Physicians: "Tear Down This Wall"

After exhaustive research and contact with many physicians, I believe it is time for the medical community to tear down the wall between various modalities of treatment. Whole food must be considered as a nutritionally-safe approach to serious health problems - including cancer, MS, degenerative arthritis, stroke, heart attack, macular degeneration and an epidemic of diseases caused by "the improper dietary habits of the American Culture." That last quote was taken directly from my personal physician and mentor at his insistence that I write this book, "Make Eating A Lifestyle Change."
The time has come to recognize that greed is the glue that binds the medical community to an addictive dependence on the big money coming from the pharmaceutical companies. Open the doors, clear the air, forget the profits and fulfill your oath to your patients. There is plenty of research from Universities around the globe that is worthy of use in the practice of "HEALING." Doctor of Medicine should be changed to Doctor of Drugs and doctors need to "fess-up" on the perks they receive. They need to use knowledge, instead of chemicals, to heal their patients. Whether they do or not is almost irrelevant, because people are using the internet and realizing the dangers of the drugs being prescribed by physicians we once trusted and respected. Physicians need to be open-minded and diligent in pursuing knowledge at a time when humans are being exposed to serious consequences from the chemicals they prescribe. "Heal thyself, physician" Too many doctors are dying young for lack of proper maintenance, proper nutrition and exercise. One need look no further than the obituary column to see the early demise of so many doctors, from diseases they have treated all their lives. Could it be that their success was measured in terms of materialistic wealth? When prescribing medicine with such dangerous side effects that it requires more of the same, the physician becomes, less the solution, and more - the problem! It is time for physicians to earn their keep. Learn how to use the internet. Learn about DNA mapping and consider the benefits of nutrition proven to improve the health of their patients. Search the internet for "Mangosteen" and "Graviola." Consider the credibility of the researchers and their results. Expand your field of knowledge beyond the biased remarks from the man with the "black satchel" who dares to cut ahead of sick people, just to increase his own income as a "Drug Pusher."
Remember that arrogance is the wall that separates physicians from the advancement of new cures. Now is the time for all good physicians to begin opening the door to "Integrative Medicine." Doctors who are role models of good health, do not limit their time, as though they were day laborers. Physicians of the 40's and 50's considered their work to be around the clock and their goal "to heal."

Today we see HMO’s who consider that there is a 15 minute clock running - the minute you step into the doctor’s office.

The patient waits one or two hours for a doctor who hasn’t even arrived. Secretaries double up appointments and penalize patients for missing their appointment. And the prescription often is the cause of further complications that lead to more drug use and symptoms exacerbated by a drug cocktail.