Fire Your Doctor

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Fire Your Doctor

 

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

[Guest guest]

Absolutely.

I fired them all about 20 years ago, and have truly been far healthier

since.

It seems absurd that these folks who seem to live at the doctors offices do

not get better, but worse; while those who have foregone all the chemicals

and cutlery of this whole pseudomedical establishment, whether by choice or

by economics, are in the main healthy.

Seems an obvious choice to me.

Michael

 

Frank [califpacific]

Saturday, August 28, 2004 2:05 AM

alternative_medicine_forum

Fire Your Doctor

 

http://doctoryourself.com/fire.html

 

Fire Your Doctor

 

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