good point! On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 11:33 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm a doctor (like many of you) and make $54,000 a year. I educate other > doctors who go on to make $300,000 a year within a decade after leaving my > classroom. I am a social medicine doctor, a Doctor of Philosophy. They are > biomedical doctors, doctors of capitalist reproduction. > > We both claim to be primary care doctors. But they fall far short. I find > sickness etiology in social relations. they find it in reified flesh. > > Mine is the real primary care medicine. It addresses the primary roots of > sickness. Indeed, the primary causes of preventable illness, injury and > disease – capitalist social relations – need to become the “primary cares” > of medicine. The Alma Ata Declaration, for all its imperfections, came close > to implying as much. As David Sanders, MD, argued long ago, the fundamental > causes of ill health are out of the control of [the biomedical profession], > and “indeed, any open recognition of the real causes would call into > question the very system that allows [medical professionals] to own and > market their commodity” (Sanders p. 117). > > They need to be overthrown. > > Best, > > Brian McKenna > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jim Devine <[email protected]> > To: Progressive Economics <[email protected]> > Sent: Mon, Nov 9, 2009 2:22 pm > Subject: Re: [Pen-l] toward doctors on salary? > > me: >>> [of course, a shift to paying doctors salaries is a further move >>> toward their proletarianization.] > > raghu: >> What is wrong with that? Why does it make sense to have >> "enterpreneurial" doctors? > > I didn't say that there was anything WRONG with it. It's just part of > capitalism: "entrepreneurial" types of all sorts are ground up by the > machine (except for a minuscule minority). Luckily I belong to a > sector where the remaining feudal institutions help defend me from > becoming a commodity. > -- > Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own > way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > >
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