18 Biggest Problems with Modern Medicine

Refreshing News June 6, 2010

1. Modern Western Medicine is based on a narrow scientific model, and arrogantly i
gnores and rejects therapies and entire medical systems that don t fit this model.
2. Doctors are trained in hospitals in crisis care medicine, not to take care of t
he walking wounded, which is the majority of people. They need to be trained to ta
ke of the walking wounded as well.
3. Instead of treating the underlying causes or imbalances, Doctors often merely
manage symptoms.
4. Symptoms are seen as something to be suppressed rather than a pointer to some
underlying imbalance.
5. Doctors see the human body as a machine with separate parts that can be treat
ed independently rather than as an integrated whole. In addition the mind and bo
dy are also seen as separate independent entities and emotions are often ignored
.
6. Man is not seen as part of nature, and how what happens in nature effects hum
ans.
7. We look for a magic bullet instead of all the possible factors that make up t
he total load which are causing the underlying imbalance. There is no understand
ing of the total load.
8. No belief that the body has a self-healing capacity and no ways to boost that
capacity.
9. Everyone with the same disease gets treated the same way, patient uniqueness
ignored.
10. We treat the disease, not the patient.
11. There is a reliance on numbers and tests rather than how the patient is feel
ing and what is found on examination.
12. We don t take into account the importance of diet and lifestyle on health. How
could we? We get a total of 6-8 hours of nutrition lectures in medical school.
13. We don t recognize or understand the correct use of supplements to optimize he
alth.
14. We don t recognize the importance of toxicity on our bodies nor know how to bo
ost the body s own detoxification systems.
15. The Doctor patient relationship is not emphasized and the role of the patien
t as a partner in their own health care not encouraged.
16. The placebo has a negative connotation and ignored. The placebo is really th
e body healing itself and should be encouraged.
17. The Drug Industry is too enmeshed in the medical system The Pharmaceutical I
ndustry has WAY TOO MUCH power and is bribing Doctors to use their drugs and resea
rchers to produce positive results for their drugs.
18. More than 80 percent of all medical treatments used have been untested by ri
gorous peer reviewed study, yet the Medical establishment insists that alternati
ve health treatments must undergo these before they can be used. The system of e
valuation needs to be changed.
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