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"Let us have a closer look at our western conventional medical care system and its history to understand how it developed into what it is today. 6 | CONVENTIONAL MEDICAL CARE If the doctors of today do not become the nutritionists of tomorrow;.... the nutritionists of today will become the doctors of tomorrow. Rockefeller Institute of Medical Research HEALTHCARE OR DISEASE CARE? Conventional medical care treats symptoms of disease. True healthcare works to correct the causes of disease. And, although the present allopathic system is often referred to as "traditional medicine," it is not." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"Whitaker: "My motivation has always been to give the patients who come to my clinic the best possible medical care possible. That's the only motivation that I have. I am not motivated to punish the drug industry. I am not motivated to reward the nutritional supplement industry. I am motivated to give my patients the best possible medical care. If the condition is angina and the best care is not bypass surgery but a nonsurgical approach that includes diet, supplements and a gradually increasing exercise program, that's what I am going to recommend." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"However, insurance companies are very reluctant to pay for this kind of medical care, even though many times specialists in environmental medicine can see patients and relieve symptoms that haven't been helped by all the other medical specialists. They pay for medical care that does not help and don't pay for care that does help. We must ask why. Insurance companies say environmental medicine is experimental and anecdotal." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"Throughout her treatments, she was fully informed, knew the facts, and was able to make well-crafted decisions about her medical care and her life as a whole. ERICA, FOUR YEARS LATER "Ironically, having cancer has improved my quality of life," says Erica, looking back on her experience. "I didn't have the choice about cancer, but I had a choice about everything else. In hindsight, the Brilliant Health model was always there, particularly at the bleakest times. I used the language a lot. I'd say to my husband, 'Troy, would you help me Recast?,' 'What's my Intention?," - Rick Foster, Greg Hicks, M.D., Jen Seda, Choosing Brilliant Health: 9 Choices That Redefine What It Takes to Create Lifelong Vitality and Well-Being (Get the book.)

"Since the nuns in what is known as the Nun Study were all eating the same food, were nonsmokers, drank little if any alcohol, lived in similar housing, held similar jobs, were receiving the same medical care, and had the same socioeconomic status, the differences were all the more striking. The healthiest nuns were those whose writing showed a clear sense of humor and ability to adapt to life's stressors—including the normal health challenges that can accompany aging. Researchers suspect that these nuns didn't live longer, healthier lives because they were never stressed." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.) "Likewise, research institutes that have long specialized in conventional, Westernized medical care are starting to investigate whether plant extracts and herbal preparations may yield promising results for patients. The Mayo Clinic, for instance, recently announced that they are decoding—using "sophisticated data mining techniques"—ancient, historical herbal texts to help develop potential new drugs for the future. Using nontraditional, ancient medical information taken from seventeenth-century texts, they have pinpointed certain herbal extracts to be "invaluable sources of healing agents." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.) "I want to get home to medical care I know we can count on," she told him. With Jan's eyes locked on the crimson line to make sure it wasn't progressing, they headed home. Eight hours later Jan Pankey lay prone on a gurney inside the Albuquerque Regional Medical Center ER in severe pain, breathing through an oxygen mask while a technician performed a scan of her chest. Jan watched from across the X-ray room as the picture of her lungs began to register on the machine. She didn't have her glasses on, but even so she could see the clots as they appeared on the scan." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.) "And nowhere was such a preventable and heartrending scenario more likely to occur than in the economically underprivileged African-American neighborhood of East Ferry in Buffalo, where few could afford regular preventative medical visits, quality medical care, and diagnostic tests for an emerging illness, much less the necessary interventions and medications for treatment. Not long after Karen's death, her thirteen-year-old next-door neighbor, Devonne,* who lived at 426 Moselle, came into the store looking exhausted and depressed." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"For many patients, especially those who have learned to bring a consumerist sensibility to their medical care, situations like this can produce a sense of helplessness, even betrayal. Some patients may choose to give up, but others choose to get mad. What happens then? What do they do? To what or to whom do they turn? Conceptual shortcomings and therapeutic shortcomings—these would seem to be serious enough perceived deficiencies in the edifice of physicalist modern medicine. But there is one other that still bears noting: an existential deficiency." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.)

