Incurable diseases like IBS and Crohns and a profit conspiracy ?!

Incurable diseases like IBS and Crohns and a profit conspiracy ?

Incurable diseases like IBS and Crohns and a profit conspiracy ?

So this guy walks into this old country doctors office and says,

Patient: " doctor the antibiotics you gave me for my respiratory infection seems to have cleared up my intestinal problems I have had, ( that I didn't tell you about, because I had gone to see a specialist about this some 15 years ago).

Old Country Doctor: "What were your symptoms ?"

Patient: "intestinal problems......."

Old Country Doctor: " seems like you had giardia" (a bacterial parasite)

Patient: "I went to see the SPECIALIST and he told me I had IBS, a disease of unknown cause and cure."

So the specialist, said one thing, incurable, and the old country doctor said a simple infection, giardia that could be cured and treated.

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Is there a conspiracy to make symptoms into incurable diseases ?

It is unlikely for there to be an overt "conspiracy", i.e doctors knowing that they are misdiagnosing patients in order to turn greater profits. However, this doesnt stop them from being inept and sloppy. First of all, IBS is supposed to be a diagnosis of exclusion, used when all other explanatory avenues have been exhausted. Instead, it has morphed into a disease entity of its own...symptoms that are consistent with IBS are attributed to it, as if IBS was a causative agent. It should be a diagnosis of last resort, not first resort. Parasites are in fact quite common in the US, and should always be tested for in the presence of mysterious gastrointestinal symptoms. There is no excuse for doctors diagnosing patients with IBS without a thorough investigation, which is often done. However, it is worth inquiring into why medicine is practiced so poorly in this regard.

A really interesting way to explain these things is given by Dr. Leo Galland, who argues that modern medicine is disease-centered rather than person-centered. Its theoretical framework, which sees diseases as independent entities with their own reality, is fundamentally misguided. This focus on "disease entities" helps explain the absolutely bizarre attitudes that many doctors have towards IBS. I have to go to bed....check out the book below if this interests you!