Would you like a Purithenol/Zocor cocktail with that?

the Western medical establishment is not immune to the greed and malice of a competitive, consumption-driven model of corporate led capitalism.

you, the patient, are a customer. physicians are not trained primarily to be healers, but rather professional class (elite, and all the egoist underpinnings) administrators and perpetuators of a corporate escapade to create and sustain physical and psychological dependence. the efficacy and trajectory of medical achievement, especially here in the U.S.A., cannot be examined outside the stringent corporate framework within which physicans must operate.

here is a pill for your heart, that should make you feel better. Side effects? Here is another pill. Oh wait. This one we need to monitor. Weekly bloodtests. What's wrong? It's only another pill. Depressed? I know just what the doctor will order. More material paliatives for a vacuum of comprehensive human understanding.

Makes you wonder how people healed themselves before pharmaceuticals, just 50 years ago. Now, some of us can't imagine life without those translucent orange vials of chemical concoction. Many are quick to site technological progress as progress, but when science is hijacked by corporate profiteering and capacity is not commesurate with intention , we all find ourselves in the dingy 'waiting rooms' of chronic illness. Some say that we heal more sicknesses now, but do our lifestyles and consumer-based culture lead to more diseases that could have otherwise been prevented? If I create more cancer, do the pills I give you to 'ease' the cancer make me a revolutionary healer? Modern medicine is chasing its tail. The more material minded, the more material dependent. Our dependence on pharamecuticals is but a mere symptom of our pathogenic materialism and our lack of a holistic understanding of the human being. We don't know where to turn for healing at the root. The majority of prescription medication on the market is there on the market because what better niche is there than sick people? BigPharma
is control. Control a person's sickness, regulate, monitor a person's sickness. Control them, make them dependent on you and you will have a customer for life. Let the gastroenterologist, the nutritionist and the oncologist remain in separate wings of the hospital. Let our knowledge of the human body remain compartmentalized in the minds of those seeking to apply it. Arthritis, isle 10. Thyroid problems, isle 14. Liver, isle 18. Magic pills of all colors for you and for me. Whats in them, dunno. How concerned is your physician with your wellbeing? Eventhough plentiful are good-intentioned practitioners, one must keep in mind the stringent rules of the game they are playing (capitalism) and the governing interests of those higher up on the corporate hierarchy. Dr. Yee may be a swell guy, but he's getting shafted back and forth by forces beyond his control so what's to say that in order to just stay afloat, he gives Little Ms. Dunsworth a little something extra she really doesn't need, or maybe she gets an 'extended treatment program.' Its risky business, but it is business without a doubt. Enter at your own risk. Consumer beware or be a patient forever.


Long-term care = investment, continous, dependable source of income.

daily prescrption medication - alleviate your symptoms, don't cure. a cured patient is no longer a patient. make sure he/she comes back.

insurance -access granted only if you can afford it. if not, you are on your own. healing is a commodity dominated by those with means to procure and market it. Did Jesus have Blue Cross Blueshield? Neither did those that knew or followed him. Why do people in the mountains of Peru live to be more than 100 yrs. old? Why is my 85 year old friend in Congo still smiling and walking? They don't have health insurance and they don't take prescription medication but I'm sure they've gotten sick once or twice in their lifetimes. All this just to show that a life without pharma is possible (perhaps that may be obvious to some but to many here it is not.)

its easy to convince someone that they don't feel well. desperate sufferers of pain will turn to almost anything to get some relief. i'm sure that your physician has the perfect place for you to turn, over and over and over again, with easy rapid refill options for your convenience. settle into this brand of dependence and health is wealth we shall never know.

be alert, ask questions, its your body and health and without them we aren't much of anything.