Dr. Peter Breggin Hour - 4-15-26
From The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour by Progressive Radio Network
April 15, 2026 · 57 min · Episode 459
About this episode
Dr. Peter Breggin discusses how fear and systemic issues in medicine contribute to complicity in harmful practices.
How the fear of death and illusion of freedom turn us into accomplices to evil We have spent nearly forty years fighting to keep medicine humane. Along the way, we learned a bitter lesson. Trusting systems without watching them is a form of surrender. Fear of death and the illusion that someone else will save us make us complicit in our own undoing.A father told us about his daughter, Grace. She was loved, playful, filled with light. A simple cold led to a hospital visit and a series of choices that ended with her gone. The family said no to a preauthorized ventilator. The hospital needed beds. The calculations were not abstract. They were made in dollars and in throughput. We watched a human life treated like a line item.This is not an accident. Collectivist logic has been woven into American law and medicine over generations. A century-old decision that placed the safety of the many over the liberty of the one still governs how public health talks to us.Payment systems and official protocols narrow what doctors may offer and what they may even discuss. Informed consent is rendered fragile when the only options presented are those the system endorses.We must resist being taught…
People in this episode
Host: Dr. Peter Breggin
Topics covered
- fear of death
- illusion of freedom
- humane medicine
- informed consent
- collectivist logic
- public health
- love and care
Keywords
- humane medicine
- fear of death
- informed consent
- collectivism
- public health
- love
- care
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Organizations: Progressive Radio Network
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