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Subjectivity
Once someone becomes a health care professional, that person never can experience the world of medicine that patients experience. They have the means to avoid it for themselves. Medicine has protocols and ways of managing, if not destroying, information that keep it from being subjected to information that makes it uncomfortable, or liable, no matter what the cost to patients. Even when things appear smooth and happy, the machinery operates in a self-serving way that may or may not be good for patients. Often doctors describe the world in terms that indicate their thinking that they are at the center from which they are the ones who are objective about the world of medicine while patients are on the outside trying to look in through a smudged window. There is little appreciation for the subjectivity of people in medicine. For instance, when a patient becomes a victim of an error or a sin in medicine, the first thing medicine does is create a wall around that patient. It doesn't put a window in that wall through which it can peer at the situation inside. It doesn't want to see. It doesn't want to know. It doesn't want to understand. It doesn't want to admit how much damage it has done and how much more it causes as it protects itself under the "You have to protect yourself from lawsuits" clause that overrides "First do no harm" as it does more and more harm to a patient who needs help now after being injured, but can't get it. And medicine doesn't know it does this. It sees all of these cases as frivolous. Have you read the nurse's emails sent to me defending their handling of the Orville Lynn Majors as he was murdering patients? She still sees the world only through medicine's self-serving lens. |
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