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The future of medicine is unfortunately in the hands of Big Pharma; it’s got nothing to do with patients anymore or even doctors for that matter.
I think most doctors, when they go into medicine, want to keep their patients healthy. But what they end up doing, after years of studying drugs, is become drug pushers. They learn little to nothing about preventing or curing disease. And as I’ve constantly complained, there is nothing in medical school about the nutrients we require in order to stay healthy and not succumb to nutrient-deficiency-diseases that land us in the middle of a polypharmacy nightmare.
What is medicine doing about this crisis? Nothing. It continues to turn a blind eye to the over prescribing of drugs and ignores the need for well-absorbed nutrient supplements in favor of more technology.
It’s gotten to the point in medicine that you will rarely be examined by a doctor. A friend recently had a follow up mammogram for breast tissue calcification, which I thought was from an old injury and too much calcium in the diet including calcium supplements. I asked what the physical examination found. And, no surprise, there had been no physical exam, none scheduled or even mentioned.
I’ve told the story before of another friend who went to a doctor about a skin lesion. The doctor never moved from her desk but said a technician would take a picture of the lesion and send it to the dermatologist, who would determine the course of action. You might ask how a 2-D picture would give a better diagnosis than a trained doctor palpating the lesion and offering that description to the dermatologist. But technology wins the day and will continue to supersede the 7-11 years of medical training that doctors are forced to endure as they carry their half-million-dollar debt into their first medical practice.
I can get a bit hysterical about 7-minute appointments; HMOs determining how patients are treated; the high doctor suicide and drop out rate because they have no job satisfaction; and all-in-all, I have to conclude that the medicine we would like to see is dead.
The future of medicine is unfortunately in the hands of Big Pharma; it’s got nothing to do with patients anymore or even doctors for that matter.
I think most doctors, when they go into medicine, want to keep their patients healthy. But what they end up doing, after years of studying drugs, is become drug pushers. They learn little to nothing about preventing or curing disease. And as I’ve constantly complained, there is nothing in medical school about the nutrients we require in order to stay healthy and not succumb to nutrient-deficiency-diseases that land us in the middle of a polypharmacy nightmare.
What is medicine doing about this crisis? Nothing. It continues to turn a blind eye to the over prescribing of drugs and ignores the need for well-absorbed nutrient supplements in favor of more technology.
It’s gotten to the point in medicine that you will rarely be examined by a doctor. A friend recently had a follow up mammogram for breast tissue calcification, which I thought was from an old injury and too much calcium in the diet including calcium supplements. I asked what the physical examination found. And, no surprise, there had been no physical exam, none scheduled or even mentioned.
I’ve told the story before of another friend who went to a doctor about a skin lesion. The doctor never moved from her desk but said a technician would take a picture of the lesion and send it to the dermatologist, who would determine the course of action. You might ask how a 2-D picture would give a better diagnosis than a trained doctor palpating the lesion and offering that description to the dermatologist. But technology wins the day and will continue to supersede the 7-11 years of medical training that doctors are forced to endure as they carry their half-million-dollar debt into their first medical practice.
I can get a bit hysterical about 7-minute appointments; HMOs determining how patients are treated; the high doctor suicide and drop out rate because they have no job satisfaction; and all-in-all, I have to conclude that the medicine we would like to see is dead.
