Healthcare Mythbusters

Here’s an excerpt from my new book, Undoctored: Why Health Care Has Failed You and How You Can Become Smarter Than Your Doctor. Here, I bust many commonly-held myths about healthcare that can impair your ability to take back your life and health, undoctored. Get beyond these myths and you are on your way to embracing the strategies I discuss in the book that provide spectacular health, slenderness, and high levels of day-to-day functioning.   Healthcare Mythbusters While not as dramatic as a TV Mythbusters episode blasting a school bus into the air with a jet engine, we can still bust a few widely held myths surrounding modern medical care. Busting such widely-held perceptions, I believe, will help you get past any reluctance or fear that the medical system is something holy and exalted that cannot be bested by everyday people. Myth #1: Healthcare is about healing. That may have been true many years ago, and may still be alive in hospital advertising slogans. But the ethic of healing is largely lost from modern healthcare, now subverted into the cause of increased fees and revenues, expansion of healthcare systems, the growing dominance of the pharmaceutical industry, and other factors, none of which place healing first. Healthcare is no more about healing than gambling on horseraces is about preparing for retirement. In the doctor’s mind, handing you a prescription for insulin may be his version of “healing,” but you know better—there is no hea...
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