"While our grandparents and great-grandparents' medical care was relatively primitive compared to the care available today, and while their vulnerability to infectious diseases made them less healthy than you in many ways, the quality of their diet and their physical activity levels were often far more health promoting than yours. I want you to think about this confluence of too much food and too little activity to help you appreciate why it can be difficult to lose weight. It's not about "willpower"—it's about outsmarting a culture that's trying to bulk you up." - Wendy Bazilian, DRPH, MA, RD, Steven Pratt, MD, Kathy Matthews, Superfoods Rx Diet: Lose Weight with the Power of SuperNutrients (Get the book.)

"Most important, perhaps, he offered a now-receptive medical profession an opportunity to do the same kind of thing that Charcot, eighty years earlier, had proposed should happen: to claim for itself the world of religious healing and faith that otherwise kept tempting patients away from sensible medical care; and to do so by subjecting the claims made by faith to the sober light of scientific investigation." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.)

"In addition to the mental disorder and the psychiatric-drug intoxication, her behavior was also adversely influenced by inadequate medical care, by a history of family abuse, specifically excessive physical punishment and conflict, and by severe emotional, physical, and sexual abuse at the hands of the boy she tried to shoot. Notice my use of the phrase "reasonable degree of medical certainty." The law recognizes that the profession of medicine rarely achieves absolute certainty about anything. As I described earlier, what's usually required of an expert is a "reasonable degree" of conviction." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"As it turned out there were many things: "The high quality of my doctor; that I can afford good insurance; that I have access to excellent medical care; the modern equipment in the room; the fact that, if I had cancer, it would likely be an 'early catch'; my loving support system who would be there for me unconditionally." By the time the doctor strolled in, Rick was much more present, calm, cool, and collected. The news was good, and with his wits about him, he was able to hear the diagnosis and ask intelligent questions about managing his health as he moved forward." - Rick Foster, Greg Hicks, M.D., Jen Seda, Choosing Brilliant Health: 9 Choices That Redefine What It Takes to Create Lifelong Vitality and Well-Being (Get the book.)

"In addition to the anguish of personal failure, a further harm to such patients is that they may come to see medical care as largely irrelevant. . . and give themselves over completely to some method of thought control.66 In 1985, when Angell was writing, she probably spoke less for a community of disappointed patients and more for a community of mainstream oncologists and other cancer workers, many of whom now felt besieged and undermined by the strength of the popular trend toward mind-body thinking about cancer." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.)

"A study in the October 2005 Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics showed that when it comes to lower back pain, chiropractic care provided significantly better outcomes than standard medical care. Patients with chronic lower back pain who underwent chiropractic treatment had higher levels of satisfaction with the care, lower disability scores, and higher pain relief than those who underwent medical treatment. To top it off, chiropractic care was more cost effective overall. If you've never experienced bad back pain, you're one of the lucky ones." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"A medical authority noted at the time that, "With the proper medical care, this troublesome practice that many Negroes have of running away can be almost entirely prevented." This same pathologizing can apply to many ADHD kids, who would have once merely been labeled as daydreamers, bundles of energy, class clowns, characters, fireballs, absentminded eggheads... or just plain boys. This doesn't mean, though, that most ADHD symptoms are generally something to celebrate. More often than not, in most kids, the negative symptoms cause alienation, confusion, distress, and a failure to achieve." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"During these years, its public image was of a rather secretive organization that allegedly encouraged parents to deny their children essential medical care.23 More recently, as its membership has declined, it has attempted to become more relevant to modern concerns; and under the leadership of Chairman Virginia Harris, it worked in particular to develop a public image as a radical voice for the power of mind-body healing." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.)

"The illusion that newer is better and consumer autonomy is more important than a relationship with a trusted physician is leading to medical care that is often less effective and, at the same time, more expensive. Mr. Black's Celebrex cost about $90 per month, while offering little if any advantage over drugs that cost one-third to one-seventh as much (as we'll see in Chapter 3). In contrast, the four medications that kept Sister Marguerite alive for seven years cost a total of $38 per month at today's prices." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"One of the few upsides to depression is that it may cause patients with illnesses like FM to seek medical care. Whenever I diagnose depression in one of my patients, I explain that having depression on top of CFS, FM, or IBS is like turning up the stove under a pot: everything gets hotter. The symptoms of fatigue and pain increase, while the patient's ability to cope with them in the face of other daily demands decreases. So an important component of my evaluation is to consider the possibility of depression." - Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.) "Up to 20 percent of all patients who seek medical care, primarily women, have no easily diagnosed cause for their problems. That means literally millions of patients. I know, because more than two thousand of them have come to me when their doctors, and any number of specialists, haven't been able to come up with a diagnosis and treatment plan to reduce symptoms and improve wellness. This problem is a major women's health issue. You may be striving to live a successful life in spite of your symptoms but are having difficulty doing so." - Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.)

