Cancer, MS, to Crohns: Disease research scams ?!

Cancer, MS, to Crohns: Disease research scams ?

Disease 'research' scam ?

On the one hand the 'specialist" tell the patient, 'you have a disease, no cause no cure..."and on the other hand an old country doctor says 'you have a bacterial infection'.

One gives you no treatment, merely hope if you join the association to find a cure for IBS, for Crohns, for MS, for Cancer....the other doctor gives you a simple cause and cure.

So why the difference ?

Is the North American system of medicine all about keeping you sick, and treating you with drugs...?

I don't think it really works that way. Yes the drug makers and docs are greedy and over charge for meds. They do it because they know we will pay. They exploit it. But they have done what every good business wants to do. They have made their products a nessesity and are making money.

I also think that we are realizing that there are diseases behind the symptoms. Like in your example, instead of simply only treating the infection, we are looking at WHY there was an infection.

Many docs due try to convince patients to participate in trials, but if there were no trials there would be no new meds. And the patient can always so no. Even after they sign up they can change their mind.

I think NA medicine is about finding out everything we can about the diseases we face.

People keep saying that there is a cure for cancer and its something so easy and inexpensive and the drug makers dont want us to know. I would like for some of those people to get cancer and then follow their own proposed treatment. And if it really were true, they wouldnt hide it from us. They would pull it off al over the counter sales and make it the most expensive treatment ever.

Our medical community is greedy, but they are not liars.