Thanksgiving is a time for family. When I sat down to write this morning, I remembered a conversation I had with my oldest son that changed the way I look at medicine in an instant. He was in his first year at West Point, and I asked him what he was studying. “The Civil War.” I was amazed. “Why would you study that? That war happened over one hundred years ago”. He explained it this way. “Studying the Civil War teaches a valuable lesson. Generals get their troops killed by using tactics that were appropriate for the last war. Tactics lag technology.”
Further more, better and cheaper diagnostic tools, evidence based science, and patient-centered ethics, and moral principles which have taken a backseat for way too long in the name of “fee for service” unscientific, baseless American Medical Kabuki Dance is the reason why people have completely lost trust and faith in the medical industrial complex and its practitioners, and the Ivy Leaguers elite profiteering “experts”.
Yeah, not to mention to costs of the legacy 19th Century practice of American medicine: it costs $4.5 trillion dollars, plus another $3.5 trillion dollars in loss of productivity and premature deaths, in addition to bear the disreputable distinction of becoming the third cause of deaths following cardiovascular diseases and cancer. Time to wake up and change this failed corrupt system, before it bankrupts American economy.
Further more, better and cheaper diagnostic tools, evidence based science, and patient-centered ethics, and moral principles which have taken a backseat for way too long in the name of “fee for service” unscientific, baseless American Medical Kabuki Dance is the reason why people have completely lost trust and faith in the medical industrial complex and its practitioners, and the Ivy Leaguers elite profiteering “experts”.
Yeah, not to mention to costs of the legacy 19th Century practice of American medicine: it costs $4.5 trillion dollars, plus another $3.5 trillion dollars in loss of productivity and premature deaths, in addition to bear the disreputable distinction of becoming the third cause of deaths following cardiovascular diseases and cancer. Time to wake up and change this failed corrupt system, before it bankrupts American economy.
Functional medicine instead of traditional medicine is the better approach