Is it time we stopped putting doctors on pedestals?
So deep is the decades-long conditioning that 'doctor knows best', that despite the fact we are now starting to understand the century-long deception and sheer criminality of big pharma... so deep is the programming that a man (or later woman) in a white coat 'knows best' about health... that even though there are thousands of natural health practitioners who have been trained to a far higher degree than any doctor in the true causes and solutions to disease, and been silently working behind the scenes for decades, most people will still believe that if a person has the letters 'DR' in front of their name, they know better than any other type of health practitioner. This is the wetiko mindspell.
...I know.
I have a chip on my shoulder.
A big one.
This is a topic which irks me, and obviously (as we would say in Ren Xue) '[unhealthy] patterns [of consciousness]' are at play... patterns of frustration... impatience... envy... feelings of lack of acknowledgement...
However, I don't think this is only a personal gripe.
I'm sure there must be other natural health practitioners out there who have similar feelings on this topic. In fact I know there are. And this is an issue which still needs to be better recognized and understood by the average person who still believes the pharmaceutical model of healthcare trumps all, and that 'doctors know best'.
Does Doctor know best?
For years I've been writing about this topic* (see blog list below), after my own journey back to health, which took me on a very long and arduous trek over hill and dale, after being told over and over again by doctors that they could not help me... at least without drugs or surgery... which somehow I knew were not the answer.
When I grew up as a kid, all I knew to do if I had a health problem was to see a doctor - someone in a white coat. That was my and my family's understanding of solutions to health problems. Whether it be a rash, a flu, an infection, a broken leg, a life-threatening issues... no matter what, the action was to go to a doctor. There was nothing else (that I knew about at the time). So that's what we did.
And then I reached a point where doctors started telling me they couldn't help.
Initially it was for a back injury... then depression... then chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS)... and more. And through sheer frustration, and the necessity to resolve severe debilitating symptoms which had brought my life to a halt, I started searching elsewhere, and discovered other health practitioners... osteopaths, naturpaths, acupuncturists, mind-body experts... a plethora of natural health practitioners... hundreds of different therapies I'd never heard of. And back then - pre-internet - it wasn't easy. The main source of information was 'the yellow pages' (remember that?) and maybe a flyer or two on a shop wall.
But I persevered, and hunted, and tried and tested over 250 therapies (I counted them up one day) on my personal journey to get well, eventually training to professional level in several cutting-edge mind-body therapies, not because I ever had plans of becoming a practitioner, but because I wanted to learn more about how the body can self-heal and apply it for myself. And then after I got well, people started asking for help, and after initially saying no, one day I decided to give it a go, and here I am 20 years later after having helped hundreds learn and apply the same self-healing techniques so they could heal themselves too.
The Doctor and the Pedestal
So why today's rant about 'the doctor and the pedestal'... again... because as I said, I've been writing about this since 2011.
Because despite the fact that over the past 6 years, since the c**vid scandal, where many doctors have woken up and understood the incredible deception we have all been subjected to for decades by the pharmaceutical industry, most people are still under the spell of 'doctor knows best'. And it is a spell.
It is a spell which was cast over a century ago, back in the late 1800's.
My eyes were opened wide to seeing this spell when I started researching the true history of modern medicine just after c**vid hit, and it was shocking, upsetting and fascinating exploration all at the same time.
I have literally watched thousands of hours of documentaries, films and videos on how modern medicine actually came into being, which have been collated into several online compilations, (here's one of them), and which also led me to speak at the 2024 'Safe and Effective' (not) Roadshow on 'The Hidden History of Medicine'.
And here is the point I'm trying to make:
So deep is the decades-long conditioning that 'doctor knows best', that despite the fact we are now starting to recognize and understand the century-long deception and sheer criminality of big pharma... so deep is the programming that a man (or woman) in a white coat 'knows best' about health... that even though there are thousands of natural health practitioners who have been trained to a far higher degree than any doctor in the true causes and solutions to disease, most people will still believe that if a person has the letters 'DR' in front of their name, they know better than any other type of health practitioner. People still turn to doctors for answers because they are unconsciously conditioned to believe a doctor knows best, consequently putting their faith and trust in them, over and above other natural health practitioners who may know more. This is the spell.
Please know, I am NOT trying to be derogative towards the medical profession here, because most doctors go into their career with only good intentions to help others. I am also well aware of the number of incredible surgical techniques, and medications, which can help people with severe injuries and life-threatening illnesses. So I am not saying the whole medical profession or pharmaceutical procedures are a sham.
The problem is, most doctors went to medical school and were trained to dish out drugs, believing this was the authentic answer to health problems. They simply didn't know better and thought it was the right thing. Such is the level of deception by big pharma on unwitting humans that we cannot trust our bodies to heal, and that we need to ingest often harmful substances to clear symptoms. And we all drank the coolaid. The programming has run through generations for decades - no wonder it is so pervasive and ubiquitous.
But now we know better, or at least some of us do. And in particular, natural healthcare practitioners, who have been training for decades in understanding the real root causes of illness, understand things differently. (And remember - before big pharma there was natural health: but as a result of the witchhunt and shutting down of the natural healthcare industry back in the late 1800's and early 1900's (check out the Flexner Report** to find out more about that) people in the Western world were re-programmed over decades to only believe that doctors could heal - surely one of the most successful mind-programming feats ever achieved).
