By Michael Dorausch, D.C.
This weeks online issue of the British Medical Journal (BMJ) is just fabulous. Here are some of the topics discussed… From the Editorial section comes an article titled, “Too much medicine?” The response? “Almost certainly” reads the article.
The article suggests that some forces, such as the internet and patients’ empowerment might lead to “de-medicalization.” However, others are encouraging even greater medicalization than we have today.
The following has been said in so many ways on this website by many different authors, but this sums it up well… “People are conditioned to get things rather than to do them… They want to be taught, moved, treated, or guided rather than to learn, to heal, and to find their own way.” The article was authored by Ray Moynihan and Richard Smith, here is a direct link.
Also from this weeks BMJ, an article titled, “When is a disease a ‘non-disease’?” The slippery slope of disease labeling, the BMJ conducted a vote and found the top ten non-diseases. No, you are not necessarily sick if you have the following and these are not diseases… ageing, work, boredom, baldness, freckles, gray hair (visit the site for the complete list).
Another article in this weeks BMJ, “Obstetricians have medicalized childbirth.” I am reminded of a story a chiropractor recently told me. He and his wife had decided to have their children at home (in the 1970’s) and when telling their friends the news they received the reply, “Isn’t that illegal?” Think about it.
Get this weeks BMJ before it is archived.
Links To Articles
BMJ Homepage Link
Yahoo News: Are Everyday Problems Being Dubbed ‘Disease’?
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Editors Note: Notice the trend? It may not be long before a larger group of them are doing what we do and a larger group of us are doing what they do. Unfortunately, they want to do what we do because what we do works. We want to do what they do because we don’t want to work.
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