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Poor lady, I have not met anyone who has developed as many symptoms as she has.

I think there are two really valuable things to take from her story:

The first is that the same pathology can often trigger a wide variety of symptoms, and conventional medical training does not teach doctors how to recognize the common threads in a wide variety of disparate symptoms that can all indicate the same condition. Instead, doctors will focus on a few specific symptoms that occur, that link to a disease they are familiar with, and then dismiss all the other symptoms occurring concurrently. Most patients who see integrative medicine practitioners have diseases of this type where conventionally trained doctors are not able to appreciate the meaning behind the symptoms they present with. In certain cases this is harder to spot (for example with Lyme disease or mold toxicity), but the fact that this nurse developed approximately 100 different severe symptoms immediately following vaccination means that linking it to one common diagnostic category unrelated to vaccination is patently absurd.

When I attempted to explain why doctors gaslight patients, two big areas I focused on were why doctors are unable to see medical injuries, and why they intentionally lie to themselves when they are presented with clear evidence the injuries occurred.

This nurses story is much better than any of the examples I used and embodies all the key principles of medical blindness.

For those interested, they are explained here:

https://amidwesterndoctor.substack.com/p/the-origins-of-medical-blindness?s=w

https://amidwesterndoctor.substack.com/p/why-do-doctors-close-their-eyes-to?s=w

Secondly, her story illustrates how difficult it is to get effective medical care for these types of injuries. This is partially because almost any conventional doctor she sees will view her through the lens of the disease a few of her symptoms represent, and therefore they can only prescribe a therapy that partially alleviates some of the symptoms for the duration of therapy (often with other side effects occurring). Similarly, very few people in the integrative or holistic field know how to go outside the boxes they use and likewise can only provide general measures that often partially improve "general wellness" but do not address the underlying condition.

I spent a while looking around the integrative health field for treatments to vaccine injuries, and I have found the majority of practitioners are just using the methods they already use for everything else and applying them to Covid vaccine injuries, which in many cases results in desperate people spending a lot of money for no result. That said, I have found a few physicians who are good at seeing the whole picture and multidisciplinary enough to find an approach that worked, but these doctors are few and far between, and to my knowledge none of the unique solutions they have utilized with success are regularly discussed within the integrative medicine community.

Another way to describe my entire comment is that medicine has a great deal of inertia, and when you have a problem that falls outside the scope of medical practice, you are often left completely on your own because the system is unable to adapt to your circumstances and develop a new approach for it.

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have you thought about shifting your practice to focus on the vaccine injured?

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It would be a mess to begin with, because various batches of vials from the same manufacturers contain(ed) different kinds of poisons in order to ensure plausible deniability, so trying to present evidence from a batch without a sample left is doomed to be futile.

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There's too much legal liability in doing that. Once you put yourself out there as focusing on that, a lot of parties who are invested in continuing the vaccine status quo will try to shut you down ("treating vaccine injuries" is significantly more taboo than "using unapproved treatments for COVID-19"). I've also made it a point to not specialize in a specific area and instead take a generalist approach, because I feel that produces a better ability to practice medicine. I and colleagues have vaccine injured patients we work with and help, but it's not our primary focus and we never advertise for it.

Also thank you very much for linking to those two articles.

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Indeed. I agree with your choice of being a generalist, because it looks like compartmentalization of Medicine has turned many "doctors" into baffoons or worse:

https://rayhorvaththesource.substack.com/p/compartmentalized-medicine-turns?s=w

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Legal liability????? Fuck you!! What about “first do no harm” ???? You are the reason people of sound mind no longer respect your ‘profession’. You, sir, can go to hell!!!

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Easy Huuligan.. “a midwestern doctor” sounds to be doing the best he can to stand by the Hippocratic oath. The current medical environment is toxic and corrupt. AMD seems to be one of the good guys.

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I stick my neck out a lot to help people. You have to be strategic with where you focus, or your ability to make an impact and help others is significantly diminished. I understand your frustration but you need to also see the perspective doctors who really want to help come from. If you were to publicly advertise you were treating vaccine injuries and have your practice revolve around that, within a few weeks you would no longer be able to practice medicine, and 1000s (or possibly more) of people you could help in the future through your career would never benefit, including the many vaccine injured you get through word of mouth who are one part of your practice and not the central focus. There are a lot of people with serious debilitating conditions conventional care cannot help (and often causes) that very few doctors effectively treat; covid vaccine injuries are just one subset.

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I have worked with many butchers who called themselves "doctors" for over 11 years (only their arrogance exceeded their ignorance, although there were rare exceptions) and I fully support your statement. In fact, you are already risking everything, which is extremely respectable. Also, naturopaths are also getting killed on a regular basis.

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I think you are onto a good thing. Both models of health, integrative and allopathic will have a middle ground and meeting space and a common pattern will arise from them mingling somewhere. Opening the world to a better school of thinking. Both disease prevention and health promotion occuring simultaneously. Both systematic, symptomatic and holistic.

It just needs push to get the minds meeting.

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