We have a close relative who is at the mercy of western
medicine. I won’t go into the symptoms, but they have been life threatening.
The doctor who is qualified to treat this undiagnosed condition has repeated
the same biopsies and tests four times and is about to go at it a fifth time.
Same thing over and over, and the results are unchanged.
The doctor wants to do a Whipple procedure and remove
part of the stomach, half of the intestines, part of the pancreas, and the gall
bladder, among other things. It is a serious surgery. In hospitals that do lots
of these procedures the death rate from surgery is 4 percent. In hospitals that
do not do many the death rate is up to 20 percent. Neither of these rates is
“good.” Given that this doctor is not in a high volume Whilpple hospital, it is
probably fair to say that his hospital is not in the 4 percent category.
The question becomes, should the patient get this life
threatening or life changing procedure because the doctors do not know what
else to do? To compound matters, why did our relative refuse the doctor’s offer
to refer for a second opinion? The doctor feels confident that even if our
relative does not have cancer now that eventually cancer will grow.
A definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and
over and expecting a different result. I am grateful to western medicine. The
doctors can be wonderful in emergencies. They saved my life last year. But in
the case of our relative, I fail to understand the wonderfulness of western
medicine. When the potentially cancerous problem was first identified last
fall, the doctors did not know how to even begin to heal it. Just tests,
misdiagnosis and watching until the crisis developed.
Oriental medicine, with its five thousand years of knowledge,
might have quickly shed some light on our relative’s condition and ways to successfully
treat it that the 300 years of Western medicine can’t. Steps could have been
quickly taken through oriental medicine and food to prevent this medical
emergency and bring healing.
I ask again, why are people afraid to break from Western
medicine when necessary in order to save their lives? Unfortunately, this type
of situation is not new to my family, especially in the past year. We have one
dear friend who did not change the Western medicine pattern and she will die
soon. We have two other friends who did change, and they are thriving. Read one
testimonial here: Guest Post - More Motivation and
Success!
People need to make their own decisions, but when one
approach fails to bring health, try something else. Ryan summed up the average
American person’s health expectation perfectly: “Grow older, fall apart,
medicate and die.” Make the choice today to grab health and enjoy a vibrant
life well into old, old age. Life is much more fun that way.
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