Medical Choices

This week the focus has been on many frauds and other deceptions that are perpetuated in the medical community. Does this mean that all doctors, pharmaceutical, and the entire medical community are bad? Certainly not.

However, the base premise of prescription drugs are to treat symptoms, and not necessarily to correct the root cause of the problem. Often this approach may alleviate the symptom, but also will cause harmful and even disastrous side effects that are many times not detectable until significantly later. This delayed reaction and culmination will usually be treated with more drugs to combat those symptoms. Do you notice the pattern here? More symptoms, more drugs, the more your body is so medicated that your natural immune system doesn't know or can't combat much of anything. Your body then starts to break down, your health goes downhill, and eventually you die. However, this is not before you spend a fortune on tests, prescription drugs, doctor visits, more tests, drugs, etc. Does this sound like a healthy way to live - medically or financially?

So, usually the alternative is to seek another approach. There are a number of alternative forms of medicine and disease treatment - Ayurveda (Hindu health care system), chiropractic, herbalism, homeopathy, naturopathic medicine, osteopathic medicine, Chinese medicine, and others. Most of these approaches get into some form of holistic treatment that the body can be cured and maintain great health through its own natural immunity provided that body is given what it needs.

Obviously, we could spend years going into the particulars on all of these subjects. But the basic point that allopathic medicine (treatment of disease with drugs and surgery) is not always the best approach. Why? Because the system that produces the these doctors is severely faulted. Most of the medical schools are heavily financed by pharmaceutical companies through drug clinics and trials, grants, donations, etc. The schools therefore are pretty much obligated to teach their students the allopathic method or risk losing their funding. The students learn only one side of things and therefore go out and "practice" their specialty. This is not creating independent thinking or research.

Due to this age of specialization and the constant pressures of time, occupation, family, and trying to find a quality of life, we often go with the professional advice of the experts, not knowing that they have only one view of things. Therefore, we typically are steered down a path of treatment that is not the best. There is no argument that healthy people do not need a lot of medical treatment. The medical and healthcare industries are like all businesses - they need customers. Why not create more dependency, more customers, and therefore more profit by making the customers sicker, especially when it can't be detected for years? Do you ever wonder why pharmaceutical companies are always getting record profits year after year? After this weeks posts, you should no longer wonder.

Meanwhile, the medical community routinely advises against any alternative treatment, obviously because it is bad for business. Healthy people don't need tests, drugs, and doctors. Prevention is never mentioned, let alone practiced.

This is why the medical community is being blasted this week. Their fraudulent and deceptive system is rampant and little is being done about it. The small minority of professionals that practices or promotes alternative treatment are ostracized and labeled as "quacks". The wellness industry that promotes prevention and boosting the immune system are denounced as unnecessary.

So as always, you have a choice. What will you choose? Like it or not, your health is your life. What kind of quality or degree is again up to you to choose. Remember the old wives tale of "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure".

As with all Saturdays, I will recap the week looking at several key financial indicators that drive the markets. During this consolidation period, the markets have bounced around getting everyone more comfortable with the new price levels. The upward trends are starting to renew their pressures to continue moving upward. Precious metals all rose this week. The price of gold went higher on Friday, closing at $927.60 per ounce. Silver also closed higher at $17.52 per ounce. The price of oil hit a new record high, closing at $140.57 per barrel. These pressures drove the US dollar index down again, closing at 72.28 against the other major world currencies.

All of you should be able to see what is coming from these actions - inflation. A rise in oil prices drives nearly all consumer good prices higher. If wage increases don't match the price increases, you have less money to spend. This will likely cause more recessionary measures and if continued, will lead to a depression. This has been pointed out on numerous occasions in this blog, so it should not be a surprise.

As always, if you are looking for personal solutions, please contact me. I am constantly working on finding solutions in many areas and thus improving quality of life. This is the purpose of this blog.

As always, the choice is yours.

The heart of the righteous weighs its answers,
but the mouth of the wicked gushes evil. Proverbs 15:28 (NIV)

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