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On August 4th and 5th, 2020, we wrote 2 articles "Beginning the Journey to Healing" and Beginning the Journey to Healing - 2" about our experience with AMs and CAMs. Its not really possible to discuss AMs and CAMs in the United States without discussing profit margins in the mainstream Medical Industry in the United States or without definitions.
AMs - are Alternative Medicines, which really existed before the true advent of the discipline of science in the late 1800s and the subsequent advent of modern day Western Medicine in the United States as we know it today. While the roots of science in the pagan tradition of astronomy date back before the late 1800s. Science and modern Western Medicine as we know it today was not established until the late 1800s.
CAMs - Complementary Alternative Medicines - is essential the Medical Industry's (in the United States) answer to Alternative Medicines. The concern in the medical industry was that the Alternative Medicine industry would take away from the profit margins of the mainstream medical industry. Rather than see that happened they decided to treat this budding industry in the United States as a complement to their activities therein roping the Alternative Medicine back into mainstream medicine likely to the determent of the pursuit of this industry, which was to provide an alternative to an industry that continues to deliver poor health outcomes such as high morbidity, mortality and chronic disease driven by a desire to manage medicine rather than heal people to increase profit margins of Big Pharma while pocketing monetary incentives from the Big Pharma industry.
There is much to discuss regarding the lack of efficacy in the health care industry and the promises of the Alternative Medicine industry in the United States. Let us look at an example. As we stated we wrote what we hope to be a positive review of People's Pharmacy that we hope would hold. After a year later of following their recommendations we must follow up with our readers to let them know what we know now a year later.
We know now that People's Pharmacy is likely more of a CAM not a AM working in conjunction with the mainstream medical industry. They do not offer people an alternative to the mainstream medical industry rather their goal is to coax you back into the mainstream medical industry.
Their recommendations exploited potential addictions and medication side effects such as diabetes in this case, which they have a diabetes clinic. Without one test the medical professional of People's Pharmacy diagnosed the participant with the early stages of diabetes (a side effect of the recalled medication, which the patient did not have).
Their recommendations resulted in poor health outcomes and did not heal in anyway rather their recommendations were design to create disease they could then sell products for.
They were very experimental asking participant(s) to come in and try treatments to see what they would do with no knowledge of what they could do.
They want to be paid for their services but disclose in writing that their services can not be considered medical advice.
They do all of this, which seems to give them a sense of great comic relief.
Have you tried alternative medicines? What has been your experience? Because something mainstream, does it make it correct?
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