Do you know why Doctors call their office a practice? Your guess is as a good as mine. No really, thats what it is. A guess. You can present with the same symptoms to ten different places and you’ll get around 8 of them disagreeing with what the other said but totally certain that they’re correct. Net result to you? More often than not pills or surgical interventions that are next to useless at best or damaging due to their side effects. Things really haven’t progressed from blood lets, leeches and all that back when. They only present a cleaner image and the whole appeal to authority thing which says you should listen. Its the reason why they have people in white coats selling things on TV because your mind links them to the capability to heal hence “I’m not a Doctor but have played one on screen”.
Once upon a when people used to bring me their prescriptions so I could see what pills they were popping on the reg, compare them to their reason for needing and seeing if I could share some insight that might help. One fine eve I noticed a rather peculiar similarity. An alcoholic, epileptic and manic depressive were toting the same medicine. “Strange” said me considering the diverse needs of those present and thus was aroused my curiosity about what could possibly be going on behind the scenes to make this be. Not being a stranger to retail and the performance bonuses companies give for pushing a new item over the rest in order to get an edge in the competitive market I initially suspected this may be it so spoke to a few I knew in the industry who said “Thats only the tip” and this is when it all got thick.
“See that over there?” the Doc said motioning to a set of golf clubs that looked as expensive as immaculate “Didn’t cost me a thing. I got them in a draw I never even entered in and its purely because I steered more clients toward one prescription than another” he said. Another confirmed he’d just been on a cruise, bought and paid for as well, under the guise of a “work related trip” in which he attended a couple of promotional campaigns dressed up as lectures on the latest advancements in pain management and why you should prescribe what we said… You know the rest.
Now what was interesting about this is I knew first hand of this trick. Anyone involved in the music biz knows its not talent that makes a hit buy Payola or how much you’re willing to spend under the table to ensure your song enters into the programming and thus the plebs hear it several times a day and convince themselves they like it as well before heading off to spend money on what you said. When its done well its almost transparent and is an accepted practice to the end that if they don’t spend then units won’t shift and if they try some other form of tricks to cut out the middle man then the black ball kicks and no one will touch them or their artist because all involved protect their interests when it comes to the shady end of the business hence ten percent for show, the rest you won’t get unless you swim with the sharks, in the deep end.
You look across any industry at the point where public facing and behind the scenes intersect and you’ll bare witness to the same process in full effect. Some times its cash on the hip, gun and a wink, totally blatant. Other times its presented with more finesse like “We’re convening an expert panel to comment on the efficacy of X over Z as a treatment and were wondering if you could come along and present your experience?”. “Where and when, may I ask?” the Doctor said as he was a busy man, given the nature of his business, but always made time for this rep because she was so attractive, as she replies with a smile and a quick flash of leg. “Why its in the Bahamas, the month after next. I’ll be presenting and hope to see you coming. This could be the first of many as we always know how to welcome our guests“. You can guess the rest. Its a shady business and first and foremost everyone is in it for themselves. You and your concerns are, at best, secondary and actually much further down the list because “Who cares about them. If those idiots don’t know how to look after themselves then why should I give a toss when they schlep in wanting a quick fix?”.
Indeed, there is some truth in this because people make lifestyle choices that are stupid and generate the exact opposite of health and then when symptoms manifest they refuse to give up what made them sick but want something to mask the ill effects so they can keep on doing what they’re doing.
“To tell you the truth, each year that goes by I find many ways anew to hate them and what they do” said the Doc as the rage flew through. “Most of them just want a sympathetic ear, someone to pretend they care as they witter on about their life to you. Others self diagnose and are prepared for death and won’t want to hear nothing less than you to corroborate they expect – “No, Mrs S its vertigo, not an aneurysm. Yes, I do this for a living. No, I don’t need to check or test. Yes, I’m perfectly aware what Google says” – The amount of psychosomatic prisoners that come through is intense and worse yet they’re climbing steadily as people convince themselves its something life threatening and this is the end. Probably so they’ll finally have something important that makes them the center of attention for a moment” he said, exasperated.
