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health advisory Hospital Doctor Yu 2007-11-8 19:08:10

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Quite an assumption. Ask yourself: Do antibiotics kill bacteria (cure the infection) or make us feel better. Is surgery to repair a broken hip just to make the patient feel better. Is a bypass to restore cardiac bloodflow curative or palliative. Is chemotherapy curative or just performed to make the patient feel better? Lots of conspiracy theorists out there think like you do. When you get into real trouble, you'll be bailed out by our medical system.

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Masking symptoms = pharmaceuticals = $$$$$$$$$

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The philosophy is not discipline, it's indulgence.

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because there is no money to be made in curing people

now if you can string them along on expensive unnecessary pills, then you got business

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Its all pharmaceuticals. Thats how they make the money. They pay the hospitals, doctors, and colleges to teach about their meds to cure people.

Can you imagine if they actually found a cure for cancer. What that would do to the medical field. Trillions of dollars lost in treatments alone. Whos to say that they dont already have the cure. They just dont want to tell. I dont know.

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It's the easy way out. They just make some arbitrary rules and vote them into law and then sit back in awe at the cost of repairing a person who need not have been so sick, had they received the proper care in the first place.

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The original assumption was that, if you could relieve the distress, the body would have a chance to heal itself. They focused on "treating the symptoms" because, often, it was the symptoms, rather than the underlying disease, that would kill you. That and the fact that even today, the doctor doesn't necessarily know what disease you have and can only identify the symptoms.