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Another great article!

For several years I taught "History Ethics and Legal Perspectives of Anesthesia". It was a Master's Level class for Nurse Anesthesia Students enrolled in a Master's Course. My teaching credentials included Degrees in Law, Anesthesia and Nursing along with 20 plus years administering Anesthesia and I was working with more than one Law Firm as both an Anesthesia Expert and a Lawyer in Mal-Practice Cases, defending Physicians.

This article gives a good analysis of the problems with an approach to Medical Ethics based upon just knowing enough to pass a Medical Board Exam and obtain a License to Practice Medicine.

I can also vouch for the approach/problems in the way someone with a Masters In Public Health (MPH) views the CDC and believes Vaccines are necessary to stop a contagious disease and achieve herd immunity in the population.

Both the level of Medical Ethics taught and the opinions it seems are ingrained into MPH graduates are tottering on the edge of a "falsehood abyss" as can be seen from this Sub Stack article.

First a word about those who have a MPH Degree: I have a friend who has two Master's Degrees; one in theology and an MPH. Early on after C-19 Vaccines were available he asked me if I had been vaccinated and I replied that I had not. He asked why and I responded that I had experience in the Phase 1 Human Trials before Vaccines were approved by the CDC and the Covid Vaccines were still in Phase II trials and the benefits and risks associated with them, especially long term risks in humans, were not known.

He proceeded to tell me that his MPH Degree gave him the knowledge to tell me it was my duty to get vaccinated for Covid as soon as I could get to a vaccination center. I asked him why, expecting at least a quasi-scientific explanation. Instead I was told that the CDC were experts and we had a duty to do what they said!

I asked him how many classes in Pharmacology he was required to take to get his MPH? He just looked at me. (silence equaled "none"). I asked him how many days he had spent caring for patients, in isolation who were diagnosed and being treated in a hospital for a communicable disease in his MPH training? Again silence (none). I asked him how many class periods in his MPH schooling was devoted to communicable disease identification, process and treatment? You guessed it, none, just silence.

He knew that a doorknob that had germs on it was called a "fomite," a potential source of a bacteria, fungus or virus that could cause disease, but he had no education or background that would really give him any basis except his belief that the CDC was "the expert source" for when to get vaccinated. He had the theoretical knowledge the MPH Degree had given him, but he had no real knowledge, or had forgotten any he had learned, that gave a reasonable basis to take a vaccine that was still in Phase II testing and was for a disease with a 99.997% survival rate for those under 78 years of age unless they had some 4 or more medical morbidities. There was a excellent basis for anyone with knowledge in medically related fields to dismiss his opinion.

I especially appreciate the story of Dr. Rethy and the two teenage children she vaccinated for Covid.

Obviously her degree in medicine and her residency training would give her ample knowledge in pharmacology, disease process and care of a patient in isolation who had a communicable disease. Yet in spite of all this she committed at least 3 crimes, twice in the same day in the "treatment" of 14 and 16 year old siblings. There is no Medical or Legal excuse for that kind of behavior by a so called "professional."

The three crimes Dr. Rethy committed in her treatment of each sibling were laid out in the Sub Stack article; Battery, False imprisonment and Fraud. I also believe she committed a fourth crime, this one against the sibling's mother; removing the parental right of having the final say as to the treatment of her minor children. This is bad enough, however Dr. Rethy also committed an International Felony by not giving the mother the required risk benefit analysis so the mother could give "informed consent" or refuse her children to be vaccinated under the Nuremberg Code: which for an experimental, i.e. not approved by the CDC vaccine, only available under Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) must legally include the following:

"This is an experimental drug, it is still in the phases of human testing prior to either being approved or not approved by the CDC. Since it is still in Phase II testing, which is the first long term testing phase I can not give you a risk benefit analysis because we do not know what long term effects or problems this or any other Covid-19 Vaccine might cause. A person could die as a result of taking this vaccine. No one can force you to take this vaccine, the choice is yours (or in the case of minor children, the choice is their parents.)"

After giving this basic analysis which is necessary for the obtaining of "informed consent" the parent or the patient, if a legal adult, must sign and date a consent form that includes the same basic

language as in the above paragraph plus a statement to the effect of consenting to receive the vaccine. Then the Physician must also sign and date the form. It can not be signed by an office nurse or secretary and the consent must be obtained, under the Nuremberg Code, by the Health Care Provider who holds a license as Physician, Physician's Assistant or Advanced Practice Nurse, i.e. Nurse Practitioner. Failure to do this, according to the Nuremberg Code is a very specific crime; "Crimes Against Humanity."

So when we add in the Nuremberg code which happens to be part of U.S. Law we have not just 6 crimes, but 9 total Crimes committed by the good Dr. Rethy. There were at least three total victims mentioned in the Sub Stack; a mother and 2 minor children.

Now, some may claim Dr. Rethy was ignorant of the Nuremberg Code, however, in this country, every Law Student knows that "ignorance of the law is no excuse" as do many other people.

Then I need to point out that Mal-Practice is a Civil Offense where if convicted, Dr. Rethy's Mal-Practice Insurance Company would have to pay money damages. As was so correctly pointed out in the Sub Stack article, these actions of Dr. Rethy's was not Mal-Practice, but were Crimes.

