Ok, so these are my reflections concerning Novo Nordisk and the very high prices on medicine.

Modern medicine was created by a shady figure called Paracelsus. This wanderer, physician, drunkard and alchemist founded modern medicine.

At his time, medicine was a philosophical endeavor. Doctors were essentially like me, discussion the flows of certain element in the body.

Medicine was about finding the balance between these elements.

It did not really work, the plague was over us, and we needed some new ways to treat people.

Enter Paracelsus, who were a combination of alchemist and a no nonsense practical man of Switzerland.

What he did was, that he went around finding folklore medicine and extracted the essence of the medicine. That is what alchemy is about; finding the essence of something. You boil it down, over and over. The same process you use in making perfume.

Anyway, it worked, and he created an alternative to the philosophers, and gave people pills instead. A marvellous invention.

Yet sometimes when a new invention comes up, some of the old stuff, that were of a certain quality, tends to be forgotten. Like G-d in the French and Russian revolution.

Ethics is ALSO a part of what we philosophers do.

There is an abhorrent lack of ethics within these modern chemists.

Medicine is to treat the sick. It is ok to make some on money on that, yet the purpose; to heal the sick is still much more important than making money.

If this whole medical world were not so in lack of philosophy, maybe along the way, there would be an internal medical, philosophical doctor who would have tooted the horn on making money.

That is my honest opinion. This is not to say that all medical professionals are unethical. I work as a caretaker myself, and I have had a lot of doctor friends in my life. Doctors are, in general, awesome. Yet ethics is still an important part of medicine, be it chemical or otherwise. If people really suffer, because they can’t afford the medicine, that is a problem.

Paracelsus wandered about, and weren’t so cringy, he was at the Mongols in his wanderings, they treated him like a sage.

Maybe there is a part in medicine that still remembers that sage, and his inventions. He didn’t do it for the earnings, he did it to heal the world.

G-d bless the will to be ethical in medicine again.