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Women are cash cows for doctors. We are literally a walking hazard to the medical community. Women also worry more over our health, and give in to all sorts of unwarranted tests that men wouldn't even give a second thought to.When women reach maturity and begin engaging in sexual activities, the doctors begin giving us all sorts of hormones to control our ability to reproduce. Most of these drugs require a prescription, and are expensive. They also tamper with the internal workings of our hormone balance.
Then when women get pregnant, it's a real bonanza for doctors. Tests are given for anything and everything. Then when the woman goes into labor there is a whole cocktail of anesthetics to choose from, and if anything goes wrong of course there is the cesarean. Ralph Nadar created a whole website addressing the sheer numbers of unnecessary c-sections. He says:
"Have you heard? The c-section rate in the United States is at an all time high. One in three babies is brought into the world by surgery.
Do you care? Maybe not. Maybe not until you, your partner, your mom, your friend or your sister is told that her baby is too big for vaginal birth and is wheeled off to the operation room for a major abdominal surgery that she doesn't need.
The World Health Organization recommends no higher than a 10-15% for all nations, which is based on its 2007 study in which higher rates of morbidity were found in countries with rates below 10% and higher than 15%. This ideal rate is sometimes dismissed as arbitrary at best, yet even if the "ideal rate" were 20%, it would still amount to approximately 509,420 unnecessary surgical deliveries in the United States." http://www.theunnecesarean.com/
After going through the hazards of childbirth in this country, the baby has a bottle promptly shoved in his/her mouth.
If that were not enough, by the time women reach menopause they are convinced that they should take more medication to prevent hotflashes. A natural function ceases and suddenly it is medicalized. How many thousands of years have women gone through menopause, but suddenly it is a medical problem. So because women naturally have these problems a drug made from mare urine is prescribed. http://www.premarin.org/
Now a group of doctors here in the Northwest state the obvious that not all women need a mammogram, and the medical industry freaks out. Why should a healthy woman be exposed to radiation yearly. Why not just self-check? If she is healthy, I would think the radiation would be a hazard in itself.
