Short excerpt from a YouTube conversation (Jeff Langmaid and another speaker) arguing that most physicians begin with good intentions but that systemic incentives and structures (including professional organizations and industry influence) steer clinical decisions. The speakers contrast doctors' personal motives with institutional pressures and indicate they researched how the system is 'screwed up.'
Medical doctors don't make bad decisions because they don't like their patients. It's because their systems are built up in so many of these ways.
You know, it's funny, when I started realizing this, I started asking doctors, why did you become a doctor? And I started hearing very passionate stories. I grew up with, blah, blah, blah. My sister had this. My cousin had this. I wanted to help people. And I'm like, that's a lot like chiropractors, you know? And so I realized these people, their intentions originally were good. The system was screwed up. So then I started doing research into the system, and that's.
A whole nother controls.
The system is not the doctors. People cringe sometimes when I say this stuff, but the AMA is not medical doctors. I saw a study back 10 years ago that 8% of medical doctors belong. Now I'm hearing 12%. But I also know that students are being given free enrollment, and so are retired doctors. I know that because my nephew just graduated from medical school. So they're trying to pretend they're doctors, but they're not. So if you trace the money back, it comes from the pharmaceutical industry, and they own the billing code that we all use.
