RE: Autumn Visit to the Doctor's Office
I have a rather scathing view on the efficacy of Western medicine (suppose it wasn’t too hard to tell!) at least where matters of chronic ailments are concerned. With emergency care they do brilliantly, and shine dealing with methods that ought to be the last resort: highly toxic medications and invasive surgical operations.
Moreover (though I didn’t consciously allude to it in this piece) there is the troubling matter you mentioned, medicine as business. Patients begin to be seen as customers from which as much money as possible ought to be extracted. Love, unfortunately, too often exits the equation.
The pictures don’t bother me; I appreciate you sharing about the unfortunate situation in Venezuela. My heart is extended to you, my friend.
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Thanks, @d-pend. I appreciate it.
I agree with you regarding efficacy of Western medicine regarding chronic diseases. It has always been puzzling to be that with so many advances we still have cancer and other chronic illness killing people.
There is always the possibility of pharmaceutica companies stepping on the breaks of breakthroughs if that means their stopping selling their drugs.
In venezuela we had a brilliant doctor/scientist, Jacinto Convict, who recently died (age 100). Convict was the brain behind the leprocy vaccine (ironically his name is not mentioned in many sites describing the disease). Before he died he had allegedly stated that he and his collaborators at the Venezuela's National Institute of Biomedicine had found vaccines for some types of cancer. Recently there was a great deal of confusion after it was reported on a newspaper that Covit's vaccine against cancer was not only ready but available. The info was then denied by the Venezuela's National Institute of Biomedicine.
One can't help but wonder...