The difficulty in seeing an NHS doctor is symptomatic of a failed medical system, one which is currently dying on its feet - although it does not realise it yet! Is there are alternative?
This article arises from an email I received recently from WDDTY (What Doctor’s Don’t Tell You). I have subscribed to WDDTY for over 20 years now and I would recommend anyone who does not yet know what is wrong with conventional medicine to do so too. The magazine has long looked at what doctors don’t tell you but now, with the daily lottery of getting an appointment with a doctor, they are suggesting that doctors won’t even see us!
“The UK’s National Disease Service (sic) is on its last legs, mainly because its founders naively believed that medicine in general, and drugs in particular, actually cure people. Most drugs merely manage symptoms, and so the queue of people with chronic health problems grows and grows. One tactic to keep the system from completely falling over has been to stop people from ever seeing the doctor in the first place. The GP, or family doctor, is the gatekeeper to the NDS’s array of services, and he has set up an assault course that makes it close to impossible to book an appointment. UK readers will be all too familiar with the five-minute window when everyone in the neighbourhood who is unwell tries to phone in to grab one of those rare slots in the doctor’s calendar”.
So WDDTY began decades ago with a suggestion that doctors who would not tell you certain things about the treatment (s)he was giving you to one where doctors won’t talk to you at all!
The lack of honest, open, transparent information about conventional medical treatment is bad enough. The difficulty getting any information at all is one further stage along the road to total medical failure.
Do doctors have nothing to say?
Are they afraid to hear what we might say to them about the adverse effects of their treatment?
Have they got any treatment to offer you that is either safe or effective?
Do they still retain any confidence in the efficacy of their own treatment?
The UK’s National Health Service is free “at the point of need”. The great success of the NHS has been to convince (too many of) us that they have something of value to offer. Over the years they have bragged about miracle cures, magic bullets, that would transform medicine. Yet the great failure of the NHS has been that it offers only pharmaceutical, drug-based medicine that is both unsafe, and ineffective. The consequence is that we have increasingly large numbers of sick people, who believe that conventional medicine has treatment to offer which can help them. So they are willing to phone for an appointment at 8am. But the NHS has become an organisation that has lost its arrogance, its self-confidence in what it has to offer. So it now has to try to keep patients away.
This is a bizarre situation. For those living elsewhere, where health services are not ‘free’ at the point of need the situation probably seems even more bizarre. At least in other countries conventional medicine has to sell itself. It is not given away. So doctors must continue to see patients in order to convince them that the treatment they offer will be good for them. But this must be an increasingly difficult sales task.
The only solution to the 8am telephone scramble is for more people to realise that health provision, different types of health provision, exist outside the NHS. Broadly speaking, these are the natural medical therapies that have been banned within the NHS during the last 20-30 years.
Homeopathy is a good example. Once it could be accessed through the NHS. There were 5 homeopathic hospitals in the UK. I went to the London Homeopathic hospital in the early 2000’s because I was having heart palpitations. I no longer have heart palpitations. So thankfully I no longer have to join the 8am phone-call lottery.
Doctors themselves were once allowed to treat patients with homeopathy but this too has been effectively outlawed by the NHS. At that time the “doctors who won’t see you now” had access to a safer, more effective alternative to offer their patients. Now they are restricted to pharmaceutical drugs and vaccines which they are now realising can cause serious ‘adverse reactions’ - which in turn leads to more and more people phoning at 8am to get an appointment.
Towards the end of my working career I practiced as a homeopath. I regularly ‘lost’ patients - because they got better and no long needed medical treatment.
Alternative medical therapies have a lot to offer. But it is an offer that UK patients will not receive through the NHS. They are now offered only a long frustrating wait in a never-ending queue of increasing numbers of sick people.
