Iatrogeny is not a side note
Medicine enters the corpus under suspicion not simply because bodies fail, but because systems organized to help bodies can also produce, intensify or institutionalize harm. The key word is iatrogenic. A FRAMED S҉C҉R҉E҉A҉M҉ states, with unusual directness, “I don’t trust doctors cuz I know the word ‘iatrogenic’,” then moves immediately through suspect motives, bad incentives, clergy-like authority, bureaucracy and “hospital white hell.”
TRIP ALHAZRED: On Disability uses the phrase “Clinician Priest Class” while discussing disability and the authority to make conditions official. Those passages make medical authority part of the same larger problem as bureaucratic legibility: who gets to name a condition, who must submit to the naming, and what happens when recognition is itself controlled by a gatekeeping institution?
Medicine as an industry and authority system
The present JQD position is strongly suspicious of medicine in the same way it is suspicious of other mature institutions and industries: incentives, status, professional self-protection, intervention risk and institutional monopoly on legitimate description all matter. This does not require pretending that injury, illness, pain, disability or unusual perception are unreal. The critique is aimed at the claim that the institution naming and treating them is therefore neutral, harmless or epistemically final.
Corpus footprint
A deliberately broad lexical scan finds medicine, diagnosis, treatment or health vocabulary in 82 of 212 archived publications. That number is a discovery footprint, not a claim that 82 works are “about medicine.” Dense nodes include RETIRE HER, Actual Attack Documentation: Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures, █Quantum Entendre, The Fused Man and It's Mental Health Awareness Month Somewhere.
Characters are not position papers
The same distrust can appear in fiction: The Fused Man gives a character the line that he does not trust doctors. That recurrence is relevant, but a character’s refusal of medicine is not automatically interchangeable with the speaker-level and author-level institutional critique elsewhere. The wiki keeps those source roles separate.
Not medical guidance
This page documents a position and a recurrent subject in the work. It does not convert literary or autobiographical material into medical advice for the reader.