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The Downfall of Western Medicine

How profit-driven healthcare, overmedication, and a broken system are failing patients worldwide.

Anonwit
6 min readOct 22, 2024

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Western medicine is slowly failing and most people are picking up on it. Healthcare is not what it used to be and I’m not going to lie to you, as a medical doctor who is fresh out of university, this kinda sucks.

Let’s get some things straight.

I finished medicine in a very poor country where the standards of healthcare are almost non-existent and migrated to a Western country to find a better future for myself.

Yes, I’m selfish.

I want to get a better education, better knowledge, and be the best at what I do, so I moved almost 2,081 km away (1293 miles for people who don't use the metric system).

However, after 10 months of experiencing things up close, I have to say one thing…

The healthcare system in Western countries is currently failing in real time, and everyone has bought first-row tickets with a big bucket of popcorn and a large Coke.

Let me explain.

It’s all about time, baby

It was March of 2024 when I stepped foot for the first time at the hospital as a doctor and not a…

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