Welcome to Stage IV Capitalism.com
Where stories become evidence — and patients reclaim the narrative.
This platform began with one book — Stage IV Capitalism: A Cured Patient Is a Lost Customer — chronicling Dara Lemoine-Johnson’s fight through a system more invested in profit than people.
But this site didn’t stop at one story.
Today, it’s a resistance archive. A living library of cancer truths — told through misdiagnosed journeys, overtreated bodies, flawed consents, and the costly silence institutions prefer.
Here, every section is built to serve patients first:
Books that challenge the status quo of cancer care
Webpages that translate complexity into clarity
Patient tools that turn passive consent into active power
Infographics that make hidden systems visible
Stories that say what others only whisper
This is not a commercial catalog. It’s a public reckoning, shaped by lived experience and designed to empower.
If you’re newly diagnosed, long mistreated, or ready to question the script — this site is for you.
The system counts on silence.
We turn it into tools.
ABOUT: Stage IV Capitalism
Stage IV Capitalism: A Cured Patient is a Lost Customer is the true story of Dara Lemoine-Johnson. A 1st.-grade teacher, mother, and early pioneer in childhood drug prevention, whose seven-year cancer journey reveals how modern medicine drifts from healing to commerce.
Told by her husband, Dwight David Johnson, a two-time cancer survivor and veteran occupational-safety professional, the book blends memoir with investigative reflection to show how profit structures, policy incentives, and language framing govern what patients are told—and what they are never told.
After Dara’s misdiagnosis, years of false reassurance, and an “innovative” surgery pitched as hope, Johnson applies the tools of safety science to medicine itself. The portrait that emerges is both personal and systemic: diagnostics left unverified, consent shaped by scripts, and billing codes that quietly define what life is worth.
The system doesn’t fail by accident. It fails by design:
Diagnosis accepted without verification
Treatment guided by billing codes, not biology
Patients managed through fear, urgency, and data overload
Pause equated with non-compliance
Yet this is not a story of defeat. It is a story of awakening. In Stage V: The Gift Remembered, the narrative turns from reform to reverence: a recognition that the body is not a machine, but a miracle; that the immune system is a gift, not an industry product; and that healing requires the whole person—self, spirit, and care, all moving together. This is not about religion; it is about remembering what medicine too often forgets.
What readers receive:
Plain-language tools (e.g., Consent Decoder and Doublespeak Keys) to navigate appointments with clarity
“Receipts” in an Evidence Vault: studies, statutes, and case files for verification
A patient-first approach that pairs hard evidence with hope without prescription
For patients, caregivers, clinicians, and policy reformers, Stage IV Capitalism is both warning and restoration: a call to remember that the patient is not the product, but the purpose—and that healing begins where control ends
ABOUT: Teeth Not Included
Head & Neck Cancer: Teeth Not Included is the untold story of what happens after survival. When the cancer is gone—but the care is not.
Told by Dwight David Johnson, a two-time cancer survivor and retired occupational-safety expert, this investigative memoir exposes the hidden injuries of head and neck radiation—and the Medicare policy that could fix them, if only the system noticed.
After surviving stage IV cancer and full-dose radiation to the mouth and throat, Johnson discovered what no one tells patients: that radiation can destroy your teeth, years later—and Medicare may refuse to cover the damage. When his own front tooth cracked mid-sentence, he began asking questions. What he found was a silence built by design.
From medical specialists who shrug at tooth loss to cancer centers that ignore Medicare’s own policy updates, Teeth Not Included reveals the institutional blind spots that leave survivors stranded. But it also documents a path forward: one survivor using federal policy, diagnostic imaging, and a paper trail of refusal to demand recognition—and care.
This is not just a story of oral complications. It’s a case study in structural omission, where the mouth is excluded from the body, and dentistry from medicine. The system fails by omission, not mistake:
Post-radiation injuries excluded from survivorship protocols
Medicare policies ignored by institutions built to profit from them
Oral function uncoupled from speech, swallowing, and dignity
Survivors left to self-advocate, or suffer in silence
Yet this is not a story of bitterness. It is a story of clarity. Johnson does not just document the injury—he maps the solution. From policy implementation to institutional accountability, he shows how survivors, clinicians, and advocates can make the mouth visible again.
Because survival should not mean living without teeth.
And cancer care should not end at the gums.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Advocate • Survivor
His commitment to safety and community prevention led to the founding of the Seymore D’Fair Foundation alongside his wife, Dara, a lifelong educator. Together, they launched one of Louisiana’s most impactful early childhood drug prevention initiatives, reaching thousands of young lives.
But it was Dara’s cancer journey—riddled with misdiagnoses, vague language, and institutional neglect—that compelled Johnson to write Stage IV Capitalism: A Cured Patient is a Lost Customer, a sweeping indictment of how profit incentives shape every word a patient hears.
Now, in Head & Neck Cancer: Teeth Not Included, Johnson turns the lens on his own post-treatment injury—exposing how modern oncology routinely excludes the mouth from survivorship care. What begins as a personal case file expands into a systemic critique of Medicare silence, hospital inertia, and the institutional amnesia surrounding dental trauma.
With each book, Johnson delivers more than memoir. He offers a manual for survivors, a framework for reform, and a warning for anyone who thinks the treatment ends when the tumor does.
BIOGRAPHY
Dwight David Johnson is a two-time cancer survivor, systems safety expert, and author whose voice cuts through the noise of modern medicine with unmatched clarity. With over three decades of experience in Occupational Health, Safety, and Environmental Management, Johnson has worked in some of America’s most risk-intensive industries—where the cost of error is measured in lives. That background taught him how to recognize system failures—and how to prevent them.
His Story
Dwight's story is one of fierce clarity born from intimate proximity to danger—first in the workplace, then in the clinic. As a cancer survivor, he recognized the language of containment and compliance. As a caregiver, he saw how that same language silenced patients and warped consent into compliance.
Drawing on decades of professional insight and personal experience, Johnson reframes the cancer care system not as a broken machine, but as one operating exactly as designed—for profit. He exposes how institutional incentives obscure diagnosis, suppress dissent, and sell treatment as progress—while patients lose their lives, voices, and trust.
His story is not just one of critique, but of reclamation: of agency, language, and love. And it is told with the unflinching precision of a man who knows that survival is not just personal—it is political.
Author Message
"This book is a gift, a refusal, and a reckoning. I didn’t write it because I had time. I wrote it because the system left me no choice. What happened to Dara and to me isn’t rare. It’s engineered. I wrote this for the patient who’s told to stay quiet, for the family who walks out more confused than when they walked in, and for every voice dismissed because it didn't wear a white coat. Our story is proof that consent without truth is not consent at all and that silence is the system’s favorite tool. This is my interruption.”
-Dwight David Johnson