“MEDICINE EMPOWERED!”
PART
TWENTY TWO
JAMES
RAYMOND FISHER, JR., Ph.D.
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September 16, 2016
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As medicine has been empowered, a peculiar thing has
occurred. The patient has been reduced
to data with the focus on the disease not the person. Moreover, the quest has been to develop new “miracle
drugs” to treat essentially lifestyle excesses rather than to address the root
causes of the destructive behavior.
On the other hand, medicine has assumed the role of
social controller of disease in the macro sense, sometimes with spectacular
results in such cases as the cholera epidemic, which was traced to problems in
sanitation, while many forms of cancer have been successfully linked to the
smoking of cigarettes.
Public Health, medicine and government have become intimately
involved in the personal lives of citizens.
Moreover, The American Cancer Society and the American Medical
Association have become equally intrusive successfully suing for smoking bans in
most public places. The false positive to
this is that it has not been initiated by the people.
Cholera is no longer a pandemic while cigarette smoking
in the United States has been reduced from 42 percent among adults in 1965 to
17 percent in 2014, along with a dramatic decline in cigarette smoking related
deaths. The ends clearly are thought to justify
the means.
What is disturbing about this medical power shift is
that in medicine becoming more scientific and remote it has become less
personal and humane, but as we shall see, for reason.
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