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“Doctors to Trust”
Divine Medical Science Fragments Seven

     When we come across discussions about health issues in the newspapers and magazines and on the radio, the phrase, “consult a doctor you trust” regularly appears in answer to questions. I do believe this advice to be most peculiar. If the premise of this expression were really true, it would mean that there actually exists a doctor you cannot trust. As long as doctors become doctors through legal means with proper certification, if there still exists “a doctor who cannot be trusted,” there are methods by which the doctor can receive a proper hearing and, depending on the circumstances, have certification taken away, so nowadays there should not be practicing medicine a doctor who cannot be trusted. Thus, this response is ill-conceived and ill-advised.
     Another question to ask about trust is what would be the standard for knowing whether or not trust exists. In practical terms to establish standards for trust would probably be impossible. But even if it were possible, I still believe this advice to be most peculiar. Just think about the kind of person who would ask the question that gets the response described above. On these occasions, probably individuals do not ask about what they should do until they have already been to one doctor or several doctors many times and still have not recovered, so I can only think that to answer their desperate questions with “see a specialist” or other such “advice” is nothing more than mocking the questioners.

Eikô, Issue 152, April 16, 1952
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