Doctors obtain an enormous sense of self-importance at medical school, where they proudly endured the high pressure weeding out of any free spirit unwilling to grind away into the night for seven or more years.  Anyone incapable of absorbing and regurgitating huge amounts of rote information; anyone with a disrespectful or irreverent attitude toward the senior doctor-gods who arrogantly serve as med school professors, anyone like this was eliminated with especial rapidity.  When the thoroughly submissive, homogenized survivors are finally licensed, they assume the status of junior doctor-gods.

But becoming an official medical deity doesn’t permit one to create their own methods.  No no, the AMA’s professional oversight and control system makes continued possession of the license to practice (and the high income that usually comes with it) entirely dependent on continued conformity to what is defined by the Ama as “correct practice.”  Any doctor who innovates beyond strict limits or uses non-standard treatments is in real danger of losing their livelihood and status.

Not only are licensed graduates of Ama-sanctioned medical schools kept on a very tight leash, doctors of other persuasions who use other methods to heal the sick or help them heal themselves are persecuted and prosecuted.  Extension of the AMA’s control through regulatory law and police power is justified in the name of preventing quackery and making sure the ignorant and gullible public receives only scientifically proven effective medical care.

Those on the other side of the fence view the AMA’s oppression as an effective way to make sure the public has no real choices but to use union doctors, pay their high fees and suffer greatly by misunderstanding of the true cause of disease and its proper cure.  If there are any actual villains responsible for this suppressive tragedy some of them are to be found in the inner core of the Ama, officials who may perhaps fully and consciously comprehend the suppressive system they promulgate.

Hygienists usually inform the patient quite clearly and directly that the practitioner has no ability to heal them or cure their condition and that no doctor of any type actually is able to heal.  Only the body can heal itself, something it is eager and usually very able to do if only given the chance.  One pithy old saying among hygienists goes, “if the body can’t heal itself, nothing can heal it.”  The primary job of the hygienic practitioner is to reeducate the patient by conducting them through their first natural healing process.  If this is done well the sick person learns how to get out of their own body’s way and permit its native healing power to manifest.  Unless later the victim of severe traumatic injury, never again will that person need obscenely expensive medical procedures.  Hygienists rarely make six figure incomes from regular, repeat business.