Now since Criminal Law is different than Civil Law and since the penalty for being convicted of Crimes is loss of freedom, instead of a monetary loss, or if the crimes are severe enough, the loss the criminal faces is loss of life, that brings up another issue.

Mal-Practice insurance does not cover crimes. Mal-Practice Attorneys are not Criminal Attorneys, and are, frankly, incompetent to defend a Doctor who is being tried for crimes. That doctor will have to pay for his/her own Defense Attorney out of their own pocket. The Mal-Practice Insurance Company does not pay for Criminal Defense Attorneys. Remember, I am a Lawyer who worked with Mal-Practice Firms defending Physicians for several years.

Now, sadly, Dr. Rethy is not the only Physician in this country who is in this same position, there are hundreds, maybe thousands more in the same position.

I helped defend Physicians for years. We had a very excellent record at being successful defending Physicians. So for my two cents worth, the fault for Physicians not understanding what they face lies right in the lap of the Medical Schools and continuing Medical Education.

There is a hole in the preparation of Medical Students that includes a complete ethics foundation which would have, in my opinion, avoided this problem many Physicians can find themselves facing.

The solution, revise the way Medical Students are taught.

I believe that in the next few years, not only will there be a lot of Physicians who could be in Criminal legal trouble, but if the Medical Profession does not revise the way Physicians are taught and trained, it may be never that the Medical Profession regains the lost Professional Status that the response to Covid-19 has cost them.

We will all be better off if the Medical Profession learns what they need to know and understand now.

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I pinned your comment :)

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thanks, I hope it helps half as much as your Sub Stack thaat inspired it helps:)

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I have three comments;

1) I have been disemployed since Oct. 26, 2021, after declining the ClotShot. Dr. Ian Thompson, in medical administration at Island Health in a jurisdiction visible from your state of Washington, informed me that there was no liability under the Nurnberg Code for the collective action of enforcing adherence to a medical experiment.

2) Medical students can easily answer any question for which the answer is provided. We were selected for that ability. An hour's lecture on the questions and the expected responses would only have been a distraction from learning the difficult content (neuroanatomy was a challenge for me, as were many other areas, but pharmacology was in my "wheelhouse" as they say.) So, ethics is actually not a medical school event, but a personal quality, as is empathy and compassion. Technical competence can be trained.

3) My experience with "Medical Protective Association" lawyers is not as you describe. There is a difference between being "represented" procedurally and being "defended." If you look at Dr. Trozzi's reports from Ontario you will understand why he engaged his own independent lawyer.

Thank you for your contributions and insight.

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If Island Health is under US Jurisdiction, Dr. Ian Thompson is sadly and badly mistaken about his statement "that there was no Medical Liability under the Nuremberg Code for collective action of enforcing adherence to a medical experiment." The Nuremberg Code speaks specifically about subjecting a human being to an experimental drug and it is a Crime if certain safeguards such as complete informed consent are not followed. It is highly likely that the cases of complete informed consent with regard to the Covid-19 vaccines are extremely few and very far between. You don't get informed consent when you have a victim (as opposed to a patient) stick his or her arm out of a car window at a drive-up vaccine center and a Health Care professional jabs them and they receive a card saying they have been jabbed.

I agree that "Ethics" is not a traditional Medical School event. I'll let you in on a story from my Anesthesia Experience and a Mal-Practice Law Suite I was involved in to show why ethics needs to be a Medical School Event:

"It was a busy weekend on call. I had spent the majority of it in the hospital with emergency surgeries. One was a 7 year old boy with appendicitis, retro-cecal and adhering to be back side of the Cecum requiring careful "teasing off." In normal fashion, after the appendix was removed, the small bowel was run to check for a Meckle's and none being found the Cecum was again checked and a small, about the size of a man's thumb nail hematoma was found on the backside that did not appear to be enlarging.

After this surgery , there was a C-section in OB and then I went back up to the surgical floor to check on the 7 year old boy who had the appendectomy. He sitting up in bed crying and holding his right side. I asked him what was the matter and he said 'it hurts bad.' So he was obviously alert and recognizing pain. The nurse came in with a pain shot and I made a note on his chart and went home for a few hours sleep. It was about 4 am on a Sunday morning at that time.

"At about 7 am my phone rang. They were taking the 7 year old back to surgery for bleeding. It took me less than 15 minutes to reach the hospital and find a pale, 7 year old with no radial pulse and an apical pulse of over 200/minute and respiratory rate of 40/minute with a "flared platisma muscles on both sides of his neck" as he took each breath. We did, the best we could but the boy, Jamie, died on the OR table about 30 minutes later.

" I helped the nurses get the little boy cleaned up and then went to see the parents. The assisting surgeon told Jamie's the parents, "We did all we could, but we lost him." The surgeon had disappeared.

"The parent were shocked, devastated and crying. The mother asked to see her dead son, kiss him good-by and hold him and cry. I spent time with the parents after that letting them ask me questions, some of which I had no answer for.

Later I learned that around 30 minutes after I saw the boy in his room, crying, just before going home about 4 am that morning, the little boy expelled a large amount of blood from his bottom. The surgeon was called ordered blood. He did not come in to check on the boy. Later the little boy expelled another large amount of blood from his bottom. The surgeon was called again and ordered more blood. The nurses said they begged him to come in and see the boy but he said to give the blood and he'd be fine.

