Another great true crime series from Netflix, people. This one is really good. It’s about a world-famous surgeon working in Sweden, at the most expensive hospital in the world, and doing groundbreaking work in stem cell research.
There was endless news coverage about this amazing doctor. Articles, interviews, documentaries.
But it was all a hoax.
The surgeon was a psychopathic butcher.
He was allowed to cut people – normally, very young ones – into strips because everybody was so in awe of the phrase “stem cell” that nobody checked what he was doing.
This story really has everything. People going in for highly experimental surgeries that they don’t really need and dying as a result.
The insanity of socialized medicine in Sweden.
A hypocritical liberal lady journalist from New York.
A bureaucratic machine that creates a breeding ground for psychopathy.
There’s even the stupidity of Putin’s Russia there.
I’m watching the series and I’m thinking, “Gosh, these people, this medical establishment, they can’t be bothered to notice when a conman butchers a sweet toddler to death under the guise of groundbreaking science, and we let them lock us up and inject us with some weird concoction because they are supposed to know best.”
Yes, it’s a bit of a monomania with me. But a great documentary.
Netflix disgraced itself with Making a Murderer but it’s more than made up for it with these less famous docuseries. They are so good that I watched two about American football stars involved in crime, and I now even kind of understand the sport.
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“… and we let them lock us up and inject us with some weird concoction because they are supposed to know best …”
So when is it October 1946 in Nuremberg again?
Interested parties are interested. :-)
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I’m so afraid we *won’t* do it though. And the prospects leading out from that are worse– official public justice could stop with just a few figureheads. Mob violence will demand a great deal more, and not bother with finding out whether any particular party was particularly guilty.
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The series ends in a very poignant way. One of the participants says, “We have substituted God with medicine. We so want a Savior, a magic pill that we look for it in all the wrong places. It simply doesn’t work that way. Medicine isn’t God.”
For a Netflix documentary, that was unexpected. But obviously very true. And again, we saw it with COVID where people simply couldn’t accept that there are things humans can’t control. Some things just are. And we have to accept them. Accept reality.
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My husband, working in a hospital, gets to deal with this every day. Half his patients are already dead, just waiting around for their relatives to come to terms with that fact and unplug the damn machines. Probably more than half the population is convinced (and TV and movies certainly don’t help this) that modern medicine, tech, and doctors, are some kind of magic, that can literally bring anybody back from the dead if they are shipped to a hospital fast enough. The state of education about actual medical reality is dismal. We gotta teach everybody in grade school that there are fifty genders and you can be whatever you want to be, but we can’t come out and say “oh, yeah, and everybody dies of something eventually. There’s no getting out of it. Plan for it.”
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“I want more life, fucker.”
That was Rutger Hauer’s character Roy Batty in the original “Blade Runner” film, which came out in 1982.
That’s the culture in a dessicated, purified, ready to snort form, and the belief you can cheat death is even more powerful now.
You’d think people would be happy that you can work around approaching decrepitude in this rotting meat body physical existence we have, and be grateful.
But you’d be wrong.
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I actually saw that film!!
I haven’t seen anything else but I did see that one. This makes me curiously proud.
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