Western Medicine?

Question

Why do you think we, as a collective, have not been able to conform to the practices of eastern medicine as opposed to our corrupt western ways? Really, I wonder how we can continue to accept these prescriptions to horrible DRUGS from doctors who thrive on their compensation from the DRUG DEALERS and dish them out to us as a remedy for our symptoms and not as a cure? It is truly sick! I welcome any smart-assed doctor who has a good answer!

Answer 1

In the early 1900s John D. Rockefeller somewhat took control of the AMA, and had the Flexner report be published. It basically said in scientific language that allopathy and drugs were really awesome and every other approach to medicine sucked ***. As a result of this report being trumpted by the institutions, allopathy became the mainstay of western medicine, and the other healing methods basically faded away.
Since then a number of groups have worked together to keep this status quo in place. Primarilly, the Rockefeller family (and a few other groups like that), which made and marketed all the pharmecuticals supported by allopathy, to the tune of billions upon billions of profit. Other profit lobies such as the AMA also are invested in keeping modern medicine as the tier 1 treatment method. If you ever have the chance to read a book called trust us we're experts, it effectively explains how any group worth at least 500 million has the ability to make the public believe and follow anything they want, thanks to the wonderful PR industry (of which medicine is one of the largest clients).

I know the "top" chinese medicine practiciooner in the US, and he's told me a few good stories which I believe sum up the problem;
He was invited to a seminar at harvard to speak about Chinese medicine. After getting a feel for the doctor's attitudes he said to them "well don't you think if China has had such a strong sucess rate with Chinese medicine, you should try to look into figuring out HOW it works?" He didn't really get a response and told me "honestly, no one there cared about how Chinese medicine works (the topic he was invited for), they just wanted to prove that it did not work. Honestly, they jsut seemed scared and defensive that their profession is being impinged upon."

Also, the way medical school is set up, it's extremely strongly indoctrinating. I have heard lots of stories, but my favorite came from the afformentioned Chinese Medicine guy. He had a student who was a PhD, and a very good and sucessful chinese medicine practicioner, who regularly got results. His student decided to go to medical school so he could reach and help more people. When he finished, he went back to the teacher and said "You know, having gone through medical school, I actually believe Chinese medicine does not work. Like, I practiced it, I saw it get results, but the indoctrination in medical school is so strong, that it just leaves you a world viewpoint you can't change. If I had of realized medical school would do this to me, I would have never ever signed up for it." The cognitive dissonance subsequently ripped him apart and he was never able to practice any form of medicine again.

Overall, I think that medicine becoming one of the largest for profit industries in the US (I'm very explicit here, since a lot of the problems you pose in the original question are much lesser in Europe) is what has ruined it. Alternative therapies threaten the industry, and as such they will be attacked.
While this isn't the greatest analogy, if you were a major arms dealer, and someone came along to actually bring peace to the world, would you really embrace them with open arms?

Answer 2

I believe that it is a function of society being "brainwashed" for decades into thinking that "When I'm sick, I go to the doctor, get a pill, and then I'll be better." Not understanding or caring for that matter, that what the good doctor is giving them, is going to make them sick again in a month or so. The problem isn't just big pharma, it's society as a whole, that has gotten medicine to the state that it's in. I have noticed the pendulum starting swing back the other way. As a herbal practioner, more and more people are sick and tired of being sick and tired. Chemical drugs just simply don't work, or they only work to cause problems elsewhere in the body. Drugs are being pushed through the system faster & faster because of the almighty dollar, without the proper testing of what long term ramification on health will be. But that has been the plan for a very long time, and for those of you who are hard core on "western" big pharma medicine, do a search for Codex online and read what you find there. In brief, this is a docturnation that was developed by a Nazi to help make money for big business, big government, & big pharma. It is a systematic bastardizing of our food & medicine supply to make the general public sicker, more dependant on government, dumber, and die sooner. Think about it, if people die younger, the government doesn't have to pay out social security, medicare etc, but you've been paying into it your entire working life, so who gets to keep all that money? Anyway, I could rant for a very long time over this, so look up Codex and then tell me what you think of so called Western Medicine as it is today. (Sorry this is a little scattered, but it's very early here!)

Answer 3

ask your MD "how long must a drug be on the market before you will prescribe it for your family?" the ones I have asked have said "5 years"....yet sick patients will get hte new "wonder drug" the first day FDA says ok.

western medicine is a multi-billion dollar industry. while it is true that we have some great crisis intervention methods there is nothing in the system to prevent illness. It the pharmaceutical industry cannot profit from a procedure it is dutifully dubbed "unscientific quackery" by the AMA and med schools.