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In reply to the discussion: Here's why *real* medicine is different than woo: [View all]JustAnotherGen
(38,058 posts)My father's doctor's insistence that the man who did not drink or smoke and who excercised regularly -but who had been exposed to every single color of "agents" in the rainbow during the Korea/Vietnam era - that his persistent cough was pneumonia . . .
Let's just say he got it wrong in November 2010 and January 2011. When Doctor's start treating the whole body and the entire history -and stop patting people on te head and sending them on their way with suckers - I will start trusting them again.
Any Vietnam Vet who listens to a doctor about a "cough" and takes the diagnosis is misguided. The medical community is not ready for the storm. My father was one of the older vets and had been a Green Beret at the peak of his career. There are a million men and women right behind him and guess what - we know agent pink masks the cancer blood tests. But alas - that's "woo".
Those of us who listen to our bodies and treat ourselves through food and movement are not practicing woo. We are taking responsibility for our health and ownership over our bodies. Do antibiotics work? Yes. But when they don't - demand answers.