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Open (More or Less) Post on Covid 70
As we proceed through the second year of these open posts, it's pretty clear that the official narrative is cracking as the toll of deaths and injuries from the Covid vaccines rises steadily and the vaccines themselves demonstrate their total uselesness at preventing Covid infection or transmission. It's still important to keep watch over the mis-, mal- and nonfeasance of our self-proclaimed health gruppenfuehrers, and the disastrous results of the Covid mania, but I think it's also time to begin thinking about what might be possible as the existing medical industry reels under the impact of its own self-inflicted injuries. So it's time for another open post. The rules are the same as before:
1. If you plan on parroting the party line of the medical industry and its paid shills, please go away. This is a place for people to talk openly, honestly, and freely about their concerns that the party line in question is dangerously flawed and that actions being pushed by the medical industry et al. are causing injury and death. It is not a place for you to dismiss those concerns. Anyone who wants to hear the official story and the arguments in favor of it can find those on hundreds of thousands of websites.
2. If you plan on insisting that the current situation is the result of a deliberate plot by some villainous group of people or other, please go away. There are tens of thousands of websites currently rehashing various conspiracy theories about the Covid-19 outbreak and the vaccines. This is not one of them. What we're exploring is the likelihood that what's going on is the product of the same arrogance, incompetence, and corruption that the medical industry and its tame politicians have displayed so abundantly in recent decades. That possibility deserves a space of its own for discussion, and that's what we're doing here.
3. If you plan on using rent-a-troll derailing or disruption tactics, please go away. I'm quite familiar with the standard tactics used by troll farms to disrupt online forums, and am ready, willing, and able -- and in fact quite eager -- to ban people permanently for engaging in them here. Oh, and I also lurk on other Covid-19 vaccine skeptic blogs, so I'm likely to notice when the same posts are showing up on more than one venue.
4. If you don't believe in treating people with common courtesy, please go away. I have, and enforce, a strict courtesy policy on my blogs and online forums, and this is no exception. The sort of schoolyard bullying that takes place on so many other internet forums will get you deleted and banned here. Also, please don't drag in current quarrels about sex, race, religious, etc. No, I don't care if you disagree with that: my journal, my rules.
With that said, the floor is open for discussion.
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(Anonymous) 2022-12-08 07:24 am (UTC)(link)Getting back to your proposal, those doctors prescribing ivermectin for scabies could then be audited, and the fake scabies "diagnoses" and treatments would be discovered and used as evidence of fraud perpetrated against the insurer. The prescribing doctor would face not only loss of license and fines, but hard core prison time.
--Lunar Apprentice
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(Anonymous) 2022-12-08 08:20 am (UTC)(link)15 or so years ago in the community where I was initially a medical resident and then a fellow, a doctor who was an interventional pain specialist and Professor of Medicine permitted his fellow (basically a post-graduate resident) to perform a procedure unsupervised, a definite no-no administratively/legally if not medically. Even worse, he documented that he was present in the procedure room supervising when he wasn't. The procedure was successful, without mishap or complication. But somehow (I don't know how), the discrepancy between the procedure note and what really happened was discovered by the payor, and a charge of fraud was brought against the offending doctor. He was convicted, fined IIRC, $500,000, made to return payment for services and 3-fold penalty, stripped of his license, and sentenced to 10+ years in prison. His adult daughter, who herself was a medical student, then committed suicide.
Even I nearly got in big trouble, not for fraud, but for using the wrong revision of an Informed Consent form in my own research project. One day, my mentor knocked on door, and said "Pick up your research notebook and follow me. You're in big trouble because you did not use the consent form that was authorized." I followed her to the division director's office, and there on his desk was the damning evidence against me: The consent form that had been authorized, and beside it the earlier revision of same that I had been giving to my research subjects. The only difference was a minor word substitution and punctuation; there was no discernible semantic distinction. But the gravity of the situation was such that I might as well have been confronted with an incriminating murder weapon, and I was accordingly asked to account for this evidence. At the end of a dramatic scene where the Division Director shredded my notebook, then erased all my electronic research data, my mentor and I left his office, and she said to me: "You are amazingly lucky this didn't get past the Director's office. You could have gone to prison. If you don't learn anything else in this fellowship, it'll be how to stay out of prison."
Medicine in the US, certainly academic medicine, can be a dangerous game. Unless you're high enough on the totem pole of course...
--Lunar Apprentice
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