The Billion Dollar Business

Let us not forget that medicine saves lives but medicine is also a billion dollar business and the patients are the cash cows. Most medical interventions and medicines aren't meant to save lives or make you feel better, they're to make the business money! If you're looking for compassion and care, you surly won't find it through your HMO or local hospital. Nurses are usually the ones who provide care and compassion. Like life medicine is not a perfect science. There is something to be said of traditional medicine being combined with homeopathic medicine. Once that is embraced we may see a healthier society. In nursing school we are taught to take care of our patients holistically. When insurance companies and hospitals stop treating patients like drive-thru customers at Burger King than I might respect the establishment. The "Get in:Get out: Get on with you life." approach hasn't been working for the better for quite sometime now. All I or anyone else in the medical field can really do is start on the home-front and care compassionately for the patients whom cross our path. We can treat these people with dignity, compassion, and holism just as it should be, no matter, race, creed, gender, or financial status. I mean can anyone tell me how the hell Dick Cheney was able to get a heart transplant??? I seriously doubt he was the ideal candidate. It all comes down to money.

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