Dr. Cohen on Family Medicine

[Shep]

This is from Dr. John Campbell's YouTube channel, released today:

 

Dr Cohen on family medicine video (49 minutes)

 

This is a great talk with Dr. John Campbell, who holds a PhD in nursing and is a long-time nurse educator, and Dr. Michael Cohen, a GP in Israel. 

 

Some issues discussed:

 

• The movement of "patient and doctor" to "consumer and provider"
• The danger of paternalism and the rise of dependence (i.e. learned helplessness) by patients (consumers) on providers (doctors)
• The risk of "medicalizing" things - and yes, they do go into the history of psychiatric medicalization of everyday human experiences (this part starts around 33 minutes in) - probably a reason GPs are handing out psychiatric drugs like candies
• Questions asked - How to subsidize healthy eating and sports for everyday people? How to make people resilient? And other questions we should be asking of our so-called "healthcare" system
• Prevention or remission of lifestyle diseases such as diabetes
• Discussion on how the current medical system treats the symptoms instead of the cause of the disease

 

Nothing new to many of us here on SA, but always good to highlight conversations that push back against the "ask your doctor if this drug might be right for you" narrative coming from the sickcare system that pretends to be a healthcare system. It's also good to see so-called "mental illness" included in such discussions coming from a GP, since GPs have the highest rates of prescribing psychiatric drugs. 

 

[Moonpie]

Thank you Shep!  Saved it and plan to listen to it later!