Conventional medicine has some pros and cons. It offers the finest medicine in surgeries or trauma care but in the treatment of immune associated conditions it relies deeply on prescribing drugs and recommending invasive medical procedures. Conventional tends to aim at treating symptoms, not the underlying causes (repeat drug sales). It treats the human body in parts, not as a whole. The shaped thinking of conventional medical doctors is based upon using "rescue medicine," not finding therapy and …show more content…
In doing so, its goal is to target the totality body which is really more price effective.
The rising number of persons turning to alternative therapies is rapidly growing and is becoming more and more the chosen form of medical therapy among Americans. This is a good thing in view of where health care in the United States could be heading. If healthcare becomes nationalized we will all have a value placed on us as to where we stand in the line.
Did you know that one out of every three Americans uses some type of alternative medicine? Between 1990 and 1997 there was almost a fifty percent increase in trips to alternative practitioners. Who needs a drug that treats a symptom that not only comes with a record of possible side effects that you do not want any part of, but there is a excellent possibility you can't take the drug because your on some other prescribed drug(s) that are not compatible.
persons are starting to pick alternative therapies as a type of treatment, and you may be asking yourself the big question, "Why don't more conventional doctors recommend alternative …show more content…
Don't be shocked about this because the driving force behind the ongoing growth of conventional medicine has been the pharmaceutical industry, embraced by both doctors and pharmacists, who calculate their worth through treating problems by prescribing medications.
Schools of medicine are immensely funded by pharmaceutical companies so this industry has a hugely vested interest in the marketing of their medicines. A company that is the top producer of prescription drugs offers scholarships and grants to medical schools so these two entities are connected at the hip.
Ever observe how many drug commercials consumers are exposed to? The mass media is about making capital just like the pharmaceutical industy and those ads must be making profit for the media and visa-versa. Over the past few yrs. mass media commercials for drugs have exploded. Multi-billions are exhausted on advertisements for prescription drugs and consumers do listen and make inquiries with their doctor on particular drugs they saw or heard in an ad.
As you might deduce, backing conventional medicine towers over the backing allotted alternative medicine to the tune of $12 billion to the National Institutes of Health to only about $5.5 million to the Office of Alternative Medicine to investigate claims of various