THE GREAT CONTRADICTION OF MEDICINE (no one wants to face)

This is a controversial issue that provokes strong reactions and often unthinking.

We could consider almost like a taboo subject in our society, because we are faced with one of those "inviolable truths" and commonly accepted that hold the system upright.

And everything starts from a very simple question ...

How to make money a doctor or a pharmacist?

And to answer this question leads us headlong into one of the most absurd paradoxes of today's world.

It turns out that your doctor or your pharmacist only make money when you're sick.

In fact, the whole industry of medicine and pharmacy earn money with the disease.

At this point, a mind with a minimum capacity of reasoning should ask if the medicine and pharmacy make money with the disease what interest can have these large industries we are healthy?

It is so logical and obvious argument is outrageous and even discouraging anyone wants to accept it as a reality.

To better understand the implications of this reasoning, we delve a little more, using the simplest logic.

If we relate the business of medicine and pharmacy with the status of their patients, we will see that their profits are settled through 3 basic equations:

SICK MONEY =
HEALTHY = POSSIBLE FUTURE EARNING
DEAD = GAIN VOID

That draw 2 outlines basic business:

A-In the first , money is earned thanks to the cyclical alternation in Sano-Ill status of patients. A greater frequency in the appearance of the state "sick" greater opportunities for cyclical income. B-In the second , even more optimal, money is earned by continued disease over time, ie, chronic disease.

In both cases, it is essential to provide adequate quality of life for the patient to continue defraying the treatment and above all, avoid or postpone death, as this would mean the end of income.

It is clear therefore that full health, in no way implies earnings.

Instead, the disease always guaranteed.

We know that this is a shocking argument, but more laps we give it, is pure reality.

Maybe we should stop qualifying medicine and pharmacy as "health sciences" and start calling them "science of the disease", right?

Obviously, we are not saying that doctors are not interested in the health of their patients or that promote the spread of disease.

Doctors, as people and as professionals want the best for their patients and apply all their knowledge, from education received in restoring health to the sick.

But the key lies precisely here. In the education received by physicians. That is, in how they have been transmitted to them knowledge.

The truth is that since access to the medical school are trained and educated to be part of the medical-pharmaceutical industry and adapt to its logical operation, in the same way that a soldier is trained and educated to join an army and adapt to its logical operation.

Following the same logic, the pharmaceutical industry earns huge amounts of money from the disease, in the same way that the arms industry earn huge amounts of money from the war.

And reaching here, it would not be very naive to think that the pharmaceutical industry promotes health? Or is it perhaps someone imagines an arms manufacturer promoting peace in the world?

As we see, the relationship and the influence of the arms industry over the military world, is analogous to that exerted by the pharmaceutical industry on the world of medicine. Both industries instrumentalize those who "use their products" in the exercise of their professional performance.

It is foolish to think that will use part of its immense economic power to influence or programming education of doctors and pharmacists, who tomorrow must continue to ensure that the business scheme continue.

It is therefore logical to think that all knowledge on medicine and pharmacy is geared to suit the business logic "disease = money".

No doubt there will be readers who will be pulling your hair out of your head.

To begin with, because accept this reality collides with their most deeply held views.

It would be tantamount to admitting that science can be perverted by love of money.Something unthinkable in the innocent minds of many people, who believe that the world of science is something pure and unharmed, populated by wise and upright men who like angels dressed in white coats, put his intellect at the service of human welfare selflessly.

To these people, we should remind you that ALL the world's weapons, both conventional and mass destruction have been created by scientists. All environmental disasters from oil spills to chemical or radioactive contamination would have been impossible without the direct involvement of the scientific world, serving the most unbridled greed.

The world of science is not composed of superior beings, but by normal people, so corrupt, greedy and unconscious as it can be any other human group.

But back to focus again on the world of medicine and the perverse logic "disease = money" and the arguments that can be held against this claim.

No doubt there will be many people who will say that:  "the disease is inherent to human life and nature and activity of medicine consists precisely in fighting the disease"

That is to say, will conclude that the role of the medical and pharmaceutical industries is to fight against diseases and therefore a logical and natural, the inevitable appearance of the disease brings benefits to both industries, without them having to blame for it .

But is it possible that medicine and pharmacy focus your efforts and your business on health  and not on the disease?

Let's reason it out.

For this model to be feasible, the doctor should only make money while the patient was healthy.

And stop win him while he was sick.

3 above equations medical-pharmaceutical business would become the following:

GAIN ILL = NULL
HEALTHY = MONEY
DEAD = GAIN VOID

Thus, the medical focus their efforts on their patients maintain health all the time, preventing disease before it appeared and therefore studying and addressing its causes  rather than their consequences .

And if the patient fell ill, the doctor would endeavor to return as soon as possible to its healthy state, to earn money back with him and keep their professional standing.

The pharmacist's role would be complementary and would basically provide those products needed to strengthen and prolong the patient's health, and if, necessary to combat the disease when it appeared.

As we can see, according to this model, the pharmacist would be more related to the world of nutrition with chemistry.

This way of working, that many people may seem fanciful, and has worked previously.

Recall that in ancient China, doctors were paid a salary to keep their patients healthy and stopped perceive when they became ill, a fact that negatively affected their professional prestige and therefore in profits.

Do you think, then, an absurd model?

Need more absurd than a medical-pharmaceutical industry that makes money only when you are sick?

Clearly, as our society is structured, this model is very difficult to apply, despite being much more logical and potentially beneficial to the patient.

And when they arrived here, perhaps we should ask why since its inception medicine opted for a model in which the gain is associated with the disease, not health?

And the answer can not be sadder: everything revolves around  power .

The disease is an exceptional period of crisis in the life of a person, in which the sick, desperate, is willing to give or pay whatever it takes to save his life and the doctor stands as the only figure capable to to get it.

For that reason the medicine focuses on disease, because it is the most critical situation involves grabbing power and authority flowing from the patient to the doctor.

We have seen throughout history, where even kings and emperors have bowed to their doctors.

However, if the medicine focus its efforts in maintaining the health of the patient, the crisis associated with the disease run against the doctor, because during its course lose social prestige and desaprovecharía that unique opportunity in which the patient is willing to give more money, power and authority to your doctor.

Therefore, medicine has not evolved around the concept of health; it has about authority and social prestige.
And profits they entail.

And these benefits can only be obtained through the  disease .

A completely opposite operation than it should be.

This is the great contradiction of medicine.

It is based on simple mechanisms so that anyone can understand.

However despite having it in front of our noses, the world is closing its eyes to this reality so obvious.

And it is that the world is not full of blind, but people who do not want to open my eyes ...

GAZZETTA THE APOCALYPSE

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