Posted from an anonymous healthcare professional by Lee Harvey Griswald
I retired from the healthcare field after 26 years. I was an infection control & surveillance instructor and worked with foreign health ministries, hospitals, doctors, nurses, sanitation workers, plant and mechanical engineers, and risk management departments. I’ve worked in field hospitals to the largest medical institutions in the world in 15+ countries. At the end of the day, I was a glorified janitor, but during my career I witnessed the Man Behind the Curtain and boy it ain’t pretty.
A few observations about our current state of US medical care, guidance we are being fed, and the pandemic:
1. Just because you have a Dr. In front of your name doesn’t mean you know everything even though you might believe otherwise. Doctors today are little more than union employees thanks to the Affordable Care Act and Medicare/Medicaid. It’s all about Group Think, and you either comply with the program or you’re cancelled and lose your career.
2. Today, the half-life of medical knowledge is less than two years. Most anything your doctor tells you is probably wrong or soon will be.
3. Not every medical solution comes from a pharmacy and a hospital. We like to believe the US has the best medical care and on many levels it does, but it is amazing the scotch tape and kite string medical innovation that happens in the most impoverished corners of the world.
4. US Hospitals are little more than Risk Management organizations. It’s no longer about Quality of Care, but managing risks and profits. Hospital CEO’s are bean counters focused on managing costs and liability and not on improving patient care.
5. US Hospitals are the only American industry that can kill 120,000 Americans a year through Nosocomial infections and employ doctors that kill another 250,000 Americans a year though medical errors and still remain open.
6. Defensive Medicine has turned into “How many bills can I submit to the insurer and Medicare/Medicaid?” Patients are little more than Cash Cows today. Check in and be prepared for a long, excruciating experience of endless tests and procedures while hoping that you survive the ride. Fun times.
7. Big Pharma controls the show. They control the FDA, they control the drugs available and promoted by doctors, they crush any outside innovation or competition, they control the treatment pathway, and they are in collusion with the Hospitals and Insurers. And like lawyers, they all get paid regardless of the outcome and have about as much emotional investment in the outcome.
8. Healthcare Workers (aka Nurses and PAs) are the real doctors today. I found few that were not invested in their patient’s well-being and were at a minimum, as knowledgeable and capable as someone with a Dr in front of their name. They save countless patient’s lives from medical mistakes made by their “superiors”. They are underpaid, underappreciated, and treated with all the respect of a disposable tongue depressor. They are the heroes of this pandemic.
9. US Medical Research Universities are controlled by and a slave to their funding sources. They produce the evidence based research they are instructed to produce. They, like virtually all other research institutions in the US, are professional welfare whores. Deviate from the plan and the funding evaporates.
10. The current pandemic presented the perfect opportunity for the largest power grab in human history. Politicians have become doctors and doctors are quietly complicit in the process for fear of being cancelled. In private, most of the US docs (that I know personally) who are still practicing are at a minimum terrified by what is happening. The retired doctors that I know are apoplectic with what they are witnessing.
The pandemic has been used as a political divisive tool to control group think and behavior; the Racism Tool pales in comparison. Every socioeconomic class has been shattered and pitted against one another.
And for the record, I am not vaxxed not because I believe in the conspiracy theories but because I don’t believe in the “science” that has been presented. I pour though PubMed and countless peer reviewed studies every day – an old occupational habit. I have not found any evidence that compels me to line up as an unpaid experimental lab rat. In fact, there is mounting evidence to reinforce my initial skepticism over the “science”. Contrary to what Fauci has promised, the facts show we ain’t mass vaxxing our way out of this pandemic and may well be making matters far worse.
In closing, question everything and do your own research. I do not believe ANY of the pandemic data that is being reported in this country. Politics, power, and money are controlling the narrative…. as it always does.
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If the author is retired, why not put his name on the piece? Not disagreeing on any particular point, but the MSM use anonymous sources all the time – and we know they’re just making up shit as they go along.
