Medicine’s Brighter Future
Medicine’s brighter future will be in technical advances. This is what brings medicine its prestige, not the claim that care will bring about a long and healthy life. Medicine is a mixed bag at best and depends on procedures to bring about relief not necessarily wellness. Medicines brighter future resides in each individual’s bio-chemical makeup, cell integrity, metabolic function, and personal lifestyle.
Medicine is an art, but is practiced like a science. Facing the challenges of a new and demanding environment of chronic illnesses that are emerging, the art of medicine must be built on both new hypotheses and concepts. The goal should be the emphasis based on validation of a particular framework that is sustainable.
The establishment of double bind studies has demonstrated that the studies are not reflective of long term use, or the efficiency of a modality combined with another tested substance. To minimize the failure rate of studied substances that turn out to have undocumented side effects, used solo or combined, we have to recognize that the testing is flawed. We seem to sharply criticize and not recognize a wider community of healing that reflects values that have upheld for centuries.
Promoting scientific research into the actions of certain nutrients that are available in a populations natural food supply, and then declaring that they have negative effects when isolated or chemically engineered, is not going to add to the understanding of the nutritional connection to health.
Medicine of the 21st century has got carried away with its own worth. The business acumen has turned what could be a scientific success into a travesty of errors. Finally there is going to be an audit, long overdue of the means and methods of pharmaceuticals to improve health. Manufacturing pills to enhance health is a problem with a lot of challenges; it has been emerging as a formulating technology that is froth with problems. From both the financial to the endangerment of the biological structure of man, it has been one expensive human experiment.
Medicines brighter future comes from first realizing that a pill will not enhance health. Science has come up with a variety of pharmaceuticals that for the most part have not healed our maladies. The best healing takes place when someone changes their diet, exercises, meditates, relaxes, laughs and believes.
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