Command central

Modern medicine does many wonderful things, but it is also responsible for many terrible things.

Mistakes have high consequences that are easily passed over as simple errors that are to be expected from such a high volume of tests, operations, and human interactions. It is understandable, unless it is close to home.

I recently spent a considerable amount of time and money on a kidney doctor I was referred to for blood pressure control and he did me no good in the long run. In fact left me with soaring blood pressure readings on four occasions. When he re-prescribed the very same medicine he had already ruled out, I left. In the end I found my own way to lower my blood pressure over thirty points.

Thirty four years ago I had a similar experience with a dentist who referred me to a gum specialist. They both told me I would lose all my teeth due to gum disease if I didn't undergo a radical cleaning that meant exposing all the roots of my teeth and going through years of therapy with them. I didn't do it and my teeth are in great shape.

The health of my body is a holistic endeavor and I am in the very center of it all.