One of the major issues explored in the 1998 film ‘First Do No Harm.’ Are certain members of the medical establishment’s blatant refusal to work with parents for the good of the child.
Instead they ride roughshod over the parent’s wishes, give people minimal information and dictate what must be done in the most draconian of terms backed up by the threat of a ‘bad parents’ label.
As a member of the medical industry I can tell you why some doctors have that attitude. When they train they are told they are the top five percent of the population in terms of intelligence and training, they are given the power of life and death over people then told they must wield that authority absolutely without hesitation or waver.
Consultants are another matter again because they are told they are the top five percent of the top five percent, In psychiatrics their opinion can detain people, in pediatrics those opinions can remove children from their family and in all fields of medicine there are very few people prepared to contradict a consultant.
So thank God for the doctor Petersons of this world who will fight a parent’s corner and lift the lid on some of the hypocrisy of medicine. He is ready to stand up to the doctors and argue that relying solely on medication and surgery to the exception of every thing else is tantamount to abuse.
So watch this clip carefully and if you find a doctor like this, treat them very very kindly and don’t let them go!
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