Are These Side Effects of Modern Medicine?
By Rob Kall OpEdNews.com
Perhaps the problems with cynical politicians and greedy corporate CEOs is a problem that will take more than business accounting legislation to solve. Maybe its a deeper problem with a very different solution.
Imagine the indigenous witch doctor, consulting with spirits, then sending a waistcloth-clad, pre-literate tribesman off into the jungle on a quest for a root here, a multicolored bird plume there, the tusk of a wild boar---all to get rid of a case of itchy skin, for example.
We spend in excess of a trillion dollars a year on our illness diagnosis and treatment model of "health" care. We send our patients off to enter CAT scan caves, on trips downtown to enter the deep mazes of hospital based outpatient diagnostic and specialty centers-- mazes so confusing they have colored lines running on the floor to save us from becoming hopelessly lost. We require our patients to drink awful tasting liquids, and then lie for hours, so they can be imaged. Then the images are divined by experts at seeing what the ordinary person cannot see.
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