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You left out Therapeutic Nihilism and Malignant Harvest.

They might yet be the most important of all.

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Did you notice the missing word? "cure"

The list consists of a large number of waffle words, words without real meaning, not defined by results, much less positive results, including: therapy, course of treatment, intervention, procedure, management.

It also includes medical treatments that can be forced on doctors and patients, like:

Protocol, Plan of Care, Care Plan, Medical Regiment, Medical Protocol, Medical Regimen,

Clinical Regimen. I did notice that "standard of care" and "vaccination" are missing from the list.

But there are no words that indicate cause and consequences, and no words that indicate a positive result, and no word that indicates a "cure". Modern medicine has many Standards of Care, even Standards of Euthanasia, but no standards of cure.

The word cure is missing from many medical dictionaries, and is not medically defined in any authoritative source (except for infectious diseases cured by a bureaucratically "approved treatment."

https://tracykolenchuk.substack.com/p/medical-dictionaries-have-no-cure

We don't need big words, we need to study one simple four letter word: cure. But today, anyone who claims any case of diseases "cured" a quack (cuack). Today, it is not technically possible to prove any case of non-infectious disease has been cure. It is not possible to prove that a case of any infectious disease - treated with a non-approved medical (alternative) product is cured. There are treatments for the common cold - but no cure. Hundreds of millions "RECOVERED" from COVID. Not one was "CURED."

to your health, tracy

Author: A New Theory of Cure (there is no "old" theory of cure.

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Notably missing from Chat's list are "Prescription" and "Doctor's orders".

I guess that would mean removing the velvet glove to expose the iron fist of authoritarianism.

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"Informed Consent" seems to be missing. Mr. Deagel may want to add a synonym that rhymes with Occupation Deduction---2025=USA TTL pop ~100,000,000.

Pray for Divine Intervention as this country increasingly embraces hedonism and narcissism. The "selfie" is a demonstration of this odd phenomenon.

It would never occur to me tho post a picture of myself online---besides, the world already knows what Cary Grant looked like.

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How delightful, Jon! Your list far outshines ChatGPT’s pedestrian efforts.

I regard your own compendium as “Enhanced Veracity Terminology.”

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Well, we sprinkled a little magic fairy dust on him and voilà, he’s feeling like a million bucks. Who needs medical jargon when you’ve got drugs, right?

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masterful article and insight! language poisoning is the main strategy

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Compliance (US). Adherence (UK). "Competing" interests rather than that nasty-sounding "conflicting" for those who think they can force "consensus."

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Jon, you would never cut it in the marketing department n administration of a major hospital system. My eyes would be popping out of my head If I was truthfully informed I was receiving a Finality Protocol

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Evidence-based medicine is the all-time winner.

It replaced fantasy-based guesswork, which was a great step for the doctors. Nothing changed in the system, but the threatening mood of the new name…

Still waiting for the upgrade to evidence-based medicinema.

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You lost me with Chat GPT.

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The thin blue line meets allopathic medicine. Watch Turfseer’s country music video GOOD COP BAD COP. https://turfseer.substack.com/p/good-cop-bad-cop

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