Short spoken monologue (YouTube video) criticizing conventional medical care for cancer as fear-driven and reductionist. The speaker describes how patients are rapidly pushed through standard treatments (surgery, oncology, radiation) without time to process the diagnosis or consider alternatives, and without attention to emotional, spiritual, trauma history, diet, or lifestyle factors.
This week for me has been the week of cancer. Like every patient I've been seeing has cancer of some sort or another. And the conventional medical system really runs on fear. Like, as soon as the C word presents itself, either like a possibility or an actual diagnosis, like, they throw you on the fear bandwagon and assembly line and then they just send you through the system. There's no time to even process the diagnosis. There's no time to even educate yourself or look at any kind of alternative treatments. It's like, okay, you're going to go see the surgeon, you're going to see the oncologist, you're going to see the radiation, you know, therapist. Like, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. There's never any discussion about your emotional well being and your spiritual well being and your child trauma history and your diet and your lifestyle. Like, none of that comes into play.
