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My Doctor Is Always Right
Chinese (and many other countries) healers are paid to keep a person healthy. The moment a person becomes sick, the healer stops getting paid. Is this a ridiculous notion? Or does it make perfect sense that we are supposed to be proactive in our health?
Common Sen$e About The Medical Profession
What you are about to read is my personal common sense understanding of a doctor. This is purely thinking outside the box to truly understand behind the curtain. The very first thing I have to say, and I hope you understand, is that without your poor health, doctors don’t get paid, your insurance provider doesn’t get paid, and the pharmacies and their drug suppliers don’t sell, so the money dries up. If it weren’t for hurricanes on the coasts, roofers and general contractors would have much less work. If it weren’t for automobile wrecks, body shops wouldn’t exist. Many of you reading might recall the cigarette ads so prevalent in our society in the 50’s and beyond. How right was your doctor then? How right are they now? Replace nicotine with sugar, and think about this.
Doctors are Necessary
All the above said, when you have an emergency or specialized need, a doctor is your best friend. Broken bones, cuts, and sudden onset of illnesses: these are the principal reasons the medical profession came about. Without professionals who know how to tend to wounds and the like, we would absolutely suffer. Doctors read critical bloodwork, they can diagnose illnesses and can perform a myriad of surgeries. They are not bad. But if the doctor is in a rush to get you on a pill or injection, then this is the time to pause and ask the doc how you can be treated without medicine. Ask for solutions to cure the issue, not treat the symptom. If you don’t understand what’s going on, force them to stop and explain it until you’re satisfied. Remember, you’re paying them to be the professional guide in your life, and if you can’t understand based on their knowledge, then why should you have to seek more information from Dr. Internet Search?
You’re Paying for a professional
The approach to making someone else explain their position is the best thing you can do for yourself. When you spend commission money to a realtor, you expect them to perform in your interest. Same for an investment advisor. Even as simple as an auto mechanic. This last one is profound. If you don’t know where to take your car for repair, you typically seek recommendations from others. Are you going to walk up to an obese person and seek their doctor? Are you going to ask which gym they belong to? Are you going to ask someone who is broke who they get investment advice from? When you don’t have someone to ask, you pretty much blindly go to the low-hanging fruit providers: dealership repair shops, etc. But this is because you don’t know any better. You’re paying someone else to make decisions that affect your ability to live and thrive. Are you just going to blindly accept someone else’s position on the notion that it’s because you pay them? I know you’ve heard the concept of second and third opinions, so why don’t you apply that to basic ailment understandings? Ask your doctor why you’re being prescribed a statin for cholesterol. Take the time to do cholesterol research on your own, and educate yourself. Then find out if your doctor is on the same page.
Other Countries Approaches
As shown in the quote above, other countries, primarily Asian, have a different approach to medicine. Before I go any further, I’m going to throw logic at you. If we are quick to adopt the dietary intakes of another country, such as China, and remark how “Chinese people are skinny and healthy, it must be the rice and fish diets.” Or perhaps we see the Mediterranean cultural food and make remarks of Mediterranean people being seemingly healthy. If we are going to adopt thoughts like this, then why don’t we also adopt the medical approaches of those same countries? Is this a silly notion? Personally, I don’t think you can make a wide swath statement that another country’s diet is the right diet for a totally different culture. These are diets that took generations to impact the native residents. However, I do believe we could reform our own approach to healing, not symptom treating.
The Pill Pushers
If you’ve visited a United States doctor, whether a general practitioner, specialist, dentist, etc, you have likely spent time in a waiting room. While there, perhaps you have noticed the comings and goings of men and women dressed in suits, carrying or rolling briefcases, visiting the doctor “behind the magic door” long before you get to. In the waiting room, these folks are typically busied with their laptops or smartphones, furiously entering data.
They are typically reps for pharmaceutical (prescription drug) companies, waiting to push their latest and greatest drugs or surgical elements on the doctor, to in turn push it/them to you. The doctors are incentivized to move these products. How? Cruises, overseas vacations, golfing, dinners, theater and concert tickets, financial rewards, and much more. I know this for a fact as my brother spent his career doing just this while selling stents to heart surgeons. I accompanied many doctors and my brother to concerts as their guests. And he regaled me with several stories about the great things his company did for him and his clients. While you’re busy suffering your symptoms, the doctors and their staff are figuring out which med fits their needs (pockets) best to in turn get you to buy it at the pharmacy. Ask yourself how drug reps are paid so well. Ask yourself how a doctor has a closet full of samples to give you.
