Preventive medicine isn't part of a physician's everyday routine, which is spent dispensing drugs and performing surgery.
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Alternative medicine plays into this exaggerated notion that you can prevent disease simply by doing the right thing.
The best doctors and medicine in the world can't save you if you don't do what you're supposed to do.
Insurance companies pay big bucks for procedures but next to nothing for patient consultations and preventive medicine, which is what most medicine is.
If insurance companies paid for lifestyle-management classes, they would save huge sums of money. We need to see that alternative medicine is now mainstream.
There are many types of preventive health care services that are covered, things like blood pressure medication, for example. And women are merely asking that their health be taken just as seriously.
I don't want to suggest that controlling pharmaceutical costs is the answer to what ails the U.S. health care system. It isn't.
The vast majority of doctors really do try to take the money out of their minds. But to provide the best possible care requires using resources in a way that keeps you viable but improves the quality of care.
One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.
The first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.
Think about it: Heart disease and diabetes, which account for more deaths in the U.S. and worldwide than everything else combined, are completely preventable by making comprehensive lifestyle changes. Without drugs or surgery.