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Failings of Western Medicine:

"Do No Harm" - Confessions of a Heretic by Dr. M. Schlachter - If Western Medicine has a codifying theory, it is that of all the diseases that afflict man, none are really connected or related in any significant way. It assumes that each disease has a unique and specific cause, and to be "cured" a specific "drug" must be found that will remedy the particular problem. Unfortunately, the drugs identified as "cures" often have many side effects. Some, sadly enough, are detrimental or even lethal.

Is American Medicine Working?

At 14% of the Gross National Product, healthcare spending reached $1.6 trillion in 2003. Considering this enormous expenditure, we should have the best medicine in the world. We should be reversing disease, preventing disease, and doing minimal harm. However, careful and objective review shows the opposite. Because of the extraordinary narrow context of medical technology through which contemporary medicine examines the human condition, we are completely missing the full picture. Medicine is not taking into consideration the following monumentally important aspects of a healthy human organism: (a) stress and how it adversely affects the immune system and life processes; (b) insufficient exercise; (c) excessive caloric intake; (d) highly-processed and denatured foods grown in denatured and chemically-damaged soil; and (e) exposure to tens of thousands of environmental toxins. Instead of minimizing these disease-causing factors, we actually cause more illness through medical technology, diagnostic testing, overuse of medical and surgical procedures, and overuse of pharmaceutical drugs. The huge disservice of this therapeutic strategy is the result of little effort or money being appropriated for preventing disease.