It can be painful or dangerous to express your beliefs or principles. And sometimes for not courageously defending yourself. I get this awareness from first hand experience going all the way back to my employment at Borders in Michigan; but also get it from my dad who stubbornly stood up for indoor non-smoking rights in Michigan's State Lottery department where he was once threatened with a gun as well as nearly being transferred to the upper peninsula.
Today I find myself losing friendly relations because I can't sit quietly while our American medical community has been gradually captured and subverted by financial conflicts of interest and thus medical education and the standard of care for patients have lost their way. It's not just remorse for the loss of the family doctor's home visit or even the retirement of the old guard—it's the attitude of the front line. How dare one question your doctor or even reveal one's knowledge of physiology or that one actually reads peer reviewed studies and understands them. Gas lighting of such patients is becoming endemic. Sit quietly and let your primary care white coat poke and prod and prescribe and be happy about it!
Well, I don't sit quietly. And therefore I get rushed out of the exam room as if I indeed have a communicable disease—the diseased however is the physicians' ethos, a culture of authoritarianism, of "I paid dearly for this position so don't cause me grief!"
Grief indeed! I grieve for the gaslit. I grieve for the vaccine injured. I grieve for the censored and unemployed doctors, nurses and scientists who stood up for "where there is risk there must be choice!" I grieve for the children who have been and will be marred by a foul government policy of revolving doors and kowtowing to the pharmaceutical companies even after they've proven their real intent with opioids—take their money and destroy their resolve and eventually their lives!
Government has enjoyed bribes long enough. It's time for Americans to wake up and get in their face!!
