When Should You Use Conventional Medicine?

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I am a second year medical Student in an Osteopathic

institution. What are the strengths and weaknesses of

the conventional medical educational system as you see

it? What items that I am learning should I put stock

in and which should I take with a grain of salt?

A : Answer (Published April 03, 2007 )

Great question as the answer has very broad

implications. Conventional medicine, I really don't

think it is at all appropriate to call it traditional

medicine as that would imply that the model has been

around for centuries and that simply is not the case

at all.

Conventional is far more appropriate a term as it is

what is typically being practiced today and has been

for about the last century when the AMA in the US,

with the help of the drug companies, help to squash

the true traditional medicine, which today is

frequently referred to as alternative medicine. My

favorite term for this type of practice though is

natural medicine as it is a system based on thousands

of years of empirical data that relies on the

assumption that your body has an innate and intrinsic

healing ability if it is given what it needs and

exposure to toxic influences are minimized.

Getting back to your question, conventional medicine

certainly has is place. I believe its most appropriate

if restricted to two areas, one is diagnosis and the

other is the treatment of acute trauma. The use of

blood tests, diagnostic imaging and pathological

evaluation can provide a very useful tool to rule out

serious illness that can easily be overlooked by well

intentioned natural medical practitioners.

So I would learn very well the diagnostic tools that

you will learn in school as they will serve you will.

Where you will need to exercise extreme caution is

believing the treatment recommendations. You can be

virtually 100% guaranteed that the model has been

flawed by massive conflict of interests at the highest

level. Virtually all conventional physicians are

unaware, as I was when I was in the system, that they

have been seriously brainwashed by the multinational

drug corporations.

Drugs are virtually never the long-term answer to any

medical problem. They can provide short-term relief

when addressing the underlying cause of the problem.

Once you understand that you can teach your patients

this so they can use you appropriately as a health

coach to guide them in their process of taking control

of their own health.

See the video

http://v.mercola.com/QA/When-Should-You-Use-Conventional-Medicine--2732.aspx

My comment:

Being a person that doesnt like to be going to doctors

at all, but had to because of my herniated discs, I do

understand that conventional medicine is important to

diagnose, and even MRI's are a very good way to see

what's going on when Xrays will not show herniated

discs.

The issue I am raising is that drugs can be used for a

short term when necessary, however on the long term

using alternative medicine has healing benefits.

Whereas drugs cover up the problem and don't heal and

are addictive. They are the bandage.

Preventive medicine, and nutrition and healing are the

way to go, preventing disease with nutrition and

suppliments, and excersice, drinking water, yoga, and

so on.

Blessings,

Michele

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