First off a big "fuck you" to medical doctors everywhere. Secondly, a big "fuck you" to Big Pharma. Thirdly, a big fuck you to the health insurance industry and the quote-unquote health-care insustry as a whole.
Is there anyone else I need to say fuck you to?
Oh yeah, President Bush, but that, of course, goes without saying.
A while back, someone wrote a diary about universal health care. In the diary, she quoted a newspaper account of a retiree who paid $1,200 a month for prescription drugs.
The diarist was outraged. "This is why we need UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE!!!!" she wrote.
I shared her outrage but not for the same reason. I was angry because this old man probably didn't need to take most of the prescription drugs he was buying, if not all of them.
More than likely, all this man had to do to cure most of his ailments was make changes to his diet, take some nutritional supplements, as well as exercise-mentally and physically.
Frankly, those simple actions are things that most of us can to cure what ails us.
To me, when a doctor prescribes a drug, it is an admission of failure. It is an admission that the doctor doesn't know enough about the dis-ease to treat the cause of it as opposed to the symptom. It is an admission that the doctor doesn't know enough about the patient as a person, to help the patient see and deal with the everday issues in the patient's life that contribute to the dis-ease.
It is my opinion that far too many medical doctors prescribe medicine as opposed to practicing it. To put it to you Johnny Cochrane style" Far too many healers have become drug dealers."
Word.
It's amazing to me how many "diseases" there are today, and how many drugs have miraculously appeared to treat them. A reasonable person at a certain point has to become suspicious.
Before we go any further I want to say something: all drugs are potentially dangerous. There is no safe drug. No even aspirin is safe. For example, I read a newsletter that said that some commonly prescribed drugs would prove fatal to a two-year old if simply one dose for an adult were ingested.
One dose.
If a drug could do that to a two-year old think about what it is doing to you. Sure, it won't kill the adult, but if it can kill a child, it can't be doing good things for you. Even if it is "curing" a malady you are suffering from.
When the body is sick, it needs biological material, not chemicals. That's common sense isn't it? And it seems medical doctors these days are suffering from a lack of it.
This is not to say that all medical doctors are bad. Just most of them. Most doctors turn their patients into victims. That's how they get their power over you. They are the wise man on the mountain top, and you should just shut up and take whatever wisdom they deem fit to give to you.
But a good doctor, doesn't turn you into a victim. A good doctor empowers you with the knowledge that you have more power over your health than you've been given credit for. A good doctor knows that getting a good medical history and having a good conversation with the patient about their life is worth a hundred times any prescription drug.
And the fact that not a lot of doctors believe this, is evil.
As a practicing physician I do not know how to correctly prescribe medications. The reason for this is that the pharmaceutical companies have fashioned so much dishonest information about their products that common knowledge about them is utterly unreliable. As you will learn from reading the following article, even the most respected medical journals and the research they print are tainted beyond belief... my primary goal in your care is to get you out of the medical, surgical, and pharmaceutical businesses – and this can be done most effectively and safely by helping you regain your lost health. Sick people take drugs and visit doctors – healthy people don’t. Thankfully, there are increasing numbers of health professionals coming to the aid of the near helpless consumer by telling the truth.
-- John McDougall
MD www.johnmcdougall.com