ORIGINS of STRESS and VIRUSES
This auto biographical work was written by Ronald M. Chase, M.D. It serves as a primer on what they don’t teach us in medical school.
“We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive” - Albert Einstein
A former military psychiatrist was enlisted to establish a treatment program for combat veterans at Lyons, Veterans Administration Medical Center. A confluence of events contributed to interfering with his work when an emergent virus proclaimed the cause of AIDS was recognized among veterans having PTSD.
A plot to assassinate the government’s czar who was responsible for the direction of medical research and its funding was discovered. A band of desperate veterans were thought responsible as they sought revenge for the many veterans who died at the hands of the antiquated Veterans Administration. The czar was far too important a position for one man to have all the power.
In order to understand this new virus and properly attend to his psychiatric mission, he began to revisit the study of viruses, which he had not done since medical school. He chronicled the history and technology used in the discovery of these invisible particles. He began to question the dogma of the virus hypothesis and found himself in conflict with a hospital administration that planned to disband the program and dismiss him. His ward of 37 PTSD veterans became incensed and organized a strike in support of the courageous doctor, his patient advocacy, and his belief that PTSD was not a disorder but a normal outcome following traumatic exposure of any kind, natural, or man made. The Star-Ledger, New Jersey, covered the story and photographed it but without a later follow-up.
The media held the subject of viruses sacrosanct. There was no substantive expression of what a virus was. Some said it was alive. Others said not alive. They talked around the subject, which had become a priori, a dogma, and a law in science. The media weaponized the language of science, thereby excluding the masses from understanding the subject. Viruses were imbued with human characteristics including, a brain contained within its invisible particle. Epidemiology overshadowed virology and continued to be the subject that mattered more, not the virus.
A greater understanding of any subject matter needs to be promulgated by the media in clear language for people to make decisions that would determine the direction of scientific research and self-advocacy.
Do viruses actually exist in nature?