We all believe that the modern medical system exists to serve the people. We believe that the doctors and the hospitals functions to cure our diseases.
But, does our medical system exist to heal our diseases? Is the primary purpose of the modern medical world to help people lead a healthy life? Do people’s health matter to the medical community? Is the medical system functioning for the goodness of the people?
Every day, our world is changing. The advent of science has improved the field of medicine in ways that amazes us. Every day, new devices and technologies are developed. We do open transplant surgeries. We have even started to engineer human organs.
But, shouldn’t the advancement of modern medicine help us reduce our diseases and illness? Shouldn’t we be healthier than the previous generation? Shouldn’t we live disease free?
Every year, a large number of new students, many of whom are great students, graduate and become doctors. New hospitals and pharmacies appear suddenly in the streets of all the towns all over the world.
And, we all have uncompromising faith in medical system. We claim that our doctors will heal our illness. We trust that the treatment they provide and the medicines they prescribe will cure all our physical ailments. We believe that the hospitals will save us from all the diseases.
So, we all have our own family doctors. We all feel proud to seek medical treatment from the largest hospitals. We discuss stories about how our doctors are the greatest.
But why are our diseases multiplying rather than declining? Why is the general population always in medications? Why is the mortality rate connected to illness always on the rise?
We may be influenced by the misleading statistics about the achievements of the modern medical system. But, aren’t new hospitals and medicals opening up everywhere only because of the increase in diseases and the increase in the number of patients? Is it not a sign that new hospitals being built everywhere a proof for the fact that we’re forced to live with diseases?
We may be misled by pinpointing the increase in the world population. But, isn’t the percentage of the sick people among the population also on the rise? Are we living the same years as our previous generations? Isn’t our mortality age always on the decline?
Wouldn’t we all be living healthy lives if the purpose of our medical system was to make us healthy? Shouldn’t we all be disease free if the fundamental goal of the medical advancements is to cure our diseases?
But, for the majority of our lives, how many of us are battling our lives with the physical discomforts, diseases and medications? How much of our hard earned savings is spent on medicine? Be it for ourselves, our parents, or our children, how many of us lead our lives without continually contributing to the hospitals and doctors?
Are we living a healthy lifestyle? Is our society disease-free? If not, what are the doctors actually doing to us? Why are these many hospitals and pharmacies functioning?
For the doctors to earn continuously and for the hospitals to gain huge profits, shouldn’t we all always be sick?
What will happen to hospitals if patient numbers drop down? What will the doctors say if we are cured of our diseases? What will happen to the medical pharmacies if we stop purchasing medications regularly? If we are all become disease-free and healthy, can the medical world function successfully?
These questions are not being raised to place blame specific doctors and hospitals. However, they are raised to understand that the doctors, hospitals, pharmacies, medical colleges, drug manufacturing companies, medical equipment companies, medical research institutes, drug discovery companies, medical insurance companies, and the ever-expanding world of medicine force us to battle our lives with diseases in order to ensure their financial success.
So, is it true that the medical system does not exist to cure people’s diseases? Is it true that we are all brainwashed and manipulated to live with diseases forever for the medical industry to be continually successful?
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