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Alternative Medicine InformationWhy Modern Medicine is the Greatest Threat to Health
by:
Dr. Horny Wysong
There is the underlying assumption that contemporaneity translates into better health. A corollary of this logic is that we can live our lives pretty more as we want because we can always buy a repair. You know, the car won't start, the TV is broken, the telephone is dead no problem. Simply call in an expert, spend several money and all is well.
People carry this over to their thinking simply about health. Our ticker falters, joints creak or an unwanted growth pops up no problem. Buy several modern medical care. If that doesn't work, it's a problem of money, better insurance, more hospital funding, more research for the "cure," more doctors, better instrumentation
and more technology. Right?
Wrong.
Don't take my word for it. Listen to the perpetrators themselves. The following is taken right from the pages of the Journal of the American Medical Association (July 26, 2000): "Of 13 countries in a recent (health) comparison, the United States (the most modern and advanced in the world) ranks an average of Ordinal
(second from the bottom)..."
For example, the U.S. ranks:
· last for low birth weight
· last for babe and babe mortality overall
· Ordinal
for post babe mortality
· last for years of potential life lost
· Ordinal
for female life expectancy at one year, and next to last for males
· Ordinal
for age adjusted mortality
The Earth Health Organization, mistreatment several indicators, hierarchal the U.S. Ordinal
among 25 industrial
nations. (If hierarchal against "primitive" cultures consumption and living as humans were designed, the whole industrial
earth would-be be at the bottom of the heap.)
Some power say these dismal results are because of smoking, alcohol, cholesterol, animal fats and poor penetration of medical care. Not so. Countries wherever
these health risks are greater have better overall health according to medical speciality studies. It's as well not due to lack of technology. The U.S. is, for example, second only to Japan in the number of magnetic resonance imaging units (MRIs) and computed pictorial representation scanners per unit of population. Neither can lack of medical personnel be blame since the U.S. has the greatest number of employees per hospital bed in the world.
So what is the problem? Here are several clues as disclosed in the same journal cited above:
· 12,000 deaths per year from extra surgery
· 7,000 deaths per year from medication errors in hospitals
· 20,000 deaths per year from different hospital errors
· 80,000 deaths per year from health facility (originating in a hospital) infections
· 106,000 deaths per year from adverse effects of medications
That totals 225,000 deaths per year, the third leading cause of death, behind heart malady and cancer. Another study we're talking simply hospital related deaths here estimates 284,000 deaths per year. An analysis of patient
care jumps these figures by 199,000 deaths for a new total of 483,000 medically related deaths per year. And this assumes doctors and hospitals thirstily
report all their mistakes. Think so?
The poor health ranking in the U.S. is in large part not because of lack of modern medical care, it is because of it! This does not deny that each persons life choices do not impact health as well. Folk cannot live with abandon and then expect anybody to fix it regardless of their technology and skills. You can imagine the frustration physicians must feel featured day-to-day with patients wanting a quick fix for a lifespan of unhealthy life choices. Be that as it may, it does not deny that modern medicine in and of itself is a brobdingnagian risk to those who surrender to it.
Why do we not hear more simply about this? It is simply too difficult to move to grips with the inevitable and unbelievable conclusion: Once
all the deaths (not enumeration the hundreds of thousands who are maimed or otherwise injured
but don't die) reportable and not reportable are tallied, medical intervention is arguably the leading cause of death in our country.
Time to splash several cold water on the rely-on-modern-medicine inebriation. And remember folks, the above are simply cold statistics. Take any one of these amount and alter it to the real pain, suffering, business devastation, grief and family disruption, and each one is a heart cacophonic story worth of anyone's deep concern and sympathy. It is a tragedy of a magnitude incomparable by thing
in human history. And it's continual every year. It does 9-11, all the deaths in all U.S. wars, deaths by auto, homicides and everything else pale in comparison. (Not to minimize the tragedy of each of those things.)
The media should be shouting simply about medical risks from atop their broadcast towers. But there is mostly silence, simply reports in obscure (to the public) medical and scientific publications. In the meantime, trusting folk support flocking to the slaughter. From simply 1995 to 2002, pharmaceutical sales jumped from $65 billion to over $200 billion. That's simply about one prescription for each man, woman and child in the country every month. This step-up
in medical dependency is paralleled in surgeries, lab tests, emergency room admissions, elective procedures and patient
visits.
You can do thing
simply about it. Begin now to take control of your own health destiny. The philosophical paradigm of conventional, allopathic, symptom based, reductionistic, crisis care, episodic, after-the-fact medicine is seriously imperfect
... and really deadly. Nice and well meaning doctors are hamstrung by wrong philosophical premises. They are game every bit as more as those who once believed in a flat Earth. Trying to attain health with modern medical care
medicine is like trying to fix computers with a hammer, simply because that's the only tool you were educated to use or believe in.
Don't wait for the system to change. Old ideas die too hard. The mega-medical industry is not going to be quick in either admitting error or revamping itself. Your health is at stake. Think hindrance and natural holistic cure. Study, learn, grow, be skeptical, change lifestyle, be self-reliant be a thinking person. That's your better road to health.
Simply simply about the author:
Dr. Wysong is a former veterinary practician
and surgeon, college educator in human anatomy, physiology and the origin of life, artificer of many
medical, surgical, nutritional, athletic and fitness products and devices, research director for the present institution by his name and founder of the philanthropic Wysong Institute. He is author of The Creation-Evolution Arguing now in its eleventh printing, a new two volume set on philosophy for living, several books on nutrition, hindrance and health for folk and animals and over 15 years of monthly health newsletters. He may be contacted at Wysong@Wysong.net and a free subscription to his e-Health Letter is accessible at http://www.wysong.net.
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