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Therapeutic Nihilism

The HIV/AIDS epidemic caused fear and panic in the 1980s. Yet physicians stepped up, set new protocols, and continued to treat patients without requiring HIV tests before seeing them At the time this disease was 100% fatal and they did not fully know how it was transmitted. Today, COVID-19 if you are under 60 the crude mortality rate is less than .4% and if you are under 30 this rate is less that .2%. Yet even with known precautions, patients with severe NON-COVID disease are being put off, sent to the ER or ignored. It’s an embarrassment to the medical community. Most of the heroes of the HIV era are gone, replaced by physicians that would rather cower behind overblown fear than take care of their patients.

A part of the modern hippocratic oath as taken by physicians today says:

I will apply, for the benefit of the sick, all measures which are required, avoiding those twin traps of overtreatment and therapeutic nihilism.

I will remember that there is art to medicine as well as science, and that warmth, sympathy, and understanding may outweigh the surgeon’s knife or the chemist’s drug.

John Smith, (not his real name) waited weeks for an appointment to meet with the orthopedic surgeon to remove infected bone from his hip. He had already been diagnosed with osteomyelitis (an infection in the bone) in his hip. After waiting two weeks as his infection raged in his hip he developed a fever but was finally able to come to Birmingham for his appointment and leg and life saving surgery. Upon arriving at his doctor’s office they took his temperature. Then sent him away.

From: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9gO6sCzcnc

It does not take much intelligence to figure out why he had a fever. Instead the doctor puts his patient at risk by refusing to see him. He will now have to go through an emergency room and will likely lose his leg or his life.

Another friend of mine, call her Jill, has been diagnosed with bronchial pneumonia. She has tested negative for COVID. The pneumonia is getting slowly worse. Her doctor refused to see her for two weeks. This too will most likely result in an ER visit at the point her life is in danger.

Where are the physicians, those heroes that took the Hippocratic Oath, the one’s who swore to do something to help the sick and injured, who swore not to do nothing. Yet, doctor after doctor is letting their patients get sicker and sicker, even die rather than take the chance a patient might be infected with COVID. Even when they know their patient does not have COVID from testing, they are turning them away, or delaying seeing them.

This used to mean something.

I have been unable to see my cardiologist for 3 months past when they told me I needed to be checked. If I had a problem, they would let me go to the ER or have a heart attack before I was treated. No heroes there, and I have tested COVID negative.

These few examples are being repeated millions of times across the country. Yet physicians have gone along with this approach to healthcare, intentionally putting their patients at risk rather than seeing any patient that might carry the disease. The patient and the doctor can wear masks and limit the time of exposure yet fear rules these former heroes.

Since when was being a physician supposed to be risk free? Each one signs on to treat sick people. Healthy people have no need for doctors. With the advent of COVID, they are violating, en mass their commitment to patients. Is this why they are so highly paid, so they can cower behind policies that keep patients away. It’s like a roofer that won’t go up high because he might fall. But the roofer is at much greater risk and has far more fortitude than those that are not caring for their patients.

From: https://www.chicagotribune.com/sns-real-estate-hiring-a-roofer-story.html

No one is measuring the deaths that could have been prevented with normal care. So if a patient waiting to see his physician gets COVID he or she is more likely to die or to be sicker than if they had been treated properly.

We should call it the hypocritical oath instead. These former heroes took an oath they refuse to uphold. It is a shameful response to a virus that seldom kills anyone without underlying disease. If they had not taken such an oath I would not hold these physicians responsible, but they did take the oath. History is full of physicians that took much greater risks in order to treat infectious patients. Yet, even knowing a patient does not have COVID many of these doctors are still not seeing their patients or are delaying treatment.

No wonder our ERs are full, everyone with an issue, or fever, or cough is being sent to the ER, even if the cause is known. This exposes these patients to COVID when it is completely unnecessary. Even if they did not have COVID, by the time they leave the hospital or ER, they will have it. Where are the doctors that took the Hippocratic oath? Why don’t they speak up against this crime against their patients? This approach to personal safety is putting every patient at risk. It is killing many of them.

Peaceful Protests?

Portland Peaceful Protest?

American cities are burning while the media describes pictures similar to the one above as peaceful protests. Statues are torn down, confederate statues, Christopher Columbus, Ulysses Grant, and even Abe Lincoln has been defaced. Yet, the media, does not speak against this. Ulysses Grant, and Abe Lincoln both fought to give African Americans the freedom promised by the constitution. They fought to bring about the promise of freedom in the United States. Yet these rioters only see hate and would tear down a system that is the best the world has known.

China has forced labor and re-education camps. In Saudi Arabia women are still mostly property. In the Philippines resistance is met with death. Yet, they deride this country and its freedom.

Some networks even described protests as peaceful while fires were started live on camera. Over a 1000 police officers have been injured and several killed by these peaceful protesters.

While mayors in these cities, (Atlanta, Portland, Seattle, Chicago, New York) force their police forces to stand down or back off. Crime in these cities is exploding with murders leading all prior measures. Yet the media does not report that this increase competes with COVID as a cause of death.

David Dorn and his murderer. Retired policeman killed in peaceful protest. Fox New.

Murders in New York City are up by 21% this year and murders in Chicago are up 78%. Kids are killed almost every weekend. Yet, nothing is done to prevent this. The media focuses on the 10 unarmed African American killed by cops, when there were 19 unarmed whites killed last year by cops. Clearly not a racist trend. All the deaths were tragic. Some of the cops were prosecuted others used force appropriately. Yet, none of the white deaths were reported nor was the tremendous reduction in unarmed African American deaths that has occurred over the last few years.

Yet the 1000’s killed by criminals receive no justice. Instead the cops are hampered, demonized, and threatened if they do what they are sworn to do. Protect and Serve. The men and women in blue are our protection from mayhem and murder, yet there are calls to defund the police.

I strongly urge people to find the truth. The media, and big tech companies are trying to hide this truth. It takes work and thought to find the information. It is not so hard to understand that these calls to defund and mayor’s forcing their police forces to back off has resulted in the increase in crime and murder. Yet, there is more happening here.

If you look at the history of Nazi Germany, the Nazis originally said they were going to help solve the crime issues the police were having. So Nazis became members of the police. Crime went down. Then those same Nazis became a tool for oppression of those who did not support the party.

So is this what is happening?

  • 1. Let crime get out of control.
  • 2. Defund the police.
  • 3. Replace with your own (social workers)
  • 4. Arm the social workers since they are in danger.
  • 5. Social workers become the revolutionary arm to root out dissidents.
  • Revolution succeeds.

It happened much this way in Yugoslavia. It is starting here. It is time for those who can to support our police and our constitution. Failure to do so may mean the complete loss of the freedoms we hold dear.

If you support the police and this country’s promise of freedom, now is the time to pass this on and stand up.

Living in Fear

That is what the media wants from you, to live in terror, to fear that the oceans will rise and wipe out Hawaii or that there is a rash of crime and you are the target.  Compounded with legitimate fears it is amazing that any of us function at all.  I was recently  impressed by a friend of mine facing potentially terminal cancer, but he was not fearful.  To be more accurate he was not worried about death.  He was more worried about the discomfort  of chemo than he was about the prospect of dying.

I have noticed that believers who have accepted Christ as their savior generally face potentially fatal events with far less trepidation than those that are in any other religion. There a grace and peace that believers in Christ have that provides an assurance of what will occur after death.  That assurance is not one of a mental understanding but one of a heart understanding that is often described as from the holy spirit.  Beyond the indisputable events of Jesus’s death and resurrection that to me is proof of that reality.  It is the impact of that reality on this world.