I am sure I do not have to point out to you and any other Medical Professional or Health Care professional that the hematoma on the back side of the cecum had ruptured and there was a lot of bleeding into the large intestine which caused the two episodes of bleeding from the little boy's bottom. I also an sure you have already figured out that there was a rapidly evolving gram negative septicemia as well as hypo-volemia that caused the symptoms I saw when coming back to the hospital before the second surgery to save Jamie's life, but he was too far gone to save.

"There was a Mal-practice Law Suit and as part of Discovery related to the Law Suit I spent 3 hours in a Deposition with the Surgeon who did not tell the parents their son had died and who went and hid for 24 hours in a Condo at a Resort he owned some 30 miles away and lied in his progress notes, sitting on my left side.

"Prior to the Deposition, the Hospital's Attorney talked with me and told me that the Parent's Attorney knew Jamie's chart forward and backward. He was a seasoned Mal-Practice Attorney. I was told their would be a question that would be asked me toward the end of the Deposition. He could not tell me what the question would be but I would recognize it when it came. Then I had a choice, I could hit a home run and go home with a good future or I could be intimidated by the Surgeon sitting on my left during the Deposition and go home with a chance of a Law Suit for lying under Oath in my future.

"The Parent's Attorney went over the entire scene of both surgeries, my pre-op visit with the boy and parents before the first surgery, my visit after the first surgery when Jamie was sitting up crying and how Jamie looked, his coloration, ease or difficulty of breathing, etc. and how long I spent time with the parents after Jamie died. When the question the hospital Attorney mentioned came is was a simple straight forward series of 2 questions: "Did you do everything you knew to do during the surgery when Jamie died?" I answered, "I have gone over this surgery and Jamie's death multiple times looking for something else I could hove done to save Jamie's life and I did everything I knew to do." The next question was "Did everyone, in your opinion, do all they should have done to save Jamie's life that night?" I said, "We all did except one. The surgeon should have come in and checked Jamie when he got the first phone call from the nurses about Jamie passing blood through his bottom."

The Surgeon, sitting on my left gasped. Jamie's Parent's Attorney said, "Thank you, you are excused." As I walked to the door to leave, just as I reached for the door knob, Jamie's Parent's Attorney said, Just a minute, and then he asked Jamie's Parents, "Do you want to tell him or do you want me to tell him?" Jamie's parents said "You tell him." The next words I hear were "Mr.__

you are no longer on this lawsuit, you have been removed and there will not be any record of this against your name!"

"As I was hearing these words I was grabbed and hugged by Jamie's parents, who thanked me for caring enough to stay with them when they learned that Jamie had died. A couple of hours later the Hospital Attorney asked to speak to me in private. Here is what he said, "Do you remember the story of Diagonese from Greek mythology? The man who went around with a lantern looking for the face of an honest man? Today, I have looked into the face of an honest man, you. Don't ever forget that honesty is proof of your ethics. Don't ever be afraid to be honest, especially with a patient or family member. In a Mal-Practice Case the honest rarely see the inside of a courtroom because their honesty is appreciated. Even when they make a mistake, if they are honest with the patient and the patients family and say "I made a mistake" they are very seldom tried for that mistake because most people realize none of us are perfect and we all make mistakes." I've never forgotten those words.

"The Surgeon was convicted of Mal-Practice and lost Mal-Practice Insurance for a period of 3 years. His reputation in that community suffered tremendously and Jamie's parents won the largest Mal-Practice award that had been given by a jury up to that time in that State.

"That was 15 years before I graduated from law School and 16 years before doing work on the first Mal-Practice Case defending Physicians. I have seen many cases where, IF the Physician just said, "I'm sorry, I made a mistake" that Physician's stature in the eyes of that patient or patient's family would have risen to a new height of appreciation. That honesty would have prevented many Mal-Practice Lawsuits and much lost time away from family and their medical practice..

Dr. rjt, I admire your stance against the Covid jabs. Ethics involves more than just answering a few questions on a board Exam or a personal quality such as empathy and compassion, it also involves the personal ability to admit to a harmed patient or the patient's family that you are human and not a "god". Empathy and compassion can be faked by some people but when you add the trait of honesty to empathy and compassion that is the real definition of "Ethics."

As to your third point, sadly, like in Medicine, there are Practitioners of Law who lack the qualities of Ethics. I know this to be true also, I have seen and worked with some of them and they, also are not a "god." Ethics needs to be taught in Law Schools also.

Dr. rjt,

It is my hope for you that if you still want to practice medicine that you will be able to do so again in the future. What you have suffered by refusing to take an experimental jab that is now known to be a bio-weapon is a travesty of justice by the medical profession and the government of the jursisdicton you practiced in. Those who perpetrated this in justice on you will face retribution someday. If after all your study and even the trials of neuroanatomy you believe that 'we are wonderfully made' as the good book speaks of, there is also a text I would like to share with you. Romans 12:19 last part; "Vengeance is mine, I will repay, saith the Lord." (KJV)

Keep looking up,

Bittserv

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Island Health (formerly known as VIHA, but "rebranded" when everyone called it Vi HaHaHa)is in B.C., visible from Washington's Olympic Peninsula and San Juan Islands.

I am done- I put in forty years, and each decade became more bureaucratic, more computerised, and less fun. I was in the privileged position of not "needing" the income, and my wife has been opposed to vaccination for decades.

Thank you for your understanding.

