This will be very much a monologue or a way of laying down some thoughts for later reference.
As many others since 2020 I lost trust in the current healthcare system and practices.
It is not that I necessarily doubt the knowledge and accumulated experience of many individual healthcare practitioners over the years, their passion to treat the diseased, and their genuine efforts to improve a failing system.
It did become evident though early enough that these individual healthcare practitioners put their own survival and “got bills to pay needs” over they duty to protect and not harm.
It is also evident that these healthcare practitioners forgot everything about probity and denied their own observations and any possible concerns and swapt them en mass under the carpet.
And the individual healthcare practitioners became one amorphous consenting mass to the overarching narrative; a health soldier as I described elsewhere.
Many just carried on as they were told.
Many believed the narrative without an enquiring mind and did not look for further evidence themselves.
Many may have seen through it all and in despair obeyed their managers and goverenments.
All the above unfortunately are not fit for purpose.
The purpose of not their financial security and preservation, but our health maintenance and well being.
A small but remarkable minority maybe fighting their own fights from the inside leaking information to the alternative media sources. That minority has a great task ahead.
Who are we then to trust but ourselves?
But what should we be doing when all therapeutic heathcare is in the hands of a few and it is funded by our tax money?
Here are the possible paths:
Continue and accept; once your time is up you will suffer and expire for the greater good.
Continue and fight the system hoping that something may change.
Build an alternative healthcare solution.
Whilst most focus in path 1 and 2 it is the 3rd one we should be concentrating upon.
But how do we do that?
We need funds.
And then we need to imagine.
We need to be able to visualise how it is done.
We restart and reboot and head our own way.
Here’s my vision that I wish to share with you all…
Some say that we should forget all allopathic/ orthodox medicine has to offer. Whilst this may be an option it may not be the most prudent of options.
Thousands of lives and minds have strived for decades for us to reach a point in the present evolution of diagnostics and therapeutics.
But…when you get elctrocuted…
It is not the electricity that is the problem; it is the way the electricity is used that is the problem.
Like a new Promethean family we need to harness the fire from the Elite Gods and use it to our own advantage.
Big Pharma may be greedy but it has produced knowledge that we can learn from and harness. We know the plant molecules they used to build their own drugs. They have done all the work for us.
#1 defund the current systems
The first point would be that in publicly funded healthcare systems we must strive to make the funding voluntary and not mandatory (i.e. funded by tax).
For that we need a legal challenge that will focus on the individual rights to access the healthcare provisions they want and not what is on offer.
Many choices for service users; let the best one thrive.
Monopolies are not fit for purpose any further even if we wish them that they were.
This step is crucial as you can understand from reading step #2 and #3.
Without this step it is unlikely the other two will succeed.
#2 aim to prevent
A new healthcare system must be more holistic and as such its aim is not therapeutic but diagnostic, focusing its efforts on well being and prevention.
The funds that will be harnessed by step #1 will be used by the individual to choose their own heathcare providers.
In this term (healthcare providers) I include the so-called alternative medicine routes, integrative medicine routes and other routes that are currently underused or unknown to most
#3 harness present technology and intelligence
If step #2 fails to prevent dis-ease (and it may do at some stage) then we must move to the next step.
What most people fail to visualise is how little a good physician requires to make a diagnosis. Decent history taking and physical examination are the hallmarks of a diagnosis. For most that means a stethoscope !
Clinical suspicion will be therefore verified with lab tests and imaging in most cases. Luckily with the advent of computers this technology is becoming accessible to all. We are almost reliving the Internet era of the late 90’s but now with a health tech spin.
Lab tests are becoming more accessible and therfore cheaper.
Imaging is becoming accessible by using a mobile device and therfore cheaper. Noone requires the latest CT scanner by Siemens or Phillips if there are other cheaper alternatives.
The investment threshold is surpisingly low these days.
After all, how do healthcare systems work in the middle of Africa? Do they have state of the art equipment?
Without a doubt we all know that once in a while unfortunately we may require a surgical intervention. Because we broke our leg. Or because of another reason. The skills of decent healthcare practitioners who were ousted or have had enough and left the system must be leveraged.
If a non-surgical treament is required the practitioners of step #2 will continue treating with the aim of reaching a non dis-ease state again.
#4 crowdfund it but without the government and industry
The users will crowdfund it with the money they save by defunding the existing healthcare systems, and retain access and use for as long as they wish for and also harness any possible financial benefits (stakeholder healthcare capitalism). Robust governance ensures that investment returns to the systems and the organisations remain largely non-profit. The sustainability is ensured by the reduction of healthcare use at the most expensive component (#3).
Ultimately the success of any system depends on the integrity, willingness and energy of its parts, that is the individuals like me and you.
So, what say you?
Open to honest feedback and will try to bring as many people together as possible to critique and share thoughts…