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Regarding medicine, after years of battling doctors and their treatment of our son, we learned a few truisms the hard way. Doctors treat symptoms, pharmaceutical companies peddle drugs, and all get rich on "managing" our ailments. We have switched for most problems to naturapaths who try to cure rather than treat. We have been cured of ailments which TV ads still show as incurable.

A few weeks ago, I developed shortness of breath, pounding heart, aching arms. Could hardly get up the stairs. It didn't go away, got worse. It must be angina, I guessed, probably the precursor to a heart attack, clogged arteries and the whole bag. We went for help, not to a GP or heart specialist, but to a naturapath. I still got all the tests, including EKG but all came out ok. Turns out, it is a rather hidden allergy emerging. The ticker is fine, excellent. No heart problems at all. Once the culprit identified, all symptoms gone!

What would have happened if I went to a heart specialist and his payment on his Mercedes was coming due? Would I still as for years be completely free of prescription drugs? I bet not. More likely I might have gotten a special deal on a quadruple bypass or transplant. At least I bet I would have gotten blood pressure medicine, cholesterol medicine and assorted other drugs I do not need.