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Dr. rjt,

In my book, for what ever it is worth, you were a Physician who stood and still stands, head and shoulders above most.

May your retirement bring you the joy and peace a man of your stature deserves.

Bitterroot

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> We will all be better off if the Medical Profession learns what they need to know and understand now.

Medical personnel with big egos will never allow this. When the ego is in control, it fears admitting it is wrong, and thus no personal growth may take place.

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In that case then the relatives and patients harmed by the Covid vaccine and other unethical treatment need to peacefully boycott that doctor's office and see how long he/she can survive with little to no funds coming in.

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This lawsuit is clever in that it doesn't go after "malpractice."

Malpractice is nearly impossible to prove if the "standard of care" (all the other doc's are doing it!) is followed.

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JC,

You seem to have a basic misconception of what constitutes Medical Mal-Practice. The "standard of care" is not the sole determinant of what is Mal-Practice. There are 4 Specific elements that have to be proven for a judgement of Mal-Practice. Each of those 4 elements are proven or dis proven "to a Jury's satisfaction" by a battle of "expert witnesses. A Jury is also known as the "Trier of the fact(s)" and it is "facts" that determine what constitutes Mal-Practice.

In the situation of C-19 Vaccines, the question in a courtroom Case is not "whether the Physician is guilty of Mal-Practice?" But rather "did the Physician violate a Criminal Statute?"

There are specific steps and procedures a Physician or a hospital must follow in the situation of an EUA (Emergency Use Authorization) medication/vaccine or Medical procedure.

All C-19 Vaccines were EUA medications/vaccines.

The various "laws" passed by Congress that said they gave Physicians, Hospitals and Drug Companies "absolute liability protection" in the case of C-19 Vaccines only gave liability protection WHEN certain, specific, stated in law, procedures were strictly followed. These certain, specific, stated in law procedures are set out in International Criminal Law recognized by ALL Civilized Nations including nations such as Russia, Germany, France, Italy, and every nation that came out of a former British colony such as the US, Canada, Australia, India etc.

In many of those above named countries, especially those that came out of a former British colony, there is a basic premise in Law that is stated thusly, "Ignorance of the Law is no excuse." This means that no one, in our current discussion including Physicians, Hospital Administrators, and Drug company officers etc can defend themselves by attempting to invoke a Law that says those people are given "absolute liability protection" UNLESS those same people have followed, completely, each step or procedure outlined in the International Criminal Law their country signed on too.

Every Physician, Hospital Administrator and most other Health Care Professionals were taught in their training that BEFORE they preformed certain procedures and treatments on a patient or had those same procedures and treatment preformed in their hospital, or prescribed or administered certain drugs, something called "Informed Consent" must be obtained in writing, signed and dated by both the patient and the Health Care Provider obtaining that Informed Consent and placed in that patient's permanent record.

In the case of an EUA drug such as a C-19 "vaccine" only available to the public under EUA, the Informed Consent is, under International law, a much stricter level of Informed Consent.

Specifically, the Informed Consent for the EUA C-19 "vaccine" Administration, in order to allow a Physician, hospital etc to be covered by the US Laws that claimed to give those same people and hospitals "liability coverage" or "liability protection" The Level of Informed Consent had to specifically State the following:

1. This is an experimental drug or procedure.

2. This drug or procedure is still in trails, (Phase II Trials) and the risks and benefits of this drug or procedure, especially the long term risks are not known.

3. Because of #2 above I can not tell you what the risks of taking the drug and its benefits are or if this is and experimental procedure I can not tell you what the risks and benefits of having this procedure are.

4. Because this drug or procedure is experimental, no one can force (i.e. mandate) that you take the drug or have this procedure done.

5. I have to tell you that it is possible that if you take this experimental drug or have this experimental procedure, you could end up disabled or die.

6. By signing and dating this Informed Consent Form you are agreeing to take this experimental drug or procedure and realize that you are doing this on your own volition.

7. Then it is signed and dated by both you and me as the Health Care Provider.

Failure to do what is stated above by the Physician, Hospital or other Health Care Provider is "prima facie" i.e. "on it's face" proof of violation of a Criminal Statute.

The essentially only defense a Physician, Hospital etc has to prevent prosecution under this international Law is to show the above properly written and signed informed consent Document.

If found guilty of violation of this International Law, there are only 2 penalties a Physician, Hospital Administrator etc can have are; a) death penalty or b) life in prison with no possibility of Parole, only if that Physician, Hospital Administrator ect becomes "states evidence" and testifies against other Physicians., Hospital Administrators etc.

IF this International Law is ever put into practice in the US there could be thousands of Physicians, Hospital Administrators etc who lose life or freedom.

Perhaps that last statement above was the "real reason" this entire Covid 19 fiasco was planned to happen?! After all, Fauci and Bill Gates both have proven actions that show them to be eugenists-people wanting the population of the earth markedly reduced.

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While "standard of care" is not the only measure of malpractice, it is the wall which is hardest to cross when mounting a malpractice lawsuit. I'm familiar with this in SSRI/psych drug lawsuits, and I've heard of others (hair loss or acne pill?). Impossible to sue, for example, over statin, PPI or heart drug damages because of "standard of care," and those damned algorithms which proclaim a doctor **should** prescribe a harmful drug. "Standard of Care" is an umbrella which catches and repels a lot of potential medical lawsuits.

