Wait a minute! Does this mean all Doctors are bad?

This really sucks! About time I hit the hammer on the nail and discuss what the Health and Wellness revolution is really about. But before I proceed, my complaint about the current sad state of health and what’s wrong with the current medical system has led my colleagues wondering about stuff like how the heck you can fix a broken leg with natural and holistic methods like sleep and rest. And what about treatments like chemo and antibiotics. That is confusing indeed. Let me make the distinction here. There are two sides to modern medicine. It has made great strides in the field of surgery, operation and emergency care. When a person is involved in an accident and has suffered from critical wounds, no amount of sleep, rest and nutrition will heal the individual. Even though these actions will try to restore the individual to a healthy state the loss of nutrients and blood are occurring at too fast a rate. This is where all the innovations in medical technology such as CT Scan, MRI, ultrasound, operation theatre techniques are at the cutting edge of medical science and it is fair to say that all the investments made into this field have come to serve us for the greater good. But on the other hand we have drugs and pharmaceuticals which in my opinion have failed miserably due to the reason I mentioned earlier. For chronic and degenerative conditions there are better ways to treat patients which I will definitely discuss later. (Damn it! This blog is limited to 500 words!)

Despite my past ranting about the sad state of the medical system I will have to clarify my stance on this issue. The doctors that we come across in our everyday lives despite being part of the very system I speak against are not completely at fault. Many of them have just followed the system going through the cutthroat medical school in the hope of practicing medicine and helping people get better. There are many doctors who have the best intentions at heart. Their work should not be discredited. One of the prime examples is Dr. Deepak Chopra who is a M.D. with a medical degree. But seeing the need for a better way of healing he has branched out to alternative healing methods exploring the connection between the mind and the body. His background in the medical field through his M.D. indeed helps to understand his work better in his current field. To learn more about his work check it out at http://www.chopra.com/. He also clarifies why our healthcare problems persist and how we are looking for a change in the wrong place in the following article: http://deepakchopra.com/default/san-francisco-chronicle-why-health-care-reform-wont-reform-health-care/. This helps to shed some light on my previous post where I explain that our current healthcare industry is actually ‘the sickness industry’ and why ‘we have got it all wrong’ when it comes to healthcare. Hope this article answers some of the questions that arise from my last post. Che’s out.