The Unified Theory of the Nervous System
and Behavior
Cognitive Philosophy /Brain Theory by Steven Michael Harris
They are very busy people with many seeking their time.
In the fields of mental health, many of the people that engage them are "crazy" in some way and how would they quickly know that I am not one of these many?
They have spent many years being trained to do things following the rules of a certain protocol and they just don’t understand giving their attention to somebody who is breaking these rules (even if to show them the problems with that protocol in creating a path to the answers).
Many of them spend their careers fighting to gain acceptance for their own published ideas from people with much more prestige and status than I. Why should they spend time with a non-professional who is promoting ideas that would disprove their own major efforts?
Hundreds of thousands of medical studies are published every year and there is very little time to even read a newspaper with the time constraints of their work, much less keep abreast of the new information that is constantly available in their specialty.
To keep abreast of the new discoveries in one field of specialization is ponderous enough, but to attempt to follow the new developments in several areas of study is prohibitive. To attempt a unified theory with widespread observations in a world where specialization is the rule is daunting.
They work in a world where the opinions of professionals with post-graduate degrees in nursing are often not even allowed to have opinions about the patients they work with every day. How could they take seriously a person who has not spent one year in college?
(They don’t even sit for lunch with those who have a different status in their hospitals. Look around a hospital cafeteria and the folks with the white lab coats only sit with those wearing white lab coats. The ones wearing pink scrubs don’t sit with the ones wearing blue scrubs. The nurses in one department wear a different uniform than the nurses in another department. People working in food services are never allowed to wear uniforms that look the same as medical staff. Interns are color-coded to distinguish them from all of the others in the hospital. The people sitting at all of the tables together are wearing the same clothes and segregated from the others. It’s as if they don’t have the ability to know wear to sit unless they look around and see who is dressed the same way. In such an elitist and hierarchical environment, everyone is able to find a group with which they can strike up a superior attitudeÉ and the patient is at the bottom.) (And I don't know of one case in history where somebody was cured by somebody else's affectation or arrogant attitude.)
I don’t speak their language in the same way. (One of the reasons medical training takes so long is that they have created a profession where almost every word describing humanity is translated into several other words in a language of medicine that is supposed to increase accuracy of medical description but also serves to become the language of the initiated, the language of the elite who are members of the club.)
Because of time constraints it is necessary for doctors to reduce their reading load by putting at the top of the pile the papers in the most prestigious journals written by the professionals with the most prestige from the most prestigious institutions. Resume' becomes considered more important than ideas in this system.
I don’t have a chance in this system. So I have to find outrageous ways to be noticed.
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