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{It is also necessary to recognize that the primary purpose of the medical industry is no longer the “art of healing”, it has become a financial instrument benefiting investors.}

No truer words have been spoken. The one good thing to come of this is that eventually no one will trust westernized medicine again and seek alternates It's already happening as you see from some of the well known cures for covid. Medicine has truly become a trillion dollar business with absolutely no care nor guarantee's. Nearly half a million people die every year from medical malpractice.

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Not only that, healing is directly at odds with their financial interest as cured people no longer need their services. Thus the current model is to "treat" you as long as possible, perhaps for the rest of your life, using the most expensive means available.

Think about it, aside from antibiotics (and arguably some chemotherapies), what drug developed in the last forty years actually cures people? And even with antibiotics, virtually all of them are several decades old despite constant concerns regarding new drug-resistant strains. There's zero emphasis on new antibiotic development as there's no money in giving someone a pill for only ten days that cures them. Compare that to a patented statin (or similar med) one is supposed to take every day until they die.

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