I think I have a pretty good doc. He says the best lecture he ever received in Med School was from the Dean on his first day:
“A little over 50% of the cases you are presented with will solve themselves with no intervention. About 10% of the cases you are presented with have no solution, and the patient will die, though we are all working hard to reduce that percentage. The other approximately 30% to 40% of the cases are where the application of your skills actually matter. The art of medicine is to know in which category the patient in front of you falls.”
My doc and I are good friends and are both very skeptical of the system. He suggested the movie “Burzynski”.
We have a market system in healthcare where innovation competes, but is hindered by entrenched interests that profit from existing arrangements. That is somewhat true in every business segment, but no where is it more true than in healthcare, where cures and innovation are critical, and where the big boys control the regulators and market access and stymie solutions.
What do you imagine would happen if someone discovered that a non-patentable, natural alternative pill cured cancer? The industry would pull every legal and political maneuver to have it outlawed as a danger. That’s what they would do.
Now let me see.... The TV channels are brimming over with all of the ‘good’ side effects of the medicines they have been passing off on us lately. The law firms are having a field day with this drugs. Have a headache? Some of these drugs will cure you permanently...dead! Can’t sleep? Try this one you’ll sleep forever!