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Conventional medicine is, in my opinion,
a mirror of society, representing in its practice, more than
any other profession, the mechanistic and technological aspects
of society. It also mirrors the repressive, authoritarian, restrictive
conditioning aspects of society. This is because there is a
mutual conspiracy between doctor and client in that the patients
expect to be told what to do. They see themselves as having
no part of play in the therapy and see the illness as separate
from them. In this conspiracy, ethical and legal responsibility
is placed on the doctor to cure.
Illness, diseased organs and systems
are treated without regard to the patient who wants instant
cures, like he wants instant food. Treatments are mainly allopathic
- with experiments made often on live animals to prove the efficacy
of modern drugs. Despite the so-called proof of efficacy, a
certain percentage of hospital beds are consistently peopled
with individuals with iatrogenic illness (illness caused by
the drugs themselves). 16% of patients who are treated in hospitals
either come out worse or are deceased due to medical mismanagement.
Despite the glaring inadequacies of the biomedical system, governments
refuse to do anything about it. In fact in the United States,
the cost of medical care is so huge - it is almost unmanageable.
The pharmaceutical industry is a huge
commercial institution - very profitable to governments. Tranquilizers
and sedatives are the most abused drugs and also I would add,
antibiotics. We still do not know the long term effects of the
use of antibiotics - particularly on the immune system of the
body. The G.P.'s are the unpaid servants of the pharmaceutical
industry. In the western world apart from the United States,
their pay is insufficient to give them the opportunity to spend
time on preventative medicine.
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