What is your Doctor incentivised to tell you? The story of brave Dr Sam White

10The love of money is the root of all evil, and in pursuit of it some have wandered from their faith and spiked themselves on many a painful thorn. 11But you, man of God, must shun all that, and pursue justice, piety, integrity, love, fortitude and gentleness.

1 Timothy 6:10-11 – Revised English Bible

15Then to the people he said, ‘Beware! Be on your guard against greed of every kind, for even when someone has more than enough, his possessions do not give him life.’

Luke 12:15 – Revised English Bible

19I summon heaven and earth to witness against you this day: I offer you the choice of life or death, blessing or curse. Choose life and you and your descendants will live;

Deuteronomy 30: 19 – Revised English Bible

11’This will be the sort of king who will bear rule over you,’ he said. ‘He will take your sons and make them serve in his chariots and with his cavalry, and they will run before his chariot. 12Some he will appoint over units of a thousand and units of fifty. Others will plough his fields and reap his harvest; others again will make weapons of war and equipment for the chariots. 13He will take your daughters for perfumers, cooks and bakers, 14He will seize the best of your fields, vineyards and olive groves, and give them to his courtiers. 15He will take a tenth of your grain and your vintage to give to his eunuchs and courtiers. 16Your slaves, both men and women, and the best of your cattle and your donkeys he will take for his own use. 17He will take a tenth of your flocks, and you yourselves will become his slaves. 18aThere will come a day when you will cry out against the king you have chosen;

1 Samuel 8:11-18a – Revised English Bible

I have attached below a link to a recent podcast interview between Dr Ahmad Malik and Dr Sam White. I would seriously encourage you to listen to it. Readers of these pages will be aware that I have been following the work of Dr Ahmad Malik for some time. To remind those who don’t know, this successful orthopaedic surgeon had his approval to practice in his three hospitals removed, for being ‘transphobic’, after stating that women could not become men, or vice-versa. Basically, he had his means of earning a living completely removed. As he said to me: ‘An orthopaedic surgeon without an operating theatre, James, is rather like a farmer without a farm.’

This was an appalling case, which reflected very badly on the way those hospitals (possibly acting under pressure from ‘the authorities’; see blow) dealt with those who disagree.

The story of Dr Sam White, if Dr Ahmad Malik will forgive me, is even worse. I’ve followed Dr Sam’s case from the very beginning, partly because he was a GP at my local surgery. I’ve now met him. I’ve heard in the area in which I live, complete character assassinations of brave Dr Sam. What was his crime, which led to him being ‘struck off’ and so maligned, mostly by people who didn’t know the whole story?

In June 2021, when he was seriously concerned about the legality of mass ‘vaccination’ of the general public with an experimental gene therapy for COVID with no ‘informed consent’ [1], Dr Sam put together a seven minute video to explain why he had resigned from his position at his previous practice. In this video, he claimed that he could no longer support the lies being told by the medical authorities about the COVID ‘vaccines;’ he questioned the safety of those ‘vaccines’ and he stated clearly that masks achieved no health effect whatsoever.

Those who’ve followed this site for some time will be aware that I’ve always been fully supportive of all three of Dr Sam’s claims, and the evidence in favour of his statements being incontrovertible is now absolutely overwhelming, after an elapse of almost five years.

You will have noted above that this Doctor was not removed from his practice; he resigned because he could no longer support what he was being required to do and say. He resigned and walked away from a financially rewarding career for moral reasons. Does this sound like a ‘crank’ to you, or like an extremely brave and principled man? Despite this, and despite the fact that he was no longer earning his living as a GP, the GMC (General Medical Council, without whose approval doctors in the UK cannot practice) came after him in a brutal and vindictive way. At their ‘hearing’ Dr Sam was required to remove all his social media posts about COVID, and any other issues surrounding it, such as masks, lockdowns, ‘social distancing’, ‘vaccines’ etc. Incidentally, it’s worth mentioning that I put the COVID ‘vaccines’ in inverted commas, for the simple reason that they are not vaccines in any traditional sense. Dr Sam was prevented from sharing his views on anything concerning these issues, at any time into the future.

Dr Sam challenged this GMC ‘ruling’ in the High Court, on the grounds that they were infringing his rights to express his opinions. He won the case.

However, although at this stage he was entirely out of the traditional NHS system, the GMC had another go at him and eventually announced that they had ‘erased’ him. No, I’m not joking, that was the word used in their judgement in 2024.

Thankfully, that does not prevent Dr Sam from practicing in health matters more widely. He now practices ‘Functional’ and holistic medicine, helping mainly people who have reached a dead end with the NHS.

So what is ‘Functional’ medicine? I became interested in this area some time ago, when I heard someone use this phrase:

‘No one in the UK studies health. What they study is medicine.’