Now that last point was very interesting and something that was repeated time and time again. That most of their patients were starved of affection, attention and the feeling anyone gives a damn if they were to die where they stand. That is where the professional care giver comes in and the entire interaction made me think of how a pimp used to instruct his women “You are in the business of selling them an image. I want them coming back, again and again. They need to feel like they’re the man, more than a client when it comes to sex. Forge that deeper connection, that intimate remembrance that knows just how to make him feel like a King for a moment and you’re his true Queen. The only one who understands how he feels, the only one who can truly satisfy his needs because once you do this you’ve got him by the pursestrings and he’ll keep coming back and our pockets get fat”. The girls sat their soaking it all in when really it was nothing new as they know fine well the way of building relationships but he was taking them to the next level of artifice by breaking it down into pieces of how to feed back what he said, there and then in the moment because intimacy is what they crave, the fundamentals of the lay is something any woman can give but the entire imperience is what can turn one nation against the next as they all desire that resonance and comprehension that exists without having to say a thing as you know just how to move and service him the best and sell the image that he’s a rare, magnificent specimen and your time together is idyllic”.
The Docs were all saying the same thing but they dealt purely in the emotional space but the underlying drives were the same when it came to a cross section of those who came to see them and just like pimp owed a gambling debt and some vig to a local “business interest” as well as some more to the brick layer who kept the drugs flowing he was stuck in a situation where he’d take from one then to the other give before roping in a third to his trick. All to keep the plates spinning and stop them crashing over his head. It was a stressful enterprise, all said, and the Docs were in a similar predicament as they stated it was always about pushing the next solution on their clients. Even if that meant having to make the symptoms fit with whats on the script, when they knew it would be useless. It didn’t matter to them because that bright eyed idealism of “I shall deliver health” and “First do no harm” were soon left behind when one gets into private practice and discovers the truth of how it is with useless plebs hell bent on destroying themselves and them coming to you for Band Aid solutions for the proverbial broken leg that was sustained when they took a hammer to themselves via their destructive habits. “Its getting harder and harder to hate them less” he said, taking another sip of the Scotch he knows well as it helps take off the edge from another day sitting and listening to people talk about problems when they don’t truly want solutions. “They just want to be heard” he says, with a hint of resignation chiming in, “And I really can’t blame them because who gives a toss about anyone in this modern world? Especially themselves“.
We’d spoken previously about the trap man is in although I hadn’t fully extended the Game of Souls framework to what it would be yet. The Doc was a man of high intelligence, good moral fiber as well but a lifetime of experience had left him jaded when it came to all this so he certainly wasn’t going to sniff at the perks that came along with prescribing this or that in exchange for a fat bonus. The way he saw it was that everyone is doing it. “The pharmaceuticals companies are pushing the best patents with the latest tech so it has to be effective. Who am I to question this when the vast majority of my business is prescribing pills? They handle the rest, I just make sure they end up in the right peoples systems and that way everyone wins”.
I asked him about vitamins and minerals. How long had he spent considering things like orthomolecular medicine and he said “All that stuffs useless, a month at best to study the basics when University was still the thing” and I found this very interesting because in my own imperience they are the literal building blocks of everything. Imagine for a moment you had a factory which casts bricks and its needs a certain set of components to which it then applies a process and the end result is sturdy and perfect. Now consider for a moment one of the ingredients is missing, so if you’re in the kitchen and the cake needs 3 tablespoons of sugar thrown in you grab the salt instead because it ticks the “White, granulated powder” box. What then? The end result wouldn’t be quite as intended, would it? Those who tasted it would know the issue in an instant but when it comes to bricks they are used to build strength and therefore only reveal their weakness when they’ve been issued and used for something that suddenly comes down, crumbling.
That is exactly what happens within. Case in point, Magnesium is essential for over four hundred processes in the body in a cascade system. The lack of it can cause everything from restless legs to insomnia and constipation as well as countless other things that people run to pop pills and the Docs ignore as well. When I presented this perspective he said he would look into but never did because after a certain age people just do what works best and in his case it was prescribe the same pills to an alcoholic, manic depressive and epileptic. I asked “How could this happen?” and he replied “Off label usage is a common thing, I wouldn’t expect for you to get it, no insult to your intelligence, but one pill can cure other non related symptoms. For example the epileptic may find it helps in balancing their ion channels which prevents seizures and fits whilst the bipolar benefits from the reduction of abnormal electrical charges inside their head and with alcoholics we find it prevents them from wanting a drink although the exact mechanism for action is up for question”. “You ever think it could just placebo in full effect” I said. “Are they hypnotized by the white coat and your sheen of attentive presence then believe what you said? After all Voltaire said the art of medicine consists in amusing the patient whilst nature cures them”.
