It is time, for logical thought!
Preamble
This is not a new post: I originally wrote it some time ago, as a “thread” in “chat”. I came across it just now, while reviewing “Aging and Your Hormones”.
I think it’s valid, even though not new and now that I seem to have persuaded a few doctors to subscribe to the blog, it strikes me as important enough to resubmit (it’s very lightly paraphrased and I’ve tried to make it readable!).
The idea is to remind MDs that they are licensed, independent professionals, able to think for themselves and that at least nominally, they should remain unfettered by official “guidelines”, which so often, are illogical.
So here is “IN SUPPORT OF LEARNING BY EXPERIENCE” (“chat”, from16th February, 2025):
IN SUPPORT OF LEARNING BY EXPERIENCE
I wish to express my thanks to, and to laud, the unfettered online journal, “ResearchGate”, which accepted and published my two articles, “Intracellular Hypothyroidism” and “T3/rT3 diagnoses the low T3 syndrome” back in 2022, even though I declared myself non-academic, un-attached to any hospital or other ”institution” and to boot, retired and hence “de-licensed”!
Career researchers and overgrown pharmaceutical companies are not the be-all and end-all of logic and discovery. As a general class, they are rendered myopic by the necessity to publish and the urge to profit. Their success in infiltrating “mainstream medicine” has resulted in a transfer of that myopia to the “omni-potent”, but hardly “omni-scient” Medical Colleges and Ministries of Health, which have the power to “defrock” the lowly MD (speaking of which, to my consternation and chagrin, the lowly MD’s consciousness has been invaded by the “defrocking” threat to the extent that he (she), in fear of fine and slander and rejection, literally cowers (as a colleague of mine did, back in 2012) at the mere mention of my practice of “Hormone Restoration Therapy”! – “You can’t do that! You’ll be delisted”, he said.
How’s that, for a run-on sentence?
Medical Doctors have been disenfranchised
MDs have been disenfranchised and rendered apathetic and un-inventive, by an insistence on “evidence-based medicine”, which is forced upon the working professional by the “establishment” under threat of termination-of-license if they dare to contravene the one-size-fits-all “guidelines”, laid down by their Medical College. **
**see “Ode, to the medical profession, as it was”
Doctors’ capacity for original thought and the Initiative to apply experience-based learning in the care of their patients, have been ground to dust, by the heavy boots of modern-day, Capitalistic Academia and its bedfellow, “Big Pharma”!
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