Fire Your Doctor

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Fire Your Doctor by Andrew Saul PhD.

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/fire.html

 

I fired my first doctor when I was 15.

Firing a doctor need not assume the conventional image of a pink slip and a

bootprint on the keester. At least, not as a rule. Rather, to fire your doctor

means to not need him, to outgrow her, to decide that the doctor’s information

is incomplete or wrong, and to determine his skill to be insufficient to bet

your life on.

To fire your doctor is to hire yourself as your chief physician.

You probably think that you are not up to the job. After all, who are you? You

didn’t go to medical school. That’s true, of course. But consider what the

limitations of “medicine” are. Drug and surgical treatment have always been the

focus of medical school. Any physician will confirm that, even today, the rest

of the curriculum runs far, far behind. Ask your doctor how many courses in

clinical nutrition she/he has completed. Ask your doctor how many hours of

homeopathic medicine, herbal medicine and orthomolecular (megavitamin) medicine

s/he has had. You are likely to find that those “medicines” aren’t even counted

worthy of time in the medical school syllabus.

Big mistake. Homeopathy has been successfully practiced by physicians the world

over for 200 years. Homeopaths were giving tiny, non-toxic amounts of natural

substances to effect a cure while regular doctors were drugging people to a

premature death with stiff quantities of arsenic and mercury. Herbal medicine

goes back for centuries, when practitioners (mostly women) used plants to heal

instead of taking blood by the quart from the arms of anybody unfortunate to

come within the reach of a medical doctor’s lancet. If anything, drug-and-cut

“medicine” is an alternative to these natural disciplines… and not a very good

alternative at that.

And megavitamin (orthomolecular) medicine? Therapeutic nutrition has tens of

thousands of references to support it. I have over 3,000 at my website alone.

(References) Can all of those successful vitamin-study authors, all those

researchers and physicians, be stupider than the reporter that you have heard

say that “vitamins may be dangerous and just give you expensive urine”?

Of course not. And far-thinking doctors are beginning to come around to what

they were initially taught, and then taught to forget: vis medicatrix naturae :

the Healing Power of Nature. They have been led back to this timeless principle

by their patients, the majority of which see a natural-health practitioner in a

given year. The market favors success, and savvy doctors can see the

handwriting on the wall.

Now the medicos are trying to learn “natural health,” which they want to call

“complimentary medicine” to keep it in their shop. Monopolistic concerns aside,

we should focus on this point: your doctor probably doesn’t know any more about

natural healing than you do… and is likely to know a good deal less.

It is a fair race when all parties start at the same time and place. You can

learn whatever your doctor learns, just as fast and just as well. You even have

several advantages:

First, you have The Home Team Advantage. Your body is better known to you than

Yankee Stadium was to Babe Ruth. You live inside you every minute of every day.

You can better monitor and adjust your needs yourself than anyone else.

Second, you only have to learn what you and your family specifically need to

know. You have to study up on your own particular health problems, but you do

not have to spend time learning it all for everyone. This makes you a

specialist in the same time it will make your new study-buddy doctor a poor

generalist.

Thirdly, you have the personal, altruistic advantage: you are doing this for

your family. Unlike the doctor, you are working for love and for life, not for

money. All three are very powerful motivation to learn, but the first two enjoy

the full support of Nature.

(For information and references on the subject of your choice, )

 

Copyright 2002 and prior years by Andrew Saul, Number 8 Van Buren Street,

Holley, New York 14470 USA Telephone (585) 638-5357

 

 

Dr. Andrew Saul

 

 

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