{"id":16556,"date":"2017-07-17T21:09:27","date_gmt":"2017-07-17T11:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=16556"},"modified":"2024-06-30T06:39:01","modified_gmt":"2024-06-29T20:39:01","slug":"modern-medicine-is-a-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=16556","title":{"rendered":"Modern Medicine Is A Religion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/ModernMedicineIsAReligion.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-16557\" src=\"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/ModernMedicineIsAReligion-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Modern Medicine Is A Religion\" width=\"769\" height=\"769\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThis is really hard core, and truthful!<br \/>\n&#8216;If medicine takes the form of a game, as Ivan Illich posited, then the doctor is the umpire representing the social body. His job: making sure that everyone plays the game and follows the rules.<br \/>\nRule 1: you can never leave the game<br \/>\nRule 2: the umpire determines which ways of dying are \u201cacceptable\u201d and no other ways may be used.<br \/>\nThe only allowable death is that sanctioned by the doctor-priest, and through this intensive medicalization of death, \u201chealth care\u201d has grown into a monolithic global religion.&#8217;*<br \/>\nNote: Rules 1 and 2 apply to the &#8220;game&#8221; of civilization. Civilization neurotically prevents people opting out of the &#8220;game&#8221;&#8211;unless it&#8217;s by dying, but even then, only under state-sanctioned supervision. The clue is in how homeless people are treated. They are &#8220;non-participants&#8221; and the System can&#8217;t STAND it.<br \/>\n*Quote adapted from The Global Freedom Truthiversity Health and Medicine Faculty &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"globalfreedommovement.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">globalfreedommovement.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is really hard core, and truthful! &#8216;If medicine takes the form of a game, as Ivan Illich posited, then the doctor is the umpire representing the social body. His job: making sure that everyone plays the game and follows the rules. Rule 1: you can never leave the game Rule 2: the umpire determines &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=16556\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Modern Medicine Is A Religion&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16556"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52007,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16556\/revisions\/52007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}