WILL ALL healthcare of the future be administered by injection, thereby saving medical personnel the fuss and bother of interacting with their patients?
Things are certainly heading that way.
The wild success of the covid jabs, which as we all know have saved millions of lives (ha ha) has, I’m sure, at least been partly responsible for the equally runaway success of weight-loss jabs, now available on the NHS for the seriously obese. The covid jabs gave rise to the notion that any ill or potential ill could be instantly solved by having a quick injection in the arm.
They got us so used to having injections – and nine or ten covid boosters is not uncommon – that many of us no longer think twice about sticking a needleful of gunk into ourselves; a procedure that would once have been viewed with extreme repugnance and trepidation.
One of my journalist colleagues who has lost three stone on the weight-loss jab Mounjaro, and written about it extensively in the press, assures me that injecting it into yourself is ‘super super easy’.
I’ll take her word for it, but has any medical treatment ever had such a glowing fanfare from grateful recipients? Just about every day there is yet another article about the miracle of weight-loss jabs. Apparently, half of all MPs are using them and Health Secretary Wes Streeting reports that they are the talk of the House of Commons tea rooms. Around 1.5million Britons are now injecting them, according to the latest estimate.
Because of the unprecedented favourable media coverage given to both covid and weight-loss jabs, Big Pharma is now looking at developing ever more injections for a variety of illnesses.
If you think about it, nothing is easier or more profitable for the medical profession or the pharmaceutical industry. With the covid jab, for instance, all the doctor, nurse or pharmacist needs to do is stick a needle into your arm, a process that takes perhaps a couple of minutes. There is no cause for any consultation or tedious business of getting to know your patient. By this means, hundreds of covid jabs can be administered in a day, with the practitioner paid extra for every single one. At the same time, the profits of the vaccine industry swell by the minute.
It’s pretty much the same story with the weight-loss jabs. No patient care is needed and there are huge profits to be made by the manufacturers. Mounjaro, introduced by Lilly in 2022 as a diabetes treatment, is already its most profitable product by far. Its popularity soared when it was found to be a powerful weight-loss therapy as well, and this was aided and abetted by a thousand appreciative mentions in the media.
These jabs make life simple for doctors as well. At one time, obesity was extremely difficult to treat. Now it is easy. As you waddle into the surgery, any medical practitioner can tell if you are seriously overweight. ‘Just hop on to the scales,’ you will be told (if indeed you are still agile enough to hop) and if you meet the weight requirement, you can be prescribed the jab. No need for a lengthy consultation, dietary advice or admonitions to get fit and healthy by following an exercise regime. The advent of the weight-loss jab has put paid to all that nonsense, especially as few obese people ever follow diet and exercise advice anyway. If they did, they wouldn’t be overweight in the first place. I’m told that you just can’t overeat when on these jabs as you lose your appetite completely. The ‘food noise’ that fatsos constantly hear in their heads is silenced at once.
There is also a welcome bonus for doctors in that they get paid extra per weight loss course of treatment that they prescribe.
Another lucrative sideline resulting from widespread use of weight-loss jabs (all the stars swear by them!) is cosmetic surgery. Rapid weight loss results in folds of loose skin like a deflated balloon that will never shrink to fit and such people are starting to book expensive skin-tightening procedures. Thigh lifts and what are euphemistically called tummy tucks are becoming popular, and we have all now heard of ‘Ozempic face’ where the face ages considerably after these jabs, developing wrinkles and a sunken look that can be addressed only by the surgeon’s knife.
The latest treatment to be given by injection is the so-called five-minute ‘super jab’ for cancer, which will be available later this year on the NHS. This injection is supposed to treat, or prevent, 15 different types of cancer and is being marketed as an effective type of immunotherapy. The NHS proudly states that it will be the first in Europe to offer the injection, and there is another plus: the jab is expected to save around a thousand hours of treatment time per month for both patients and clinicians. Cue more rounds of golf for the doctors!
As time goes on, we can expect ever more conditions to be treated by injection, including of course death by injection if the Assisted Dying Bill becomes law.
What this means is that we are gradually waving goodbye to the human touch, to the days when doctors actually knew their patients. As all emotionally intelligent people know, much ill-health, including cancer, results from stress, loneliness and depression; serious conditions that cannot be cured with a quick stab of a needle. Many people comfort-eat because they are unhappy and although weight-loss jabs reduce their avoirdupois, they don’t treat the underlying problem that may have caused the obesity.
Sadly, I predict that just as the covid vaccines have been found to have many severe downsides, including loss of fertility and the onset of cancer, the same will happen in time with the weight-loss jabs, and most probably the new cancer jabs as well.
Along with this, the medical profession as we have known it will vanish, to be replaced by technicians who will not need any medical knowledge or training. After all, a robot can administer an injection and eventually, probably will. If we are not careful, it will be a case of the doctor won’t see you now, or ever again.
