Here’s an interesting article which makes 20 points suggesting that we have a serious problem with drug based Medicine.
Just to keep this nice and simple and direct, let me just pick ONE –
The CDC says that spending on prescription drugs more than doubled between 1999 and 2008
Just take a moment to ponder that one….in NINE years, yes, just less than a single decade, the amount the US spent on prescription drugs more that DOUBLED! What on earth does that mean? Have twice as many problems been cured? Are twice as many people healthier? Has this spending peaked? Is it on the way down now?
What kind of way is this to practice Medicine?
Heroes Not Zombies 
Reblogged this on Lorraine Cleaver.
As a pharmacist this has been a very difficult issue for me – whether to keep working in this business or not because I see the point in teaching patients how to heal themselves rather than giving them a pill to suppress their symptoms. As long as doctors are paid for seeing ill people, they will profit from disease, same as pharma business. The whole paradigm of health care needs to change, doctors need to become “healing facilitators” and people need to wake up to their potential for managing their health and emotions. I wish I could be involved in that kind of business.