Comments on: Your Turn: A 10-point Marshall plan to right the doctor shortage http://www.nbharwani.com/2008/the-medical-post/your-turn-a-10-point-marshall-plan-to-right-the-doctor-shortage?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=your-turn-a-10-point-marshall-plan-to-right-the-doctor-shortage Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:38:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: John Miller http://www.nbharwani.com/2008/the-medical-post/your-turn-a-10-point-marshall-plan-to-right-the-doctor-shortage#comment-111 John Miller Thu, 02 Jun 2011 03:58:16 +0000 http://nbharwani.com/?p=594#comment-111 Noorali, I've thought about this. 1. We need fitter and healthier people. Too many people are suffering from the personally-generated metabolic, musculo-skeletal and psychological dysunctions. These are not the sorts of things that medical practitioners are not good at dealing with. In fact it's very hard to solve a fitness problem with a medical solution. More and more doctors are providing junk medications that mask the symptoms rather than encouraging their customers to go out and get themselves fit and healthy. The medical industry has perverted the course of health, fitness and wellbeing through it's association with Big Pharma. They've lost the plot. The damage is too great. We need less of them, not more. We should be discouraging people from going to them for non-medical advice and procedures. That, of course means creating a better deliniation between what's medical and what's not. 2. More people should be going to nurses for the sorts of things that are easy to fix up. 3. More and more people should be going to fitness practitioners for advice and programs to overcome the personally generated dysfunctions. They'll measure how fit people are, provide them with a program - and supervise it. Doctors are not good at doing that. 4. More people should be going to naturopaths for advice about healthy eating. 5. Too many people are going to doctors when they feel shidhouse. It should be straight off to a counsellor for a chat, not the chemist for a pill. They need exercise. A year's supply o0f vigorous aerobic activity outperforms a year's supply of Prozac. In short these professions should be elbowing themselves into the front line of primary health care. It's cheaper and the advice better because these people are specialists in their own field. The medical industry has priced itself out of the field and only survives due to masssive protection. Like all protected industries it has become bloated, inefficient and expensive. More and more people can't afford to go and see a doctor. More and more people will travel to other countries for medical procedures - especially having their teeth attended to. This is my intention. I can't afford $18,000 for four crowns. The medical model does not serve a sedentary society well. It's poorly equipped to keep people fit and healthy - and it's a big ask expecting to stay healthy without keeping yourself fit. On the other hand it is very good at treating medical complaints. Regards and best wishes John Miller http://www.fitandhealthyonline.com Noorali,

I’ve thought about this.

1. We need fitter and healthier people. Too many people are suffering from the personally-generated metabolic, musculo-skeletal and psychological dysunctions. These are not the sorts of things that medical practitioners are not good at dealing with. In fact it’s very hard to solve a fitness problem with a medical solution.

More and more doctors are providing junk medications that mask the symptoms rather than encouraging their customers to go out and get themselves fit and healthy.

The medical industry has perverted the course of health, fitness and wellbeing through it’s association with Big Pharma. They’ve lost the plot. The damage is too great. We need less of them, not more. We should be discouraging people from going to them for non-medical advice and procedures.

That, of course means creating a better deliniation between what’s medical and what’s not.

2. More people should be going to nurses for the sorts of things that are easy to fix up.

3. More and more people should be going to fitness practitioners for advice and programs to overcome the personally generated dysfunctions. They’ll measure how fit people are, provide them with a program – and supervise it. Doctors are not good at doing that.

4. More people should be going to naturopaths for advice about healthy eating.

5. Too many people are going to doctors when they feel shidhouse. It should be straight off to a counsellor for a chat, not the chemist for a pill. They need exercise. A year’s supply o0f vigorous aerobic activity outperforms a year’s supply of Prozac.

In short these professions should be elbowing themselves into the front line of primary health care. It’s cheaper and the advice better because these people are specialists in their own field.

The medical industry has priced itself out of the field and only survives due to masssive protection. Like all protected industries it has become bloated, inefficient and expensive. More and more people can’t afford to go and see a doctor.

More and more people will travel to other countries for medical procedures – especially having their teeth attended to. This is my intention. I can’t afford $18,000 for four crowns.

The medical model does not serve a sedentary society well. It’s poorly equipped to keep people fit and healthy – and it’s a big ask expecting to stay healthy without keeping yourself fit.

On the other hand it is very good at treating medical complaints.

Regards and best wishes

John Miller

http://www.fitandhealthyonline.com

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