Yeah, what do doctors know...and we can see that the mortality rate continues to get lower and lower.....oh wait a second...it is higher now than it has ever been and going UP, not down...people live much longer now than even a few years ago...
Yes, terycarl, but what you don’t realize is that research is slow walked. You don’t realize where they could be if the were really actually researching in the right direction. One of my relatives is a researcher. Much of what we do today is barbaric, like modern-day bloodletting, not a real solution to health problems.
And you also don’t realize that the American diet has been molded into a diet that slowly kills over time. Other industries help to generate millions of patient-customers for the healthcare industry. Whenever you hear “exploding epidemic”, etc., that’s what’s been happening. But happening slowly, over decades, with no immediate pains or effects that jump out at the sheeple, so sheeple never realize. Duh, it’s what I’m eating and drinking, breathing, etc.
And you don’t realize that all prescribed medicines slowly kill over time. Product labels go out of their way to talk about side effects that are immediate. If a “medicine” is an exceptionally obvious hideous poison over time, they’ll actually warn that it should not be taken for a long time. But for most “medicines” the killing mechanism is indirect enough that it it can be plausibly denied that the medicine had anything to do with a person’s health problems. I literally heard this: “but I took that for 20 years and never had a problem with it”. Can I get a duh ? It’s a slow, cumulative effect.
It’s really very very simple; doctors simply never bring up anything in conversation about long term effects and they are quite polished at shining you on if you bring it up. In a most friendly way. I’ve even heard a cardiologist say - “too many pills”. It was a great way to gain trust of a sheep. Well, with the sheep’s intelligent son nosing around prodding for answers very politely.
Hey, if you have an emergency - go to the hospital. It is abosolutely fantastic what they can do today - really. Things today that are a 45-minute in and out procedure would have been impossible not long ago.
But keep in mind, the trick is a slow death. A slow death is a profitable death for the people giving you medical care. The slower the better.
The alternative picture, with research in the right direction:
a) a much smaller medical industry
b) people routinely living over 100
c) people being healthy their whole life, even over 100
d) far fewer, think 10%, of the operations and procedures being done, as far more people would not have massive health problems over their whole lifetime
e) far fewer medical professionals would be needed
f) far, far better medical technology (amazing, but it is true)
g) far better medical professional practice, due to far better technology and only the top candidates would qualify for medical school because we would not need so many doctors; we’d also need far fewer of all other medical careers
The problem we have now economically is that the people at the top making the decisions are not creative “good” geniuses - because then they’d be able to think of many other good productive things for medical industry resources to be allocated to. But, they are the ones making the decision, and they are uncreative, “evil” geniuses - they just know how to bs people, control the system, and make it far larger than it has to be.