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Johnnie Said:

Why do we endure all the suffering and chronic pain of life?(only intelligent answers please) ?

We Answered:

All we can do is play the cards dealt us.

Oscar Said:

What is the most prevalent childhood disease?

We Answered:

I would say Childhood Leukemia.

Joe Said:

Would you support a federal health care plan that covered chronic and catastrophic illnesses?

We Answered:

For a national health care program to be truly viable, I feel that it would have to be all-inclusive. The Govt would have to actually nationalize the entire industry as well. Anything less than that would only be adding another middle-man/more bureaucracy to the process.
The catch? A whole lot of people are gonna be making a lot less money for what they do. Insurance companies would lose a lot of business,(I could care less about that).

Michele Said:

can someone help me on my speech which is due on Saturday?? pleasee...?

We Answered:

That's a lot of words up there. Kelly's right, print it out, stand up and read it...time yourself. You'll be surprised. And careful--obesity is a risky topic...lets say there's a 300 lb person in the audience. How is he going to feel?
Also, this isn't an outline. It reads like the speech. How do you plan on saying "go to http://www.nhlbisupport.com/bmi/bminojs.… are you actually going to read all those letters? Are you going to mention McDonalds by name? What if there's a local big shot from McDonalds in the audience? What if he is sponsoring the luncheon at which you are speaking? Oops, big blush.

Loretta Said:

Is medical science losing the war against chronic illness?

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Each person that becomes a doctor in today's world has to take an oath called the Hippocratic Oath. Some have said that the, "first, do no harm" is part of that oath, but in fact it isn't. What is in that oath that most doctors, especially the ones here seem to forget they pledged is, "I will prevent disease whenever I can, for prevention is preferable to cure."

In regard to a doctor living up to that oath in today's world, I do not see that happening. I see constant critical remarks levied at any practitioner that is dedicated to prevention of disease and great support of "cures" being supported by the use of drugs and surgery. In 1905, the CDC ( a generally respected organization of the medical industry I'm assuming ) reported that less than 5% of ALL Americans were chronically ill. Today, the same CDC reported in 2005, that more than 53% of ALL Americans were chronically ill. Do we blame the medical industry for all this? I cannot say the medical industry caused all this mess and looking at the statistics it appears that sense the medical industry has taken on the elite position of our great healers, they have failed us somehow. Whether it is warning us of the cause or not addressing the correct way to change the problem is up for debate.

It is clear to me that modern medicine is responsible for many of the diseases and illnesses we are now facing, along with the food and agricultural industries in this country. I know the medical people know of drugs that have caused huge problems for people because I have several medical doctor friends that I regularly discuss these issues with. Doctors are victims of indoctrination and I know practitioners in the natural health field that are not doing good jobs as a result of a different type of indoctrination.

I've seen some very good things come from modern medicine, but to defend it like it was not causing huge numbers of people to suffer and even die is to be naive.

I do not see where doctors of today are following their oath they gave to become a doctor of the prevention of disease whenever they can, and I do not believe they meant it when they gave the oath that said "for prevention is preferable to cure."

All I hear from the medical community is to "eat a balanced diet and follow a good lifestyle." I've yet to hear anyone of them here tell us what a balanced diet is or what is a good lifestyle.

You can argue statistics, but any of those who have any education here knows, that statistics can be manipulated most anyway you want them to be. The breast cancer statistic is based on a 5 year survival rate, yet I know personally several women who died a few months after 5 years that were supposedly cured, and then died of cancer. Statistically, they were cured, but got the booby prize. No pun intended. 1 in 7 women are getting breast cancer. Focusing on the cure instead of the prevention is contrary to the oath guys.

I know from people I see each day that the medical community is failing lots of people, drug companies are getting very powerful, and the chronically ill are increasing at an alarming rate, while medical people are desperately trying to hold on to the pseudo science that is being promoted by the drug companies to promote bigger profits, while ignoring the real problems.

Many times I see people that doctors have told them to go home and pack their bags they have a few months to live, medical science has done all they can. Drug companies know there is no money in prevention. Doctors are not focused on prevention or finding root causes of diseases. It is all they can do to see the ever increasing numbers of people that are already sick. When they do see people that are just complaining about something that the doctor cannot diagnose, they send them home and become annoyed that someone would want help in that situation.

For any medical doctor to tell me that techniques used by many nutritional therapists do not effectuate better health and longer life as not effective, I can only say they need to free themselves from the lies they believe. To say that medical science has come a long way and is having a great impact on making people live longer, is to ignore the fact that the quality of life has greatly diminished and that 72 years old for men and 78 for women is not longer life than primitive people that had no drugs or modern medicine. Simple sanitary practices have had more to do with people living into their seventies than medicine.

As the baby boomers die off, the population will recede and then look at the statistics for longevity.

When anyone talks about a culture living longer, the first thing that is talked about is their diet and lifestyle, not what drugs have they been taking. So please, don't tell us that medicine has increased our life expectancy. That is statistical mumbo jumbo. Factor in how sanitation has greatly reduced the death rate and the large influx of babies from baby boomers and then we can look more carefully at the real numbers.

good luck to you