People as Machines in Medicine

There is a complication situation in medical science regarding the machine model. Humans are treated like machines, and to some extent that is true. We have repeating cycles in numerous areas and treatments are similar in each person. My heart triple bypass was one of many for the surgeon. (Indeed, Mr. Gordons referred to humans as meat machines — a term which would circumvent "preferred pronouns" and "misgendering".) But treating people as mere machines is degrading, and there are questions of ethics and morality.

Medical science, Pexels / Tara Winstead

There was a time that many of us can remember when a medical practitioner was someone that wanted to try very hard to facilitate healing, or at least to do no harm. Not so much anymore. To be blunt, with atheism dominant in secular indoctrination centers (also known as schools), too many medical folks degrade humans.

Instead of seeing the wonder of the engineering principles involved in the creation of the human body, they see only the meat machines — and glorify evolution. Is it any wonder that so many do "gender reassignment" surgeries and other mutilations of children for the sake of money?

The unfortunate fact is, there really are those two conflicting sides in medicine. Allow me to provide a deeper perspective on this, borne of over 40 years of experience. I believe that most of us in the field entered medical school eager to heal the sick and also to become educated in medical science. Initially it was hard to imagine any conflict between these two goals. But in the process of our education and training, it became increasingly obvious that a conflict could emerge if one overemphasized the scientific quest at the expense of the compassion and altruism presumably inherent in care of the sick.

The article featured here is from an Intelligent Design perspective, not creationist. I think it is worthwhile anyway. To read it all, venture forth to "The Machine Model in Medicine."