Jeremy Whitacre's Blog on Doctors

Some angel in this forum recently turned me onto Jeremy Whitacre and by extension his blog. I've been reading it (it seems dormant but there is a lot of material) and I am liking quite a lot of what I am reading. He's pretty much "basic Sarno" in his approach which is part of the appeal to me, but he has a lot of helpful stuff in general.

I wanted to call attention in particular to this entry:

https://www.mindfulcures.com/a-form...ain-and-why-back-surgery-will-make-you-worse/

Here he calls out the medical industry for willfully engaging in what they know are placebo surgeries. This is interesting to me as I have long given doctors the benefit of the doubt in that "they're just doing what they're trained on" but Jeremy instead says they are in on it and know that the pyschological aspect of the work they perform is part and parcel of the "cure." The kicker of course, is that they are making a lot of $$$ of their particular kind of cures and therefore generally shun people like Sarno and Dr Hanscom and their messaging.

Anyway, this may have already been discussed previously but I thought it was good food for thought. Also, I'm working my way through Jeremy's interview (also linked by an angel here somewhere), so providing that link below too for others to enjoy.

 

This video and thread might interest you @Mr Hip Guy... not sure if you'll have already seen it but it's about an MIT trained back surgeon who couldn't carry on living the lie https://www.tmswiki.org/forum/threads/mit-neurosurgeon-indirectly-validated-tms.28464/. The video's 48 mins long, but on that thread I pasted the following summary that I had found in the comments under the video on YouTube, as follows

"A former neurosurgeon, decided to quit his high-paying, well-respected job after almost 20 years in the medical field because he realized that the surgeries he was performing were not addressing the root causes of patients' health issues. Despite initially pursuing neurosurgery with the goal of relieving suffering and helping people, he found that lifestyle factors such as diet, exercise, stress management, and social support played a crucial role in patients' healing. This realization caused a moral dilemma for him, as the medical system's focus on profitable treatments like surgeries and medications conflicted with his understanding of true healing. With the support of his wife, he left his job to seek a more fulfilling and authentic life, despite the uncertainty and lack of a clear plan for the future."

I also noted down from the video what Dr Goobie (i.e. the former back/neurosurgeon in the video) observed about his patients who healed themselves (before he had a chance to do any surgery on them). They had either all or most of the following things in common:

• They got a good night's sleep.
• Weren't stressed out (if they had a stressful job, they found a way to release that stress, through meditation, mindfulness - they found some way to release the stress).
• Socialised with other people and/or had good social support - family, friends, children.
• They had low or lowish salt content to their diet.
• They ate mostly plant based foods (but weren't necessarily vegan or vegetarian).
• They exercised.
• They sweated -- from exercising, or lived in a warm place, or took saunas.
• Didn't smoke.
• Didn't drink, or didn't drink much, alcohol.