Let’s face the facts, so-called “modern” medicine has failed us!

Heart disease, diabetes, cancer, multiple sclerosis ALS, obesity, etc. are killing more people than ever. We’ve all been following the advice of how to stay healthy from “modern” medicine for the last 60 years and this is the result. Let me tell you how I view it.

I am almost 70 years old now. I have outlived my father and his father by many years. They went to the doctor a lot and ended up in the the grave yard at a much younger age their their parents and grandparents, basically, people who lived before the dawn of “modern” medicine.

What has happened to medicine? It has degenerated into a business, in my opinion, with the goal of, not healing or curing, but “managing” illness for a constant cash flow.

When I was a child, you had a genuine Family doctor. The doctor was invested in your health. In many cases, the doctor delivered you, tended to your health and sometimes, despite best efforts attended your funeral. The doctor of my youth was on call 24/7/365 and despite the excessive workload, lived a long time. You could go to his office without an appointment and no matter how busy the doctor was, you would be seen before he went home for the day. If you were too sick to come to the office, he made house calls after he closed his office for the day.

The doctor of my youth entered into the profession knowing that he was relegated to a lower middle class income (in 1976, the family doctor who had delivered me decades before was charging 5$ for an office visit – can you believe it?). Obviously, the doctor of the past was not in it for the money, he was in it to heal. The doctor of my youth knew your name and your entire family. He was familiar with health history and customized his treatment protocols based on WHAT you needed, not what the books said was AVERAGE for you gender and age. People were much healthier in my youth despite some of the communicable disease problems such as polio.  Today, we have replaced polio, which did not affect massive numbers of people by the way, and other pathogen based diseases, with alzheimer’s. cancer, heart disease, diabetes, obesity, ALS, MS, and other so-called “incurable” degenerative diseases that WILL kill you.

During the  1940s and later, these dedicated doctors where glorified in film and TV. Who remembers Dr. Kildare? Marcus Welby, MD? Medical Center, Ben Casey? The list is extensive and highlighted medicine in the way it once was, not like today.

Of course anyone born in the last 40 years, eg. since 1980, have no idea of the valuable service the medical professionals of the past use to perform. When they passed away, so did the standard of care they use to provide.

What do we have today? It’s all about the money and convenience. Call “your” doctor for an appointment and you will be seen, maybe in a month or longer (I once called about a skin issue and was told 4 months). If it’s urgent, (who calls the doctor for fun?) they tell you to go to the ER to deal with doctors who have never seen you, have no clue about your health history or what you actually need and will basically guess.

Today, most child deliveries are “scheduled” rather than trusting mother nature for the right time. Either the labor is induced with drugs are the child is just cut out for the convenience of the doctor. Either way, both mother and child suffer and I’m confident this has contributed to the overall health decline of people under “modern” medicine.

As far as the medical business is concerned, a person is just a case number to be dealt with at their convenience. They sort of treat you like an automobile that needs to be repaired and are just as impersonal towards the “patient”. There have been cases where the doctor operated on the wrong body part because they didn’t even know who they were cutting on. Also, the number of people who die from medical mistakes is in the hundreds of thousands per YEAR. (In the late 1960s, I read a book by a doctor who used the alias Dr. X, which told of the massive numbers of mistakes and deaths caused by doctors. He had to hide his identify to avoid retaliation) If a doctor really knew their patient, would these mistakes happen?

Unlike the family doctor of my youth, the current medical business is impersonal. When was the last time a doctor sent a sympathy card to a family when their patient died? If that happens, I’d like to know. When was the last time “your” doctor attended a funeral of a family member that died under their care? Does it even happen anymore?

The impersonal nature of the current medical BUSINESS means that your health and longevity needs to be important to someone and that someone is YOU! No one is going to care more about your health than you should care.

If you have a doctor that actually views you as a person, listens to you and works with you, explains the risk of what they are prescribing so you can make your own decision, you have a rare treasure. But it’s so rare, you need to learn how to take care of yourself, just like my great grandparents and great great grandparents did who lived  years longer than their off-spring, and myself who has outlived my father and his father despite a family history of serious degenerative diseases (I will talk about that in future posts).

Taking care of yourself is not complicated. It requires gathering information that will help and it is not complicated. For starters, I would recommend starting with the books of Dr. Sherry Rogers.  You can find them at NEEDS , Books by Sherry Rogers at company that also carries the health products Dr. Rogers recommends.

Dr. Rogers is about my age, if not a little older. However, earlier in her life she had massive health issues. As an MD, she had access to the best doctors and best medical resources available. But NOTHING that “modern” medicine had to offer helped and she was well on her way to dying when she was in her late 20s. Now if an MD cannot get the lifesaving help from the medical business that they need, what chance do we ordinary people have? So she did what the majority of her colleagues refuse to do, she looked elsewhere. Her series of books document her journey from almost dying to a healthy, rewarding life which is still going strong over 40 years after she was close to death. It is inspiring to know that YOU TOO can overcome life threatening health issues.

Over the next series of posts, I will tell of my health journey and recommended books that I have found helpful. There are many books out there, some good, some worthless and some with just outright bad information. I’ll share the titles of the ones that I found best.

You do not have to be sick, you do not have to die early, you can take charge of your health. You do not have to die early like your relatives. If you do get sick, there are many things you can personally do to fix it.

Is there such a thing as an incurable disease? From my personal experience and research, I would say NO! There are many experts, such as Dr. Rogers, that agree and I will be sharing those book titles over time.