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Medicine impending danger to the public is that it is going to take over every aspect of our lives.

Medicine

Medicine is the looming giant is our mists. There isn’t a human function that can’t be made better by a prescription. From pregnancy, ADHD, toenail fungus, erectile dysfunction, dry eye, pre-diabetes, pre-high blood pressure, pre-high cholesterol readings, behavior problems, bed wetting, pain relief, sleep aids, acid reflux, depression, addictions, constipation, and rashes.

The recent history of allopathic care is one that has evolved to define and treat everything as a medical problem. Most common conditions can be traced to lifestyle. As such are not meant to be treated as medical afflictions. The medical community is standing guard over every human function by introducing pharmaceutical solutions.

Research Into The Cost    

Researchers, let by Brandeis sociologist Peter Conrad, evaluated 12 conditions that have been medicalized by physical organizations, and for which there were medical spending data. The other conditions considered in the study were anxiety, and behavioral disorders; body image; male pattern baldness’ normal sadness, obesity, sleep disorders, and substance-related disorders.

Conrad and his colleagues analyzed medical spending on these types of problems. The payments to hospitals, pharmacies, physicians, and other health care providers, and discovered that they accounted for $77.1 billion in medical spending in 2005-3.9 percent of total domestic health care expenditures.  

 ”We spend more on these conditions than on cancer, heart disease, or public health,” said Conrad. “While medicalzation is unlikely to be a key driver of skyrocketing health care costs, $77 billion represents a substantial dollar sum.”

The Danger Of This Trend

The danger of this trend is in medicine’s growing jurisdiction.

Children can be taken away from parents and put into the states custody if the parents refuse certain treatments.

There is an increase in consumer demands for medical solutions for lifestyle generated problems. More Americans think that health is in an encapsulated, blister packed, shrink and cello wrapped substance. They want the fountain of youth coming from the latest technology. The new consumers think the right ingredients are in packaged cartons with label warnings. What’s in it  for the pharmaceutical company is unlimited opportunity to boost their bottom line. Novel approaches to health are not in a tube, pill, or formulation.

The pharmaceutical industry is expanding into the areas where they see a potential profit, and where there is the greatest opportunity for growth.

When $77 billion is considered unlikely to be a key driver of skyrocketing health care cost, than the spending is out of hand. Our dependence on a pharmaceutical solution is hands down one of the biggest threats to our physical and financial health.

The healthcare challenge is to make medicine answer to us. Engage and question the status quo, laying the groundwork to address both the success and failures of modern medicine. Right now the FDA, CDC, Pharmaceutical industry, and health insurance companies are the planetary bullies. Comply with their rules or be punished, and they have repeatedly enforced severe penalties.

They have caused distress by enforcing policies that take away our First Amendment rights, such as freedom of speech. You can’t use the word cure if you are outside the medical syndicate. Every time you comment on some procedure that is outside the standard practice you have to have a disclaimer after the informative text.

What is next, tackling you down when you don’t vaccinate your children. The practices have made victims out of citizens living in the land of freedom. With the Internet we have ways of using electronic means to support our quest for health information. We want truth in labeling on pharmaceuticals, and real solutions to health challenges.

We must turn up the heat and get beyond the Pollyanna view that health care is working for our well being.  We need an open forum where we track, analyze, and partner with our health care providers. We must take the initiative, because it will not come from the participating organizations. We need to get down to business and get out of our comfort level.

It is healthy to question a healthcare system, that has demonstrated a major disconnect from common sense solutions. The understanding that diet is the most important component to healing has seemed to have evaded the medical establishment. The one thing they have done is disabled any real reasonable dialog.

Can we hold them accountable for pitching drugs over plants? The doctor patient relationship must change. It is time that we alert them to what they have become, a ploy of both the pharmaceutical and health insurance industry. The health care challenge is to get the provider to listen to the public. Our lives depend on this.