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The government takeover of healthcare has prompted me to re-write this part.  I will admit that the "healthcare debate" has slowed down my practice and has actually given me the time to write this report of my observations and my opinion of the same.

I have been at this same location for about four years now and during this time I have been witnessing a disturbing trend in the people of this country concerning their willingness to take responsibility for their own health.  It appears to me that this country believes that health comes from taking more drugs and getting more surgeries, when in fact health comes from taking less drugs, getting less surgeries, eating healthy diets, taking care of their human frame and nervous system.

So what do I base this on?  Just turn on your tv.  What percentage of tv advertising is devoted to pushing prescription drugs?  If not most of it, then a very large percentage of it is pushing drugs.  This would not continue if the public was not falling for it.  The success of the ads is evident at the long lines of any drug store in this country. 

I was visiting with an M.D. who is going through a diplomate neurology course with me in Dallas and he told me a story about drug demand by his patients.  He tells parents that drugs will not cure their children of acute otitis media but he still prescribes them to the children because "If I don't give them the drugs, then they will go somewhere else and get them, and then I will lose my patient."  This same M.D. knows well that chiropractic treatment is the treatment of choice for those children.

Most people, when told that posture affects their health, simply choose to ignore the information.  There is a growing body of evidence that supports this and attempting to disseminate this information was the way that I initially tried tried to promote my new clinic.  I also did posture screenings in conjunction with my school physical promotions.  Many of the children seeking school physicals have musculoskeltal conditions that relate to their posture.  I quickly found that parents were only interested in getting a signature on the form and nothing else.  No parent of a child with a postural problem ever sought to have their child's posture corrected!  So the children just grow up with bad posture and musculoskeletal conditions that are ignored until they become bad enough to become medicated.  This has been going on for years.  No wonder that the healthcare costs in this country are staggering!  But wait.  It is going to get worse because the kids are getting fatter all the time and they are showing up with high blood pressure which portends to early onset of Type 2 diabetes.  This is just what the drug companies want.  They want lifetime patients who have chronic ailments that can be medicated for decades.  Apparently the American public is naive enough to fall for it.  Just this day I walked into my living room and there was and M.D. on tv talking about the newly passed healthcare reform law.  He said that his public believes that the new health care plan will be a panacea for their healthcare problems when they are still going to have to pay out of pocket for most of what they really need.  Woe be to a nation and a people who think that having some kind of insurance is going to keep them healthy.

Here is another example of our people ignoring the information.  I visited with a man on Medicare the other day and he told me how he was going to see a doctor to see about getting his gallbladder taken out.  I asked him what kind of symptoms he was having and he described back pain.  He had been to another local chiropractor that gave him an adjustment and some therapy that pushed his already forward-body posture even farther forward, which made him feel worse.  I did a posture screening on him on the spot and then I told him that most likely he had a structural and neurological problem that was causing his pain and that he should come see me to find out for sure.  About a month later I saw him again and he said that he had that gallbladder taken out and that he still had the same symptoms.  He stated that the surgeon told him before the surgery that he did not know if the surgery would help his pain.  I told him once again that he should come see me.  He now has a myelogram scheduled with a neurosurgeon.  Now here is my problem with this fellow and the attitudes that he exhibits.  First, he has no concern whatsoever for what these unnecessary procedures cost Medicare or the people who pay for Medicare, which is me and the other taxpayers.  The other problem is that although he could afford my care, for which HE would mostly have to pay, he chooses to go with drugs and surgery.  I believe that if HE was actually paying the medical bills, he would be getting care that would actually improve his health.  That care would consist of improving his posture, improving how his nervous system works, taking nutritional substances that reduce inflammation and promote health, and exercise.  So after he gets the back surgery, what is next?  It will have to be more of the same as far as I am concerned because I won't be able to help him after that. 

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