CHRISTOPH SCHNELLE

When Medical Excellence Is Not Enough

A love letter and wake up call to all doctors and the public

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How many ways do I love thee? Medical doctors express this by healing their patients, although most refute the word ‘healing’. Many doctors care deeply and are excellent at treating patients, so why is population health declining rapidly, and why are so many doctors distressed and facing burnout?

Doctors are among the most beautiful members of our communities but have been deeply disempowered. This book, backed by extensive research, is a love letter to doctors to claim their power back and to improve population health again, and to the public to support their doctors in that process. A great read for doctors, health professionals, patients, regulators and legislators.

About the author

Christoph Schnelle is an Australian-based expert in medical research, with over 500 citations, author of The Global Catastrophe That Is Evidence-Based Medicine, first author of 10 published medical research papers and five patents. In 2023, he completed a PhD on what makes an exceptionally good doctor. With a background in research, business, software development and as a full-time financial adviser and member of the Society of Trust and Estate Professionals (STEP), Christoph Schnelle brings a unique perspective to the medical profession and evidence-based medicine.

This is the 11th publication in the Empowering Doctors series, after eight published peer-reviewed scientific articles on the subject, a PhD thesis and Christoph's insightful, widely researched and deeply readable book The Global Catastrophe That Is Evidence-Based Medicine.

If you would like to know what will be discussed worldwide in 20 to 30 years, read this book now.

From the author's note:

This is a book about enrichment. At the time of writing in 2026 there is a giant battle going on between those who enrich and those who are anti-enrichment.

Medical doctors typically start out by wanting to serve humanity, to improve the health of people, to be pillars of the community. The doctors-to-be and junior doctors run into a wall of overt and covert abuse and deal with this wall more or less successfully. Examples are a debilitating curriculum, very long working hours as a junior doctor, stifling and often nonsensical regulations, guidelines that can be corrupt but are still mandatory and useless for the majority of their patients who are multisymptomatic with no guidelines for most combinations of symptoms, untrustworthy evidence-based medicine even or especially from the most respected journals, abusive patients, financial incentives to compromise one’s integrity even if just a little and the threat of disciplinary action including deregistration for publicly stating the obvious when it is not part of the prevailing and officially sanctioned narrative.

Some doctors are unaffected, simply engaging in their calling. Most, though, are warped and shaped and have found various ways of responding to this environment. Burnout is a popular response, compliance even more so, refuting the obvious fact that a doctor heals and is therefore a healer is a near universal response. For a doctor, the consequences of being in their full power can be severe.

Doctors are still allowed to provide excellent medical treatments to individual patients but, except for some recent developments in the US, have no authority to recommend the measures needed to improve population health.

As a result we have much medical excellence in the treatment of patients and strongly deteriorating population health at the same time. The recent breakthroughs in weight loss treatments may mask this deterioration for a while but the trend has been downwards.

Doctors currently lack the enrichment needed to truly improve population health. Doctors have the knowledge and many have the motivation to do so but are severely held back.

As a consequence the majority of doctors select venal and incompetent members of their profession as representatives and do not protest when the medical doctors in positions of power at the regulatory agency turn out to be incompetent, ruthless and venal. This book catalogues how doctors are held back and what they, their patients, their administrators, regulators and legislators can do about it.

Each doctor can individually enrich their life, often substantially, by knowing in depth what is going on and how to respond even in the current, very imperfect environment. This book outlines what is happening and how to respond. Enjoy.

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