Narrative: Organised medicine has always carefully guarded its membership and monopoly on professional privileges, from ordering tests to prescribing medications.
Medicine has developed powerful, self-serving myths, to hide these inconvenient truths. But the epidemic of iatrogenic disease can no longer be hidden; people are waking up to realise that power over their health has been taken from them, and they want to reappropriate what they have given away to an ineffective healthcare system that no longer serves their needs.
Health is mostly something one does in the context of a supportive family and community, more than something one is granted by external agents.
Author keywords: Medicine - EBM - Managerialism - Technocratic Scientism - Utopian Progressivism - Liberationism
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