Clinical Trial Double Speak

Doctor: It doesn't look good. We have tried all that we know how to do. But ... 

Patient: But?

Doctor: Well there is a clinical trial that I recently researched. The initial findings are promising, but there are risks and no promises that this will work.

Patient: Let me get this straight. I am dying anyway, so maybe, just maybe, this thing you are looking into, may save my life?

Doctor: It may, there is a chance it will, but we can't guarantee results. You can think about it, but we need to know soon, because your condition left untreated will worsen quickly.

Patient: Okay ... thanks, I mean ahhh, okay.

I have been watching Grey's Anatomy. There was a craze regarding this show when it first aired on television, and people were obsessed about watching it. I resisted, but recently, I decided to see what all the hype was about. A fast paced, exciting, trauma drama of professionals saving lives while ruining their own, is my short and sweet synopsis. Two main characters, former lovers still in love but not together as a couple, except of course when their eyes meet and speak volumes of desire, are working as a team to cure a form of cancer that causes tumours in the brain; the big research hit and miss project is called a clinical trial, and I find it so obviously humorously unfunny, that they are injecting a virus into brain tumours to kill the tumour but not the brain. Laugh with me a little would you? A virus injected into a tumour with the expectancy that only the tumour will be affected? like the virus is going to follow doctors orders and obey to stay where it is put.   

The Bible indicates the life is in the blood. Blood flows through you and me, through all parts of our bodies, from our heads to our toes, unless of course, there is something in there that does not belong, that impedes progress throughout our beautifully designed system. A tumour, a clot, a foreign object or substance introduced ... these things are trouble makers, and cause malfunctioning. Surgeons are necessary helpers, improving life quality when a person needs assistance. Clinical trials though, dear reader, are double speak for the sick minded amongst us that use the terminology as a cover for what they really intend to do: experiment on living beings. 

Injecting a virus. Vaccines are the injecting of a virus, and man alive, they have made us all sick in one way or another, haven't they? Grey's Anatomy introduced ideas to inject them into the thinking of the every day person that suddenly falls ill and needs medical assistance. Grey's Anatomy with its hustle and bustle quick witted character actors sounding like professional medical men and woman, flawed and failing, rising up and then shining, while they withhold and then blurt their inner turmoil and personal trauma, suggests to the viewer that the frailty of life is exposed honestly and without "judgment", but dear reader, if we slow down while watching shows like this, we can see how the deep and devilish dives these episodes take, can impact the psychology of the vicarious pleasure viewers. 

That was a very long sentence/paragraph, but how could I break up the thought train? What you just read you might want to reread, for the sake of clarity. Alas, the previous paragraph is packed with layered messages, and that is exactly how TV shows like Grey's Anatomy work. They send clear and then messy messages that are hard to sort, unless of course, there is some analysis. This said, I will break down what I just stated, for you and me to easily pull out the points I aim to deliver. 

• Medical professionals inject viruses
• The viruses sicken the injected
• Television shows like Grey's Anatomy introduce ideas that train viewers to think a certain way
• Viewers that become patients are taught to trust medical professionals that contradict physical reality. Question: does it make sense to inject healthy bodies with not only viruses, but other strange non-natural items that do not belong in human flesh? 
• It is viable to be an expert in your profession while being an emotionally disturbed and wanton wreck in-between working and being off the scheduled clock
• Judging is forbidden and discouraged, conversely: finger pointing at perceived hypocrisy to shut down and shut up those that may be inclined to make moral statements, is encouraged and becomes protocol
• The devilish dives displayed in portions of the show are mixed and matched with heroic humility, as a form of counterbalancing wicked choices and behaviours
• Vicarious pleasure viewers are psychologically impacted by the sexually rabid, work hard, play harder, boundary-less atmosphere of hospital staff and their wanton patients. Anything and everything goes is the message, as long as you do your best and get your work done when there is an emergent case to face
• Lastly. The show is so action packed and emotionally charged that the viewing audience gets pulled here there and everywhere, by the comings and goings of the characters. I think it is vitally important for us to listen for undertone and for the cues that the writers are setting up as points of sale for consumers. 

Television shows aren't real life, and yet, with Grey's Anatomy, there is something to be said about the writers and their ability to capture and then impart, the inner workings of mankind. In all our majesty and malignancy, people are on display, and Grey's Anatomy does a very good job highlighting how unresolved trauma, can cause tremendous drama, in those that refuse to do their emotional and spiritual homework. 

My final note here: Take heed what enters into your thoughts. Question what message is being delivered and better yet, ask yourself: Who is underwriting what you are hearing and seeing. Grey's Anatomy is very clever. There are some convoluted God messages, a mixing and mingling of the God of The Bible, and the god of the universe, so to speak. There is only One God, and to say or suggest otherwise, is devilish. 

Galatians 1:6-12

I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel: which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ. But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we preached unto you, let him be accursed. As we said before, so say I now again, if any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed. For do I now persuade men, or God: or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ. But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man. For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.

Let us not be perverted or poisoned by what we hear and see, dear one.