The medical establishment suppresses original thinking and initiative, with dissent being officially stifled, Dr. Vernon Coleman writes.

The medical establishment’s suppression of original thought has been exacerbated by its ties to the pharmaceutical industry, leading to the protection of ineffective and dangerous therapies and the silencing of critics who question established practices.

The system is designed to produce “unquestioning prescription signing zombies” who follow party lines and worship the pharmaceutical industry, rather than encouraging good doctors with insight, imagination and intuition to make diagnostic leaps and challenge established beliefs.

Note: The essay below is taken from Vernon Coleman’s book `Why and How Doctors Kill More People than Cancer’.

There’s no room for initiative and originality in modern medicine. On the contrary, both are actively suppressed. Dissent is officially stifled. Medicine today has become rigid, like other forms of science, and original thinking is as unacceptable today as it was in the days when Semmelweiss was vilified. Most people who work in medicine today don’t actually think any more. Oh, they think about what shirt or blouse to wear and they think about what new car to buy and they think about the money they can make but they don’t really think about basic, fundamental, important stuff. They don’t think about what they are doing with their lives, or why they are doing it or whether it is what they dreamt of doing when they joined the healing profession.

The medical establishment has never been enthusiastic about new ideas. After all, the medical establishment stoutly rejected anaesthesia and the principles of antisepsis and the brave physicians who promoted such ideas had to cope with rejection, cynicism and oppression.

Over the centuries, just about every major advance in medicine has come as a result of the work of eccentric, passionate, determined unclubbables who have fought the establishment and who would today almost certainly fail the newly introduced registration, licensing and revalidation procedures designed to ensure that only doctors who obey every rule of the establishment are allowed to practice medicine.

It is a fact of life that advantageous changes to society happen only through the determined work of unreasonable men. Great things happen only when enough unreasonable men care and are brave enough to be unreasonable in public. Just about all great discoveries in history have been made by people who weren’t recognised by their peers before they made their discoveries and often weren’t recognised for years afterwards either. When I was writing my book ‘The 100 Greatest Englishmen and Englishwomen’, I was initially astonished at the number of great people who spent at least part of their lives in prison. The explanation, of course, is that many great men and women and almost all original thinkers are, by their very nature, intrinsically rebellious and therefore especially likely to get into trouble with the authorities. And, after all, no one ever did great things by agreeing with the establishment; no one ever changed things for the better without having original ideas. And original ideas are always, almost by definition, an anathema to the establishment. All great innovations, inventions, ideas and developments come from crazy, neurotic people. They may be a little bit or a hell of a lot crazy but they are all crazy. They may be neurotic or psychotic but they certainly aren’t boring, sensible or entirely stable. All original and creative people live outside society (and only rarely, and usually towards the end of their careers, do they become members of the establishment); they are, by nature, outsiders. Great advances are never made by people who would be voted into office, made head girl or put in charge of the milk.

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