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Health See other Health Articles Title: Get Rid Of The Doctors! No, I do not think we should do that, but if we did, would we really miss them? You may not be aware that Doctors went on strike this week in the UK for the first time in 40 years. Apparently, it's just too hard for poor UK doctors to get by on a salary of about $185,000 and they're miffed that they'll have to work longer before they can draw their gold-plated pensions. I know US doctors earn a lot more still. It's estimated that up to 1.25 million prescriptions, tests and operations were not actioned. But, every cloud has a silver lining... When doctors in Israel took industrial action and went on strike back in 2000, it highlighted a strange phenomenon... The death rate amongst the local population FELL by nearly 40% over the strike period. And this is by no means an isolated example... The same happened in Los Angeles in 1976, which saw an 18% decline in deaths during industrial action by doctors. When the strike ended and the medical machine started to grind back into action, the death rate returned to usual levels. The same thing in Bogota in 1972. Doctors withdrew all treatments apart from emergency care. And guess what? The mortality rate went down by 35%. Likewise, back in 1973, Israeli doctors went on strike for 4 weeks and deaths fell by 50% in that month. It seems history is littered with similar examples, which tell us that the more we can avoid medical intervention in our lives, the more chance we have of living longer and healthier. As Dr Robert Mendelsohn, the renowned Chicago MD noted as far back as 1979: "If doctors reduced their involvement with people and only attended emergencies, there's no doubt in my mind that we'd be better off." For example, medical errors account for an estimated 40,000 deaths each year in the UK, and have officially become Britain's third biggest killer behind cancer and heart disease. That's the equivalent to a jumbo jet-full of passengers perishing every week of the year. And yet, because it happens within the UK healthcare system, it is accepted. Again in the US the numbers are even greater because more money is spent on conventional treatment in the US than in the UK. But there ARE ways you can avoid putting yourself at risk of medical errors in the first place In the United States – where 40,000 people are shot to death each year – the chance of getting "killed" by a doctor is three times greater than being killed by a gun. In addition, serious reactions to prescription drugs are also believed to be responsible for a further 250,000 Britons being hospitalised each year – with aspirin, diuretics, warfarin and NSAIDs (non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs), commonly used for treating such things as arthritis, the main offenders. But there ARE ways you can avoid becoming medicine-dependent, and I know I'm biased but I do truly believe that the service that I provide to my readers knocks any kind of private medical insurance you could get into a tin bed-pan. It won't get you a TV in your hospital room or help you jump any waiting lists. It's BETTER than that... ... because it can help you stay OUT of hospital and AWAY from doctors altogether! It could also help you and your family find cures to pre-existing problems – like prostate, heart disease, arthritis, asthma, migraines and high blood pressure – which your doctor tells you are just 'incurable'. Keep reading my newsletters and following my recommendations and you can keep the doctors away. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest
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Sheep would not tolerate that. "Cure my sniffles right NOW!!!" So, the good Dr Bob can wish all he wants. But in the end, the sheep will demand their coddling and the docs will either supply their demand or go broke. ------------------------------------------ Whenever there's resistance, examine your motivation. Whenever there's flow, consider taking action.
If we got rid of doctors but kept surgeons I suspect the death rate would fall dramatically.
I sense a disturbance in the farce. Much gnashing will ensue.
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