Permies is my favorite place. However I am finding a lot of snarky, and even what feels like hostile, attacks on western medicine and its providers.
I did bedside nursing for 34 years. My husband is a Physician & Surgeon. We don't hide successful natural treatments in order to make money; we do focus on the large, double-blind scientific studies. It's a question of how we each choose to "treat".
There's no "hidden cure" to cancer. Cancer is not one disease, it is legion. There's no secret password to "big Pharma" money. If there was, my husband was absent that day in medical school. The amount of unethical Physicians I have met in 34 years is less than 10. There are lazy, untalented, socially and/or generally inept physicians, but very few that would trade money and perks at the risk of a patient.
Providers may speak to other physicians about new drugs and get paid, or given a meal. They may not receive alcoholic drinks with their meal. They may only speak about the current scientific studies concerning the drug, They may not recommend or disparage the drug. They cannot mention off-label uses. They may not say it's better or worse, except with direct reference to science. Many, many people make huge money speaking about topics within their expertise, including natural health practitioners, permaculture experts, and half the population of tiktok. None of these are regulated or monitored for ethics, truth, or perks.
Starting therapy this month. I am grieving the loss of my lifetime passion (nursing) and dealing with long-stuffed emotions. SO, pretty please, with sugar on top, have a little more of an open mind, and a little more kindness. Please be gentle if you respond to this, as I may have been up to my elbows in your friend or relative's body fluids, and lovingly cleaned them up.
Some quotes from the TV show "The PITT"; watching it actually made me realize I need some grief therapy.
"The most important things I’ve ever done in my life have been in this hospital. Nothing will ever matter more than what I’ve done in this hospital, but it is killing me. You know how they say that a part of you dies when you lose someone you love? I’m not convinced that a part of you doesn’t die every time you see a fellow human pass. And I’ve seen so many people die that I feel like it’s leaching something from my soul."
“We need to laugh. Otherwise, we’d never stop crying.”
"It's in our DNA. It's what we do.
