Modern Medicine is a JOKE

As I sit here coughing up what remains of my pathetic excuse for lungs (thank you upper respiratory infection, thank you soooo much)I find myself thinking about how ineffectual modern medicine really is.

Think about it

- Most of the time the side effects of the pill you are prescribed are worse than the original symptom
- Modern medicine usually only seeks to destroy the symptoms, no the actual problem itself
- Doctors tuition's are often paid by the pharmaceutical companies, thus making doctors beholden to pill manufacturers than the actual practice of healing- which is what they are supposed to be doing
- You are forced to pay an arm and a leg for the privilege of seeing a doctor
- Most people, even if they have insurance, don't want to go to the doctor because they don't believe in pills or don't have the money to pay the copay and the prescription, and god help you if you need a procedure or don't have insurance at all. Although I'm pretty sure they took a page out of Rumpelstiltskin's book and will take your first-born child in exchange for a ambulance ride
- Natural cures and health care alternatives are frowned upon and more often than not are not covered in medical insurance. Holistic healers and chiropractors and massage therapists are all apart of medicine, but because the pharmaceutical company holds the laughable health care system by the balls, they are trashed talked and stigmatized as "hippy healers" who don't actually do anything but light incense and pray to Buddha that you'll get better while giving you rutabaga root tea or something ridiculous rather than taking the time to understand and explain that these are actual alternatives.

Personally, I've been prescribed more pills than I can think of and quite frankly, I think I'm worse off. I was ESPECIALLY astonished when my doctor prescribed Neurontin (this is a VERY POWERFUL pain medication that literally stops your neurons from sending pain signals to your brain- I would NEVER take or recommend this pill to ANYONE) and it took almost six months to get feeling in my appendages- no joke. I still have problems with that because I took this pill for six months.

So, I think it's time we take it to the streets- the message that modern medicine is ineffectual, our health care system is a joke, and almost no one can afford to take care of themselves like they should any way.

SO LET'S DO IT PEOPLE!! FIGHT THE FIGHT! SPREAD THE WORD THAT WHAT WE HAVE ISN'T GOOD ENOUGH! THIS IS YOUR HEALTH! WE NEED CHANGE! WE NEED ALTERNATIVES! WE NEED SOMETHING THAT WORKS AND THAT WON'T BREAK THE BANK!

DOWN WITH THE PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES!!!! DOWN WITH THEM ALL!!!!