AMA: More Harm Please!
Hey, AMA! Congratulations! Your endorsement of the gender affirmation model with all of its mind/body altering drugs and surgeries to treat children and young adults suffering from gender dysphoria has been an overwhelming success! Gender shops are everywhere! It's time to build on that success and start treating more psychiatric disorders with drugs and surgeries. Your abandonment of the oath “First, do no harm” opens up all sorts of possibilities!
Next up, anorexia! Why would you start treatment for anorexia nervosa with therapy first? You’ve got it all wrong. When someone suffering from anorexia walks into a doctor’s office, the doctor should immediately affirm the patient’s view that he/she is too fat, regardless of the patient’s weight! You can call this a very hip name - the “image affirmation” model. To help the patient with her image journey, doctors should prescribe diet pills and offer liposuction in the first appointment. The patient’s views about their body image must be affirmed! It’s true these treatments might leave the patient disfigured or dead, but the patient will finally be living her true life, as long as it lasts. Maybe anorexics can take their rightful place on the alphabet soup flag: LGBTQIAX - X for anorXia!
An obvious follow-up is the treatment of bulimia. Again, psychotherapy to help bulimics stop the binging and purging is misguided. Doctors must affirm the view that excessive food should be expelled! The solution? Clearly bariatric surgery is perfect. You don’t want patients suffering from bulimia to waste food. Limit what they can eat! It’s a win-win for everybody.
Hypochondria is a dream diagnosis - the treatment of this mental disorder offers unlimited possibilities! Just imagine a patient is convinced he has malaria. The doctor should affirm that self-diagnosis! The doctor can then inject the patient on the spot with the malaria parasite. You can call this the “disease affirmation” model. Business will be up because then the doctor has to treat the malaria! What are you waiting for?
The AMA’s embrace of off-label drugs with mutilating side effects opens up even more possibilities! It’s time for the AMA to introduce thalidomide for the treatment of morning sickness in pregnant women! Just because thalidomide was never approved for morning sickness by the FDA and caused death and horrific birth defects in babies in Europe doesn’t mean it’s not effective. The AMA never pays attention to what happens in Europe! Use the approach that gender shops use when describing sterility as a common side effect of cross-sex hormones. Gender shops often don’t use the words “sterility” or “permanently sterilized” - way too scary. Those shops use phrases like “You may not be able to get (or get someone) pregnant” after using these drugs. For thalidomide, doctors can just say “Your baby, if he lives, may have a unique presentation”. Problem solved! Let doctors know the good news!
Finally, the time for lobotomies has returned. Lobotomies are effective in treating such a large variety of psychiatric disorders. Just because lobotomies are inhumane doesn’t mean they aren’t effective. Surgeons will be lining up to perform this profitable procedure.
AMA, hooray for your elimination of that pesky oath, “First, do no harm”. Now, treatment options are limitless! Gender affirmation is just the beginning of a new age of treating, harming and mutilating patients based entirely on their thoughts! As the AMA has demonstrated, research and trials are for chumps - you can start these treatments immediately!
We need more satire like this. It's not a funny subject, but it's another tool in the arsenal of waking people up to these horrors.
Just for completeness, I gotta push back on this widespread misconception of "the Hippocratic oath" saying "first do no harm"—which is just completely made-up pop culture trash.
Hippocrates was a real "doctor" in ancient Greece, and his oath exists—BUT
/1/ his oath says NOTHING resembling "first do no harm".
Which is actually fine, because
/2/ absolutely no doctor alive today anywhere on earth has actually sworn it.
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in greater detail,
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the ACTUAL oath of Hippocrates starts out with an invocation to Apollo, who was a doctor on top of everything else (who knew?) and then a statement of literal "reverence" for whoever happens to have just taught the material to the newly sworn-in doctor—which is extra creepy in the current context at hand, considering that could very well be one or more of the exact subhuman pieces of shit who are pushing the gender affirmation model on the rest of us.
"First do no harm" (Primum non nocere) was originated by Thomas Sydenham, the XVII century physician now honored as the "Galen of England" who was also the pioneer of modern medical ethics more generally—and who was born more than 2,000 years after the life and death of Hippocrates.
Like other oaths of the time, Sydenham's was an oral tradition; it was not attested in writing until 1860, when it was duly credited to Sydenham.
(BTW the fact that "primum non nocere" is Latin should have been the first clue that it didn't come from Hippocrates. If it were originally his, it would be attested in Greek.)
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The actual oath of actual Hippocrates reflected the main principles of classical Greek "medicine", which was not real medicine in any serious sense.
The main problem with Greek "medical" ethics is that they were shaped by the religion of the Olympian gods—which, among other things, regarded the human body very literally as a temple of those gods.
In the Olympian faith, opening up the human body for any reason at all whatsoever constituted a hostile breach of that temple—which, it was believed, the gods would avenge with drastic retaliation, up to and including the possible extermination of the entire Greek populace..
Accordingly, classical and Hellenistic Greek "medicine" —and thusly the Hippocratic oath—PROHIBITED ANY AND ALL INCISIONS INTO THE HUMAN BODY ANYWHERE. No surgery of ANY kind was allowed for ANY reason, not even to extrude a tumor or to do anything else clearly and obviously life-saving.
(By extension, injections would have been off-limits too, although there were no needles in classical antiquity with which to deliver them so that part is entirely theoretical.)
And, yup, Hippocrates's actual path includes that whole entire prohibition, in its full force. LMAO imagine if entire classes of moderm medical grads were swearing off the scalpel and the needle 🤡
... aaannnddd
that's why no modern doctor has sworn that oath in centuries—not even in Greece itself.
No doctor has EVER officially sworn the Hippocratic oath anywhere in North America. Zero doctors total in the entire history of the US, Canada, or Mexico have sworn it.