It's usually a pill for this, an operation for that. There is no end to the ways modern medicine can make you healthier, right?

And not only that you can always count on your doctor to give you accurately reliable information, wouldn't you agree?

Well if you believe all this, you better take a closer look at what's happening in the world of conventional medicine today.

Most of you should know that the U.S. spends far more on health care in actual dollars than does any other country. Much of this is due to the constant research and development of new drugs, the deep pockets of pharmaceutical companies, the cost of malpractice insurance, managed care, and expensive government programs like Medicare and Medicaid.

Yet the U.S. ranks low among industrialized countries in both life expectancy and infant mortality. The U.S. now ranks last out of 19 countries for unnecessary deaths. Deaths that could have been avoided through timely and effective medical care.

You must ask, what's the risk of medical treatment itself, and how dangerous is conventional medicine?

Well, here are some answers to those questions:

* One-third of adults with health problems reported mistakes in their care in 2007, and rates of visits to physicians or emergency departments for adverse drug effects increased one-third between 2001 and 2004.

* Then the Center for Disease Control (CDC) reported that drug overdoses killed 33,000 people in 2005 – second only to car accidents in the category of accidental deaths – up from 20,000 in 1999, and 10,000 in 1990.

* Now understand this major increase in drug overdoses is not due to heroin or crack epidemic. These deaths are largely due to prescription drugs.

* Also in addition to accidental prescription drug overdoses, an estimated 106,000 hospitalized patients die each year from drugs, by medical standards, that are properly prescribed and properly administered.

Even though some polls have given doctors some high ratings about their honesty and ethics, do you trust you doctor because he or she has earned it?

Or, do you trust your doctor because you have been brainwashed by 50 billion dollars a year of advertising by the food and drug industry. Thus causing you to fear that you will suffer some awful fate if you don't opt for the latest pill, surgical intervention or delight in the latest "necessary" procedure?

The next time you are handed a prescription, you might want to consider some of medicines past blunders, bungles and mishaps.

Physicians and scientists often did the best they could with what they knew in their efforts to save their patients. However, many procedures had no benefits at all, yet doctors still adhered to the same practices in their hopes for finding a cure.

How has medicine's reputation survived for more than 2,000 years? Why has it been so hard to see when medicine was not working?

Doctors believed they were doing good, so patients believed in them too.

Many diseases were self-limiting, and the health improvements that doctors took credit for actually resulted from the body's natural healing processes.

For centuries, a disease was viewed merely as a disorderly condition of a particular patient, not a typical condition of many patients. It wasn't until disorders began to be categorized that standard treatments could be compared.

Doctors feared they would be seen as not doing their best for a particular patient if they prescribed a different remedy (or none at all) perpetuating bogus or ineffective treatments.

History is full of good scientific knowledge being shoved under the rug of ego-driven physicians and rigid institutions that resisted change in an effort to keep things operating in the status quo, a resistance that continues to this day.

I'm sure it will stay this way until patients realize the treatments of most conventional doctors are not working effectively.

When enough of the population starts realizing this way of treatments is not the best way to go about solving their health issues, maybe they will finally realize the best way to go is the alternative medicine way, which is safer, more reliable and less offensive to your body.

To your good health,

Sonny Julius

Sonnyj@TheSunnySenior.com

www.FreeEbook.homestead.com