These are the first four paragraphs in my autobiography:
HC Andersen’s fairy tale, The emperor’s new clothes, is my favourite, as it illustrates so well what most of the healthcare literature is about: deception. The authorities are often willing to lie about the evidence and they continue lying when you point this out to them, as authorities can never be wrong, right?
If you document that the emperor has no clothes, and you threaten financial, guild or political interests, you might be exposed to primitive and mendacious attacks, including attempts at character assassination, and you might be fired. My life as a whistleblower illustrates these elements. I was fired even though I had saved many lives and billions in healthcare expenditure. My book is a horror story about a healthcare that is focused on power and money, and on torturing the data till they confess.
I was an explorer and a pioneer and often came in trouble only because I was the first to demonstrate that the emperor had no clothes.
It never occurred to me that I should write an autobiography, but when historian, and one of Denmark’s best documentary filmmakers, Janus Bang from Fredericia, declared in November 2023 at an early breakfast in Stanford, when we were both severely jetlagged, that he wanted to write a historical biography about me, I had no choice. There was so much he would not know about if I didn’t write it down first.
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