Great article @rycharde, "both the lab-rat and the cash-cow", yes.

Many years ago, I was at work when a friend called me. This friend was in and out of hospital at the time with severe Crohn's Disease. She told me her doctor had told her to have her gallbladder removed, and she had an appointment for the surgery in a few days. I lost it (quietly, since I was at work lol). I told her the guy clearly had his head up his ass. Anyone with an inflammatory autoimmune disorder that affects the intestines needs to have a working gallbladder, so that bile enters the intestines during digestion, and not in a constant slow drip whether or not there is food present to be digested. The idea of removing her gallbladder was sheer lunacy. I begged her to call my friend Adam, an acupuncturist and Chinese Herbalist, instead. After one appointment with him, the gallbladder pain was gone and she never had the surgery.

My takeaway is: people with medical degrees can't be trusted. There are competent and even brilliant ones out there, with integrity even, but many of them are corrupt and not all that intelligent. It's up to each of us to exercise our own discernment and not just take someone's word as gospel because of the fact that they're highly trained. Trained to dispense sometimes dangerous pharmaceutical drugs and to cut out necessary bits of the anatomy as a first line of treatment is not necessarily good training...