I actually do like doctors- mostly

This is a reconciliation for all of the unkind things that I've been saying about the health care industry.
I actually do like doctors; I acknowledge that doctors generally learn to practice medicine because they want to help people. It's not the individuals for the most part, it's the culture and the opportunistic profiteering within the hospital/ clinical/ insurance system and the level of resources that go to middle men between patients and their physicians that I criticize. It's poorly tested and improperly administered pharmacuticals, its a tendancy to push everyone through, to omit simpler diagnosic methods in favor of more invasive and costly diagnostic and treatment approaches.

Doctors are good people, usually they will listen to patients if the patients have an idea of how they want their healing to proceed. Patients are just as responsible if not more so then doctors for the assembly-line approach that's practiced today. I recently wrote an article for AlterMed's cIMc conference and referenced an interview of the keynote speaker, Dr. James S.Gordon Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine 2006. This physician is groundbreaking read about his ideas at: http://www.cmbm.org/mind_body_medicine_PRESS/Press/2006/conversations-AltTherapiesApril2006.pdf
by the way he's got credentials, including a degree from Harvard and a lot of other stuff, check it out.