Stage IV Capitalism: Navigate the Book

NAVIGATE THE BOOK

By Dwight David Johnson
A Memoir. A Manual. A Metastatic Warning.

“The first word frames the patient. The rest follows.”

THE STRUCTURE: A JOURNEY THROUGH THE SYSTEM

This book mirrors the lived stages of cancer — and exposes the systems that shape them. From the first framing word to institutional reckoning, and ultimately to spiritual renewal, Stage IV Capitalism follows a progression medicine rarely acknowledges: not just through disease, but through industry, policy, harm, and healing.

Each stage is a portal. Each chapter is a piece of evidence. Together, they form a reckoning.

BOOK SUMMARY & READER ROADMAP

Structured like the disease it exposes, Stage IV Capitalism moves through five interconnected stages that mirror a cancer patient’s journey—not just through illness, but through a care system built for compliance, not correction.

It begins with the frame. It ends with the immune system and God.

FRONT MATTER:

“Where the Frame Begins”

  • Dedication / A Word from Dara
    A human voice before the system intervenes. Dara speaks for every patient who wasn’t heard in time.

  • Foreword
    A clinical satire of the cancer-care industry—blunt, researched, and unflinching. (see the Illness Industry Tab | The Foreward - Revisted Facts for more details)

  • Interlude: Carbon Logic — From Barrel to Bedside
    Connects chemotherapy’s chemical lineage to industrial warfare and petrochemical profits.

    “We are treating cancer with cytotoixns and classified Carcinogenic chemicals that cause cancer”

    (see the Illness Industry Tab | Carbon Logic: Big Oil to Oncology for more details)

  • Note on Method / Reader’s Guide to Appendices
    Explains how the manuscript combines narrative, evidence, risk analysis, and system-level critique.

Takeaway: Before the chapters even begin, the reader is handed the script—and then shown how it was written.

STAGE I: FRAMING THE PATIENT

“Where diagnosis becomes destiny”

Here begins the story — not with biology, but with language. A single word in a pathology report cascades into years of procedures, treatments, and assumptions. The patient is no longer a person, but a code within a billing system.

Chapters:

  • The First Word

  • The System Behind the Script

  • The Business of Compliance

Key Tools:

  • The Consent Decoder

  • Doublespeak Keys

Takeaway: Framing is not just medical, it’s institutional, and it decides everything that follows.

STAGE II: INSIDE THE MACHINE

“Where treatment becomes protocol, not precision”

This section dissects the logic of the hospital system—HIPEC, chemotherapy, and prevention turned into revenue. It exposes how care is coded, how risk is hidden, and how survivorship is shaped by silence.

Chapters:

  • The First Glitch

  • The Quiet Retraction

  • From Prevention to Prescription

  • HIPEC — The Mirage of Modern Medicine

  • Verification Before Escalation

  • The Price of Survival

Takeaway: Hospitals aren't just healing centers. They're logistical pipelines of procedure, driven by old science and new billing.

STAGE III: RECLAIMING THE FRAME

“Where refusal becomes medicine”

Here, resistance begins. This section introduces system-level reforms, reframing tools, and the language patients need to push back. It empowers readers to disrupt the clinical script and reclaim their agency.

Chapters:

  • Resistance is Reclamation

  • Systemic Reforms and Future Pathways

Takeaway: Patients have the right—and responsibility—to rewrite the narrative forced upon them.

STAGE IV: THE RECKONING:

“Where harm becomes policy, and policy becomes profit”

This is the institutional climax. Through case files and critical reflections, Johnson examines the economics of recurrence, the pathology of silence, and why prevention doesn’t pay. This is where the system reveals its true allegiance.

Interlude: Smoke and Mirrors: The Lingering Paradox of Cancer Treatment (see the Illness Industry Tab | Rebranded Harm: How Oncology Markets Continuity as Care for more details)

Chapters:

  • The Pathology Maze | A Final Reckoning

  • The Only Service Industry That Profits from Failure

  • Last Word: When Prevention Doesn’t Pay

Takeaway: The system survives by erasing its own mistakes—and the patients who endure them.

STAGE V: THE GIFT REMEMBERED

“Where medicine ends and meaning begins”

The final stage is spiritual. It is immune wisdom and divine memory—what medicine has forgotten and what patients must reclaim. Here, the body and spirit converge in reflection, testimony, and transformation.

Chapters:

  • Patient Rights: A Caregiver’s Manifesto

  • Epilogue: The Frame Is Ours Now

  • Reflection: The Gift Remembered

  • The Creator’s Witness

  • The Doctrine of Enough

  • Postscript: Dara’s Closing Note

  • A Letter to the Reader

Takeaway: True recovery isn’t clinical. It’s personal, communal, and sacred.

EVIDENCE VAULT & APPENDICES

Every argument in this book is backed by documentation, decoded language, and reconstructed case files.

  • Case Files at a Glance

  • Anchor Appendix: The Foreword Revisited — a satirical dissection of oncologic groupthink

  • Appendix A–N Topics:

    • Psychological mechanisms in modern oncology

    • HIPEC risk evaluation

    • Comparative pathology review

    • Industrial petrochemical lineage

    • Malpractice law and patient protection gaps

    • Cancer misdiagnosis as a public health failure

    • Pediatric exposure (Children in the Pipeline)

Takeaway: This is not just a story. It’s a case file.

WHO THIS BOOK IS FOR

  • Patients and caregivers seeking clarity

  • Survivors questioning the narrative

  • Medical professionals confronting their training

  • Safety analysts, ethicists, and policy critics

  • Anyone who believes care should be accountable

PRE-ORDER BONUS

✅ Signed first edition copy
✅ Early access to:

  • Consent Decoder

  • Glossary of Medical Doublespeak

  • Case file memos & HIPEC brief

✅ Free invite: Webinar — Reclaiming the Frame: How to Question What You're Told