defeat competition, the people continued going to other systems.
They knew what they wanted and would not be denied.
Had the medical profession been right, competent to heal and give
all the answers, then there would be no need or place for
competition.
The medical profession has constantly used placebos that have
little or no value in the healing process. The Food and Drug
Administration has said repeatedly that a large proportion of the
drugs used by doctors have little or no ability to heal the conditions
for which they are used. Is not the irresponsible use of drugs (or
placebos) the real fraud? Does it become legal — or moral — to use
drugs just because one has a license to practice medicine? A fraud is
a fraud, regardless of who perpetrates it, particularly when the
patient is paying a high price for a useless product.
Another aspect of medical practice, noted briefly previously,
consists of those doctors who began to experiment with the
possibility of healing by cutting out diseased or affected parts. This
seemed a quick and practical solution to many problems.
Specialization gradually developed and highly skilled surgeons
became the elite in the medical field. From apparent, and sometimes
dramatic, "successes" (i.e., heart transplants — how successful
really?), came inflated egos and distorted thinking that all human
malfunctions could be solved by cutting in and cutting something or
anything out. It became a form of mania. They even had to operate
to see if they needed to operate! The end results, or the side effects,
of the operation were rarely considered; the doctor had done his job
well and what happened after that was not his concern. "The
operation was a success but the patient died!" The operation was
successful and the mere fact that the victim might be left crippled,