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An Archetypal Assessment of Health Care: The Pimps, the Whores, and the Johns
My Biases
I have disdain for most of the pharmaceutical industries, great respect for most physicians, and empathy for all unwitting consumers.
The Potential Archetypes
To enter the pharmaceutical industry requires naive expectations of a better world through chemistry or predatory plans to profit from the suffering of customers. To become a physician requires high intellect, relentless persistence, and profound dedication or plans to profit from the management of symptoms. To become a receptive public requires faith in the experts, and a desperate need to heal. These conditions, when entered mindlessly, are the precursors of pharmaceutical pimps, physician whores, and unwitting public johns.
What can we do? There are no simple answers for complex challenges, but we can embrace awareness of how we become pawns of profit from human suffering, and begin to explore alternatives to replace pharmaceutical pimps with holistic alternatives, physician whores with compassionate practitioners, and consumer johns with informed public who demands answers as intelligent source of revenue. Rather than providing solutions that I do not have, I am inviting questions to investigate how we can enter a revolution of change.