"Hospitals, still in the late nineteenth century regarded by many as places of last resort in medical care (and thus serving mainly the poor), became the central institution of medical practice and education, and prominent research sites. But medical research found a home too in industry, in universities, and in governmental organizations of various types, ranging from public health laboratories to military installations. The twentieth century also witnessed the rise of third-party payers and, particularly in Western Europe, national health services." - Roberta Bivins, Alternative Medicine?: A History (Get the book.)

"Somatization disorder (SD) is a psychiatric diagnosis usually applied to women who seek medical care for a host of physical complaints, starting before the age of thirty. A psychiatrist whose thirty-two-year-old female patient reports having had many years of bad headaches, stomachaches, frequent flu infections, and a feeling of lightheadedness would probably make the diagnosis of SD. In fact, this woman's symptoms would fulfill the official definition for SD." - Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.)

"The time had come to get serious about seeking medical care. Over the next several years, Harry made the rounds of physicians and specialists, but he was never given a definitive diagnosis, and none of the treatments or pharmaceuticals he was given helped for very long. At one point, his doctors thought he might have pancreatic cancer, but, thankfully, he didn't. No one seemed to know how to help him, and the continual cycle of hope and disappointment was among the greatest frustrations of this period." - Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey, Decoding the Human Body-Field: The New Science of Information as Medicine (Get the book.)

"In the United States, musculoskeletal conditions cost up to $254 billion per year in medical care and loss. ¦S According to the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons, about four million people in the United States seek medical care each year for shoulder sprain, strain, dislocation or other related problems. Superfoods for Ligaments, Joints and Bones Chickpeas (aka garbanzo beans) Why: Chickpeas are an excellent source of bone-building nutrients. A !" - Jan Lovejoy, Get Balanced-the Natural Way to Better Health with Superfoods (Get the book.)

"As fragile as her health was, Sister Marguerite continued to live quite happily—albeit receiving more frequent medical care than she would have preferred—for seven years after the emergency room visit that originally brought us together. One day, the nurse at the convent called to tell me that Sister Marguerite had died and to ask if I would come to "pronounce" her, a last rite of the medical sort. I found Sister Marguerite in her recliner, ashen and still. The nurse and one of her closest friends were already there, and soon others arrived." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"For socially minded psychiatrists, letting the patients into the community was an act of liberation from the oppression of institution and the hierarchies of medical care. For their part, state governments were only too happy to divest themselves of the expense of running massive networks of long-term care facilities. For all the high expectations and lofty rhetoric, the reality was that the effectiveness of the drugs was overestimated and the necessity of appropriate community support for patients was underestimated or ignored. The goal of John F." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"More than anything else in medical training, doctors are taught that good medical care is based upon a foundation of scientific evidence. I can remember well as a medical student, intern, and resident the daily exchange of photocopied journal articles as we went from patient to patient on hospital rounds. The latest articles from respected journals were accepted as the undisputed authority, defining good medicine and defending the decisions that had been made." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"A ten-year study of heart disease mortality published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 1998 strongly suggests that most of the decline in deaths from heart disease is due not to changes in lifestyle, such as diet, but to improvements in medical care. (Though cessation of smoking has been important.) For while during the period under analysis, heart attack deaths declined substantially, hospital admissions for heart attack did not." - Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Get the book.)

"Most women who have symptoms do not seek medical care but instead self-treat, making this an ideal arena for natural self-care. Some 150 symptoms have been ascribed to PMS—most commonly feelings of anxiousness (premenstrual tension was the first name given to this syndrome), irritability, and anger or moods vacillating unpredictably among the three. Some women feel predominantly sad or self-deprecating, others simply fatigued and lethargic. Physical changes include bloating, breast tenderness, food cravings, headache, and gastric upset." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.) "Among women self-presenting to PMS clinics for medical care, fully 75 percent had another diagnosis that contributed significantly to their symptoms—major depressive or other mood disorders being most prominent.6 About 10 percent had early menopausal symptoms, 10 percent were affected by hormonal contraceptives, and about 5 percent each were found to have eating disorders or substance abuse issues predominating. Anyone who considers her PMS to be significantly bothersome might be wise to check with her practitioner should her efforts with self-care fail." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

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