Current healthcare situation

[searching_for_help]

I know a lot of us have had problems with doctors not being open to the idea of PANDAS, Chronic Lyme, or anything else they're not aquainted with, and it's amazing the hostility some of them have toward the topics. Then when we find a LLMD, PANDAS or Intregrative Medicine doc willing to dig deep for the root cause, some mainstream allopathic docs sometimes refer to them as "quacks".

 

For anyone interested, the link below I think is helpful in understanding what's going on in healthcare. We need to be aware that those running the show might not have our children's best interests at heart.

 

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2009/jan/15/drug-companies-doctorsa-story-of-corruption/?page=1

[mama2alex]

Very telling article. Thank you for posting!

 

I've been wondering for a long time why so many "diagnoses" these days are just symptoms that point to a deeper underlying problem that most doctors won't even look at. I had some idea, of course, but this article really lays it out in detail. Medicine is simply a business now for too many.

[airial95]

Excellent article, the only thing missing is the third leg of the dysfunctional tri-pod driving medical decisions and diagnoses: the insurance companies. Their influence is almost as deep and corrupt as the pharmaceutical industry's!