Agreed.
But I’ve reached the same conclusions long ago (before all the covid swindle), so I have no gripe with what I see as a ‘no duh’ editorial that’s a day late and a dollar short.
A name just provides a target to character assassinate, which is just another little sideshow in this massive tragicomedy
And for the record, I am not vaxxed not because I believe in the conspiracy theories
Like the VAERS or Yellow card systems, or the many studies that show effective pharmaceuticals have been available since the start. When anyone uses “conspiracy theory” in their description of those who resist, they lose a deal of credibility with me.
“The aliens are doing it” is a conspiracy theory.
“The Medical industry is compromised” is conspiracy fact.
We probably need some brand new ‘conspiracy theories’ anyways. Now that all of our old ones came true!
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/india-approves-worlds-first-dna-based-covid-vaccine
The article states: “The jab, called ZyCoV-D, is administered into the skin without an injection, and has been found to be 67% protective against symptomatic COVID-19 in clinical trials.”
THIS IS A PATCH!!!!
And probably contains quantum-dot which leaves an invisible mark on the skin!
They also said “will likely start to be administered in India later this month”.
No Karen’s allowed here,lols
67% effective?
At preventing symptoms?
Of a disease that often has no symptoms.
The presence of which can only be determined with a test that yields between 30% and 97+% false positives.
Under these conditions, literally any result you want, you can get.
You want something 95% effective at preventing infection? Okey doke, just lower the volume on the PCR for the test group while you ramp it up for the control group.
You want it to stop symptoms? Okey dokey, just turn up the volume for people without symptoms in the test group, while turning down the volume for the asymptomatic in the control group.
It never ends.
Wholeheartedly agree with #8. The Nurses are the heros.
Pretty much everything spoken here is true in canukistan as well. We are a little further along the path of communism tho. Here we have rationed **cough** healthcare which means very long waits for everything. You are just another meat sack and another will replace you if you die, so the sentiment goes.
I agree with his comment about nurses and PA’s…they have mostly been terrific..
Sorry about B.C. I grew up there but moved to the least shitty province in the Confedation 10 years ago. Things aren’t that much better here as our corrupt gubmint is following all the other corrupt gubmints in stealing our rights. At least small town ‘Berta doesn’t seem to care what the covid dictators tell us. Good luck with the move out here!
Not all nurses were heroes. Some were busy either dancing on choreographed tiktok videos. Others were busy NOT speaking out while MSM lied about overflowing hospitals. Others were furloughed because they weren’t needed at hospitals nearly dormant … again WHILE the MSM lied about overburdened hospitals, freezer-trucks and massive supplies of body-bags for all the dead that never materialized.
Doctors have been worse. All to keep the job, to keep the money, to toe the line, to keep up appearances.
Having a conscience has a cost. Which doctors and nurses bore that cost? That’s how you know who’s a hero.
What a great article. It confirms my now firmly held position that my health is my responsibility. I’m going to try one more local doctor who claims to be holistic. If he won’t proscribe HCQ or Ivermectin he’ll be gone and I’ll be happily on my own once more.
We had a yacht and use to cruise the various marinas on Florida’s gulf coast. In one such place, I tied up to a yacht named “Pillsbury Dough Bouy.” The “Pills” was in bold and the “dough” had a dollar sign embossed over it. The dockmaster told me that the owner of this yacht owned a number of local clinics and this yacht was a gift from the pharmaceutical companies that sold him medication. The yacht was worth between 1.5 and 1.75 million. They GAVE him that yacht. I don’t need further evidence.
Be a shame if there was a little “boating accident” for the pillsbury dough bouy….
How long can he tread water?
sad part is it is not just the doctors its the senators and congressmen to
Right. Another reason to abandon free market conservatism capitalism and embrace nationalism. Cash corrupts.
Here, fool:
I’m a retired Cardiac RN.
I analysed an interpreted cardiac rhythms in stent labs and cardiac arterial bypass graft units.
