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The Wave
Letter From The Editor
Last month, I was driving in rush hour traffic through the Novato narrows and listening to an NPR program, On Point, to pass the time. The radio host
of the NPR program was interviewing Dr. Norton Hadler, who had just written a book, “By the Bedside of the Patient: Lessons for the Twenty-First Century Physician,” which catalogs the ills of our current Allopathic medical system. He explained at great length about how the FDA rules permit pharmaceutical companies to approve very expensive drugs that produce very small benefits, but have numerous and severe side effects. He decried the current medical system that paid doctors more to keep their patients sick. He explained the complex and unfair insurance re-imbursement system that “forces” doctors to spend less then 5 minutes with their patients. He went into great detail about the nature of our current Allopathic medical model that causes medical costs to skyrocket.
I was just about to pull over so I could call in to suggest that the holistic medical care model did not suffer from all this dysfunction, and that it was a sane and effective alternative to the deadly pharmaceuticals, scant patient oversight, and skyrocketing medical costs of the Allopathic medical model. I was going
to say that some Holistic and Allopathic medical communities work together in Integrative Health Clinics, offering greatly improved medical care for their patients. I was going to assert that our entire medical system would benefit from more partnerships such as these.
But before I could pull to the side of the road
to place the call, I heard Dr. Handler refer to “the placebos available in the supplement aisle at Whole Foods” as diverting “patients” from “real” medical care. I realized he might decry and be in despair over our current Allopathic medical system, but he was enthralled by it. He was victim to its prejudices and blind to effective, established alternatives outside the Allopathic model.
If I were in a terrible accident, I would want to
be rushed to the hospital
to be cared for by the best
Allopathic doctors. I
would want heart monitors,
surgery to repair broken
bones and damaged organs,
painkillers and antibiotics,
blood transfusions, and IV bags. (I would then seek out Holistic medical care to treat all the expected side effects of the trauma, surgery, and drugs to which it had been necessary to be subject.)
That we have this kind of medical care available
to us in the US is a blessing. When you are in the position of needing this kind of emergency medical care, you don’t worry about what it costs, and you will figure out how to pay for it later.
But to extend this model for emergency care to
well care is a dreadful mistake. For many it is a fatal error. Millions of people all over the world will attest that proper holistic well care from the cradle can vastly reduce or eliminate the need for drastic Allopathic intervention with toxic pharmaceuticals and invasive surgeries to remove diseased organs. But it seems no matter how many people are healed and kept healthy through holistic medicine, the dominant Allopathic medical establishment will either attempt to discredit, or turn a blind eye to this overwhelming evidence of success.
Regardless of this resistance, we must not give up trying to spread the word about holistic health care. I am dedicated to publishing The Wave to do just that. If you want to work with me to spread the word about the benefits of holistic health care, call or email me. We are stronger and better together. Working together, we can shift the medical consciousness of a nation toward a healthier, safer, more effective model.
Stacey Leigh Mohr Editor, Publisher
May/June 2016
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