Criminal is another matter (which is why CHD is being so clever on this one).

And the EUA does not cover DOD "emergency measures" i.e. biowarfare - read some Katherine Watt or Sasha Latypova. There is no liability for the shots. Even if you don't consider the mysterious contracts between governments and pharma.

And if Katherine and Sasha are right, even if there is a successful class action of all the harmed against all the pharmas - they will just file bankruptcy, go down, re-org, re-brand, and do it again under the auspices of a new emergency. Or just sneak mRNA into everything in our environment. By the time that becomes a problem, the people who started it will be passing their yachts on to their heirs.

Australia, in particular, somehow phrased it (I am obviously not a lawyer) so that doctors couldn't be sued over the shots, either. And while there were no official mandates (hunh) - they rigged the insurance & health & Safety regs so that an "unvaccinated workplace is a dangerous one." THAT's where most of our mandates came from. (I'm in Queensland, it may be different in other states, because these regs were passed at state, not federal level, so that our slimy PM could say, "I didn't do it!")

Sorry, rant mode off. Keep working it, Bitterroot. We need brains like yours to weasel through their words.

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Even informed consents I have signed for procedures have only been signed by me. Never by the attending doctor.

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One of the scariest things of the last 3 years is seeing people that I previously thought were critical thinkers mindlessly parrot the lasting talking points from tv that to any logical thinking person makes no sense (e.g. "the unvaccinated are responsible for the covid infections of the vaccinated")

I have thought long about why I did not get vaccinated/trust the whole covid narrative after the vaccines came out and have come to the following conclusions:

-I had already lost trust in the mainstream-media and politicians long before

-I have an exceptionally good memory (I frequently get comments on that from family/friends and especially colleagues), so I could remember the changes to the story

-I do not go to church, but I believe in God and am a spiritual person. It is my observation that religious people did not succumb to the story to the same extent as nonreligious

-I am a logically thinking person (I studied Mathematics in college. It is my observation both from Germany and the US that so-called "nerds" were skeptical a lot sooner, because the numbers just did not add up. There was a person in Germany (Marcel Barz) who became famous in alternative media, who at first believed the narrative, but then became a skeptic, when he tried to prove that there was a pandemic to his skeptical friend, but the official numbers just did not indicate a pandemic, since Germany had BELOW AVERAGE mortality in 2020)

-My specialty in college was "Modelling and Scientific Computing", so I was deeply skeptical of the modelling of the case-counts, since I knew, that one could basically produce ANY result by tweaking a few parameters. I especially got suspicious, since the case-modellings did not improve over time, which would have gotten me into a lot of trouble if I had done the same work in my job.

-I want to get to the bottom of things and therefore try to inform myself

-and the last and I think one of the most important things: I do not crave social approval. It is my observation that a large segment of the population can be made to express the most ridiculous things, if they think, that this is the only "socially approved" talking points These people spend a large amount of their time reading the most important newspaper/watch the most important news-segment not in order to get informed but in order to know what the current socially approved attitude is. This is IMO especially prevalent with college-educated people, since a lot of them have a high status they want to preserve in any case. A youtuber I used to watch regularly used to call these people "cold-blooded-animals", not because they were heartless, but because they need validation from other people instead of getting it out of themselves like "warm-blooded-animals"

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I've kind of gotten used to people doing that, so I didn't have that many expectations be broken. It's just that the lies the media got them to believe were less overt in the past so it was harder to see this was happening.

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Carolin, I wholly concur that, as you say, "One of the scariest things of the last 3 years is seeing people that I previously thought were critical thinkers mindlessly parrot the lasting talking points from tv that to any logical thinking person makes no sense (e.g. "the unvaccinated are responsible for the covid infections of the vaccinated"). Everything you have written here makes sense to me, and is also quite close to my own experience.

As for the religious, alas, many in my family and social circles are devout Catholics and they did what the Pope told them they should do "for love." I also have, or I should say, had, some church-going mainline Protestants in my family and, with counted exceptions, they ingested gallons of the Kool-Aid-- even the kids have now had multiple jabs. But of course, attending church isn't the litmus test for genuine spirituality, never was.

In my experience, resisting the jabbing had more to do with social status than any other factor, and after that, independent of social status, it was the inclination and confidence to think for oneself, and after that, the ability to withstand the pressure in 2021 and 2022. Interestingly, what I observed was that education wasn't much of a factor-- although in my own case I will say that my education gave me confidence in my ability to be discerning, and to see where things were just, well, loony.

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B, as a lifelong devout Catholic I can attest to the fact that Catholics often make the mistake of listening to the Pope rather than to the Lord.

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"...just, well, looney." Quite!

I still marvel at the sight at a funeral of an employer of mine who died in 2020 and with whom I had kept in contact. There were his brother-in-law and sister-in-law wearing what looked like tree surgeon helmets/visors.

I tried hard not to laugh. At the wake afterwards though I did say they looked rather silly (I had met the brother-in-law). I think they got the point.

The list we could all write of the insane things we have seen...

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I too have a scientific bent and a fair IQ. I tend not to follow the herd or seek intellectual approval, but go my own way. In my darker moments, I admit to myself that what saved me was probably just arrogance.

