This past year, numerous people have informed me that physicians in the DC area are walking away from practices in large numbers. Although this is reported anecdotally, patients trying to find pediatricians, pulmonologists, allergists, psychiatrists, and other specialties are having an increasingly hard time finding them. A few docs have moved out of the area. Many of them are retiring, sometimes abruptly. Others are reporting they're "taking a break" from practice, and still others are just walking away, leaving their staff to tell patients they don't know where the docs went.
A number of ER docs have left the area as a result of the taking over of ER facilities by larger medical practices, who focus on using less expensive nurse practitioners to staff them (with considerably less training) to reduce cost while encouraging them to order more expensive tests to increase profit.This is leaving some seriously ill patients out in the lurch without having the care properly transitioned.
Don't have any hard numbers on this, but reports of this are way more than they've been in the past. It has a feel of panic...
I'm sure your numbers are accurate, but trauma is pretty much the only thing I ever really am concerned with. I don't bother with western medicine and haven't seen an MD since 1999. Injury and trauma were the only things I was desperate to avoid for my two trips to Iraq in 2004 and 2008.
In terms of combat and deployment, you would indeed need virtually all the surgeons on hand as none of the above situations would be routine.
Agreed. Most surgeries today are either elective and/or unnecessary if the MDs understood health and wellness. But they've been profoundly miseducated. You are wise to avoid them under all but the most critical situations.
Perfect health is our natural state. When your health is out of balance it normally means you have been through a "conflict shock" of some sort - fear, worry, scare, anger, separation, loss, self-devaluation, indigestible life situations, injustice, attacked, etc. When these situations are experienced your subconscious mind (psyche) makes adjustments to specific organs and tissues to help you get through your unresolved conflict, during which they typically perform better then normal. But when you resolve your conflict, the psyche restores these organs/tissues back to their normal functioning and in today's world, this is what we call "dis-ease". Which is a normal bodily process.
Should you leave things alone and follow your instinct, homeostasis would soon be achieved. But unfortunately we've all been brainwashed into running to a doctor to "fix" the problem, to suppress the symptoms, to stifle the pain, etc. And this is when all the REAL problems with health start for the 99%. As it is the misguided and harmful interventions that doctors have been taught that lead to the bigger problems most people have with their health.
Our body/mind/psyche are never wrong. Humans, on the other hand....
Interesting. I have always just forged ahead with injury and have always ended up with full capacity in time. The only time I did have to seek outside intervention was in 2005 after a year of being home from Iraq, I had taken mefloquine for my time spent in Basra. I was out of balance from this highly potent synthetic version of chloroquine and suffered from intestinal distress for a full year. There didn't seem to be any improvement so I went to a traditional Chinese herbalist. Without stating any of my concerns or issues, the doctor told me that I had toxins in my liver that was compromising my elimination processes. I asked what that meant precisely, and he stated that I was suffering from gastrointestinal distress. He nailed it on the head. I was duly impressed. He mixed up an herbal concoction and had me take it home to brew and drink the tea one pot per day. I made the mistake of brewing in doors. That only happened once, it was incredibly foul smelling. After the first week, my intestinal distress was gone and I had solids exiting after that. I continued for the second week and have been all good ever since.
Nice! I'd take a TCM doc over an allopath every day of the week. I think the core fix was dropping the chloroquine but no doubt the herbal concoction helped flush your liver. This is yet another example of how the pharma meds actually cause us harm in the long run, even though they might be good at suppressing symptoms and pain.
Glad you got your issue resolved and have a solid awareness around avoiding establishment medicine!
I had stopped taking the Mefloquin for almost a year before I finally went to seek help. I had only taken it for a month, due to rampant Malaria in Southern Iraq. The cure would have been the exact same thing if I hadn't taken it prophylactically. Either way, I would have had to take the Mefloquin. It is an extremely potent version of Chloroquin with a huge list of side effects, but Malaria has a bunch of bad side effects too, so it was damned if you do, damned if you don't.