Opinion.- The Resident, It is a Netflix medical series that uncovers medical corruption in the United States. It arises in January 2018 and its 107 chapters end in 2023. In 6 seasons they build a solid argument from fiction about the low sanitary ethics of large medical, pharmaceutical corporations, hospital centers and groups of doctors who only think about billing to get benefits.
The interesting thing about the narrative, created by Amy Holden Jones, Haley Schore, and Roshan Sethi, among others, is that he can denounce issues that, by passing “alone” in the dystopia of the fictitious narration they have few possibilities of being demandable: Any resemblance to reality is pure coincidence. However, among its more than 100 chapters Approaches to the darkest and darkest reality of medicine and its businesses are contained, collected by the scriptwriters through conversations held with honest doctors and nurses.
A professor at a university in Oregon told me recently that a student of his, to get a splinter who had infested had to go to an office where they refused to move a finger because his “shit” insurance did not cover that issue. In another office they gave him, as if a gift was a little cotton and some alcohol to do it, something that in the end had to do without any medical control or asepsis required. This drama affects millions of students who are excluded in a dramatic way from the health system. Perhaps the Democrats and Republicans should file their differences in this matter sitting to talk about this issue.
The Resident, It was canceled in January 2023 with a stable and faithful audience. Producers are clear that such cancellation could have to do with the pressure of media groups linked to the most important medical clans of the moment.
One of the most outstanding themes of the first two seasons has to do with the cancer And the business that hides behind alleged remission therapies, One of the doctors of the Chastain Park Memorial Hospital, in Atlanta, the hospital in fictional name where the various plots occur, owns a series of centers related to the assistance to terminal cancer patients where they are managed chemotherapy. In relation to this issue, in real life, the professor in medicine and in medication analysis Peter C. Gotzsche, author among other books of How to survive in an overmed world, He tells the story of a 64 -year -old relative who had cancer in the pancreas with metastasis, diagnosed as incurable, who was willing, like so many other patients when informed of their situation, to do everything possible to try to live a little more time, … Radiation treatments in Denmark were submitted to twenty -seven, after consulting a different doctor on each occasion. Then, it was operated in Germany, thanks to an agreement between two hospitals, one Danish and another German, where an experimental treatment was used with him where the doctor who treated him … he experienced mixing white blood cells with cancer cells and reintroducing them in the patient through monthly injections to strengthen his immune system. This last treatment, which was implemented after the intervention in Germany was not free and each injection cost a money. A year and a half after starting this journey, Peter’s relative died. Doctors have always affirmed with him and other patients that every chemio treatment lengthens life. (1)
In different parts of the world, not only in the US, the health authorities approve of cancer medicines without knowing exactly what the results of its application will be. All this causes an amount of expenses to the health system and the patients and families that on many occasions leave important debts. Who wins? Pharmaceuticals made by these compounds and a series of medical commission agencies and hospitals that, applying them indiscriminately to extend the patient’s life for a few months, receive large income or penguins benefits. The Resident, Magistrally shows us the corruption that we are describing in a surprising visual way.
Dr. Andrew Wakefield published in the 2010 a rigorous study, where apparently the CDC (Center for disease control and prevention) In the United States, He would have decided to hide -with help from corrupt medical scientists, laboratories and media linked to power -the relationship between the mercury of vaccines and various neuronal pathologies -especially in children. For the realization of this study, he was persecuted in the professional. Some time later Dr. William W. Thomson, an epidemiologist of the CDC, who participated in the concealment, admitted that it had been real. (2)
Throughout the planet, studies on the danger of the medications we take are permanently disclosed, although these are usual, without a recipe consulting our pharmacists. Let’s not forget that pharmacies are shops to sell products and that with each pill they give us they earn money. In my case, I am hypertensive and when we managed to find the little pill that could help me reduce the tension, after three attempts, the first thing my head doctor advised me was that it did not read the indications of the side effects it could produce. However, for us to get an idea, without entering the subject, which I will develop more widely, Joan Ramón-Laport, Professor of Therapeutics and Clinical Pharmacology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), commented in his book Chronicle of an intoxicated society … How do adverse effects manifest? What are drug diseases? And behind these two simple questions began to ask an extensive list of which I will only put a few lines: … urticaria, belly pain, diarrhea, dizziness, loss of balance, amnesia, tachycardia, sweating, sensation of drowning, infection, infarction, stroke, depression, falls, fractures, cancer … practically all pathologies can be caused by medications. (3)
We may not be aware of where we lead how much we read, but if we are diagnosed with a condition, whatever it is and is more medical, we are entering a wheel where our system deteriorates and becomes increasingly weak. Falling, then on the wheel of overmedation, is simple and that could end our own life.
The Resident, The series we talk about emphasizes, just as the mythical series did Housein the diagnosis. Is we diagnose well what we have? Taxatively not. Returning to Peter C. Gotzsche’s book How to survive in an overmed world, In the introduction of this leaves us the following paragraph that should be recorded on fire in the hearts of patients who come regularly to the doctor: I wish the patients who leave all decisions in the hands of their doctors, because they will need it. Doctors make numerous trial mistakes, often because they are ignorant and use too many medications. We live in a world so overdiagnosed and surrounded that, in the richest countries, they constitute the third cause of death after heart and cancer diseases. Peter also comments that it has been discovered that Medical errors, such as those due to the use of medicines and other reasons, represent the third cause of death in the world even if we have only deaths in hospitals, most of which are avoidable.
In short, the series The Resident, of the Netflix platform tells us shady aspects about the world of medicine, of course without overloading to the extreme the complaint, impossible in a society where the control of large corporations through their lobbies It is part of the entertainment and media industry, thus controlling part of what is said, how they say and when they say. Although the latter not only occurs in the United States.
(1 and 3) How to survive an overmedized world, by Peter C. Gotzsche, Book Editorial Rock, SL ISBN: 978841754152
(2) Discovery Dsalud, No. 177 – December 2014
Originally published at LaDamadeElche.com