I have seen death and I have seen the miracle of life.
What used to be hospitals are now corporations.
Clinical patient care has devolved into collecting data, documenting that data, and then documenting that you documented it.
Hospitals are controlled by charge capture departments and insurance providers.
HIPPA is a useless pain in the ass that benefits attorneys only.
I think we are presently witnessing the beginning of the collapse of clinical health care in this country or at least degradation of the amount and quality of services provided.
I agree. This is the largest crisis of Western Medicine. Trust in the system has been so eroded, it will NEVER be regained until it has been completely demolished and once a new system is being rebuilt.
It will start with the mass exodus as soon as Oct. 1st over the vaccine mandates, but will spread like wildfire across the land.
There was a mass retirement of irreplaceable physicians right after Obama care.
When I retired half of new Rn’s could not reliably start an IV.
The loss of accumulated practical knowledge is scary.
There is a reason why medical “accidents” are a top 5 cause of death.
Technology only goes as far as those who apply it.
I had 6 VA RNs in a row fail at a blood draw.
at least this is one area of progress in the medical field cardiology!
it is failing they are all going woke, turning them all into liberal facilities
There is progress in all medical fields, it’s inevitable, it’s PROFITABLE.
Keeping people alive longer exposes the human body to more entropy.
Example: Dementia, people are living longer than their brain’s ability to diffuse oxygen on a cellular level…more older people, more dementia, this is for HEALTHY people.
Look at Joe Biden, I’m not making fun of him, his mental faculties are compromised, I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s prevalent in his family.
Type 2 Diabetes and it’s complications are going to collapse the health care system if Covid doesn’t.
High fructose corn syrup kills more people than alcohol, nicotine, and Covid combined.
Morbidly obese people and the shit they continually eat and drink are a bigger threat to health care than any thing else, this group was about to overwhelm an overburdened system before Covid.
It’s not rocket science and it’s not political, despite all the information, people don’t take care of themselves and it’s coming to the point when human population is going to decrease by default and it’s not personal… it’s nature.
Viruses and bacteria love heat and humidity and that is what we are all going to get more of, man made or not.
So eat drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die.
My name says it all, I known this to be facts for at least 20 years, wife was in the medical field for about 30 years.
Its in every area of the economy, period!
Everything is papered over, that is what this control is all about, the powers that be know we are done!
The financial system also has all resources in the ground and above the ground including everyone’s labor leveraged out 80 years.
2. Today, the half-life of medical knowledge is less than two years. Most anything your doctor tells you is probably wrong or soon will be.
I told my doctor the doctors from a hundred years ago are considered quacks, and you know, you will also be considered a quack one hundred years from now at least he agreed, dont trust the experts most of it is fraud.
I walked into the pharmacy, a doctor in front of me was asked by the clerk would you like to give a dollar to a certain disease he said no, my turn came I said no, I been hearing for fifty years they are going to find cures, I asked her to name one, she could not.
Most of the charities that collect money is for the salaries of the employees, sort of like government workers being called pubic servants-hahahahaha
Hey 80%,
I see your name and raise it to 98%…more accurate and appropriate…
FIFY
I was being conservative, you are probably correct.
I was at “98% of everything I hear or read is a lie” around 2 years ago.
Now it must be about 99.8%
I work on cars for a living, some 50 years now. With a car, you eventually have to tell the owner “Sir, I am sorry but she’s not worth fixing any longer – it will cost you too much.” But with people, sheesh!
Unless you fix it yourself as I do, I just replaced the rusted out radiator support on my 2003 ford f150, had to it runs to good, and a new one is 50k, which I could pay cash but wont, I paid $8000 in 2008 for this truck, now a five year old one is 30k- nope no inflation
as far as your health you also have to figure it out yourself 80% of the time wtf
Sadly, about 90% of healthcare expenditures spent in the average westerner’s life are in the last 10%, and most of that money is the last 10 days of life.
Or so my medical experts inform me….
