Welcome To My World, Dr. Oz

Dr. Oz and I must be doing something right – otherwise, we wouldn’t incur the wrath of the medical establishment, Big Pharma and Big Agra. Recently, 10 doctors lobbied Columbia University to oust celebrity physician Mehmet Oz from the distinguished university’s hospital and its department of health sciences and medicine. In a letter to the department’s dean of faculty, the doctors attacked him for presenting alternative and natural cures on his syndicated TV program, The Dr. Oz Show. They also chastised him for being concerned about genetically modified crops. Welcome to my world, Dr. Oz. Since graduating from medical school almost three decades ago, I have found myself in trouble often for taking on Big Pharma, Big Agra, and the so-called “respected” medical establishment. Forgive me, but I plead guilty to the crime of caring about the health and happiness of my patients more than emptying their wallets. But there is a clear reason why Big Medicine is so opposed to natural remedies – it can’t make enough money from them. Putting profit before health not only neglects the best interests of patients, it means that the medical establishment ignores our interconnectedness with nature and the medicinal benefits it provides through countless plants, flowers and trees. The 17th century English poet John Donne famously wrote: “No man is an Island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main.” It is t...
Source: Al Sears, MD Natural Remedies - Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Tags: Nutrition DHA Dr. Oz Show EPA omega 3 Source Type: news