from how most English speaking people live. Words accurately convey reality unsensed by those who speak English.
These long list of abstract nouns failed when it mattered. Scientists as adherents of a religion feel they possess the mandate on truth thus they are free to alter how you live and die. In the very framework outlined below.
1. violating civil liberties 2. not independently thinking 3. unaware of psychological biases 4. failure to do cost benefit analyses 5. treating certain freedoms as taboo 6. hubris to control others for your “good” 7. thinking in terms of in group & out group 8. failure to take…
61k people read this and assumed that the meaning of this is what they thought it was. The closest meaning is “you sold your soul for nothing”. Of course, you must live as souls to get that part physically.
Dostoevsky always hits hard
All the people who diligently participated in the circus of making a new disease with the help of statistics and immunization with vaccines now lament how stupid they were to have begun what cannot be stopped now. Not that they have learned a thing. They will do it again.
Husband has to have a minor procedure done and the pre-op receptionist be like “any exposure to Covid in the past 4 weeks?” SERIOUSLY in 2025?!? (it was all I could do to keep my mouth shut and only cos he gave me a pre-emptive warning look lol)
We literally make dead people come alive and then make them able to live. Do you think it makes anyone healthy or feel well? Nope. People obsess about numbers and diagnoses. Nobody is able to feel well relative to being dead and incapacitated.
The determination of death is a philosophical decision not a scientific one, therefore even if the official error rates are low, it is hopelessly tied up in values the physicians don’t even understand
This is horrible, but I wanna understand what the scale of this is. My timeline is now full of "you should get yourself off organ donor lists". I don't believe doctors harvest organs from patients who'd otherwise live at a rate that exceeds 1 in a million.
The discussion of SSRIs conveniently bypasses the fact that people, and people include women, suffer. The idea that you can live free of suffering is delusional. The nature of suffering and how we suffer are non-medical issues by default. Numbing suffering people hardly helps.