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Lessons from Jon Barron
Why Modern Medicine Is Slow To Change
In this week's excerpt from Lessons from the Miracle Doctors, Jon Barron, having already explored the first three reasons that modern medicine is so slow to change (lack of information, the wrong paradigm, and fear), now discuses the other three reasons.
Self-Validation — This is the ultimate expression of the doctor as God. It is total closed-mindedness to anything the medical community does not already know. Almost an attitude of "Well, if it were so good, don't you think I'd already know about it and be doing it." It is also reflected in a superiority complex that is dismissive of anyone or anything that is not part of the same "superior" fraternity. Examples of this include the near total dismissal of chiropractic treatment, oriental medicine, and nutritional therapy—which is only now beginning to change.
Economic Pressure — The medical community creates its own treatment biases. For example, several thousand cardiologists and cardiovascular surgeons are produced by the medical community every year. These doctors have a vested interest (unconscious, to be sure) in favoring high-cost, high-risk invasive techniques for the treatment of your heart disease. After all, their careers are invested in it. What do you think the odds are that someone trained to make their living opening up your body will recommend a low-cost non-invasive treatment, and administered by someone outside the medical fraternity at that?
These same economic pressures influencing your doctor's behavior can be found in hospitals too. The new expensive equipment for open heart surgery, computerized multi-million-dollar MRI machine, and high-tech neonatal intensive care unit all need to be paid for through extensive patient utilization. Do you have any doubt that this affects at least some of the treatment decisions that are made concerning your illness?
And then, of course, there's greed. The unnecessary surgeries and treatments that doctors in the trade refer to as "boat payments." Fortunately, the number of doctors who base your treatment on their financial self-interest is small. Unfortunately, because those few each do it multiple times (such as the doctor who performed several thousand unnecessary hysterectomies before he was identified), the numbers of patients who are brutalized is quite large.
Patient Demand — To be fair, there are a number of doctors who do try to get their patients on a healthy regimen of diet and exercise, but many patients have abrogated personal responsibility for their own health and have bought into the principle espoused in so many drug commercials that one can simply "pop a pill" to cure all ills—everything from colds to cancer. For the most part, we get the health care we ask for.
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