Immune for life: your doctor versus your "doctor within"

IMMUNE FOR LIFE: YOUR DOCTOR VERSUS YOUR "DOCTOR WITHIN"
I was describing the "doctor within" and the immune system recently to a friend of mine. He said, "What's the problem, Arnie? If I get sick, I go to my doctor and he'll give me a shot to fix my immune system."
Unfortunately, our medical system is not the answer. You see, we don't have a health-care system in this country, we have a disease-care system. Disease is fussed over. People suffering from obscure and "glamorous" diseases are given the medical red-carpet treatment. Millions of dollars, hundreds of journals and some of the best minds in this country are devoted to disease. Medical students spend most of their time studying rare diseases and practicing crisis medicine, instead of learning to prevent disease by protecting the "doctor within." And health? It gets lost in the shuffle.
Our medical system has been captured by the disease-loving "Band-Aid philosophers" of medicine, who pay homage to such high-tech procedures as coronary artery bypass surgery, various chemotherapies, plasma electrophoresis, PTCA (percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty), CAT scans and, lately, MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) scans.
These surgeries and machines are exciting: it's high-tech glamour. What doctor wouldn't want to be in an operating room, replacing one heart with another? Isn't the chance to play God more fun than trying to teach people to eat and think properly? Sure it is, but it doesn't work. There is no Band-Aid that can restore good health once it's gone.
Our medical system has been led astray. And so our medical researchers concentrate on building new hearts, not on keeping the old ones strong and healthy. Hospitals are filled with tons of amazing machinery that can do everything but give people back their health. Bigger and better machines, more surgical techniques, artificial organs; it's a wonder that there's any room left for patients in our medical system.
Doctors are paid large fees to perform surgery, office procedures and laboratory tests. They are paid very little for spending time listening to their patients, for carefully going over their medical and personal histories, for teaching them how to change their life-style. And they are paid nothing for preventing disease.
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