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I am a second year medical Student in an Osteopathic institution. What are the strengths and weaknesses of the conventional medical educational system as you see it? What items that I am learning should I put stock in and which should I take with a grain of salt?
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Answer (Published
April 03, 2007
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Great question as the answer has very broad implications. Conventional medicine, I really don't think it is at all appropriate to call it traditional medicine as that would imply that the model has been around for centuries and that simply is not the case at all.
Conventional is far more appropriate a term as it is what is typically being practiced today and has been for about the last century when the AMA in the US, with the help of the drug companies, help to squash the true traditional medicine, which today is frequently referred to as alternative medicine. My favorite term for this type of practice though is natural medicine as it is a system based on thousands of years of empirical data that relies on the assumption that your body has an innate and intrinsic healing ability if it is given what it needs and exposure to toxic influences are minimized.
Getting back to your question, conventional medicine certainly has is place. I believe its most appropriate if restricted to two areas, one is diagnosis and the other is the treatment of acute trauma. The use of blood tests, diagnostic imaging and pathological evaluation can provide a very useful tool to rule out serious illness that can easily be overlooked by well intentioned natural medical practitioners.
So I would learn very well the diagnostic tools that you will learn in school as they will serve you will. Where you will need to exercise extreme caution is believing the treatment recommendations. You can be virtually 100% guaranteed that the model has been flawed by massive conflict of interests at the highest level. Virtually all conventional physicians are unaware, as I was when I was in the system, that they have been seriously brainwashed by the multinational drug corporations.
Drugs are virtually never the long-term answer to any medical problem. They can provide short-term relief when addressing the underlying cause of the problem.
Once you understand that you can teach your patients this so they can use you appropriately as a health coach to guide them in their process of taking control of their own health.
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