Actually, the game is called “hot potato,” but for “doctors,” it’s team work.
Thanks to Edwin, readers are reminded of how bad an unnecessary surgeries can be. I’ve found it refreshing to read it again after all these years. You might enjoy its seminal observations, too:
Coleman tactfully omits that a quarter of patients pick up an antibiotic-resistant bug in hospitals. While he mentions tonsillectomy, even he omits the importance of the appendix; it would need to be saved, because it’s the depository of the gut flora:
At the end of the article, he wonders about referrals to heart surgery, and the answer, I believe pertains to referrals to any specialist.
It all starts with “medical” specialization. Nobody seems to want to take the responsibility of a diagnosis for several reasons, out of which rejecting the responsibility of treatment might take the lead. After all, most diagnoses are shots in the dark:
“Medicine” is compartmentalized for good reasons. What normally would be a clandestine operation (no pun intended) by the military or by industrial R&D, found its way to “medical” offices. The Rockefellerian allopathic practice doesn’t want to project a complete image of the human being, because it doesn’t have one. If it did, it couldn’t get away with its false diagnoses (from symptoms, while the same symptoms can be caused by several causes) and use invented conditions to cover up common poisonings that are usually due to industrial activities or “medications.” Here are my favorites:
The patient is passed around from specialist to specialist like a hot potato, while none of them is willing or able to take responsibility for a cure, because treatments are normally used for maintaining a condition or creating a new one. Such a “condition” is often mercifully called a “syndrome,” an “allergy,” or an “autoimmune” disease, while it is most likely the result of poisoning or the body”s conditional reflex in response to situations that led to illness before, as I substantiated in my pioneering initiative to place illness and health into a single interpretive frame:
https://rayhorvaththesource.substack.com/p/what-makes-people-sick-apart-from
Those, who trust doctors, can always expect a diagnosis:
We do orthopedics pretty good (sports medicine). BUT never liked seeing how they push the hip replacements on the elderly and then shove them into a nursing home to never walk again.
Sometimes things break and can be repaired!
Or botch them. Medical Malpractice is the THIRD LEADING CAUSE OF DEATHS IN USA.