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| | Post New Topic | | Doctatorship - Military Thinking In Medicine | Views: 70 | | May 20, 2009 4:26 pm | | Doctatorship - Military Thinking In Medicine | # | 
Denis Gibbon | | This is an interesting read. Enjoy:
http://www.odemagazine.com/doc/63/military-medicine/
Comments appreciated.
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Private Reply to Denis Gibbon | | Jun 01, 2009 1:02 am | | re: Doctatorship - Military Thinking In Medicine | # | 
Ken Hilving | | Without a doubt, Western medicine takes a military approach.
I wonder if this is a problem with our medical practitioners, though? The military in most Western nations is subservient to another group. Their role is to execute a very specific solution, not to determine the need the need for that solution. Unfortunately, with our medical practitioners we don't have that other authority determining when their involvement is necessary. We instead put them in the role of a military dictatorship, both determining and executing policy.
Now if we reclaim our own role as that higher authority...?
Private Reply to Ken Hilving | | Jun 05, 2009 7:22 am | | re: re: Doctatorship - Military Thinking In Medicine | # |
Denis Gibbon | | In general terms in regard to internal medicine, I believe that 'Big Pharma' is calling the tune to not only the practice of internal medicine, but to medical education at the pre and post graduate levels. The medicalization of society is an on-going process which has become politically acceptable in the countries I know. Interestingly, this is happening despite the huge costs involved.
The sad part about all of this is that in general, people today are less healthy than they were 50 years ago. Unless people take responsibility for their own health, society will become progressively more unhealthy than it is now. I have absolutely no doubt about that. On the other hand the technological advances which have been made in surgery are applaudable.
On a positive note more and more people are waking up to the benefits of avoiding un-necessary pharmaceutical drugs, and are turning to alternative forms of health care such as Herbal Medicine and Homeopathy, which necessitate changes in lifestyle conducive to de-toxification and natural healing by the body itself.
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