Category Archives: Medical & Pharmaceutical Industries

Medical Ethics, Misinformation, & Personal Choice Where do personal autonomy and collective safety collide? Focus: Consent, agency, medical paternalism The weaponization of “science” as moral authority Pharmaceutical propaganda vs. public health truths Ethical dilemmas: end-of-life care, experimental treatment, vaccine mandates Reclaiming power: becoming a competent health decision-maker Optional Cheatsheet: “Medical Ethics & Informed Autonomy: A …

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Alternative & Integrative Medicine Is the system broken—or just incomplete? Focus: Functional medicine, naturopathy, TCM, Ayurveda, somatic therapy Placebo vs. mechanistic efficacy The value of systems-based, pattern-recognition healing Energy medicine vs. biochemical dogma Risks of pseudoscience vs. rigid orthodoxy Optional Cheatsheet: “Alternative Medicine & Diagnostic Methods: A Systems-Based Companion”

Pharmaceuticals & the Profit Model When healing becomes an industry, what changes? Focus: How pharma companies operate (FDA approvals, lobbying, trials) Overprescription, chronic condition monetization Psychoactive meds, metabolic meds, painkillers The role of OTC medications in self-regulation Intellectual property, research incentives, and global inequality Optional Cheatsheet: “Big Pharma Breakdown: Prescriptions, Profit, and the Public”

Diagnostics & Systems Navigation How do you work with the system—not be consumed by it? Focus: Diagnostic technologies: labs, scans, blood panels What is measurable vs. what matters (biomarkers ≠ whole health) Navigating referrals, specialists, hospital hierarchies Questions to ask your doctor / informed consent How to translate medical info into action without fear Optional …

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The Role of Modern Medicine What It Gets Right When is the system effective—and what’s its proper role? Focus: Acute/emergency care, surgery, trauma intervention Infectious disease control and epidemiology Antibiotics, vaccines, diagnostic imaging The strength of reductionist thinking in crisis-based scenarios Where conventional medicine is indispensable—and why Optional Cheatsheet: “Medical System Essentials: Knowing What It’s …

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