Unhealthy Bed Partners

By Dr. Evelyn Higgins

As promised, this is the first week of the action steps to reverse our current health care crisis. In an industry that spends $50 billion on advertising alone, this first action step requires an honest inventory of the relationship of 'Big Pharma' and the politicians it gets elected to run our government. Unless we get Big Pharma out of medical schools we will never change our present mentality, which has us stuck in a revolving door. The revolving door presents room for the disease model only. Allow me to explain. In our current system, we use a disease model rather than a wellness model for health care. We therefore spend all our time and resources on disease. We look to a pill and/or surgery as the answer to every health problem. Don't get me wrong; we need both pharmaceuticals and surgery. The fact of the matter is that both save lives. The problem is that we abuse them rather than use them. Such faulty thinking eliminates the personal responsibility of the individual. Lack of freedom creates lack of responsibility. This allegiance presents misguided judgments from even the best-intended thoughts. [more...]