The irony is that the health system has become so ineffective and dangerous that avoiding medical treatment (excluding perhaps emergency care) has become one of if not the best healthcare strategy you can implement to protect your health and well-being.
Good Medicine: Do As Much Nothing As Possible
”The delivery of good medical care is to do as much nothing as possible”
~ Samuel Shem, The House of God
Medicine is undergoing an existential crisis today. Its core value proposition – to help and not hurt — is failing to manifest. Patients are suffering. Doctors are suffering. The only exuberant party on the battlefield against disease is the pharmaceutical industry. An industry whose annual casualties far exceed the death total from our two decade long involvement in the Vietnam war.
The entire system is on the precipice of a collapse, if not for economic reasons alone, then certainly for ethical and intellectual ones. The irony is that the system has become so ineffective and dangerous that avoiding medical treatment (excluding perhaps emergency care) has become one of if not the best healthcare strategy you can implement to protect your health…
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Like yourself, I was a psychiatrist, and feel the best way to ensure your health is to stay as far away from doctors as is possible.
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Henacynflin, I first began avoiding doctors due to the extremely sexist and patronizing way they treated me. It wasn’t until around 30 years ago that I discovered they couldn’t help me with chronic illnesses and I had to find my own solution.
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“Good Medicine: Do As Much Nothing As Possible”
That is such sound advice, it ain’t even funny! Take that advice and run with it, it will save your life! A doctor is not your friend. A hospital is no place you want to be. A prescription is not what you want to take. Eat healthy, exercise and just live….without doctors and hospitals, if you can!
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Shelby, here in New Plymouth, people have especially strong motivation to avoid hospitalization due to the superbugs lurking in the drains. Too many people are dying from superbugs infections that can’t be treated.
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It’s getting to the point that everything is becoming, so irradiated and contaminated, that there will be no germs soon. Everyplace and everything on earth, will be completely sterile. Yippie! Isn’t that what all those Mr Clean Commercials and Lysol commercials were all about?
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I totally agree with this. Stay away from doctors and hospitals….. My biggest concern is the total lack of integrated thought, communication and medicine. The only way I know to combat this is to eat properly and exercise every day…and do something you love to do….Thank you Janet
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Your point about integrated thought is well taken, Janet, especially in view of recent findings that health intestinal bacteria are essential to immunity and good neurological, psychological and endocrine functioning.
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Thank you
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Clinical nihilism should be strictly taught in Medical schools and all health professionals should have it foremost in their minds when talking to people. Also beware of crooked American doctors and their lust for the buck and knife! That is where they clean-up! Dentists and root-canals. Hyterectomies, gall bladder removal, tonsilectomies, they would do lobotomies if they could
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Good point about clinical nihilism, Gloria. My medical school taught us not to take out tonsils and adenoids, but we learned nothing about nutrition and ways to help the body heal itself.
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Great post, yep the healthcare systems of many countries are so fractured and fragile that it’s hard to know where the patient even fits into the modern healthcare paradigm! Let alone how to resolve it… If you’re interested in sharing your opinions on medicine you might be interested in our International Medical Experience Survey (quick and anonymous) at: https://bit.ly/2EbqXMr
All the best!
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Thanks for sharing your survey, opinohealth. I’ll have to take a look.
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This article is a good advice and thanks for sharing.
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My pleasure, Robert.
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