by PAUL COLLITS – EVILDOERS are not always stereotypical monsters, like Jack the Ripper, but are often disguised as middle level bureaucrats – just following orders.
Hannah Arendt had a simple argument in her book, Eichmann in Jerusalem.
- Doctors are “taught” to steer the conversation towards end-of-life.
- They corner families and the next of kin. It can be subtle.
- There are tactics doctors use to place themselves beyond legal challenge.
The famous phrase that emerged from her book – indeed, it was part of the title – “the banality of evil”, wasn’t meant to diminish the nature of evil.
Eichmann himself was far more than a middle level bureaucrat. But the book made the point.
SUCKERED
Arendt alerted us to the dangers of being suckered in by “experts”, or tech titans, or global philanthropists, with whacky ideas and the power to implement them.
Generally passed off as “do-gooders”, some of them genuinely believe in their causes. Like eugenics, or “sustainable population” or reproductive rights.
What about doctors, for example?
COVID was a teaching moment in this regard. I hope that some people, at least, will have learned some of the lessons.
The pathetically miserable take-up of COVID “vaccines” in recent times suggests there is hope.
I have never been that enamoured with doctors. Many of them simply do not pass the pub test.
Recently, I have had to confront them up close and personally. Day in, day out, for the best part of a year.
On occasions I have pointed out to them that I am a real doctor. They laugh nervously at this. It establishes equivalence.
It demonstrates that I am not that impressed with their credentials – and that I have active bullshit antennae.
I know their tactics. Their deep reliance on computers, numbers and Big Pharma. Their proneness to rushing to the morphine and midazolam cabinet. Their strutting. Their embarrassingly blatant disregard of nurses’ intelligence and relevance. Their bullying of patients’ families. Their embedded pivoting to “end of life” conversations. They mostly do soulless technician-doctoring.
Anyone coming into close personal contact with Australia’s hospital system should be alarmed at the state of public health in this country.
They are massively under-resourced, and (perversely) over-resourced at the same time. They are in the pay of pharmaceutical companies, regional Australia is dudded, big time.
FOREIGN
They are top-down bureaucracies, they are flooded with foreign workers and they are stressed beyond belief on the wards (at the coal face).
In short, the managerial revolution is alive and well and embedded in our fraught public hospitals.
One of their favoured manouevres is gaslighting. We all came to know gaslighting during the COVID era, and since.
Helpfully, there is a bit of literature on gaslighting and its methods.
For example, gaslighting is a specific phenomenon characterised by an abuser’s ability to consciously (or unconsciously) enact patterns of behavior that reoccur over time in an effort to get their target to question their sanity, foundational beliefs and decision-making capabilities.
By gaslighting someone, the abuser directly targets someone’s mental health by undermining their ability to think for themselves. The longer gaslighting occurs, the more these behaviours begin to unravel a victim’s foundational relationship with trust.
There are eight classic methods of gaslighting:
- Chronic lying;
- Normalise falsehoods and induce “insecure complex”;
- Debilitate the victim and suppress dissent;
- Aggressive and hostile when confronted;
- Isolate and divide;
- Perpetuate the fake “savior,” fake “superiority” myths;
- Offer false promises;
- Social domination and psychological control.
The gaslighting by COVID elites was legendary, of course. We-the-people were eased into acceptance of tyranny in the face of a pretend enemy. The virus.
(In a highly recommended Joe Rogan interview with Chase Hughes – one of the four legends on The Behaviour Panel – Chase outlines the methods of those whose day job is to recruit members to cults. He discusses all manner of mind control methods, and even mentions the Milgram and Asch experiments. One of the core elements is “novelty”. This reminded me of one of the key trigger words used by the COVID cartel. Remember how the virus was always described as a “novel” coronavirus? The word was even part of the title of the thing.)
The bad news is that the medical gaslighting we all endured during COVID appears to be par for the course in Australia’s health system. COVID was not an exception, merely an example.
The medical class is unrepentant and still operating in our public hospitals across the land. Secure and undiminished in its smugness, it is utterly beholden to drug cabinets and computers.
It is medical colour-by-numbers. How on God’s earth did our hospital doctors diagnose things before the software revolution? Perhaps they had to talk to patients, and to listen to them. Now, they are machine tweakers.
Diagnostically incoherent, at its worst. Demeaning of nurses, the true saviours of the system, as mentioned. Desperate to park families of their patients in the too hard basket. Incredibly bureaucratic. Often utterly unable to offer explanations of patients’ conditions, especially in complex cases. Reduced to guesswork. Bunglers with attitude and ego. And protective of its narratives. Strutting, all the while.
Some episodes and tendencies in the public hospital system and the behaviour of doctors therein – not all doctors – that stand out include the following:
- Lack of patient privacy, seen in loud doctors discussing patients’ cases in multi-bed wards;
- “Get up and walk” is sometimes said to seriously ill, often misdiagnosed patients who patently cannot. Such doctors seem to think they can assume the “in persona Christi” position;
- Most doctors never listen to nurses;
- Key members of care teams, including allied health, simply go missing in action;
- Filling wards with people who have no other options, often patients in a highly agitated state who make the lives of fellow patients and nurses nigh on impossible;
- Ludicrous wait times for getting in for critical appointments;
- Bureaucracy and paperwork redolent of out-of-control managerialism;
- Systemic failure – aged care, palliative care, in home aged care all just as inadequate as the public hospitals. NDIS, of course, is a joke and routinely hated by hospital staff.