Credibility of Natural Health Practitioners
So what I am trying to say here is, despite the irrefutable proof there are hundreds of other healthcare options and solutions for health problems than mainstream medicine, people will still flock to listen to a medical practitioner with the letters 'DR' in front of their name - even if that person is no longer practicing medicine - unconsciously giving that person their trust and faith, simply because for decades we have all been programmed to believe that 'doctors know best'. Even if people are open to and using other types of natural healthcare solutions for their problems, deep down inside they still believe doctors have superior knowledge when it comes to health.
This is the mind spell. The 'wetiko' that people are still under.
And it's time we understood this simply isn't true. It's a conditioned perception.
We have to stop giving our power away to the medical industry... to doctors... to big pharma.
We have to stop deferring our power to people in white coats... whether they be currently practising or have exited the profession.
We need to (a) start recognizing that natural healthcare professionals know just as much - and in many cases more - than many doctors... when it comes to the true causes and solutions to illness, and (b) that ultimately it's up to us to become our own doctor.
We have to learn that we are the ones to be the authority over our own health.
This means coming to learn to TRUST in our body's ability to self-heal, and learn how to effect this, (which initially is not necessarily an easy task, because most of us have not been taught how to do it). Quite the opposite in fact: we have been unconsciously trained to fear illness and doubt in our body's ability to self-heal. Which is why we need to get the right guidance and advice to do so, which is what thousands of natural health practitioners have been helping their clients with for centuries.
So yes, when I see the workshop 'Achieving True Health Without the Doctor', (details below) presented by two ex-doctors (who by the way I deeply admire for the amazing and courageous work they have done during the c**vid years, exposing the truth of big pharma), sharing their journey of 'embarking on a new path as natural health educators', well yes, despite the fact I have no doubt they will share some great information, the chip on my shoulder is activated.
After years of training and clinical practice, helping people get well without drugs, and being snubbed, cold-shouldered and demeaned by doctors, yes, my nose still gets put out of joint when I see people flocking to listen to ex-doctors, simply because of the deep, deep programming the masses are under that doctors somehow know more.
Don't get me wrong, if the workshop was nearbye, I'd love to go along, as there's always something new to learn, and I'd genuinely be interested in hearing what these two amazing people have to share. I have no doubt it will be an inspiring and uplifting evening.
But why is that after decades of practicing healthcare without medication, and years of professional training and clinical practice, that natural healthcare practitioners will still command waaaaay less attention than a seminar given by a doctor on the same subject? Why is that natural healthcare practitioners still have to work 10 times harder (more like 100 times as hard) to be recognized and taken as seriously as a doctor?
Because of the century-long mind-programming that someone in a white coat knows best... programming which is still ruling the roost in most people's minds.
And it is this which needs to finally stop.
This is what irks me.
Natural healthcare professionals are EQUAL to doctors. We are not less than. We know just as much, just different... and sometimes more.
We have been trained differently - in the root causes of illness - and we have answers and solutions people need.
It's time natural health practitioners were taken more seriously and put on an even keel.
It's quite simply time.
And ultimately, the goal is for everyone to become their own doctor. This is the true goal of health.
So next time you see a book or a seminar by someone with the letters 'DR' in front of their name, just check in and ask yourself; 'do I still believe - without recognizing it - that a doctor knows more than another natural healthcare professional'?
Just check in, are you still under the medical model wetiko mindspell?
Or is it time to let this decades-long mind-programming go? Is it time to stop unconsciously giving your power away to men in white coats and finally become your own doctor?
I hope so. It's the most empowering and freeing thing you can do for yourself today.
References
Ex-Drs Sam and Mark Bailey website and events at https://drsambailey.com/ - I admire their work, this blog is not an attack towards them - it is a call to wake up to not revere doctors more than other natural healthcare experts who have also trained for decades in their art and are equally knowledgeable in their skills, and it's time people recognized this, and let go of the medical 'wetiko' spell.
WETIKO - A "Mind-Virus": Wetiko is described as an insidious thought-form or energetic parasite that infects human consciousness. Mind Virus: Refers to the way it spreads through collective thought.
** Flexner Report - plenty of information on this in the 'True History of Medicine' portal. Clip from Jonathon Otto's 'Brave' series.
* Previous blogs referenced above - I've been writing about the topic of not deferring to doctors for all our medical answers since 2011:
Note: apologies in advance if any of what I wrote in these blogs appears to be 'anti-doctor' - it is not meant to be. It was written with the frustrations at the time of the ongoing and perpetual non-recognition of knowledge and skills of natural health practitioners.
https://kimknight101.wordpress.com/2011/08/05/are-doctors-in-the-dark-ages/
https://kimknight101.wordpress.com/2011/09/04/why-is-it-that-we-assume-doctor-knows-best/
https://kimknight101.wordpress.com/2012/06/28/doctors-dont-have-all-the-answers/
https://kimknight101.wordpress.com/2016/06/24/dr-spock-talks-health/
https://kimknight101.wordpress.com/2016/07/08/crisis-what-health-crisis/
https://kimknight101.wordpress.com/2012/03/06/the-new-health-insurance/
https://kimknight101.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/are-you-ready-to-step-out-of-the-health-matrix/
https://kimknight101.wordpress.com/2016/01/02/the-price-of-change-the-cost-of-progress/
https://kimknight101.wordpress.com/2011/09/29/perceptual-blindness-a-barrier-to-healing/
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