Religion vs. Science in Medicine

I hate relgion vs. science debates because most of them pit creationism against Darwinism.  Frankly, none of it seems to make any difference in my daily life.

But there is a religion vs. science debate that has barely begun, but one which has an enormous impact on my daily life, and the life of everyone I know.  It concerns the science of medicine (referring to all the healing arts) as opposed to the religion of medicine.

I have, throughtout my life, enlisted the services of all kinds of allopathic physicians:  Family practice doctors, vascular surgeons, cardiologists, rheumatologits, podiatrists, urologists, plastic surgeons, internists, ophthalmologists, and dentists.  For the most part, I am grateful for their services.  I'm sure a couple of them probably saved me from an early death or the disabilities from a stroke.  I am also grateful to have had my eyesight restored.  I am grateful for the extraordinary diagnostics that our conventional system has made available to us.  And if I were ever in a serious accident, I would be grateful for the excellent trauma care.

I have also enlisted the services of chiropractors, microscopists for live blood analysis, nutritional consultants, naturopathic physicians, and a few other "non-conventional" healthcare givers.  I am also grateful for their services.

The thing that concerns me is the apparent unwillingness of allopathic physicians to acknowledge their religion that interferes with their science.  By religion, I do not mean faith in a supreme being, but rather a blind devotion to a small "g" god, whose attributes are wealth and power.  The allopathic system resides primarily in the pharmaceutical and processed foods industry, which through threats, extortion, and bribery has learned to control every branch of government and education that was designed to protect our health.  People can be bought these days are bargain basement prices.

This "beast" of a system has learned to prescribe a "standard of care" to which all of its bondslaves must adhere.  When I visit my family doctor and tell him of other therapies I am using, he immediately seeks to indoctrinate me by calling these other approaches "quackery."   I refuse to be intimdated.

Once, when I told him about a live blood analysis, he pulled out the "quackery" card again.  I asked him if he'd ever seen one.  "No," he admitted.  I said I had my most recent one on video.  If I brought it in, would he watch it.  He agreed.  It would be unscientific not to.  Two weeks later, I went back to pick it up.  "So, what did you think?" I asked.  "Very interesting.  What do those slides tell you?"  I explained a few things and he said, "They don't teach us those things in medical school."  Exactly.  But you can't learn from those quacks because you adhere to a different religion, a different body of values and beliefs.

I heard a surgeon on television say that only about ten percent of allopathic medicine is effective.  The other ninety per cent should be treated in ways other than surgery, drugs, or radiation.  Hippocrates, the father of medicine, would agree:  "Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine your food."  How many people do I know whose lives have been destroyed with psychiatric drugs?  How many people do I know who became disabled for life through failed back surgeries? 

The allopathic medical system has its whistle blowers, and they pay a hefty price to tell the truth.  I appreciate the candor of  those oncologists (about 80%) who, in two different surveys, admitted that they would never accept chemotherapy for themselves or any member of their family.  And yet, why do they prescribe chemotherapy to their patients?  This is where religion comes in.  Follow the money.  In this god we trust.  The pharmaceutical companies richly reward their bondslaves.

Anyone who has watched "Burzinsky, the Movie" knows that there are effective cures for several kinds of cancer, but those who will not bow to the "beast" will be opposed and persecuted all the way to the U. S. Supreme Court.   Burzinsky is only the bravest and toughest of many, and a brilliant videographer took an interest in his story.  The religion is a blind faith in the allopathic medical establishment to always tell us the truth, to do no harm, and to heal us.  Unfortunately, that is too often not the case.  The religious devotion to profit, power, and control has perpetrated a huge delusion and  destroyed the science.