The more you learn about nutrition and preventive medicine, the more
you may realize: As long as you can, heal yourself. In case of emergency,
however, don’t wait, go see the doctor. Come along, find out a few new
things about good old common sense. May your life be better for it.
"Everyone knows that"...
Medical Doctors are trained to cure.
Successful medical doctors effectively help the body heal itself.
Cure means by definition that something must be ill or broken before
a doctor can do his wonders. You see, doctors who specialize in curing
usually don't have much time left to study prevention. Doctors trained
in Western medicine can repair damage but they are rarely the right people
to help you keep your body healthy. They don't get paid for prevention,
not even for curing. Doctors get paid for treatment, often regardless
of the side effects.
Now don’t get me wrong. I believe 80% of doctors do want to help, they
have ethical motives and are effective. The damage, however, that the 20%
and the few real vicious ones among them cause for many of us it a story
of untold misery. I am not writing this because I feel betrayed by doctors,
far from it. I am healthy by modern standards. I can take the stairs up
from the subway two at a time and arrive in daylight without slowing down.
Like anyone, I have had my share of laying my health in the hands of
medical doctors. Some did not help much, a few even left damage but kept
the money anyway. Most of the doctors I met were well-meaning and competent
in their field, they knew their art and helped. And I have met two or three
rare and wise docs who freely shared their knowledge of what the average
man and woman can do to protect and improve health on their own.
These are the doctors you are glad they have time for you. They’d rather
have healthy patients than a healthy bank account. Ironically, prevention
of disease costs only a tiny fraction of treatment, yet the illness
insurance pays for treatment, not for prevention. (Illness insurance?
Wasn't that health insurance?) With the
cost of medical care skyrocketing, it is evident the net result of the
contemporary insurance and treatment system is lower health at ever higher
cost. The prevalent approach clearly does not work.
Insurance or not, the responsibility for prevention is solely
with us, the owners of our bodies. |