Good stuff from Curezone - Fed Up Doctor Takes on the Health Industry

[Guest guest]

My friend and prolific poster Robert Blau posted about this at the

Curezone:

 

Health: Fed-up doctor says health industry turns healthy people into

sick patients

 

" A new book from veteran physician Dr. Nortin Hadler of the University

of North Carolina at Chapel Hill questions the health scares

propagated to the public by the health care system. Entitled " The Last

Well Person: How to Stay Well Despite the Health Care System, Hadler

states that " wellness " has become an unreachable achievement, thanks

to medical institutions doggedly discerning every human imperfection

as a symptom of disease. "

 

• " No infant can simply be fussy and no child can simply be fidgety,

obstreperous, or below average in performance. We are told that all

these are symptoms of disease, or harbingers, " Hadler wrote in an

editorial posted on the web site ABCNews.com

 

• Hadler says that the health industry has " medicalized " the idea of

well-being, pushing the idea that everyone holds a burden of having

something wrong with them.

 

• In his editorial, Hadler says that previous examples of

" medicalization " included calling thinness a problem, whereas today

the idea of previously-promoted idea of being " fat and happy " is now

considered " being obese and unhealthy. "

 

• " There is no better scientific support that screening you for high

cholesterol, diabetes, osteoporosis, or breast and prostate cancer

will help you than there is for nutraceuticals, Asian cures, poking

and prodding, Echinacea and garlic, glucosamine, vitamin E and the

like, " Hadler states in the editorial.

 

Read more:

http://www.newstarget.com/021749.html

 

Tony