It all started when I was growing up. From a young age I saw sick people all around me, because my Mother was a doctor. She would treat people using drugs, surgery and other medical treatments. But as the years passed, I saw her losing faith in her field. She would mention to me how she wished there was another way she could help her patients achieve health instead of only prescribing drugs and surgery every day. I could see she felt as if her career was futile. She said doctors are not here to cure, only treat. She said this to me in passing years ago, but I only fully understood what she meant in my last year of medical school. One day I was doing my rounds at my local Hospital, checking charts, asking patients how they felt, checking for any possible drug interactions, etc... then I found myself standing over a patient that just died. She was only 14 years old. She had cancer and was given the typical chemo/radiation, but she was gone before the first treatment was over, because her immune system was already almost non-existed from a decade of poking, probing, drugs and surgery. Her family was over in the corner sobbing. I could tell this young girl was very beautiful, even after all she had been through. Her family must have been very wealthy to afford the special care their daughter was receiving. But even with all their money, connections and influence, it didn't add 1 day of life to their precious daughter. How could this be I thought -- could treatments be killing the patient faster than the disease? If yes, does that mean doing nothing and refusing all treatments gives you a longer life than doing any 'aggressive treatments'? After I asked myself these questions, I immediately recalled what my mother said in passing to me those years ago. Could she be right? Could the treatments be speeding up death? Could our eagerness to prolong life be causing life to end too soon? I had so many questions, but knew I could not ask any other doctors these questions for fear I would be kicked out of the program. You see, I have heard of others being kicked out for even questioning the viability of treatments, so asking anyone these questions would surely get me kicked out quickly, especially questions such as these.
How could I continue my medical training knowing the treatments speed up death? How can I justify the years, all the student loans and the sacrifices I made to get this far? What should I do? I pondered about all this for the next year, well into my last year. I woke up one day and simply decided not to go in. After an hour or so passed my phone started to ring every few minutes, then almost every few seconds, then everything stopped. What was I supposed to do? graduate, get my license and after diagnosing new patients with disease, tell each one you're better off doing nothing than start any treatments? I would lose my license, bring more shame to my family and probably get prosecuted for whatever reason. I mean ignoring treatments as an MD can get you not only thrown out of the medical community but get you thrown in jail, too. The entire medical industry relies on Judges, DAs and the police to regulate anyone not following their protocols...even if it kills people. Now I must figure out how to break the news to my family, especially my mother who was so proud to see her son walking in her footsteps. I wondered if she knew her comment in passing many years ago to me actually left a question in my mind that never went away. That unrelenting question was, "are treatments futile?" This question influenced every class I ever took after that, every treatment I ever heard about, every logic I ever developed. I compared everything I learned from that moment on to that question. I guess in a way that question made me question if what I am doing is futile, too. I went to medical school to help people, to help heal them, not help hurt them. All doctors take the Hippocratic Oath when they complete their training and this oath requires a physician to never do any harm to their patients, but if treatments speed up death, doesn't this harm patients? Of course it does. Why can't others see this? Are they too naive to see or do they just not care enough to see? It must be true that doctors, hospitals, drug makers and insurance providers all rely on the sick and dying to fund everything they do and everything they don't do. Without the sick, none of them would have a job, millions would lose their salaries; doctors, hospitals, drug makers and insurance providers would all go bankrupt, because no one in their right mind would ever spend a dime on any treatment that can speed up their death. Would you? Neither would I.
But now that I had received the medical perspective all my life, it was now time to get that unrelenting question answered once and for all, without any school or any person influencing me in any way. I read countless alternative health books and researched on my own by volunteering at clinics around the world gathering new perspectives and new alternative treatments, too. I asked a lot of questions to natural doctors, holistic nutritionists, especially those branded as quacks by the medical community, because I needed to get that unrelenting question answered or I would forever be searching and probably couldn't have a life; I didn't have a life. All I did was search and research outside the box every day. I was impressed with myself actually just how much information I was able to remember and apply quickly to help those around me who needed help. Some families started calling me the "Natural Health Man!" and I'm still called that decades later. But I just call myself theHealthFoodGuru. Oh, and yes, I finally did get that unrelenting question answered -- the answer was right in front of me the whole time, but because I was trained to assume everything was difficult and complicated, I was preventing myself from seeing it. So, after decades of thoroughly researching both medical treatments and alternative treatments, the most success I ever had helping people heal themselves was from the very thing our body requires to stay alive -- FOOD. No treatment I have ever seen comes anywhere close to really healthy food and eating it every day. To make life easier for everyone wanting to heal themselves faster, I bottled this wonderfully healthy food for everyone to finally regain at least some of their health back. You don't even need to diet anymore.
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