Reply #57: Your outlandish views on medicine are a distraction on this thread [View All]

Can diet and exercise help? Certainly, but it has it's limits. I am a non-overweight, non-smoking, exercising, yoga-practicing vegetarian. However, NONE of that has cured my allergies, asthma, or high blood pressure or stopped me from needing a hysterectomy brought on by huge tumors pressing on my bladder and causing anemia-inducing bleeding. Or, do you still maintain this is all my fault?

And technically, we don't need doctors and hospitals at all, do we. We could return to a time when severely broken bones meant lifelong disabilities, cataracts equalled blindness, more women died in childbirth, pneumonia meant death, etc. ...

Certainly, there are abuses in health care. But I am not opposed to modern medicine as we are all living longer and healthier lives. It's the "industry" that surrounds it that's screwed up.

You are very lucky to remain so naive about medical care, but I'm sure when you start having issues of your own, you'll be happy doctors and hospitals have not disappeared based on your "wisdom."