>>4039160 (PB)

I was there too. I graduated in 2006. I remember the Joint Commission pushing that bull about pain being the fifth vital sign. I also remember all the bogus evidence based studies that were being pitched. I have always believed that most of it was BS. When you look deep into those studies you find that most (probably all) of them are financed by people who have an agenda. If you read the reports carefully, they use a lot of bogus statistics and questionable data sources. And some of them have been caught falsifying the research data. Often, the person cited as the source of funding is actually a third party fronting for the real source. Evidence based medicine became seriously powerful stuff. The hospitals all developed protocols based on it. You were no longer allowed to think and practice independently as a clinician. You have to treat according to the protocols that they want you to treat with—even if you know that a different approach would work better for your patient. I stopped working in hospitals in 2015. Will never go back.

Now, I practice functional medicine in my own small practice. I used to laugh at functional medicine until I began to really research it. It actually works. So many of the health problems that people have nowadays can be prevented/avoided/reversed without Big Pharma's ridiculously expensive drugs, but the AMA is staunchly against it and calling it fake medicine—for obvious reasons. It also explains why so many doctors who build successful practices with functional medicine and have large clienteles end up dead under suspicious and mysterious circumstances.

Lies, deceit, corruption everywhere. Medicine is a business, and it is no exception to the bad politics.