Post by gezunked on Mar 5, 2010 5:57:27 GMT -5
I guess most people have heard of the hippocratic oath. The pledge taken by doctors at the
start of their careers in which, among other things they promise to rigorously investigate
and treat any patient without bigotry or bias. Well more or less.
What has perplexed me for the whole of my Morgellons journey is how could all these bright
eyed young medicos become so jaded and cynical that they are prepared to disregard the
almost sacred tenets of their fundemntal oath? And why should this cynicism and disregard
for their patients welfare be so pronounced with Morgellons patients in particular?
For a long time I thought it was fear of going against the collective wisdom of their peers
and consequently being marginalised, or worse ostracised. Even so I would have thought
there would have been more than those very few doctors who retained some personal ethics by
treating Morgellons as a disease not a delusion. But there in lies the heart of the matter.
Conventional medicine understands Morgellons to be Delusions of Parasitosis. As we all know
DoP is a quirkily obscure illness with many strange and demonstrably illogical aspects. For
a theory of medicine with so many Catch 22's I sometimes wonder if Heller schooled Ekbom!
The symptom most relevant to this post is the 'Folie a deux'. If, as accepted theory
states, an observer who believes a subject has the symptoms of Delusions of Parasitosis but
is not delusional, then by default, the observer must also be delusional. Therefore any
treating doctor who even attempts to investigate Morgellons as a legitimate illness runs
the risk of themselves being considered delusional. If that were to pass then that doctor
would run the real risk of being either temporarily or permanently de-registered or placed
under professional supervision. That is to say have all their work supervised and checked
by a peer to ensure that the doctors' mental illness (folie a deux/Dop) does not put his
patients at risk. Pretty restrictive and frightening stuff for professionals steeped in a
culture of infallibility.
So there you have it. Doctors aren't @#$%^&*'s because they are cynical and bitter or find
DoP patients difficult. It is as always, far more simple - it's all about the bucks, the
lifestyle, the prestige and the power....and ego.
I feel better already...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWMO3rAD98k&feature=related
start of their careers in which, among other things they promise to rigorously investigate
and treat any patient without bigotry or bias. Well more or less.
What has perplexed me for the whole of my Morgellons journey is how could all these bright
eyed young medicos become so jaded and cynical that they are prepared to disregard the
almost sacred tenets of their fundemntal oath? And why should this cynicism and disregard
for their patients welfare be so pronounced with Morgellons patients in particular?
For a long time I thought it was fear of going against the collective wisdom of their peers
and consequently being marginalised, or worse ostracised. Even so I would have thought
there would have been more than those very few doctors who retained some personal ethics by
treating Morgellons as a disease not a delusion. But there in lies the heart of the matter.
Conventional medicine understands Morgellons to be Delusions of Parasitosis. As we all know
DoP is a quirkily obscure illness with many strange and demonstrably illogical aspects. For
a theory of medicine with so many Catch 22's I sometimes wonder if Heller schooled Ekbom!
The symptom most relevant to this post is the 'Folie a deux'. If, as accepted theory
states, an observer who believes a subject has the symptoms of Delusions of Parasitosis but
is not delusional, then by default, the observer must also be delusional. Therefore any
treating doctor who even attempts to investigate Morgellons as a legitimate illness runs
the risk of themselves being considered delusional. If that were to pass then that doctor
would run the real risk of being either temporarily or permanently de-registered or placed
under professional supervision. That is to say have all their work supervised and checked
by a peer to ensure that the doctors' mental illness (folie a deux/Dop) does not put his
patients at risk. Pretty restrictive and frightening stuff for professionals steeped in a
culture of infallibility.
So there you have it. Doctors aren't @#$%^&*'s because they are cynical and bitter or find
DoP patients difficult. It is as always, far more simple - it's all about the bucks, the
lifestyle, the prestige and the power....and ego.
I feel better already...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWMO3rAD98k&feature=related