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Medical Care Today - Are Doctors Interested Only in the Money?

 

       Special note: Here again are subjects I would not volunteer to write about, largely because I have such long-standing criticism of them. However, you have requested that I comment and your requests have greater importance. Just remember that I am dependent on your continuous supply of information. I will never know who you are, but I want you to know I greatly appreciate you putting "we, the people" above loyalty to the improper conduct of your employer.

      My grandmother was the daughter of a full-blooded Cherokee. I lived with her for two years, from age 5 to 7. Her English was limited, but you could always understand what she was saying. Whenever my sister or I got ill, Grandma would always end up in the garden in her backyard with a jar. In that jar, she would gather what looked like leaves. She would then be in the kitchen doing something with the leaves, and would soon come out with a cup of liquid. We had to sip that liquid that, according to Grandma, would make us well again. Many of the stories Grandma told us included how "the medicine man made us well."

      In 1980 I made my usual visit to my health clinic, but on this day I had a new young doctor as my physician. He told me how glad he was to finally meet me, that everyone around the clinic had told him a lot of wonderful things about me, especially that I walked 60 miles a week. Im no time at all, this new doctor and I established a very solid relationship, especially when he said, "A doctor is supposed to make a sick person well. If the doctor cannot do that, he has not done his job. Then the only thing the doctor has to do is to get you off medication. Nobody should be on medication for too long a period of time."

    I do hope you can appreciate a statement like that coming from a doctor. However, when I returned to the clinic for my next visit, my new doctor friend was gone. No one at the clinic could tell me where he was or how I could contact him.

    Do we really see what doctors in general have done to professionalism in our United States in particular? They have organized themselves into bands of rip-off artists and scattered themselves in just about every influential area of our country. That means that wherever they set up office, a huge amount of money is going to be spent to house their elaborate and well-staffed mini-hospitals. We are talking about six, seven, or more of them coming together so that multiple services can be well-advertised, promoted, and practiced. And how do they finance all of that equipment, supplies, and personnel? Numbers, and a helpless cushion of Medicare. Those numbers are patients, and those doctors can take those numbers and give Medicare all kinds of fits.

     Likewise, those doctors keep those numbers, or patients, in that old familiar position of 'As You Were' - by making sure they are taking plenty of medication. No sir, don't you dare talk to those doctors about reducing those dosages - if anything, there might be an attempt to increase them. You see, these moneygulpers' first responsibility is not to get the patient well, not to get the patient off medication, but rather how big a 'payday' they can have this week or this month. Perhaps that is why we have so many sick persons, more than ever before. What a pity we cannot have more doctors like the new friend I met and then lost.

     Then there is that research into one disease or another, trying to find a cure for every illness on Planet Earth. It's rather difficult to understand who is spearheading some of that research, which might explain why some of those promotions do not add up. For instance, Robert was a member of a group of men who took the life of another man. Several years later, Robert told his girlfriend about the matter and stated that he was pleased that his participation had never bothered him. Then there was Kym, who, when she got pregnant, attempted a number of self-applied means to abort the pregnancy. Janet worked for nine years at a clinic before she began stealing funds. She continued the theft for 15 years before taking a job with a new company.

     These are all real-life experiences (although all names have been changed) and the underlying basic question is most interesting. Years later, Robert was diagnosed as having one of the illnesses being researched. Would Robert have gotten the 'assumed' research illness if he had not taken part in that killing? Kym gave birth to a son, who was born with one of those illnesses under research, according to doctors. Would that research illness have been in Kym's child had she not tried to abort her pregnancy with oral substances? Likewise, Janet's report from the doctors was that she had one of those research illnesses. Would Janet have had that illness had she not stolen those funds?

     While there are many other similar examples we could use to address the basic question, let's allow these three to be sufficient. Actually, we are talking about the human mind. In each of these cases, the mind was obviously on the scene. What has to be done is to take the mind and place it somewhere that it cannot be an influential mechanism. That is precisely what these three persons did, they put that portion of the mind 'over there' someplace, without knowing that that 'someplace' would reveal itself in a most secretive and yet profound manner. Thus, there are no cures for these illnesses simply because such supposed or diagnostic evaluations are caused by the persons themselves. Equally important is that the conscience is always going to attempt to exit free and clear. Therefore I guess it is safe to say we all have our internal problems, such as keeping the mind well-encased.

     Perhaps a more focal point should be the doctors, pharmaceutical companies and financiers who are quick to point a finger at the Creator when the human body is in some way or another born imperfect. Time would not permit us to list the numerous things people have done and will continue to do to inflict damage, pain, suffering, and death on the human body. Just let us get out of the business of placing blame on the Powers That Be. He, she, or it does not go about the business of performing sneaky attacks.

     There is another interesting comment about doctors which was made several years ago by a professional during a lecture. His subject was, "Return Professionalism to America." He stated that back in the 17th century, doctors were hunted down like bandits -- they just were not trusted. When they did rebound over a hundred years later, they reclaimed a certain respectability by charging people only if they got well. Of course, that meant no medication for a well person. Can you imagine the improved society we would enjoy if such a practice was in effect today? Or are doctors laying the foundation for a repeat of the 17th century?