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My step dad just had a heart transplant. "Modern Medicine" is an amazing success, however...
I am inclined to agree with the overall premis here. "Modern Medicine" has become dependent on
"Modern Pharmacology" and that has been a detrement to many.
Books will be written on this topic by others more knowledgeable than I, so I'll leave my opinion
with this...
In hindsight, I believe we'll find that "Modern Medicine" was responsible for more deaths than
actual diseases. |
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Health should mean much more than medicine. Wellbeing is a combination of different factors for
instance what we eat and drink. Attitude confidence and self worth are far more important than
medicine. |
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We can cure a huge number of new diseases now. 100 years ago we had no antibiotics, that means no
cure to smallpox, polio. We had no blood thinners or similar, no cure for strokes or heart disease
(the no 1 killer in the UK). What about things like diabetes, 100 years ago they had no insulin.
Even things like cancer which were curable back then, survival rates now are hugely higher. The
facts are clear, modern medicine saves lives which in the past would have been lost. |
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I'm not defending modern medicine so much as attacking your historic medicine approach. At NO TIME
in the past did medicine have better odds of beating our major diseases than at the present time.
Even the handful of natural medicines cultures used back then were no match for our modern quantity
and quality of choices and technologies. That's largely why the life expectancy back in the days
you refer to ranged from 40 to 50 years while in modern times it's 60 to 80 years. And many of the
natural medicines had side effects and drawbacks too as well as inconsistent dosing. I know a
family from Colombia who speaks about a natural herb they knew which would stop menstrual bleeding.
OK fine. But it also turned out this herb made the same women sterile. Basically it was a toxin.
That's the type of thing you got back in the old days of folk medicine, leaches, blood letting,
etc., you got people who claimed to know what they were doing yet who really had no knowledge of how
the herbs they prescribed took effect in the body. For every one miracle drug or herb with no side
effect there were 50 more that were downright dangerous in the wrong hands. |
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08 Sep 2008 21:53
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