[Peace-discuss] New med school critique

Sat Nov 22 01:50:40 EST 2014

Any one who has taken physiology and "got it" (figured it out)
should understand the body as a system.  So it's
not so very profound to say that it is a system.
(Really?  No shit, Sherlock?)

Unfortunately the level of medicine and biology has still not risen high 
enough
to fully understand the flows and connections in the body as so to
really understand acupuncture which also is a system oriented methodology.

In the name of "quality medical service" (a fraudulent and deceptive bit 
of prose)
the practice of medicine has been maintained as a closed shop and people
are forced to pay exorbitant tolls to pass over the bridge to wellness.
All in the name of a lie to make sure that the coffers of the trolls are 
well-filled.

The medical-insurance-pharmaceutical industrial complex has cast dams 
across the
rivers of healing. */You will damn well pay them/*, or**_*they will most 
surely let you die*. _
(it's a /passive/ matter, mind you...)

That should be frightening enough but I indeed doubt that any one with
ability to change the system will rise up against it, because the same 
demon serpents that
are wrapped around the staff of medicine are also wrapped tightly around 
the spines
of the people.

*

"...physician-scientist, physician-innovator, or physician-entrepreneur" ???

In the world that all of you live in and most of you dare not to shake,
the system has such inertia that incredible sums of money are required to
push any innovation.  They will have to be scientists to understand the body
since most are not sensitive enough to visualize the meridians even if 
with the aid of a map
they are pointed out.  In a world that worships stupidity, any positive 
action is
a pure act of the will.

A Canadian doctor who died of some bacterial infection 75 years ago,
(in a small county town a hundred or so miles west of here) had this to say:

    Medicine, as we are practising it, is a luxury trade. We are selling
    bread at the price of jewels. ...
    Let us take the profit, the private economic profit, out of
    medicine, and purify our profession of rapacious individualism ...
    Let us say to the people not ' How much have you got?' but ' How
    best can we serve you?'

The day before Bethune died he wrote:
     "... Please give my Kodak Retina II camera to comrade Sha Fei.  
Norman Bethune, 04:20pm, November 11th, 1939"

Some famous guy wrote about Bethune:

    Comrade Bethune’s spirit, his utter devotion to others without any
    thought of self, was shown in his great sense of responsibility in
    his work and his great warm-heartedness towards all comrades and the
    people ... We must all learn the spirit of absolute selflessness
    from him. With this spirit everyone can be very useful to the
    people. A man’s ability may be great or small, but if he has this
    spirit, he is already noble-minded and pure, a man of moral
    integrity and above vulgar interests, a man who is of value to the
    people.

He says we should learn, but quite frankly I do not quite know how this 
thing can be /taught/.
Pete Wall said, "Either you is, or you ain't".  Perhaps that's more of
an observation than a sentencing.  Let's hope so.

The spirit seems to exist exterior to the intellect.  It might be 
possible to teach one to follow it
and learn its ways.

*
...So they pervert the power to heal into the power to gain wealth.

It's very hard to find any nice and civil words for a skank like your 
Chancellor Wise
or any really wise way to deal with the problem of a Chancellor Wise.

*

It ain't easy working with people.  They can be ugly and often they 
don't smell good.
They can hurt you badly when you try to help them.
They build corrals and strong pens for handling cattle because it is a 
necessity.

But your medical complex has taken the dealing with people problem to an 
extreme and
it has become a malady unto itself.

Most who want reform dare not challenge the halls of medicine.  They just
want someone other than themselves to cough up Moloch's fare.

On 11/22/2014 06:30 AM, David Green via Peace-discuss wrote:
> Mort, I don't know whether the following language, found on p. 5 of 
> the shortened prospectus, is supposed to be boilerplate, grandiose, 
> banal, or just plain frightening. I suspect that we would do better by 
> bringing over a lot classically-trained Chinese acupuncturists.
> Curriculum
> The physician--‐scientists and physician--‐engineers who graduate from 
> this new College of Medicine will be uniquely trained and equipped to 
> incorporate analytical techniques, innovations, and multi--‐ 
> disciplinary teams into a Human Systems approach to advancing and 
> delivering health care. The new curriculum will be rooted in the 
> convergence of medicine and engineering, computer sciences, 
> quantitative sciences, and technology to teach the human body as an 
> integrated system. This understanding of the human body as an 
> integrated system is critical to the analytical, problem--‐solving 
> skills needed to be a successful physician-scientist, 
> physician-innovator, or physician-entrepreneur positioned to transform 
> health care.
>
>
> On Thursday, November 20, 2014 9:38 PM, "Brussel, Morton K" 
> <brussel at illinois.edu> wrote:
>
>
>
>     A useful, well written article, but it does not negate the
>     possibility that the idea of having the proposed medical facility
>     in C_U is a good idea for medicine, UIUC, and for society
>     ultimately. That the affiliation is with Carle, the only feasible
>     partner here, is not in itself a negative. Medical schools all
>     over the nation have affiliated and expanded with private
>     hospitals. I think the idea has merit, even if I have come to
>     despise Wise for her behavior with regard to Salaita and for her
>     denying the obvious in that case. She is a liar. Now, we are told,
>     usefully, of her corporate connections and possible conflicts of
>     interest. . But as for the idea, it may be a plus for the
>     community. That UIC doesn’t like it, nor Provenance of Christie is
>     expected in this competitive arena.
>
>     Finally, of course we desperately need a radically revised
>     medical/health system in the U.S., but UIUC cannot make this
>     happen alone, so to criticize it on that basis seems futile and
>     irrelevant.
>
>     —mkb
>
>
>>     On Nov 20, 2014, at 9:04 PM, David Green via Peace-discuss
>>     <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net
>>     <mailto:peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>> wrote:
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>>     http://publici.ucimc.org/?p=50834
>>
>>     A timely and important article by David Prochaska in the public I.
>>
>>     DG
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