The Good And Bad Of Alternative VS. Conventional Treatment
In the present United States, if you want care or therapy for a illness or disease you still have one of two choices to pursue and that is conventional or alternative treatment. The first important factor to weigh is to understand the differences between the 2.
Conventional medicine has some pros and cons. It offers the finest medicine in surgeries or trauma care but in the treatment of immune associated conditions it relies deeply on prescribing drugs and recommending invasive medical procedures. Conventional tends to aim at treating symptoms, not the underlying causes (repeat drug sales). It treats the human body in parts, not as a whole. The shaped thinking of conventional medical doctors is based upon using “rescue medicine,” not finding therapy and prevention alternatives for illnesses and disease and included in all of this, Medical schools are set up by organ specific departments that don’t share any type of association with one another.
On the other hand, alternative medicine is not only prevention-based but also approaches medical therapy by focusing primarily on hands-on measures, fundamentally it treats the condition, not the symptoms. In doing so, its objective is to target the totality body which is really more price effective.
The growing number of persons turning to alternative therapies is rapidly growing and is becoming more and more the preferred form of medical therapy among Americans. This is a good thing in view of where health care in the U.S. could be heading. If healthcare becomes nationalized we will all have a value placed on us as to where we stand in the line.
Did you know that 1 out of every 3 Americans uses some type of alternative medicine? Between 1990 and 1997 there was nearly a 50 % increase in visits to alternative practitioners. Who wants a drug that treats a symptom that not only comes with a list of possible side effects that you do not want any part of, but there is an excellent possibility you can’t take the drug because your on some other prescribed drug(s) that are not compatible.
People are starting to choose alternative therapies as a type of treatment, and you may be asking yourself the big question, “Why don’t more conventional physicians recommend alternative medicine?”
Owing to pharmaceutical associations, with all the money that is involved there is no looking back. Don’t be shocked about this because the driving force behind the ongoing growth of conventional medicine has been the pharmaceutical industry, embraced by both doctors and pharmacists, who calculate their worth through treating problems by prescribing medications.
Schools of medicine are immensely funded by pharmaceutical companies so this industry has a hugely vested interest in the marketing of their medicines. A company that is the top producer of prescription drugs offers scholarships and grants to medical schools so these two entities are connected at the hip.
Ever observe how many drug commercials consumers are exposed to? The mass media is about making capital just like the pharmaceutical industy and those ads must be making profit for the media and visa-versa. Over the past few yrs. mass media commercials for drugs have exploded. Multi-billions are exhausted on advertisements for prescription drugs and consumers do listen and make inquiries with their doctor on particular drugs they saw or heard in an ad.
As you might deduce, backing conventional medicine towers over the backing allotted alternative medicine to the tune of $12 billion to the National Institutes of Health to only about $5.5 million to the Office of Alternative Medicine to investigate claims of various therapies.
The consequences for almost the barefaced disregard of alternative medicine research results in preventing important research projects, it has negative effects on the research infrastructure and it does not attract the highly-skilled scientists to enter the field for various reasons, ironically one being the complaint that alternative medicine lacks the scientific research to sustain their practices.
Conventional has come a long way and people still come to the U.S. due to the medical technology which is second to none, but it has it’s flaws and it does not discount that it is profit driven by big pharma and its influence. People are becoming more and more aware of this so we see a growth in the public turning to alternative methods for therapy.
Don’t look for the drug industry controlled mainstream medical industry to show much empathy any time soon. There is too much cash involved. Considering the state of affairs on health care in America with the present administration, now more than ever it is up to us to be hands-on in taking care of ourselves and check out what is available alternatively in the areas of prevention and therapy of illness and disease.
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