Modern medicine is good. Don’t get me wrong. But it also has a lot of bad mixed up with it. There isn’t anything in the world that isn’t a mixture of both good and bad! Anyway, I am going to rattle off some ideas that come to mind about the problems in modern medicine. We have too much faith in it. As such, I am now going to focus on the negative aspects of it.

Why Pharmaceuticals?

Pharmaceuticals definitely have a place in effective medicine. But why are doctors overwhelmingly using it when compared to other means? There are lifestyle changes. There are nutraceuticals. There are other means of administering medicine beyond just swallowing a pill. The fact that our society is overwhelmed with the use of pharmaceutical drugs is evidence to the fact that the medical community is not set up to promote effective treatments, but is actually set up to promote profitable treatments. If pharmaceuticals were the most effective component in medicine, then one would expect to see them used in a disproportionate amount compared to other treatments. But we don’t just use them that much. We use them almost exclusively! That is what I find absurd.

Profitable Over Effective Treatments

Say you are a big company that is trying to make a profit (as all companies are of course). Do you want to market a product that will cure millions of some illness, and do it at a great price? You would not make much money that way. As a better option, you may prefer to market a product that cures millions, but brings in quite a pretty penny.

But we aren’t even that nice. We go a step lower.

We are predominantly making drugs that far from cure anything. They simply manage symptoms. And of course, they are expensive. Why would any company want to cure their customers of their illness? Do you know what you call a person who has to manage their symptoms lifelong?

Pharmaceutical companies call such people “renewable income”.

Honestly, I can’t think of a satisfactory number of illnesses that our society has widely accepted cures for. I refuse to believe that it is simply that difficult. We in truth are not trying to cure disease with any reasonable efficiency.

Nutraceuticals versus Pharmaceuticals

Both are important. I think nutraceuticals are far more so. But take a look around. The research dollars simply do not (and may never) go towards nutraceuticals.

Say for example you are a drug company, and you are looking to market some kind of antibiotic. Where do you start? Doesn’t it make sense to start with a natural substance that has known antibiotic properties? From there you can research ways of harnessing the effect of that substance, and methods of administration. But who has done that? Just about no one has. Instead, drug companies have gone the direction of inventing some substance from scratch. Either that, or they create a synthetic modification of a natural substance. This way they can patent it, and sell it at a high price for all of the research they spent on it.

Clinical Studies versus Clinical Experience

It is clear then, that nutraceuticals will never get the research attention they deserve from drug companies. The only way it will get controlled research is if entities are set up that have incentive to make effective treatments over profitable ones. This statement is almost oxymoronic.

For the time being however, how can nutraceuticals get any fair shot at proving their effectiveness? It isn’t through clinical studies. It has to be through clinical experience. It has to be through the individual doctors who are more progressive than the rest. It has to be through the ones who report their success with various protocols which do not get mainstream attention.

For example, I mentioned prolotherapy which in clinical practice is fairly curative of chronic pain. But there isn’t much research. Does that mean it’s not valid? Definitely not! To depend only on research, and ignore clinical experience is not rational. This is where the individual patient comes in. When we have a health problem, it is our individual responsibility to become aware of the clinical experience of doctors using various treatments. This is because there is no party which is going to gather this information for us.

Modern Medicine is the Third Leading Cause of Death

I hardly know what to say about this. We are certainly an illogical bunch if we achieve this statistic, even when the Hippocratic Oath says to do no harm! This one fact should be sufficient to rouse people to take interest in their own proactive health care.

Biased Sources of Information

Your doctor is only human. He or she may even make strong statements about the worth or worthlessness about various medical treatments, even without actually knowing. They also are human after all. So don’t think it is impossible to get mislead by a doctor.

Also consider where certain doctors get their information. They are probably reading a decent percentage of pharmaceutical company research, and went to school that taught primarily a pharmaceutical approach to medicine. And of course, pharmaceutical companies are trying to sell their products. Their information is bound to have anywhere from a little to a tremendous amount of bias.

I’ve had my share of years where I took whatever drugs the doctor gave me. Looking back, I see that they were all newly invented pharmaceuticals. Why in the world should doctors be always giving what’s new? That makes no sense to me. Why are we constantly trying to invent new things? If we found effective treatments, “new” would not be needed! Why are we giving almost no effort to evaluating old things under the light of modern science? Why not take stock of the past?

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