The Machine Model in Medicine

[DrHuk&Duck]

What does the heretic Benny Hinn have to do with anything?

Your opening quote: “and one reason, if not the main reason, God vested the gifts of healing in the church” made my mind go in that direction

 

[sword]

That a materialist world view necessarily results in bad science and harmful medicine overall.

Can you list some examples. The AMA guidelines make clear that drugs and devices should only be recomended if they are expected to help.

AMA Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs​

Opinion 8.06 - Prescribing and Dispensing Drugs and Devices​

(1) Physicians should prescribe drugs, devices, and other treatments based solely upon medical considerations and patient need and reasonable expectations of the effectiveness of the drug, device or other treatment for the particular patient.

(2) Physicians may not accept any kind of payment or compensation from a drug company or device manufacturer for prescribing its products. Furthermore, physicians should not be influenced in the prescribing of drugs, devices, or appliances by a direct or indirect financial interest in a firm or other supplier, regardless of whether the firm is a manufacturer, distributor, wholesaler, or repackager of the products involved.

 

[abcaines]

(2) Physicians may not accept any kind of payment or compensation from a drug company or device manufacturer for prescribing its products. Furthermore, physicians should not be influenced in the prescribing of drugs, devices, or appliances by a direct or indirect financial interest in a firm or other supplier, regardless of whether the firm is a manufacturer, distributor, wholesaler, or repackager of the products involved.

Oh yeah. We know that rule is always obeyed, right?

 

[Ekklesian]

Can you list some examples. The AMA guidelines make clear that drugs and devices should only be recomended if they are expected to help.

AMA Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs​

Opinion 8.06 - Prescribing and Dispensing Drugs and Devices​

(1) Physicians should prescribe drugs, devices, and other treatments based solely upon medical considerations and patient need and reasonable expectations of the effectiveness of the drug, device or other treatment for the particular patient.

(2) Physicians may not accept any kind of payment or compensation from a drug company or device manufacturer for prescribing its products. Furthermore, physicians should not be influenced in the prescribing of drugs, devices, or appliances by a direct or indirect financial interest in a firm or other supplier, regardless of whether the firm is a manufacturer, distributor, wholesaler, or repackager of the products involved.

Lobotomies, some tonsillectomies, etc.

But I was restating the trend identified in the article by a medical doctor.

I was struck by his comment, “When my dad was dying, I saw both sides of the healthcare world, one that fought stubbornly to save a life and the other that was coldly indifferent and even eager to end it.”