I agree with everything you wrote. This has alot to do with the decline of our culture, where people eat unhealthy fast food, live sedentary lives in front of the tv and then expect some magic pill to cure them of all their poor lifestyle choices and the consequences thereof. Big Pharma is most definity complicit in this, as is the fed gov and the medical providers/practioners as well. But it has come to the point where many people don't want to hear that their back pain is due to the fact that they are overweight or the best treatment for their type 2 diabetes is lifestyle changes and diet modifications. A good amount of people in this society just would rather do that which makes them happy at the moment (fast food/tv/etc) and then turn to magic pills to wipe away any of the guilt or negative effects of their choices. but I do agree that the system is broken and needs to be fixed, and i am not at all against alternative treatments which are sound and backed by real data.
ok but you must admit a while ago there was a change in the whole philosophy of the medical field. There was a shift that took away the power of a physician to heal the patient as he she deemed necessary. It seems we have been pushed into this idea that way only way to to heal someone is by prescribing the correct pill for the job. This was a deliberate movement by the pharm companies and their backers. It is their creed (for obvious reasons). I've been rushed out of many a doctors office with a script in hand without even been asked about the simplest details of my diet, stress, lifestyle changes etc... Another shining example of mixing big business and government. Big pharm is now protected from competition in the field of medicine by a huge federal bureaucracy.
No worries. I am just getting sick and tired of the way this liberty movement is so against medical doctors because of the abuse found in the system. There is no way this movement will ever take off in this country without the aid of those professions with fiduciary duties, such as doctor, nurses, lawyers and police officers. There is this fantasy I keep reading from posts (and I am not talking about you) where zealous alternative therapy advocates seem to keep judging and castigating entire (conventional) medical professions and are blind to see the rampant quakery, corruption and greed which is also found in the world of alternate medicine.
I didn't want to offend you. Is just that the whole doctor/pharmacist check and balance idea seems a little disfuntional considering the amount of money big pharm contributes to lobbing for control. P.S. though I'm not a doctor, my father worked as a pharmacist and sales manager for Lilly for 30 years and I worked in the largest inpatient pharmacy in my state for 4 years while in undergraduate school and I speak from first hand experience. The system is very corrupt and I was keeping it short for the purpose of posting to those who seek to confuse healing with corporate cronyism. No offense intended.
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