If you dismantle the current system without providing an alternative, you'll get the same exact bullshit to replace it.
And I think the root problem is more to do with financing research than anything else. Basically, everything from the first-year student to the professor to the journal is sponsored by pharma and they just aren't interested in making people optimally healthy.
We have to start by prohibiting pharma from any sort of direct or implicit ("award program", seminars in Hawaii) funding of anything related to academic research and medical journals and finding another source of billions to replace that.
I agree. I have a wonderful endocrinologist (for my half functioning thyroid) that I've seen for over a decade. I consider him a friend as well as my doctor. We're the same age (47), both have kids, similar values, etc.
He immigrated here from Russia when he was 35. Doctors in Russia are trained in the literal interpretation of "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure". There's an enormous focus on proactive health, vitamin and mineral supplements and healthy living to prevent costly and debilitating procedures and medicines down the road.
Remember the last time a politician or medical professional here in the states advised people to stay healthy, take vitamin D, C & Zinc and lose weight as a means of fending off the corona virus? Me neither.
In my opinion (and my doctor's), this is the biggest scandal of western medicine. A medical industry and professional discipline that is solely focused on expensive, reactive treatments designed to ameliorate but never cure. Prevention and a focus on good health scales very, very well.
No, that isn't exactly the problem here.
If you dismantle the current system without providing an alternative, you'll get the same exact bullshit to replace it.
And I think the root problem is more to do with financing research than anything else. Basically, everything from the first-year student to the professor to the journal is sponsored by pharma and they just aren't interested in making people optimally healthy.
We have to start by prohibiting pharma from any sort of direct or implicit ("award program", seminars in Hawaii) funding of anything related to academic research and medical journals and finding another source of billions to replace that.
Good luck.
There are alternatives. I have an amazing Natropath doctor
Look up bastyr ND school.
It’s an amazing school, they even teach doctors to make their own medicine out of plants.
That doesn't really scale though.
I agree. I have a wonderful endocrinologist (for my half functioning thyroid) that I've seen for over a decade. I consider him a friend as well as my doctor. We're the same age (47), both have kids, similar values, etc.
He immigrated here from Russia when he was 35. Doctors in Russia are trained in the literal interpretation of "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure". There's an enormous focus on proactive health, vitamin and mineral supplements and healthy living to prevent costly and debilitating procedures and medicines down the road.
Remember the last time a politician or medical professional here in the states advised people to stay healthy, take vitamin D, C & Zinc and lose weight as a means of fending off the corona virus? Me neither.
In my opinion (and my doctor's), this is the biggest scandal of western medicine. A medical industry and professional discipline that is solely focused on expensive, reactive treatments designed to ameliorate but never cure. Prevention and a focus on good health scales very, very well.