I can never understand why the public are taken aback whenever a doctor commits a crime. The Doctors who carried out experiments on living Men, Women, and Children, for the Nazi’s in Second World War Concentration Camps had signed the Hippocratic Oath, Dr’s Crippen and Shipman had signed the Hippocratic Oath, GP’s who are struck off each year for sexually abusing female patients have signed the oath.
Why does the public expect Men and Women who carry out that profession to be somehow saintly and more above reproach than say a plasterer or a bus driver? Members of the Medical Professions are numerically over represented in national statistics regarding both Alcohol and Drug Abuse, not surprising given some of the things they see and hear, and possibly a sign that members of the profession are more prone to human failings than the rest of us.
During my own experience of working alongside Doctors as part of multi-agency teams for protecting children or the mentally ill I observed many things that proved just how “mortal” these “saints” actually are. I found:
1: That in a multi-disciplinary arena the “Doctor” always appointed him or her self as the leader.
2: Along with the above not being prepared to listen to any alternative to their own opinion.
3: Judging families (particularly within hospital) against a white, Christian, middle class norm.
4: GP’s prepared to pass concerns to Social Workers but playing those concerns down when on oath in court, or worse, denying that they were concerned at all.
5:Imposing his or her “ideals” on an unquestioning public, it seems that once a week now we are informed that some foodstuff or liquid that has been enjoyed across generations is bad for us.
This last point is well reflected in the way smoking and smokers have been persecuted over the past few years.
First, the revelation that smoking is dangerous, there is good evidence and those who want to give up or not start do so: next, the attack on passive smoking, the evidence of which has been greatly exaggerated, is used to alter our social life and our culture forever: and: finally: within two days of the new smoking law coming into being, we are hearing that they want to stop us smoking in our own cars. Now watch out sheep, if you let them win that they will be demanding the removal of radios, CD players, fluffy dice, and everything else that they can say “distracts”, until they have robbed us all of our individuality.
If you detect some anger creeping in here, you are right. The reason is a headline in the Observer newspaper yesterday. I will tell you what it was about in a second but first let me give some background.
Throughout my Social Work and lecturing roles, I was on multi-disciplinary teams looking at the ways the statutory agencies work together. An ever recurring question was the massive increase in the numbers of children, mainly boys, being diagnosed with “Aspurgers Syndrome” and Attention Deficit Disorder, both of which have been described as being on the Autistic Spectrum.
“Where have these things come from?” was the question from middle aged lay people like me to the medics, these things did not exist when we were kids.
Reasons from Poor Parenting to diet were presented by the medics who shouted down, often seeking to humiliate those like me who asked about the evidence from elsewhere linking these increases to the MMR injection. We were told this was rubbish by doctors who, not for the first or last time in my experience, set out to ridicule both the doctors who had collected the data, and those in the room seeking clarification.
I was not prepared to walk away from this issue. As someone who lost a brother to whooping cough before the injections existed, and saw multi-disabled newborn affected by Rubella whilst I was working at the hospital, I always agreed with the need to protect children from these illnesses. I was not however prepared to back down and deny or omit my experience that the increase in conditions on the Autistic Spectrum was in direct proportion to the number “guilt” messages being laid on mothers who did not have their children injected, that is to say that as the number of injected Children grew, so did the instances of Autism.
In meetings, doctors ridiculed me, and as a teacher I was verbally “attacked” by teachers from medical backgrounds because I asked a class to research and consider this evidence from an ethical perspective.
Anyway, front page headline on yesterdays Observer “NEW HEALTH FEARS OVER BIG SURGE IN AUTISM: Experts “concerned by dramatic rise: Questions over triple jab for children.
I guess I do not need to tell you that I am not surprised.
Luv Bri.
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