This is why I love MDs writing about medicine - empathy combined with honesty. Thank you. Humanity is facing a fundamental challenge which Wil Van Cleve, MD MPH alludes to, but resists explicitly unveiling. "Meritocracy" and "Free Will" don't exist in the way we PREFER to think about ourselves and our physicians. We're egos, looking for …
This is why I love MDs writing about medicine - empathy combined with honesty. Thank you. Humanity is facing a fundamental challenge which Wil Van Cleve, MD MPH alludes to, but resists explicitly unveiling. "Meritocracy" and "Free Will" don't exist in the way we PREFER to think about ourselves and our physicians. We're egos, looking for justification that we're special piles of goo. I AM UNIQUE! That is true. SPECIAL? No. Stanford’s Dr. Robert Sapolsky has long documented how our executions of punishment, reward, meritiocracy, and free will are, "intellectual gibberish." If Sapolsky is correct, then we could randomly choose MDs from a population, and come out with the results we have presently. I would guess that’s correct. All these exercises of tests, recommendation letters (from POWERFUL/WEALTHY ALLIES, if candidates are CONNECTED to them), interviews, panels, and grades are futile attempts to correlate what intellectually, WE SHOULD KNOW BY NOW, has no predictable correlation for any given human being. What's the issue? M O N E Y!
Money. Money, money, money, money. Rich people want their kids to become MDs and go into the sciences and Medical Industrial Complex professions. The Empire today warring around the world, controls a CARTEL of RICH PRIVILEGED MDs and RICH PRIVILEGED UNIVERSITY LEADERS - all of whom are destroying the world with self-defined EXCEPTIONALISM, and self-defined ADMISSIONS TO THE CLUB. Why does all this madness continue? Empire addiction and wealth immunity, under the Medical Industrial Complex. Three terms I created to describe what we face today, as we lie to ourselves and humanity. This lie will kill us, as sure as the sun will rise - "WE ARE SPECIAL!" No. We are human - all connected and dependent upon each other for survival of our species. Everything we were sold in this corrupt system, is nakedly shown as a lie today. Medicine has become a cartel of wealthy money managers - rather than an art of medicine guided by human consciousness and the connectedness of all things. Only money drives speech, power, and action in the empire's Medical Industrial Complex. Only a new honesty about the nature of our human experience will save us from being driven permanently into the ditch. We must awaken to these undeniable truths in this moment of unprecedented existential threat to our species.
This is why I love MDs writing about medicine - empathy combined with honesty. Thank you. Humanity is facing a fundamental challenge which Wil Van Cleve, MD MPH alludes to, but resists explicitly unveiling. "Meritocracy" and "Free Will" don't exist in the way we PREFER to think about ourselves and our physicians. We're egos, looking for justification that we're special piles of goo. I AM UNIQUE! That is true. SPECIAL? No. Stanford’s Dr. Robert Sapolsky has long documented how our executions of punishment, reward, meritiocracy, and free will are, "intellectual gibberish." If Sapolsky is correct, then we could randomly choose MDs from a population, and come out with the results we have presently. I would guess that’s correct. All these exercises of tests, recommendation letters (from POWERFUL/WEALTHY ALLIES, if candidates are CONNECTED to them), interviews, panels, and grades are futile attempts to correlate what intellectually, WE SHOULD KNOW BY NOW, has no predictable correlation for any given human being. What's the issue? M O N E Y!
Money. Money, money, money, money. Rich people want their kids to become MDs and go into the sciences and Medical Industrial Complex professions. The Empire today warring around the world, controls a CARTEL of RICH PRIVILEGED MDs and RICH PRIVILEGED UNIVERSITY LEADERS - all of whom are destroying the world with self-defined EXCEPTIONALISM, and self-defined ADMISSIONS TO THE CLUB. Why does all this madness continue? Empire addiction and wealth immunity, under the Medical Industrial Complex. Three terms I created to describe what we face today, as we lie to ourselves and humanity. This lie will kill us, as sure as the sun will rise - "WE ARE SPECIAL!" No. We are human - all connected and dependent upon each other for survival of our species. Everything we were sold in this corrupt system, is nakedly shown as a lie today. Medicine has become a cartel of wealthy money managers - rather than an art of medicine guided by human consciousness and the connectedness of all things. Only money drives speech, power, and action in the empire's Medical Industrial Complex. Only a new honesty about the nature of our human experience will save us from being driven permanently into the ditch. We must awaken to these undeniable truths in this moment of unprecedented existential threat to our species.