The opioid crisis has shown just how little the medical industrial complex knows what it’s doing. Dr. Gary Franklin, a faculty member at the University of Washington School of Public Health, called the crisis the worst man-made epidemic in modern medical history.
Over three decades ago the cause of chronic pain and the solution was discovered by Dr. John Sarno. But because his findings didn’t fit the medical model, he was ridiculed and ignored. To their credit, about three dozen medical doctors did train with Dr. Sarno and successfully use his methods. Meanwhile, over 100 million people in the U.S. suffer from chronic pain.
It wasn’t as if Dr. Sarno was hiding under a rock; he worked in New York, wrote best-selling books, and appeared on the TV shows. He also helped famous people like Lauren Bacall, Howard Stern, Larry David, golfer Ben Crane and U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin, who had Dr. Sarno testify at a Senate select committee on chronic pain in 2012. But few listened.
As a result, the arrogance, ignorance and greed of would-be modern medicine is largely to blame for this current and preventable crisis. The doctors and pain specialists and hospitals and insurance companies and the legal drug cartels are all responsible for the mess and should be held accountable for raking in obscene profits on the backs of people who are suffering in the worst way possible.
The medical monopoly is as blind as it gets. Don’t wait for them to see the light; they’re the ones whose eyes and minds are closed. Sadly, Dr. Sarno passed away in 2017; hopefully, one day his children can pick up his Nobel Prize in medicine.
Ted Neff
Edmonds
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