The laughter was intense as he finally said “He may have a point, after all its rare we fix a thing and when it comes to what we have to prescribe on top of this to help that which wasn’t a complaint when they came in can get ridiculous. I tell you its enough to make you think”. “Think what, that its all a crooked racket designed to keep them locked into an ecosystem which profits of their ignorance?”. “Well, I wouldn’t be as dramatic but yes. There is something fundamentally lacking because people don’t know, nor care to learn, how to handle themselves. Take you for example, you never come in and I’d never heard of you until all of a sudden my clients started turning up with questions about their medication, my reason for prescribing this over that and so many other things that I thought they’d all found their own specialists. Eventually they all said “Him” and thus your name was mentioned”. “Thats why I came along to introduce myself” I said “because they trusted me enough to let me look in. If you’ll note the epileptic rarely comes in and hasn’t refilled her prescription since back when, know why? Because she sniffs lavender essential oil instead and this prevents the aura from progressing when she feels the familiar sensations, creeping. Combine that with a high fat, low sugar, no carb eating plan and her issue has all but vanished. The last bit also applied to the alcoholic as well due to an off script use of Baclofen mixed with a mega dose of vitamins to offset his singed nerves as he processes the trauma imprints that initially turned him to drink. What the word mis-comprehends is that alcoholism is actually a self protective mech to preserve the little sanity they have left and each sip helps to ease the pain of memories gone from surfacing in their awareness and, at the same time, it destroys the flesh”. “And the bipolar nutjob, what did she get? Did you whip up some magic beans and wave your juju stick at her?” he said to which I replied “That ones a work in progress but she finds low dose Lithium Orotate helps when it comes to self regulating the pendulum that swings from lot to less. Most of it was due to her messed up imprints and the complete lack of centering that comes from the kind of upbringing she witnessed where acting out was the only way to get attention which alternated with trying to shrink when her parents were arguing” I said. “As you know I’m quite certain that almost all of our ills trace back to events seen as kids as well as emotions that were suppressed that then at a later age manifest as stress and as myriad symptoms”. “Which keep me busy no end, speaking of which its been delightful meeting but I must get packed for a cruise I’m heading off to this weekend” he stated as he flashed a grin and pointed to his wedding ring that would, undoubtedly, be removed when he slipped into something a little more comfortable…
That was just one man, a limited sample used for an example but they all read from the same script and sing the same song. Some knowingly, others out of ignorance but then the question remains:
Why would you place your health in the hands of someone else when you could so easily do for Self? The three examples I gave of the epileptic, manic depressive and alcoholic made leaps and bounds that were immense by switching up what pours in so their mind-bodies had the right components to build bricks with the requisite strength that were fit for purpose because, to expand this metaphor again, all the Docs can bring is akin to scaffolding to shore up what has already been built and this doesn’t address the underlying problem which they neither mention nor fix. For a parting shot consider this:
There is no cell in your body that is older than around seven to ten years at a stretch. What do you think you use to create this but the raw ingredients I said? Then step back and consider that monoculture farming and the sale of foods by commercials chains that are nutritionally dead and the added influx of pesticides and repellents then it suddenly becomes self evident why so many are Victims of self imposed ignorance and make decisions to their detriment when they think a pill can fix the ills by providing some sturdy scaffolding as this means they don’t have to change a thing. In reality its just as I said and you’re welcome to research and test for self if you Doctor is willing to speak about the perks the reps bring and how they in effect tell him what would be best to prescribe to his patients based on latest research and advancement. Stop and think for a moment, a twenty year old whose only training in the field is sales expertise gleaned from some training given to the team and what to repeat as the latest spiel is the hidden link that powers the machine in which you and your Doctor are but mere wheels, generally unaware of where they fit or the motivation of this entire operation which can be summed up as one simple word:
Till we meet again
