
Jan 26, 2016, 07:04 AM
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Member Since: Sep 2015
Location: New Zealand
Posts: 35
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Originally Posted by BudFox
The problem as I see it as that basic model of mainstream healthcare is utterly insane.
For every problem presented by the patient they must see a "specialist", that specialist will prescribe one or more synthetic drugs to mask or manage the symptoms, the drugs themselves might create new symptoms requiring more drugs, neither specialists nor GPs have the time training nor inclination to identify actual root causes, they might not even talk to each other, nobody is taking a look at the big picture, most doctor visits are too short to reveal much useful information, the patient is treated like a machine with disparate parts and systems that can be manipulated with pills by medical technicians, there is fanatical reliance on lab tests and other data-driven measures, treatments tend to get lost in endless minutae, and the doctors treat the disease instead of the patient.
And yet isn't health mostly about -- relationships, connection, nutrition, exercise, sleep, detoxification, direct contact with nature?
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Most of us know about the problems with the medical system, and I cannot understand why this is a surprise. A broad view of health may well be what you listed. The discussion here is about mental health. Are you suggesting that the people here can resolve their depression just by focusing on "relationships, connection... etc? And this is where the alt medicine practitioners enter and make their $. Many of them no doubt believe in what they say and do. But unfortunately, there just isn't much significant scientific evidence at all that those health and lifestyle approaches resolve any mental health issues such as severe depression.
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