It seems like to me it is momentum. Like I said in another post, I don't think my doctor has ever had anything but my best interest at heart. Same goes for his nurses and staff.

It just seems like an industry heads down a certain path then it is hard to change course or for the powers that be to admit that they were wrong. So they cling on to the familiar and change only takes place at a glacial pace. That and upper management has responsibility to make profit and the status quo is profitable. Not much profit for the medical industry to get people healthy or prevent disease. A lot of money and jobs in treating disease.

So at the individual level, I think the majority of people in medicine are good people trying to do their job correctly and professionally. When I or my wife needed to go into the hospital, I was glad they were there and they did a great job. So I don't see it as some big conspiracy to make people sick on purpose. Are there bad actors? Certainly. There are in farming or any other occupation. Get a few up the ladder that are crooks and they can affect many things down stream. But for the rank and file in the medical industry, they just go to work and try to do their job and feed their family.

We farmers get bashed for the way we "factory" farm and how farming has changed. Yet I don't ever remember any big conspiracy for farmers to corrupt the farming industry and turn it into what it is today, I just remember trying to do the best job I could and prosper within the confines of the industry I operated in. I never imagined things being the way they are now in farming back in 1972 when I graduated high school. I don't think the medical profession, at least at the individual level, did much different. They just took advantage of the opportunities within the realm of their industry. In both cases there may have just been incentives put forth for the industries to proceed in what might not have been the best direction.

And we as individuals certainly have our share of blame to shoulder in the modern health debacle. It certainly would have helped me to know 20 years ago what I know now. But would I have implemented the changes I have recently made? For sure not all, probably not nearly enough. When we are younger we think we are bullet proof, and sometimes treat our bodies that way.

The important thing for me now is do the best I can with what time God gives me left on this earth. I an sooooo glad I have discovered the new to me information when I have. My wife sure wishes we would have discovered it before a couple knee operations, as well as a couple organs removed. I think it would have helped some of those issues had we started this ten years earlier.

I don't want anyone to do anything because I think it is a good idea. But if I can expose them to new ideas, research and experts so they can make their own determination and do their own due dilligence, then that gives me a feeling of "giving back" of the so many many blessings I have had in my lifetime.

John