Oh - I see. Your a proponent of "Big Placebo". No doubt this is where you're getting your ill-informed opinions from:
The current system teaches disease management and symptom suppression, which is insufficient to meet our healthcare needs. A reformed system needs a new paradigm that stresses health promotion and treatments that attempt to correct the underlying causes of disease
"Dr" John Neustadt.
I can't better this response:
To hear them tell it, American medicine cures nothing. It simply manages disease and suppresses symptoms. It is a measure of the astounding success of the American medical system that anyone could seriously contemplate such nonsense. American medicine cures so much disease, involving so many people, so reliably and so often that everyone takes it for granted
Evidently American Medicine doesn?t cure anything except ? tuberculosis, pneumonia, bacterial meningitis, gonorrhea, any bacterial illness you care to name. American medicine routinely cures previously deadly conditions like appendicitis, ectopic pregnancies and obstetric hemorrhage. Better yet, it can completely prevent many viral and bacterial scourges through vaccination. It?s not a coincidence that American lifespan has increased from 48 years to 77.7 years in slightly more than a century. Much of what routinely killed Americans is now routinely cured
In fact, cure is so routine that these illnesses rarely enter American consciousness. No one worries about dying from tertiary syphilis, diphtheria or rheumatic heart disease. Those diseases are routinely prevented or cured in their early stages
And ?disease management? is hardly a deficiency, either. Some diseases cannot yet be cured. Until the day that a cure is discovered, we manage those diseases. Juvenile (type I) diabetes was uniformly fatal until the discovery of insulin. Insulin doesn?t cure diabetics; it merely allows them to live an addition 50 years or more. Instead of dying in childhood, type I diabetics routinely live to have and enjoy grandchildren. Such ?disease management? is worthy of praise, not the contempt that Big Placebo attempts to heap on it.
Can we do better? Of course we can, particularly in the areas of chronic diseases caused by smoking and alcohol abuse. However, that?s a far cry from claiming that American Medicine doesn?t cure disease. That cynical and disingenuous claim should be understood for what it is, Big Placebo?s attempt to line its own pockets. Alternative health purveyors and practitioners are charlatans and quacks ? and dishonest
www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/big-placebo-says-medicine-never-cures-anything/
Grow up, Crumbled.