Re: comparative medicine

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You are so correct. The problem with the medical system in this country is that

they wait until we are sick then give us medication. However the medication

does not resolve the underlying reason for the sickness, it just masks the

symptoms. The " Alternative Medicine " delves into the the reason for the illness

and resolves the underlying cause. If preventive medicine was practiced in this

country, the medical costs would decrease considerably. Individuals need to

take responsibility for their own health and pay more attention to what they

eat. Numerous medical issues could be irradicated if people changed their diet.

I am a Home Health RN and see this on a daily basis. Even the nurses do not see

the need to take responsibility for their own well being.

The good news is that I am seeing a small trend toward alternative practices in

the people that I encounter and it gives me hope that the medical field will

wake up some day soon and stop being overrun by the pharmaceutical industry.

Somebody needs to pay attention to the alarming numbers of children with Autism

and ADD, ADHD. These children are the future.

Sharon

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> Just wanted to add to Allan Darman's post, that the entire field of

> Preventive Medicine is virtually ignored by medical schools. The demise of

> the Family Physician, who saw not just the whole family but a whole person,

> not just their liver or feet, has meant that the medical system gets to

> charge multiples of office visits, multiples of lab testing, and we the

> patient and consumer are left being our own case manager. It is completely

> ridiculous that I am currently waiting 2.5 weeks for 1 specialist and 1

> Pediatrician to call me back on lab work independently ordered by each, and

> in the meantime I'm using biomedical approaches learned from parents like

> you on the internet to treat symptoms by myself.

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> On the other hand, its become almost impossible to be a good Family or

> general Physician because it is so difficult to keep up a working knowledge

> of all the branches of medicine. The various fields of medicine are so

> specialized now, due to the extraordinary amounts of information and data

> available. It's no wonder that the typical MD is not about to tell people to

> use Low Dose Naltrexone off label or prescribe Valtrex or Diflucan for GI

> problems that are hard to test for. It is a genuine conundrum that is not

> going to be settled easily. Meanwhile the numbers of people who are showing

> up with neurological development issues ought to be alarming the bejeez

> about of the rest of us that are neuro-tyical.

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> I personally think that we need to return to a model of Preventive

> Medicine. As a Drs kid also raised on a farm, I have always known about

> simple surgical procedures, simple things you do to fight infection, take

> care of sprains etc. In 3rd world countries and for travelers, people are

> taught what they call Field Medicine, which is something everyone should

> know. People don't need to go to the Dr for every little thing but somehow

> we've created this society that is like a whiney little kid wanting somebody

> to fix it every time they stub their toe. Just my 2 pennies,

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