My unfortunate exposure to massive public hospital mismanagement has been up close and personal. I have seen this every day for nearly a year.
Where does the gaslighting referred to above come in?
It most dramatically manifests in the seeming strategic desires of doctors to inch towards to end-of-life “conversations”. When not warranted. Cornering families and the next of kin. It can be subtle. Or not.
There are loud conversations in front of patients. References to “making patients comfortable”. References to “quality of life”. “We have done all we can,” is the refrain.
Of course, the real intent is always very carefully disguised. The reflexive use of two of the COVID end-of-life drugs of choice are midazolam and morphine, with which I am very familiar now.
I have personally been at the receiving end of at least half a dozen “conversations” of this kind – sometimes delivered with a brutality that beggars belief.
They sear into the brain. They change perceptions. I understand how the suggestible people are taken in. How they are unaware of what is being done. How their emotions take over. How they roll over.
I am personally aware of a doctor who “assessed” the condition of a patient’s cognitive abilities as being higher than they were, in order to get them to agree to the prescription of drugs that the doctor wanted to administer.
Shit happens, as the worrying Launceston story shows.
Again, I recommend a viewing of Chase Hughes speaking with Joe Rogan.
There are tactics that doctors use to place themselves beyond legal challenge in the event of contested causes of death. More managerialism, of course.
But there is also a shift of responsibility that is occurring, from the doctors – who only ever supply “the facts”, or their version of them – to the next of kin, in the cases where the patient is not awake or coherent.
It is the latter who will bear the guilt, the self-questioning, the remorse, the what ifs. For the rest of their lives.
Make the families responsible after you have gaslit them into concurrence with the received wisdom of the all-knowing doctors.
DYING
This is a thing in Australia’s public hospitals now. Enabled by all the assisted dying legislation and its enveloping culture, no doubt. The doctors will deny it. Always deny it. No inversion of the Hippocratic oath to see here. I know that it is self-serving bullshit.
And the doctors do not like family push-back in end-of-life discussions. God, no. It is a speed bump.
Interestingly, their junior doctors, often in awe of the seniors, generally go along with the narrative that is delivered.
They either agree with the direction of travel, or are too concerned about their own career trajectories, to speak up and speak out. They need the mentorship, after all. To get on.
This is a sobering reality-check on the state of Australian medicine and on the state of our public hospitals. And, by implication, on the state of our medical schools.
The latter have been shown to be in the pay of Big Pharma, as it happens. They are captured.
As are teaching hospitals! God help us all. The suppliers of morphine and midozalim are calling the shots. They are driving decision-making in our public hospitals.
Doctors of my current acquaintance deny that they are “taught” to steer the conversation towards end-of-life. They would, wouldn’t they?
Playing God. This is important when it informs attitudes to patient care. When you tip over to the end-of-life narrative, it starts to drive how you do patient care and the save-the-life strategy that you signed up for.
You are torn between your former, simple job description and the emergent, corporate imperatives of end-of-life “management”.
Treating for life and managing decline to death involve very different treatments. You the doctor are making these decisions. Flipping switches. When you don’t even know what is going on with the patient.
This is frightening.
Of course, the many examples of “miraculous” recoveries that occur daily across the medical system, are, no doubt, an inconvenient truth for the more militant end-of-lifers.
One such case is Damian Wyld of the Australian Family Coalition. His medical recovery has been both miraculous and in the public domain.
He is even running for the Senate for the South Australian Liberal Party, having earlier suffered from cancer and a brain tumour expected, in short order, to take his life. He even sent a farewell email to AFC members and supporters a couple of years ago.
I even wrote about Damian as he was “dying”.
Thank God he was a believer and didn’t simply rely on doctors.
The current generation of senior public hospital doctors are afflicted with what might be called “obstinate pride”.
This is despite their much-used cliché-response, that “we love to be proven wrong”. No, they don’t.
Clearly, they now think that they, and not God, are in charge at life’s possible near-end. They also never tire of reminding NoKs (next of kins) that “we aren’t out of the woods yet”.
They seem trapped forever in the “prepare for the worst” mode. Men and women of little faith, obviously.
And extremely creepy.
Meantime, I have discovered that Catholic nurses, and probably religious-others, routinely pray for their patients as they perform their caring duties. This is reassuring and touching.
The doctors are an altogether different breed.
This is impressionistic, of course, but I know it to be true and believe it to be systemic.
CLING
For the carers and the families of the critically ill in hospitals, trust in the medical care system is imperative. They cling to medical expertise.
Families should be sufficiently confident in the competence and commitment of the doctors to allow the families to remain as supporters of the care team. In the background, but critically useful.
When the trust is breached, however, the families are left in despair. Often, they are crushed.
They are reduced to medical second guessing, micro-management and eternal vigilance. Snooping on the doctors. And this ain’t paranoia. It is a felt need.
One alarming footnote. There can be seen on nurses’ computers in our (Queensland) public hospitals screen savers with information on voluntary assisted dying. This is chilling. No doubt, it is courtesy of the Queensland Government and is repeated in other jurisdictions.
When a pronounced (in both senses of the word) predisposition to end-of-life activism is combined with medico hubris and massive and strategically important examples of medical incompetence that have led to these very discussions occurring, well, we have big problems.
Both as the families of the critically ill and as a society that either condones it or fails to notice that it is happening.
When all of this abhorrent behaviour concerns your own, it focuses the mind, terribly. And encourages whistleblowing.PC
