r/antimedical

Medical sadism

'Medical sadism' attempts to justify the will to humiliate the patient by means of the constraints inherent in medical services. Source: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3351879/

Understand the concept:

Medical lunatics almost always have a hidden agenda. Health service providers may hide personal or subconscious malice behind claims of philanthropy, treatment necessity, or strict institutional authority.

Medical practitioners often unlawfully demand compliance, physical exposure, and a surrender of control (lack of informed consent, and similar). This is an example of abusing these boundaries. When you read your rights first, you can then immediately challenge that and ask why, what other options there are, etc.

Medical lunatics rationalize harm to manipulate, gaslight and mislead you. They reframe unpleasant or restrictive procedures as "for the patient's own good," even when the actual intent or subtext is more toward degradation, humiliation, sadism or control.

Defense against medical lunatics' sadism:

Learn the limits of medical lunatic's rights and duties to establish boundaries. As a patient, prevent unchecked medical lunatic's power by checking if the behavior is still exercising the law or not. Learn also professional ethics rules for medical practitioners. Use them as a guardrail against emotional and psychological exploitation. Report all violations you observe.

Your medical practitioner will not report himself/herself for violating ethics, patient rights, neglecting duties, or overstepping the boundaries and demanding something he can't. He won't report himself and his colleagues won't report him either. Only you can report him.

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u/Objective_Shift5954 — 4 days ago

What does this sub do if it needs standard, Western medical care?

Im not posting to be antagonistic, just out of curiousity.

If you have a broken arm or leg, would you still see a physician for a cast/splint/treatment or do something else? Or if you need dental work because of sever tooth pain or just regular reading glasses, does anti medical extend to the other arms of allied health?

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u/Illustrious-Bid541 — 5 days ago