” and most of that money is the last 10 days of life”
I agree so why bother unless your a crook.
One of the wonders of the ‘insurance’ concept. Everyone thinks they’re passing ridiculous medical charges on to some other set of suckers… which happens to be themselves, with the intermediaries getting their own cuts along the way.
I sometimes wonder if ‘free enterprise’ can actually work in a mal-educated population. Yeah Socialism!!!
I was glad when my mechanic told me that. But it did take me a second to let it go.
i am on an email list that was set up by a buddy of mine–
it is mostly retired attys.,along w/a smattering of other professionals & losers such as myself–we have some pretty good back/forth–
a couple of weeks ago we were debating whether or not big tech should be regulated–the info below appeared on that thread–
he is a retired doc–i do not know him but my buddy told me that he worked in operating rooms running the machines that run the heart & lungs when a person can’t breathe for themselves–
ON YET ANOTHER SUBJECT;
Sorry but I can’t stand the nonsense anymore;
FACE MASK! And who(?) is profiting by it? Certainly not the public,,,,, you see, school is back in, and I’m right across the street from the Sr High, which means as soon as school is out, the sidewalks are covered in discarded mask, as our entitlement students cannot be bothered to use the multifarious trash cans placed for their convenience. So, first rain, everyday in monsoon season, said sidewalks ankle deep in amorphous white mess. Can’t say I blame them. Watch this:
FACE MASK ARE USELESS!!!! Remember when CDC, when this first started, came out and stated that FM were “useless”? What pray tell, changed their minds? My guess, the Government felt they had to do something to protect their phony-baloney jobs! Short truth; if you can breath through it, a virus will pass through it! One proof; the mask they are touting are “procedure” mask! About 1/2 the micron size as a true surgical mask. Try and walk Into an OR and see what happens. The Nurses will shoot you! So, why not wear surgical masks? Twice as expensive, TWICE AS DANGEROUS! Assume arguendo, a mask somehow traps a droplet containing a virus, any virus. In a wet,warm environment. Virus heaven!
OK, this be a gross oversimplification but I’m sick and tired of “mask Nazis” utilizing this useless modalities to further their innate need for authority without knowledge! If you must, obtain a full face shield. Humans are inveterate nasal intrainers, meaning we mostly breathe through our nose, or downward. Unless of course it’s trapped by a face mask,,,,,
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, PhD, CCP
The majority of us here already know this, its called common sense!
What are you lawyers waiting for, as we lose our freedoms and liberties, and what about the kids losing them, go after this fake BS
Pilot has a vaccine induced stroke mid flight. https://www.redvoicemedia.com/video/2021/09/learn-the-true-dangers-of-airline-pilots-flying-post-jab/
I am an RN about to retire after 34 years . EVERYTHING the author says in this article is spot on. I have seen this ALL with my own eyes. You better believe it. I myself have given up trying to convince people of all the lies and hypocrisy associated with all this. You check in to an ER and if you have Medicare, watch out ! As long as there is ink in the doctor’s pen, they’ll order tests. They’ll find a way to get a Covid diagnosis. Because there’s too much money for the hospital in it. If they open their mouth about anything the Administration is pulling, they’re gone. The list goes on and on. Too many of my colleges are keeping quiet and going along with this bullshit in order to keep their jobs. It’s a sad fact. I’m lucky in that I don’t have to worry about that any more. I only hope I can survive what’s coming. I hope I’ve prepared enough. God help us all.
I believe you.
that’s a rather evil looking emoji pinned to my comment there. Jeez
I am fighting the same degeneracy in psychotherapy. We hope to make a difference. https://youtu.be/uy2EI1YFX24 Good Doctors have sold their souls for boats and college tuition. Lawyers keep on lawyerin. Doctors need to secede from their organizations and their professional associations. Join the American College of Pediatricians. Acpeds.org.
I like honest front-line views, wherever they come from. Thanks for posting this, I’ll put it up on SLL tonight.