Percent of Americans using at least one prescription drug in the past 30 days: 48.6%
Percent of Physician office visits involving drug therapy: 68.7%
– Centers for Disease Control (CDC) 2018
Education
Without oversimplifying it, doctors are for the most part trained in similar techniques, from similar courses, using the same knowledge that has been passed down for decades. For many this is “the blind leading the blind.” The terms “medical practitioner” and “practicing medicine” are literally correct, as all doctors practice medicine based on their education and experiences. Some doctors such as the many shown in the doctors page on this site go to great lengths to educate themselves to be at the forefront of their fields. Others are just regurgitating what they’ve retained throughout their careers. The following is a loose transcript from Dr. Ken Berry regarding the topic of obesity and visiting the doctor:
…doctors see an obese person walk into their rooms, and immediately prescribe medications to control cholesterol, blood pressure, and joint pain. They will give instructions to eat fewer calories and move more. And if the patient returns a month later with no real change in weight, it’s simple enough for a doctor to say “well, the patient just isn’t taking my advice.”
Dr. Ken Berry
Again, this is just a regurgitation of what their colleagues are doing and saying.
There are gracious plenty doctors who will admit their nutritional education comprised of a few or less chapters of a book, a very short segment of their overall education, and quite often they don’t know the proper answers to give you about what is good or bad.
Now don’t get me wrong. Doctors serve a vital function. We cannot live without them. However, we can live without all the drugs and medical devices if we simply take control of our own health. This starts by paying much closer attention to the good things we put in our bodies to begin with rather than trying to control the symptoms from all the bad things we consume. As you dive deeper into the topic of what goes in, you’re going to learn some eye-opening information that is so simple, it may surprise you.
I highly recommend purchasing “Lies My Doctor Told Me,” a phenomenal book about truths and lies in the medical industry, authored by Dr. Ken Berry. The chapter on nitrates and nitrites alone is worth the price of admission, because the money you’ll save not chasing “nitrate free” foods will pay for the book. Dr. Berry is not a person who was pushed out of the medical community. Quite the opposite, he is taking his knowledge and experience to an entirely new level of honesty and bravery rarely seen in his industry. He and hundreds more doctors are realizing they’ve gotten it wrong for a very long time, and to uphold their oath to serve others, they intend to do so with a clear conscience.
My Personal Experience
I am not a doctor. I am not a medical professional with 3 letters behind my name. I am not a life coach. I am not certified. Nothing I am telling you is medical advice. By more than one person, loved ones in my circle, I was approached with the “devil’s advocate” side of this content. Let me first say, I do not hate or dislike doctors. As I said earlier, they are quite necessary if we expect to live beyond an acute illness or injury. I do not have a love for doctors or medical professionals whose only answer to your ailments is a pill.
Where do I get the privilege to say the things I have? Well, again these thoughts are condensed from many different videos, social media posts and statements, and personal knowledge, which is 52 years young as of this writing.
To anyone who wishes to challenge me about “what gives (me) the right,” I’ll begin with my stroke. My brother-in-law prevented hospital nurses and docs from administering drugs to me that would have had very serious lifelong side effects or could have potentially killed me. Over the week in the hospital, especially during the first 48hrs, my wife would text her brother, and he would immediately respond. She would then discuss what she learned with the staff who would then rethink their approach, and modify their choices based on his information. Had we blindly followed the doctor’s protocols, I may not be here today.
I’ve sat through hundreds or thousands of minutes of doctor’s office visits for myself, my family, and my friends throughout my lifetime. I’ve personally witnessed the comings and goings of pharm and med reps. I have family and friends who are pharm and med reps who will back up everything you just read.
I challenge you to take a much greater interest in your own education, rather than just blindly accepting any words, be it those found on these pages, or spoken to you by your own family, friends, and doctors. Dr. Internet Search is only going to give you so much. You will have to rely on the experiences and words of others, as well as your own personal willingness to do this, in order to be convinced.
If you know the oil level of your car’s engine, and the level of fuel in your tank, but don’t know your daily blood sugar level, A1C, or whether or not you have vitamin deficiencies, then I’d respectfully submit that you might take a greater interest in yourself. Your car can be replaced if it can’t be fixed. You, on the other hand, are a different story.
Stop here and do not continue reading any pages on this site if you think I’m a nutcase for saying everything you’ve just read. I’m serious. We are absolutely not on the same page of life if you can’t open your mind to the words above. You will not hurt my feelings for dismissing this page, my notions, or the mission of what I’m trying to help you understand through “The RVCarnivore” concept.