Jerm: "I think a very good way of looking at it is just simply the lack of trust in the medical industry now. And I really don't like saying that, because there are so many good doctors, even yourself, for example. And you all get lumped into now the same thing: the medical industry. But it really does seem to have destroyed its image in the last few years."

Kimberly Biss, MD: "Yeah. It's sad. And I've been asked this before: How is it that so many doctors fell in step and just couldn't think about what was happening? I often joke if Tony Fauci told everybody to slap a dildo on their forehead they would have done it.

"But I feel that when I started medical school in the early 1990s was when the concept of 'evidence-based medicine' started. And what that basically is was the beginning of cookbook medicine, where there's algorithms you go down to find a diagnosis and then you have a cookbook recipe for how you're supposed to manage or treat the condition. If you veer off of either path then you're questioned: 'Well, why are you doing this? Why are you not doing this?' You have to go in front of peer review, you might lose your medical license.

"I think the two things that system caused, which I'm not saying standardization is a not a good thing, but it's caused doctors to not question authority, because they feel whoever created this evidence knows more than them. And then there's no need to think anymore, see, because you're just looking at algorithms and recipes.

"We've really lost the practice of medicine. We treat patients as if they come off an assembly line and everybody gets the same treatment and not everybody is built the same. We model a lot of medical practices after the airline industry, and you can clearly see how that's going with Boeing. [chuckles]

"I think that's why. And sadly too, medicine in the United States is very corporatized. There's very few standalone physicians. Everybody has a boss and nobody wants to lose their job. Sadly in all of this, who suffers the most but the patients."

Kimberly Biss, MD, OB-GYN with Jerm @ 08:20–10:46 https://podbay.fm/p/jerm-warfare-the-battle-of-ideas/e/1733893642