Your Body Is Not Qualified

One problem with technology and information in relation to healthcare is that the balance is becoming increasingly uneven. To put it simply, to know more data about a sick person is good, but applying that data to treatment is a skill and an art. Why? Because the human body is not static. When someone is sick, their body is fighting that illness and repairing things all by itself. The physician must be skilled, and experienced, enough to treat the body by helping it help itself. However, this technological age has great urge to push the body's self-regulation and self-repair aside (and sometimes even the physician!) and take over. Treatment can quickly become overbearing and actually harmful.

This imbalance is the realm where hysterias and snake oils thrive. For example, snake oils like homeopathic medicine take advantage on one side by exploiting the body's self-repair, and on the other side hysterias like certain vaccinations take advantage of exploiting over-regulation of a working system.

And in a society that has an unhealthy obsession with victimization and litigation, overuse and abuse of data in healthcare can become scary. It hammers a physician's practice into mindless and dangerous templates while completely insulting and assaulting the processes of the human body.

Add to this dangerous imbalance things like Big Pharma data manipulation and you've got a healthcare system that is scarcely connected to a human body's reality. It's a world where a Home Depot sales clerk controls what a plumber does at the jobsite.

The disconnect grows larger.

Solutions? Obviously less data manipulation, less litigation, and more common sense are in order.
Better public education, better skeptical skills, and increased science funding (and scrutiny!) can't hurt.










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