By decree, ban influence in medical schools by the AMA and therefore by extension, pharmaceutical companies. Also ban any donations or involvement (including Board of Director positions, etc.) by any commercial healthcare entities. Force the teaching of actual health CARE. New Physicians are mostly trained in how to administer drugs. They have little “old-school” training in how to diagnose disease or treat diseases or illnesses in inexpensive, safe and natural ways. There are many conditions for which pharmaceuticals are not the optimal solution. It should be mandatory that medical schools provide extensive education in nutrition and the importance of exercise and a positive mental attitude. Our nation is sick, in part because we have let the pharmaceutical companies take over medical education resulting in a nation full of physicians who know little more than how to match a drug to a diagnosis.
What role due dieticians and nutritionists have? Doctors have 15 minutes to see you and to manage 5 chronic conditions thanks to overreliance on insurance dictating care
Doctors must have a thorough understanding of the role of diet and nutrition in health and well-being. If, in the management of their practices, they have the where-with-all to employ dieticians and nutritionists to further counsel patients on the important role of nutrition and to put patients on a healthy eating plan, then that would be fine. But to ignore the role of nutrition altogether which is largely what has happened in American Healthcare, is not in the best interests of a healthy nation.
Eating healthy isn’t common sense? Avoid lots of carbs, low saturated fat, eat vegetables, minimize sweets, etc.
If a doc can’t get a patient to take something as easy as a pill, they can’t make patients adhere to a diet or exercise. Look at how popular ozempic is because people want their unhealthy diet and not to exercise.
Any person with any type of invisible illness, chronic pain, harder to diagnose condition, Etc, I guarantee will tell you that doctors have harped and harped on them about the importance of nutrition and exercise. So that is really the last thing we need.
Many European countries have a system where the cost of a physician’s education debt is forgiven when they serve undeserved communities for a specific amount of time. Keep big pharma away from colleges and universities develop strict federal guidelines on a completing a well rounded diagnostics and holistic medicine education. Learn about new medications, medical devices and equipment from bi-annual conferences and not direct influence from the makers.
FYI you can see what providers take money from big pharma on:
In addition no medical insurance company should be able to require preapproval or decline payment for services rendered as a result of a medical professionals recommended treatment or prescription!
Tbf, this shouldn’t apply to NPs and PAs who barely have any training and whose decisions should be heavily scrutinized.
I’d actually add the action of banning federal grants to medical schools who allow more than 1% of their student body to be international or
In addition, to incentivize merit based acceptance, federal grant amounts should be based on the avg m-cat score being in the 90th percentile. The higher the avg m-cat score, the higher the grant eligibility.
Actually, saturated fat is good for you.
This is a good policy recommendation and I thoroughly support David’s position. As a sibling and a child in a heavily medical family, including two prior generations of medical doctors specializing in nuclear medicine, I can understand and appreciate this policy proposal.
Medicine has been corrupted for decades now, finally reaching its apex in its goal of the efficient destruction of the overall health of the American People, in exchange for monopolistic wealth. It has turned full circle and is evident throughout the world, if only one would research the information provided on the internet.
Here is a prime example, showing a particular family who made their fortunes in oil, and used this wealth to destroy the age-old treatments used in medical treatment for decades prior…
“After removing traditional medicine from medical schools, Rockefeller made sure to secure his monopoly by launching a targeted smear campaign against his competitors. Homeopathy and natural medicines were discredited and demonized through the newspapers and other media of the time. Some doctors were even jailed for using natural medicine treatments, including treatments that had been used safely and effectively for decades before. In a very short time, medical colleges were all homogenized. All the students were taught the same allopathic system and medicine was now defined as a process of prescribing patented drugs. “A pill for an ill” became the mindset of American medicine.”
This is perhaps a good start. Do your homework. Find out where this clipped text came from and read the rest. David’s proposal is good policy for America. The Rockefeller-designed Medical Deep State needs to end TODAY. It is blocking REAL tried-and-true treatments.
PS- When new medicines are marketed in the public space, such to include acceptable side effects as “DEATH”, then you know you are looking at a sloppy medical monopoly that needs fixing.