Doctors, What Are They Good For?

Doctors, What Are They Good For?

by Dr. Sam Bailey
January 25, 2022

People keep asking me where they can find a good doctor.

The real question they need to ask is whether they even need a doctor, because the medical system has become detached from health. But has this happened recently or did medicine go off the rails long ago?



References:

“Terrain” the film – register here

1. A long shadow: Nazi doctors, moral vulnerability and contemporary medical culture, 2012
2. One in 20 East German doctors spied on patients or colleagues, 2007
3. The burden of the past: problems of a modern historiography of physicians and medicine in Nazi Germany, 1987
4. Medical and Dental Councils statements
5. Deadly Medicines and Organised Crime
6. Failing the Public Health — Rofecoxib, Merck, and the FDA, 2004
7. Expression of Concern: Bombardier et al., “Comparison of Upper Gastrointestinal Toxicity of Rofecoxib and Naproxen in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis,” 2005
8. Vioxx Killed Half a Million? The Facts Are Grim, 2012
9. Doctors’ strikes and mortality: A review, 2008
10. Why Do Patients Stop Dying When Doctors Go on Strike?, 2015

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