This, more than most other factors.... I called it the learnt helplessness mindset. Doctors are considered a desirable white-collar PMC profession, reinforced via entry restrictions.. we have TV dramas like House, The Good Doctor etc reinforcing the myth that we have brilliant doctors solving all kinds of medical issues like clockwork. On the rare occasions that I ended up in a place where such a medical drama was playing on the silly screen, I'd watch and start commenting, and soon enough people have to switch to another channel - coz I could point out that pretty much most of what they're saying was made-up or wrong, or the proper procedure should have been something else, and the stated cure didn't really work that fast or by itself etc. I kinda destroy the illusion pretty quickly... heheh. Yet when folks don't feel well, they are programmed to just 'see the doctor', even amongst the poeple in my freedom group, as they have been taught to 'reach for that' as a default rather than trusting themselves to figure out their own treatment.
Sidenote 1: About a week ago, yet another jab-pusher Tv presenter in Oz - Edwina Bartholomew (41), revealed on TV that she is suffering from Chronic Myeloid Leukemia. She repeats the mantra that the doctors tell her she will be fine as long as she takes care of herself and takes a daily pill. However, this is a rare blood disease which used to afflict only much older adults, so where is the curiosity that someone of her age, in an upper income bracket, would come down with it? So when the pill doesn't work (I'm guessing 50-50 in her situation since it's obvious her immune system is greatly compromised), the doctors will then gaslight her and say it's because she didn't take care of herself? But they would have gotten paid already...
Sidenote 2: I'm not sure if I mentioned this story, but I was quite asthmatic while growing up. My mom brought me to all the doctors.. had all the usual treatments / steriods and whatnot... I still got laidup in bed for a week or two at a time, gasping for air. Even then as a kid, I was consciously trying out different breathing patterns and techniques to try and get oxygen though I was taking it literally lying down. Years later, a lot of the local top doctors who were my classmates remembered that I often had to miss school due to my asthma, and when their own kids had childhood asthma, they asked me what I was doing for my kids.
Right on the dot, both my boys starting to have asthma at the age of 2... I knew subjecting them to the standard treatment protocols that I went through wasn't going to work. Part of me acceded to getting the latest prescription meds to hopefully help stave off fresh attacks, but I was actively working on a longer-term solution. As I explained to the doctor friends - during an asthma attack, the bronchial airways are being constricted, so maybe only 80% of capacity is available, and requires much greater effort to suck in air. Over time, the blood oxygen drops and the kid goes into distress. My solution? Start my kids on trail walks, and then trail runs. Short bike rides increased to longer ones. Keep building up that aerobic base by being active... so once their aerobic capacity reaches 120% of normal, when they do get an asthma attack, 80% of 120% = 97% of normal. So yah, even in the midst of an asthma attack, my boys could still run like normal, just slower. I saw it as a win-win, spending more time with the kids outdoors, building up their endurance and then not having to go through extended laid-up periods due to the asthma like I did. It's a solution that just took months to execute... I think we still have some inhalers somewhere for serious emergencies but they're probably decades past their expiry dates.
Re: Subjective minds
Sidenote 1: About a week ago, yet another jab-pusher Tv presenter in Oz - Edwina Bartholomew (41), revealed on TV that she is suffering from Chronic Myeloid Leukemia. She repeats the mantra that the doctors tell her she will be fine as long as she takes care of herself and takes a daily pill. However, this is a rare blood disease which used to afflict only much older adults, so where is the curiosity that someone of her age, in an upper income bracket, would come down with it? So when the pill doesn't work (I'm guessing 50-50 in her situation since it's obvious her immune system is greatly compromised), the doctors will then gaslight her and say it's because she didn't take care of herself? But they would have gotten paid already...
Sidenote 2: I'm not sure if I mentioned this story, but I was quite asthmatic while growing up. My mom brought me to all the doctors.. had all the usual treatments / steriods and whatnot... I still got laidup in bed for a week or two at a time, gasping for air. Even then as a kid, I was consciously trying out different breathing patterns and techniques to try and get oxygen though I was taking it literally lying down. Years later, a lot of the local top doctors who were my classmates remembered that I often had to miss school due to my asthma, and when their own kids had childhood asthma, they asked me what I was doing for my kids.
Right on the dot, both my boys starting to have asthma at the age of 2... I knew subjecting them to the standard treatment protocols that I went through wasn't going to work. Part of me acceded to getting the latest prescription meds to hopefully help stave off fresh attacks, but I was actively working on a longer-term solution. As I explained to the doctor friends - during an asthma attack, the bronchial airways are being constricted, so maybe only 80% of capacity is available, and requires much greater effort to suck in air. Over time, the blood oxygen drops and the kid goes into distress. My solution? Start my kids on trail walks, and then trail runs. Short bike rides increased to longer ones. Keep building up that aerobic base by being active... so once their aerobic capacity reaches 120% of normal, when they do get an asthma attack, 80% of 120% = 97% of normal. So yah, even in the midst of an asthma attack, my boys could still run like normal, just slower. I saw it as a win-win, spending more time with the kids outdoors, building up their endurance and then not having to go through extended laid-up periods due to the asthma like I did. It's a solution that just took months to execute... I think we still have some inhalers somewhere for serious emergencies but they're probably decades past their expiry dates.