Alexis Nikole Nelson Instagram – SOME BACKSTORY AND CONTEXT for folks who aren’t on ye olde tiktok: if you’re even the wee-est bit crunchy on that app, you’ve been getting inundated with ads for this book for MONTHS. They’re all pretty similar “THEY don’t want you to have this book. Get it before THEY take it away. You can take care of YOURSELF.”
Which are two of my big no-no’s, both as someone who used to work in marketing, and as a general human. If you have to scare someone into wanting something? They don’t need it. And there’s a lot of money to be made in American rugged individualism.
In reality, even before globalized modern medicine, it was never just *anybody* helping people who were sick. It was still doctors and healers, who took a lot of time to learn what they knew (it’s just a little different and a lot more stressful now 😅) Implying that there’s any historical evidence that people did well only providing for only the people in their home and no one else? It’s a little wild and disheartening to me.
And lastly, and maybe most controversially, I think it’s important to recognize when people advocating for distrust of doctors stand to make money from said distrust. And that not saying anything about this book in particular, more the culture in which it’s fallen into. Be mad at the financial institutions that make doctors make awful choices. Be mad at the billionaires in boardrooms hiking the price of your uncle’s diabetes meds. But remember people, people as fully realized and full of hopes as you and I, suffer through the slog and anguish of medical school and nursing school to HELP people. That’s not to say some people haven’t become jaded, but the overall “they don’t wanna cure us so they can keep making money off of us” attitude towards doctors seems misplaced, in my opinion.
Anyway thank you for coming to my TED talk that I didn’t mean to write. Let’s keep it kind in the comments so my nervous eye twitch doesn’t come back, please! 🙏🏾 🩷 | Posted on 08/Jan/2025 03:02:29