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In my own case, it felt at times akin to arrogance, and undoubtedly the covidians who were aware of my stance saw me that way, however, looking back I would say that actually my refusal to get on board the covid train was not arrogance, but simply self-respect, together with sincere gratitude for my health, undergirded by common sense. To begin with-- just to begin-- the lockdowns did not make sense. I would say that the truly arrogant people were the ones insisting everyone else do what they wanted: shut up, stay home, mask up, get jabbed, or else. Was it not arrogance that they would openly smear and ridicule those who did not agree with them? And stomp down on those who might merely venture a question, a mild objection? Now, now that such characters as I am familiar with all had covid anyway, and they don't exactly hanker for their 7th injection... they don't want to talk about it. Huh.

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For me it stemmed from my scepticism. I am of average intelligence but from the beginning all of the covid debacle played out like we were all in a bad movie. We had the “deadly disease” ravaging humanity then stepped in our politicians, scientists and medics to bring aid to the populations. Along comes our hero “the vaccine” that will save mankind and return us to health and normality, The End. Except it did not!

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I am still astounded that people I thought were very intelligent and highly educated, friends I have known all my life totally bought into the vaccine propaganda. One of them, upon everyone in the family getting covid a second time after being jabbed and boosted, even said that old chestnut, oh but so glad we got the vaccine so we didn't end up in the hospital. !!! Even after sending some of them info from highly knowledgeable sources who were speaking out real facts that disproved so much of the main stream lies, they preferred to consider that non credible info and believe the BS. Which leads me to believe the following statement from Dr. Malone is true. "Cognitive psychology studies, clearly demonstrate that the human mind will reject sensory data that are inconsistent with its internal model of reality. In other words, if our internal models (which can be considered as"paradigms") are inconsistent with some external sensory reality, we will typically reject the true objective reality and force the incoming sensory data to fit our internal cognitive models." Due to their psychological conditioning, world view or however you want to put it, people cannot and will not understand the incredible gas lighting that has occurred. It's the only way I can understand how so many otherwise smart people are not able to think critically.

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The gem "oh, it would have been so much worse if I hadn't been vaccinated" was an idiotic statement from the get-go. How can you possibly know that? You don't get a do-over to compare the two.

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Great post Carolin, I agree on every point. I'm also math-educated, my favorite subject was "Probability and Statistics". Not that you need such training to see through the BS, it was obvious to me as a teenager in the 60's that authorities can't be trusted, and are the last who should have any authority. Then Vietnam came along to validate that, not that such validation was needed. When your first sentence included "people that I PREVIOUSLY thought were critical thinkers" I figured this would be a comment worth reading. I hate it when people who fell for the obvious scams are described as "intelligent".

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Excellent! I especially like (and agree with) the last two! Thank you.

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Apr 16, 2023·edited Apr 16, 2023

They (people you previously thought were critical thinkers) watch (as in look at; not just listen to) HDTV. Quite a few of them also habitually use egregorial THC.

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when covid first started my local dr was a woman who seemed fairly easy to get along with.When i had to have a consult for unrelated stuff,she asked me if i had been vacinated.When i said no she asked why not,as they had saved a lot of lives(huh).At that time the vax had been out maybe 8 weeks.I said well i dont want it thanks,and i guess i should find another dr.She said no,i will still consult with you even though you should get vaxed as i think its very important.I said doc,you dont get it,i dont want to consult with anyone stupid enough to advise their patients to inject an experimental drug into themselves,with only 8 weeks of history to know what the implications may be.Drs are just people like anyone else,some very bright,some not so,the one being sued here falls into the not so

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This touches upon the broader subject of people never focusing on learning the limits of their knowledge and what topics are presently unknowable to them.

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the entire medical establishment has created procedures and authority chain-of-command to create a state of compliance that has basically terminated doctors consciences. we have watched the return of the same evils that existed in the third reich and imperial japan.

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ArnoldF, exactly. 🎯🎯🎯🎯

Thus the challenge with any medical ethics curriculum. Which ethics will they be teaching?

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Right on. Similarly, I don't like the idea that doctors should get training in nutrition and advise on that. They have their hands full with what they already must do, and that's where their interests lie. I shudder to think what the nutrition training would be like and how they'd be advising us to eat. It would be agenda and money-driven, like their pharma shilling. What advice they currently give out now isn't good, and formal "training" would make it even worse.

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You are mistaken if you think the current training they get about nutrition and most other things is not influenced by Big Ag and other corporate interests.

I believe wholeheartedly that if the AHA started getting “endorsement fees” from CPAP companies, they would change their current policy recommending against routine sleep studies for folks with cardiac disease. Sleep apnea is commonly present in people with cardiac disease, yet the AHA refuses to recommend that folks with, even, say, bypass surgery, be screened for it. Despite a study showing 50% of men post-bypass have moderate to severe sleep apnea - a HUGE risk factor for ongoing heart disease, graft failure, and heart failure. It’s disgusting.

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I have read they get some training in nutrition, but it's a minimal amount. Of course it would be total BS like all the rest of their education, designed with only profit in mind. With the caveat of course that they must learn enough to do SOME useful tasks, just enough the clueless public continues to believe in their profession. Thankfully, they've lost a lot of that trust lately. The medical profession is populated by the very worst criminals in society, naturally, since it's the most fertile ground for taking advantage of the system and desperate people for personal gain. There are plenty of exceptions like AMWD, but most of them are unable to be effective within such a broken system.

