medical profession

The Medical Profession (back to 5 Doors To Healing page)

The medical profession has a great deal of expertise in traumatic injury as well as diagnosis, important fields. Then there are so many specialists - for every part of us! There are many people (and some of these MDs too), who are also interested in looking at the complete person and their energies, looking at healing from that perspective. These ideas have grown a large field of what has become to be known as complementary medicine. Sometimes known as alternative medicine, it doesn't have to be that! In using many ways to increase energy to all our systems, knocking on all the doors, we are able to achieve great understandings and regain our vibrant health!

MDs with a holistic outlook:

Dr Robert Silverstein - The

Although not "Medical Doctor" MDs, the following doctors have letters and degrees after their names for their years of study! We have a number of doctors in our area.

Naturopathic - These doctors may recommend dietary guidelines, herbal or homeopathic remedies.

Fran Storch, ND - Mansfield, CT. Radio Naturopath on WHUS 91.7 FM Wed 10am - noon.

John Furlong, ND - Mansfield, CT

Homeopathic -

This modality uses small amounts of herbs, minerals, etc, and though scientifically still controversial, the effects of the vibrations of these substances can be felt! On the energy medicine page you will find links to many websites for discovering homeopathy.

Osteopathic

Acupuncture

Please read about this modality on the energy medicine page. You will also find listings of acupuncturists in our NE CT area

Chiropractic

As "everything is connected", when the small bones of the spine are nicely stacked and spaced, all those nerves and muscles attached there can do their best for us!

Doctors of Chiropractics study many years to become familiar with realigning of the bones of the body. Gentle pressure on their special tables on the correct location enables the movement for realigning to the correct place.

Letter from Gary Craig about multiple medication dangers:

The Menacing Mathematics of Multiple Meds

By Gary Craig

There's something scary about drugs that concerns a growing number of physicians and
should wobble the knees of every patient on the planet. It's obvious to any
mathematician but somehow has escaped the general scrutiny of the health industry.

It has to do with combining meds.

Ever since I can remember I have been fed the perception that drugs are
governmentally evaluated and thus are safe if taken under the guidance of competent
physicians. However, even if we accept the presumed safety for the ingestion of one
drug, we must ask ourselves how might that safety change if we take multiple drugs?

For safety assurances, proper testing should be done for every drug combination we
are advised to take. If we take Prozac and Tylenol, for example, we should be
presented with all the possible benefits and consequences before allowing these two
foreign substances to mix with the chemicals our bodies already create. Same thing
goes for combining Paxil with Viagra or Interferon with Lipitor.

The list of possible problems here is monstrously long because there are a b'zillion
drugs and mega b'zillions of combinations. Nonetheless, I've never seen or heard of
any studies that test any of these combinations ... have you?

Thus, if you take two drugs, the odds of their combination having been adequately
tested for safety are skimpy at best. But if you take 3 or more drugs the danger
possibilities multiply even faster.

Here's how the mathematics work: If you take 3 drugs then adequate safety testing of
the various combinations require 7 separate tests. If you take 4 drugs the
combinations require 25 separate tests. If you take 5 drugs it amounts to 121
tests. If you take 10 drugs the number of required safety tests total 362,881.

The conclusion here should be obvious. Namely, there is questionable safety testing
if you take 2 drugs and nominal, if any, safety testing if you take 3. Beyond that
you are clearly into the land of, "I have no idea what these combinations of drugs
will do."

To me, this tosses our dedicated docs into a tenuous position. They have patients
with problems who aren't willing to exercise, eat right, do EFT for emotional
issues ( http://www.emofree.com/a/?1406 ) or much of anything else to help their
own health. Instead, the patients hope the physicians will produce a magic pill (or
pills) to make their problems go away.

I have met many patients who are on several drugs and take some drugs to counteract
the effects of other drugs. As a non-physician I look at this with a shudder.
These folks are being fed chemical cocktails with little or no safety testing behind
the combinations. Maybe I need some help with my perceptions here but, to me, they
are playing drug roulette.

I don't know if lawyers have picked up on the simple, but compelling, math here.
But I do know that I wouldn't want to be a doctor in court facing these clear facts.

In the 15+ years I have been involved in the health field, I have had the good
fortune to count many physicians as my personal friends. With few exceptions, they
agree that it is our lifestyles, diets and emotional stresses that cause most of our
health problems ... and ... the vast majority of these problems would vanish if
people would live common sense lives. Yet patients repeatedly abuse their bodies
and ask for more and more "miracle drugs" as the convenient solution. I don't envy
the docs at all as I often hear them complain that this is a highway to
NobodyWinsVille.

Maybe what we really need are good salespeople to persuade folks to take care of
themselves. I suspect that, if truly persuasive, they would do more good than the
ocean of drugs at our disposal.

Love, Gary

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Also there are physicians who actually cure with nutrients, I hope the following site will be helpful to more than a few of you. Longevity or Anti Aging Doctors. The American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine (773)528-4333 or www.worldhealth.net or Directory of Innovative Doctors Published by the Life Extension Foundation: (800)544-4440 or www.lef.org click on "Innovative Doctors"