I would encourage you to think about that statement for a moment. It is deceptively simple but massively revealing about what is wrong with the ‘medicine’ industry in our country. Dr Sam’s own analysis of the differences is summed up in his diagram:

I think my own summary is that the traditional route is based on following a dictated process, with a view to finding a procedure or pharmaceutical product to treat the perceived/discovered problem. Whereas, Dr Sam’s process, in contrast, is to try to prevent health problems from occurring by focusing on diet and mitochondrial health[2], or getting to the ‘root causes’ of health problems and treating those as naturally as possible. It is, strangely enough, precisely the process that I tried to inculcate in the engineering organisations that I ran; I’d witnessed far too many occasions when manufacturing symptoms were being treated, instead of root causes.

So that is what Dr Sam is now offering. He suggests that, given time, all medical procedures will be dealt with this way. I think he’s right.

But there’s a roadblock in the way of this happening right now, and it’s a little issue called incentives.

Incentives

I learned about incentives the hard way. As a young Sales Manager in my 20s, the salesmen for whom I was responsible were financially rewarded for meeting year-end sales targets. I very quickly discovered that 25% of our sales were recorded in the last month of the year, and in the first couple of months of the new financial year, sales dropped off a cliff. Some time later, a very wise management guru used this phrase, which had a big impact on me:

‘You get what you measure.’

 Why is this another simple, but deceptively wise statement? Because it underlines how all incentives work. The real problem is deciding how to incentivise the right things, without inadvertently incentivising the wrong things. After a lifetime of reflecting on this, I’m as certain as I can be that it’s impossible to avoid incentivise the wrong things. Consider these examples:

  • Incentivising Profit in a commercial organisation is surely a good thing? But consider that the accountancy definition of profit is an increase in assets. Do you really want to grow your inventory? Of course you don’t.
  • Incentivising the sales of a new financial product, called ‘Collateralised Debt Obligations’ (which were, they said, designed to spread perceived ‘risk’) led very directly to the Credit Crunch of 2008 and the huge financial fallout that resulted, that the financial world is still wrestling with.
  • Surely in the NHS, incentivising a reduction in ‘Waiting Lists’ is an excellent thing? What if it is at the expense of clinical outcomes?

So, beware, you get what you measure. And, if I’m right, it’s 100% impossible to incentivise only the right things. By all means, challenge me on this, if you think it’s possible to incentivise only the right things.

So why is this relevant to the story of Dr Sam White? If you listen to the podcast, which I hope you will, you’ll hear of the incentives that are given to doctors to prescribe certain pharmaceutical products. So, if you are a GP with someone with complex symptoms in front of you, but your screen is flashing to say ‘Remember to prescribe statins,’ what are you going to do, if you know that you will be criticised if you fail to meet an arbitrary target to ensure that a set percentage of your patients are prescribed statins? Yes, incentives can be negative as well as positive: ‘You better achieve these targets, or else.’

‘Primum non nocere’. First, do no harm. All doctors have to sign up to the Hippocratic Oath, right? And this prevents any ‘abuses’ happening in the ‘system’? Wrong. Doctors no longer have to sign up to the Hippocratic Oath as part of their training in the UK, and haven’t done for a couple of decades or more. I was seriously shocked when I learned this. And on the podcast, you’ll hear how many of Dr Malik’s surgeon colleagues interpreted it this way: ‘First, do no harm to your mortgage; first, do no harm to your children’s private schooling; first, do no harm to your ski-ing holiday; first, do no harm to your reputation with your colleagues’ and so on.

So, here’s my question for you, to leave you to ponder:

‘Do you really know what your doctor is being incentivised to tell you; which medicines he/she is being incentivised to prescribe and what other incentives they are receiving, ie a fully expenses paid attendance at a medical conference at an exotic venue?

Well, do you?

Whether you think you know or not, I strongly encourage you to listen to this podcast, with an open mind.

And then, and please only then, reach a conclusion about one of the bravest and most ethical doctors that you are ever likely to encounter, Dr Sam White, whose website can be found here:

https://www.drsamwhite.com/index.html

Podcast:

https://docmalik.substack.com/p/363-sam-white-no-consent-equals-no

Heavenly Father, grant us the serenity to accept the things that we cannot change; the courage to challenge the things we can; and the wisdom to know the difference. Amen


[1] If you disagree with this statement, answer me this. How can ‘informed consent’ be given for these products, when the manufacturers have refused to say what the ingredients are, and have legally prohibited their government customers from carrying out laboratory analysis of the products?  

[2] ‘Mitochondrial health’ refers to the proper functioning of mitochondria, the powerhouses of cells, in producing energy and regulating various cellular processes. It’s crucial for overall well-being, impacting immunity, energy levels, vitality, and even aging.


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One thought on “What is your Doctor incentivised to tell you? The story of brave Dr Sam White

  1. James, Thank you. I had no idea that the system had been taken over so completely with incentives to prescribe rather than seeing what the patient really needed. I watched the whole interview. Pat

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