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the chain of command protocols and medical compliance of doctors blindly following orders reminds me of another top-down authority-based professional relationship which can also breed catastrophe. The working atmosphere in a civil aviation cockpit can take on the same level of compliance by primadona pilots where the 2nd in command is basically put into a position of passivity. This was common practice during the early days in aviation thru the 1970s where the pilot's word was basically unalterable...and this resulted in numerous aviation accidents where the 2nd in command, who voiced a problem but was unable to convince the pilot of their mistaken error or did nothing to countermand a growing deadly situation. Two 747s crashing together on a takeoff roll was directly to blame to a chief hothead pilot who knew too much to be questioned. Same thing likely can be said of the captain of the Titanic who knew there was ice ahead but plowed ahead at full-speed into a deadly trap. It seems like the entire medical industry is filled with hubris and can do no wrong.

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Good for you! I fired my doctor for the same reason.

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IMO one of the biggest red flags regarding a doctor is when he/she either lies to you or pressures you into a medical treatment. My mother used to live in the same multi-family-home as my grand mother for the last years of my grandmother. In the town they both were living in they had two doctors: One who had a bit of an alternative streak (although he tried to convince me to get the covid shot when I was there) and another one who did not have that streak. For reasons I do not know my grandmother ended up with the second as her doctor. One day he came to the apartment of my grandmother (the whole story to me sounded very odd). My mother by chance was with my grandmother. The doctor said he had a flu-shot for my grandmother. My grandmothers said she did not want the flu-shot to which the doctor replied, that he "was not sure, whether my grandmother could refuse it". IMO this sentence alone would prompt me to change my doctor.

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Yes, I just find the behaviour I have described totally unacceptable because I am not of the opinion that the end justifies the means and I abhor lies

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Apr 16, 2023·edited Apr 16, 2023

😱 Carolin, Did grandma acquiesce?

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I am not sure. I do not think so, because my mother happened to be there and she is no fan of the flu shot either

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Apr 15, 2023Liked by A Midwestern Doctor

I learn so much from reading your posts, Thank you and keep up the good work.

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Thank you.

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Apr 16, 2023Liked by A Midwestern Doctor

As long as modern medicine is allied with the pharmaceutical industry, medical ethics is an impossibility except for those few who step outside of the paradigm. Big Pharma is so unethical and it permeates the medical journals, medical education, the thought leaders, and the construction of medical "standards of care" that one can not live comfortably within the mainstream paradigm and be ethical any more than one can now work within the mainstream paradigm of journalism and report on the truth. Many have called me "brave" for advising my patients to "wait for better science" before submitting to the COVID shot, but doing so for me was a no-brainer. If I didn't work in behalf of my patients health, I felt I had no business calling myself "doctor". I was rewarded for my ethical principles by being relieved of my license by the local Board of Medicine. I have long ago migrated to the world of alternative medicine, where I am able to practice under health freedom by using exclusively homeopathy, energy work, nutrition, environmental and functional medicine. I'll never go back until medicine disaffiliates with big Pharma. I'm not holding my breath.

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There may be many looking for new Health Care Providers who are centered on the principles you describe. In the long run, the profession may be at the turning point that has been sorely needed for a long time; I salute all these efforts and your conviction to health freedom.

Perhaps a new model based on what people want and tailored to their needs is the future vision.

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You are wise not to be holding your breath. Money is power, they've amassed it. Most will fall in line. The only hope is to take their money, which was ill-gotten even before COVID.

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If I were Ms. McNeil, the fact that I was told to wait outside while my minor children were being examined would have been a Texas-sized red flag.

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Good for you Eliza. I had a similar experience with mask Nazi’s at my dermatologist’s office. I suggested they do the anatomically impossible to themselves and walked out. Why should we trust our medical care to people who are so ignorant of basic biology?

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Apr 16, 2023Liked by A Midwestern Doctor

Fraud & lack of informed consent are definitely elements of a medical malpractice action. And if it can be proved that the doctor was willful, malicious, fraudulent, one can get punitive damages. The fact that mom was not allowed to accompany the kids to their appts & that she was not informed that the jabs had been given @ all (much less w/out consent) means that doctor & staff KNEW they were doing something willful, malicious & fraudulent because the jab was not, in fact, “mandatory” to attend school. I wonder why they didn’t consider that the kids would tell but by then the deed was done & can never be reversed. Anyway, the Children’s Defense lawyers know what they’re doing

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The basic issue is that Big Pharma has great influence in how the eduction of our physicians are accomplished. They influence medical courses that enhance the sales of RX drugs. They discourage education on topics such as nutrition and less than 1 in 5 colleges of medicine offer a course and the course is bias and examines the supposed negative impact of nutrients on the drug treatment protocol. Especielly true in cancer treatment. In Illinois, nutrition is taught in the Department of Agra, but not in medicine. For over 50 years, the mantra has been taught that more than 1,000 iu's of vitamin D taken daily is POISONOUS! False. Few if any died of Covid if their Vitamin D blood level was above 50ng's and they had no co-morbidities. This was ignored. NAC boosts the liver's ability to detoxify the body of toxins, and is ignored. Tylenol antidote is NAC and they still don't connect the dots in medicine. There is a push to make NAC a Rx drug. Why? The list is long and researchers such as Susie Cohen has documented the negative impact of Rx drugs on the essential nutrients required for good health. The book is Drug Muggers! Statins deplete Co Q 10 and most American physicians do not prescribe Co Q 10 to compensate. The list is long and and physicans have not been properly educated! Thanks to the bias education on drugs from Big Pharma during the educational years of the physician and afterwards with CE that is bias. . My thoughts for the day.

