Sustainable Medicine: Power to the Patients

All that I was allowed to do for patients was that which is “evidence-based,” and that evidence base certainly does not include one’s own years of experience.

Doctors should be patients’ advocates, fighting as hard as they possibly can for what they believe is the best treatment for each patient. Instead, many doctors have become what I call “defenders of the faith.” The problem is that the “faith” is laid down by Big Pharma, who manipulate drug trials in order to achieve favorable outcomes (and incomes!). As a result, medicine today no longer follows a logical and independent science base. The current system of post-graduate medical education is akin to mothers learning about nutrition from advertisements posted by the food industry.

I believe modern Western Medicine has lost touch with patients. What patients actually want is an answer to the question of why they have developed their particular problem, followed by which factors need to change to allow improvement. In my effort to answer these questions, my practice of medicine has evolved from what I learned through conventional training at the Middlesex Hospital in London to something very different. Now, I focus on looking for the causes of problems with respect to diet, micronutrient status, allergies, and lifestyle changes. This approach is highly successful at tackling the majority of medical problems.