Mq, I'm deeply sorry for your loss. I often think about it, and my sympathies are with you and your family.
The med cartel.... I think that, basically, I don't quite understand what people mean by this. I guess, mostly it's about the restrictions to entering the profession. Well, out of curiosity, I looked up a couple of articles about the Maori Medicine Men. It's apparently far more difficult to become one than it is to become a Western doc. It takes a person with special talents, and a lifetime of learning and practice. Often, it seems, they are selected on a hereditary, family basis. It is similar with all traditional cultures and their Shamans and other health practitioners.
It appears that the restrictions - at least in the beginning - happened naturally. It is only more recently that things became so crazily complicated, with ahole bureaucrats all over the place, and the stupid old bitch Nanny State sticking her greedy nose into every place where it doesn't belong.
One of the glorious successes of modern Western medicine - and a good example for the discussion - is invasive Cardiology. Every hour of the day thousands of people all over the world come to Emergency departments with acute heart attacks, and get their arteries popped open and stented. Most of them, instead of dying - or becoming severely damaged and disabled - go home in a day or two, with their coronaries in better shape than they've been in years.
The point is that a person can have an IQ of 200, and overloaded with God's gifts, but still unable to perform such a procedure without years of hard study and training.
It's not an easy path:
A US study estimated that approximately 50% of students experience burnout during medical school, as measured by depersonalization, emotional exhaustion, and feelings of professional inadequacy. [59] .....
In a South Korean study, 40% of medical students appeared to have depression. [61] Medical students with more severe depression also may be less likely to seek treatment, largely from fear that faculty members would view them as being unable to handle their responsibilities. [60]
en.m.wikipedia.org
And, believe me, it doesn't get easier during the postgraduate training - at least, not until you're close to the end, and know what you're doing. It's almost as tough, I gather, as wanting to become a Maori traditional practitioner.... :) |