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I periodically reference that book!

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I was appalled when I recently learned about several of the nutrient depletions that can be caused by the two pHarmaceuticals I was on at the time. Stunning. Yet drs are taught absolutely nothing about this.

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Yep! Happins all the time. They have documented that Medicine is the 3rd leading cause of death in the US and the root causes are ignored! I guess the Covid con and the harm the treatment and injections have casued will now be in 3rd place.

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I can’t remember where I read this but isn’t cancer now the number one cause of death here in America?!? Turbo cancers… sounds like from the 💉💉💉 to me… 🤦🏽‍♀️

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Apr 17, 2023·edited Apr 17, 2023

Just watched a YouTube video where a cancer doctor said that breast cancer is now the leading cause of death in women. Heart disease used to be number 1. He also said that when most people die of cancer complications it's really the side effects of the drugs that killed them. Listening to him I now believe that what we have been told about the life saving benefits of cancer treatments has also been one big fat lie.

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Time will tell whether cancer issues and heart issues will escalate because of the injections. In my opinion, because they are interfering with normal cellular function with the injections, if this will be proven correct to the detriment of human life.!

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The mRNA Covid injection is just the first of many to come. Check out Moderna's website! Full Steam Ahead!

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Apr 16, 2023Liked by A Midwestern Doctor

MDR, several things jump out to me. Where there is no laws of God in a nation, (moral laws of the Creator summed up by the notion of Jesus--love your neighbor as yourself) authorities in the face of the medical establishment is no longer bound except by this ancient hyppocratic oath and then the laws of self-advancement of power for the love of money and the fear of men. All of these evils done out a spirit of fear will return onto the heads of medical providers! The medical establishment has surely created the class of doctors like Dr Rethy, and turned them into predators and psychopaths. They will get their rewards guaranteed.

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Indeed. And they put titles in front of their names as many do to make themselves look big in the world's eyes.

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Oaths aren't Christian. Rephrase it something along the lines of "I will respect the principles of Hippocrates".

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Apr 16, 2023Liked by A Midwestern Doctor

Outstanding analysis!

Docs and hospitals flushed themselves down the toilet, so I have no sympathy for the ethical pains and (I hope) legal liability for damages of multitudes in the covid-related medical professions. But Midwestern Doctor is repairing some of the damage to the profession and its patients. Thank you.

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A great article, and so true. I received a call from the VA last week threatening to drop my local VA clinic if I didn’t have a visit. I agreed; it had been 4 years. The nurse tried to get me to do labs in advance of the appt, but I told her I didn’t need them, I am healthy. She persisted and I resisted. At the appt a couple of days ago, the doctor briefly greeted me and then asked to see my labs. I told him I didn’t have any and I didn’t plan to get any as I felt fine. He didn’t like that answer and told me he couldn’t do his job without labs. I asked him if I was just an engine that needed samples. He really didn’t like that. He told me he couldn’t be my doctor anymore without labs. Hahaha. He hadn’t been my doctor for 4 years anyway. He walked out and so I left happily knowing I wouldn’t be told I need statins or some other BS drug. The back story is every previous lab review we had done several years ago and up until COVID shut down VA clinics out of ridiculous fear, this doctor wanted to put me on something. I wouldn’t ever do it. My experience is at least in the VA, there are no doctors, just drug dealers. They probably make money off the scripts, although I can’t confirm that. They definitely ask no questions about anything relative to good health and fitness. This doc asked me exactly zero questions other than do you have your labs. We are in a sad state with doctors. The irony is that they do so little that they will be replaced by machines. Any well programmed machine could have reviewed my labs and told me to take this or that. Resist unless you are dying. Then maybe continue to resist.

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There is a fifth principle: Medicine is a team sport, and the patient is the team captain.

I am 75 and have more doctors than I know what to do with. My primary care provider and I discuss all procedures, tests and medications before anything is done. He is aware that I did med school in Germany, in German, nearly 40 years ago, never practiced and have forgotten most of the specifics I learned. I've told him that he gets the last word always; I trust his judgment ahead of mine. I have a palliative care NP who sees me about every other month (hospice light) and I call her to request specific medicines, most recently zofran and prednisone.

My new urologist and I discussed the necessary regular monitoring for bladder cancer. With my history he's opposed to anything more than annual cystoscopes, matching my opinion. My cardiologist and I have more a social relationship than a medical one; my pulmonologitst accepts that I'm going to die shortly so we keep things light. My neurologist is mostly a friend.

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I appreciate you sharing this story.

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Apr 16, 2023Liked by A Midwestern Doctor

Meanwhile, my MD told me that it wasn't necessary for me to get the Covid vaccine.

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Apr 16, 2023Liked by A Midwestern Doctor

Another outstanding article. I always know I will be more enlightened after reading your post. I’m beginning to wonder about doctors’ ethics, as to whether they still exist at all or do they just follow whatever rule reaps a reward💰. We must all consider our relationship with the doctors we choose and if it’s in our interest to continue.

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Thank you : )

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Absolute insanity all around us AMD , thank you for your writings . 🤗

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Thank you : )

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