The medical profession establishes guidelines and standards of practice to protect patients from rogue physicians practicing unscientifically. Physicians should be subject to oversight, and the mavericks reined in to protect the public.
I agree that the rogues need to be reined in to protect the public on both sides of this issue....the hard part is identifying the wolves in sheep's clothing.
The medical profession today is little more than a money-making racket, but people have been inured to their gradual manipulation of the public over the decades by demonizing the opposition and making themselves out to be the heroes. In the big scheme of things, they fix very little whilst claiming to do "all they can". What "all they can" means in that context is...."all they are allowed to do within the confines of orthodox medical practice"....which in the majority of cases leads only to a lifetime of pill-taking....not often to better health.
I believe that in the US state of Texas there was a bill passed called "The Right to Try", which allowed terminally ill patients to try other treatments that others had used with success. Cannabis, e.g. has been seen to cure certain types of cancer in a short space of time (shrinking tumors) with no ill effects on the patient. Why should anyone be denied the right to try something that is readily available, cheap to produce, and shown to be successful in the treatment of many patients? I can think of only one reason.....it might work and the medical profession along with their cronies, (the big drug corporations) would be made to look like charlatans.
Pharmacology isn't real medicine to you? I'm guessing that all of your understanding of the matter come from your religion, not from training and experience prescribing pharmaceuticals and monitoring their effects. Prescription medications extend lives, help maintain function, and help restore comfort.
My religion has nothing to do with my personal views on this subject. JW's are not dictated to about the medical treatments they choose. It is up to us to research the pros and cons of any medical treatment and make our own choices. Blood transfusions is just one of them. The more we research outside of the orthodox system, the more alarming the data becomes. As I said, doctors are the only ones who can bury their mistakes. It is they who sign death certificates.
Pharmacology is the medicine that people today expect. You go to the doctor who writes you a prescription for a pill or a bunch of different ones to deal with all the unwanted side effects.
Illness is not about getting pills to make you feel better. Real medicine is about getting to the cause of the problem, not simply treating the symptoms. This is what functional medicine is all about. Dedicated doctors, who are sick to death of prescribing often dangerous medications that do very little to get to the cause of illness, are defecting from a useless medical system, to one that actually addresses the causes of ill health. I thank God for them, having had way more success with alternative natural medicines than with any orthodox medical treatments myself.
It seems like you don't know what a symptom is. You shouldn't be lecturing on medicine.
Oh please.....who doesn't know what a symptom is?
Are you serious?
The Christian Old Testament, which recommends them, and secular humanism, which condemns them.
I believe we left ancient methods of punishment behind, a very long time ago. Not sure how many civilized countries even have the death penalty anymore. With the state of the judicial system these days...its just as well, I think.
Secular humanists trying to combat human stupidity, much of which is steeped in tribalism and superstition, but are getting a lot of resistance. Look at this human stupidity:
- "We don't have to protect the environment, the Second Coming is at hand" - James Watt, Secretary of the Interior under Reagan (note his position and responsibilities)
- "My point is, God's still up there. The arrogance of people to think that we, human beings, would be able to change what He is doing in the climate is to me outrageous." - Sen. Inhofe, R-Okla
- "The Earth will end only when God declares it's time to be over. Man will not destroy this Earth. This Earth will not be destroyed by a flood. . . . I do believe God's word is infallible, unchanging, perfect." - Rep John Shimkus, R-Ill.
Yep, I couldn't agree more. We humans are the custodians of this planet and we are doing a lousy job. I'm not sure what tribalism and superstition have to do with any of it, but God certainly did not mess up the planet......we did that all by ourselves. Do you doubt that? The fact that we are still producing plastic products when it has been known for decades that it pretty much lasts forever and will continue to choke the planet and its creatures, is unconscionable......but what does that tell you about the powers that rule this world? Money speaks all languages. It cares about nothing but profit.
What are the secular humanists doing about any of it apart from whining? We are confined to a system whose continuing activity is killing our planet......burning fossil fuels to power our cars and our homes.....raping the earth of its resources despite the fact that no one really knows what removing those vast quantities of coal, gas and oil might mean for future generations. Might they have been put there for a reason.....NOT to be removed and burned to pollute the air we breathe?
If people were seen to be actually doing something to stop the rot.....that would be good...but have we already gone too far? There is no point in cleaning up the mess until we stop making it......is there?
