Friends,
The wisdom behind getting a second opinion in any medical situation becomes more and more apparent as we explore a world of medicine quite different than the one we expect. Greed avarice and the need to make money is far outstripping most ethical practices in America today. Medicine is no exception. Examining the ethical miscarriages in government on Wall Street and in big Pharma we quickly deduce that American values have shifted in recent years in favor of personal financial progress at the expense of anything and everything including your health.
When our physical security is placed in jeopardy for whatever reason we are at war with the world around us in the sense that we cannot trust the basic medical services offered to us in the form they exist today. This is a known fact as we watch the need for financial freedom and the implied greed unfold in front of us. Charlatans to the left of us charlatans to the right of us, it is a never ending parade of ethical corruption brought on by insecurity, competition greed and a breakdown of basic morality within the culture as a whole. This breakdown affects the grocer to the politician. Businesses of every shape and size including medicine and all of its associated institutions find themselves ensnared a broken business model that conflicts with the men and women who dreamed of being excellent physicians for what they must do is don the robes of the psychopath in order to cope with the intense guilt shame and self loathing potentiated by a medical system that is utterly and completely broken. They must throw off all the emotions of guilt and shame and wrongdoing in order to function. They are encouraged to do so from the very beginning in medical school. It starts on the first day when they are presented with a cadaver which dehumanizes people and psychologically programs the first year medical students to consider themselves as part of an elite group above and superior to all of the rest of humanity. It is also the beginning of the God complex that many physicians fall prey to. It also leads to the psychopathy that is rampant in the medical world today. This is why I found the following article to be interesting. But first I'll give you an example of what to look out for from my personal experience.
My personal odyssey: It lasted two years. When my doctor diagnosed me with a raised PSA score for prostate specific antigen he gently suggested that if I did not have cancer now I would shortly develop it. He warned me that a urologist would send me down a path of surgeries and most likely undesirable outcomes. So I was stuck with his diagnosis and went from there. I knew that having biopsies taken from the prostate would only exacerbate the problem (if it existed as my doctor suggested that it might) so I turned to a natural therapy called the Gerson therapy which took two years to complete. To this day I will never know if I had cancer or not. But my decision to interrupt any process of cancer was a good call. It was right to start with the Gerson therapy because it helped eliminate any possibility or of a cancer time bomb ticking inside me but it also healed 14 other conditions that were plaguing me at the time. I don't regret the hard work that is the Gerson Therapy or taking two years to repair my body and my mid 50s but I do regret my reaction to my physicians dark diagnosis. It took five years to understand that prostate cancer is a slow-growing highly treatable disease when caught early and I probably would have been okay for some time even if I did have cancer cells to biopsy. I chose to do it the hard way. Indeed Gerson is one of the most difficult therapies in terms of time energy and participation it is not widely known that only 1 out of 20 people can or will complete the full Gerson Treatment at all. Still I am grateful I completed it as it set me up for longevity and recharged my immune system while eliminating 14 other symptoms such as GERD, allergies, and a host of other minor age and toxic-body related conditions.
Even the most well-intentioned physicians make communication and diagnostic mistakes. In my case my physician scared the living daylights out of me perhaps unintentionally by overstating the probability of my disease condition. This mistake can easily be made when doctors appointments are limited to 15 minutes of communication and treatment. The business aspect of medicine becomes the enemy at this point. Not the doctor necessarily but rather the business model truncates communication through the severe limitation of time spent with patients.
Then there are physicians who are out right unethical and that is what the following article covers. Be extremely careful when choosing a physician in the first place. Insist on thorough and complete explanations of your condition or diagnosis, and always always always get a second opinion from similar MDs and also from holistic or natural-paths. No one cares about around your stance your health as well as you do. Trust your intuition.
Enjoy the following article.
