In Conversation with a Nurse
It would seem doctors in this area do not treat causes-- a stunning admission from a nurse who seemed equally stunned to be admitting it. Yes, it's true! Doctors treat symptoms, not causes! According to this nurse, whose husband weighs more than 300 lbs, and is diabetic on the verge of losing a foot, she's the shocking victim of modern American medicine. I say shocking, because she was shocked that she hadn't realized it herself until it came out of her own mouth.
For all her training, all her knowledge, it never occured to her to apply what she knew about nutrition, and the chemicals that comprise our food, to treat the cause of her husbands problems, seeking instead to rely on the standard treatment of symptoms.
It was amazing to hear this nurse of 15 years admit that the reason some diseases-- diabetes in particular --are considered incurable, is because they ARE incurable when treated as a collection of symptoms, rather than digging for and treating the underlying causes. Got a cough? prescribe something to stop it! Got pneumonia? Prescribe a strong antibiotic! Nothing wrong with that, right? Often times such treatments are necessary. But what is completely UN-necessary is leaving the treatment at that... not looking for why one has a cough or why one has pneumonia. Treating the symptoms alone and ignoring the cause.
This woman was on the verge of getting her husband to undergo a lapband procedure to help him lose weight, despite knowing all the risks both during and after the procedure. What was it Hypocrates, the father of medicine, said?
"Let food be thy medicine, and medicine be thy food"
She also admitted that the doctors she knows all think people who prefer more holistic aproaches to medicine are kooks.
The conversation ended with her determined to use her knowledge and skills to attack the cause, and to seek a more holistic lifestyle to include changing her and her husbands diet.
Bravo!
Weigh that with what Dr. Julie Gerberding, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, had to say about revamping America's healthcare system.... Start at the beginning! In the education of doctors!
Mike Adams has a not too funny cartoon on the difference between how China's deals with corrupt FDA officials and how the U.S. deals with corrupt FDA officials. The difference is stark. He has a compelling commentary there as well.
The body can heal itself if you give it what it needs in terms of raw material... and if you're religiously diligent. We are fearfully and wonderfully made. These bodies were meant to live forever, and yet the average life expectancy is somewhere in the neighborhood of 70?
Figure it out for yourself-- I know one nurse who has! The only way you'll believe is to figure it out for yourself.
from the mind of... Eric | 10:21 PM
5 Comments:
I've been observing this firsthand lately. Both my Fiancee and her father are currently being treated for multiple symptons, but not for their causes.
I've tried to explain to her that she needs to find a doctor that will treat the malady, and not just the symptons, but she is one of those who think doctors are the all knowing experts. (sigh)
I take no medicine except an ocassional Aleve. She takes about 14 different meds, and never gets better.
Personally, I don't trust doctors and won't see them unless I have an emergency. And by Emergency, I mean imminent death.
I do have at this moment two chronic pains. One in my right elbow, and one in my left ring finger. Both are excrutiating at times, but if and/or when I go to a doctor, be sure that I will demand he cure me, and not just treat me.
By the way, I believe they only do this because of the money. It costs much less to cure than to keep treating forever ad nauseum.
In most cases doctors do what they can to help the patient. But often times the holistic or root cause remedies that you like aren't covered by insurances plans. Most insurances won't cover a nutritionist/dietitian to help someone with diabetes change their eating habits. Insurance won't pay for a health club membership for someone with heart disease, even though an inactive lifestyle is a major cause of such. And also a lot of times it comes down to large expenditures vs. small longterm expenditures. My grandmother might benefit from a hip replacement, but the veterans administration sees it as more cost effective to give her pain medication and epidurals as needed. Many doctors do what they can within our labyrinthine medical payment system.
----
As references the China cartoon. China rarely enforces the execution punishments of its laws. Business Week has a story up right now about how much trouble that government has enforcing it's decrees in rural areas.
Rarely enforces? CBS carried the storiy a couple of weeks ago-- Top D|FDA official executed [likely for embarrassing the State]. I distinctly recall mentioning that China probably charged the family the price of the bullet as they did for those they executed after the Tiananman Square "uprising" from April to June 1989.
I think you guys are referring to two different things- lax enforcement of regulations and anti-corruption laws (Bent) and zealous prosecution and often execution of people who threaten the communist party (and also of common criminals).
You both, in my view, are correct. Lots of corruption in China goes overlooked, especially in rural areas. But China does go after political prisoners- it's way up there on the list of human rights violators. And they often execute convicts within an hour or so of their conviction.
The FDA official was a real blemish on China's rep- and they really want to be a big exporter of food and drugs- so they made an example of him. Big time.
I agree wholeheartedly with your assessment of the problem with health care. Doctors, in general, are indeed only good for treating syptoms, setting broken bones, stiching up a gash. They are reactionary as opposed to preventative. My personal physician has recently suggested dietary changes for my triglyceride levels, although he also wanted to prescribe a drug. I prefer my drugs to be recreational, and since he said I'd see no trail or experience any body rushes, I declined the drugs. But having spent a year on a vegan diet, I know what the benefits are of eating what we were designed to eat. Our teeth and jaw structures as well as the length of our intestinal tract coupled with one or two other things I can't at present recall, place us more closely with herbivores rather than carnivores. Eating, drinking or otherwise introducing into our systems those things for which it was not designed to process, puts an incredible stress on our immune system and creates within us, an environment that is perfect for the breeding of cancers, bacterias, viruses, candidas and other nastiness. Eating the wrong foods alters our PH levels and when we get too acidic, we get all this stuff growing in us. Also, where there is pain, there is acidity. So Mark, if you eat more raw veggies instead of cooking them, you should at least see some relief. A good source of such info and products is one called Innerlight. Google that word and check around. The philosophies are based on the studies of one Dr. Robert O. Young. I use their supergreens and a saline solution that you put in a quart of water three or four times a day to alkalize your system. It's not as much fun as Vicodin, but it won't kill ya either.
BTW, I use to sell the stuff, but I don't any longer. I do use it because I believe in the philosophy.
Post a Comment
<< Home