How well do you think that is being adhered to today?
My 13 year old boy has flat feet that turn outwards. Though I'm not a doctor, I believed it related to his spine and legs. No, I was told to go see a podiatrist and the referral was written.
The day arrived and we were ushered in. I'm sitting across from my boy when the doctor walks in, looks at him for less than a minute, and proceeds to tell me he will have to do a complicated surgery immediately. He won't be able to walk for a year and will have a steel plate for the rest of his life. Right in front of my son!
Do no harm? I was livid.
Cut into the feet of a healthy child?
Fortunately I'm not a parent that is cowed by a doctor. He is now doing daily exercises that are addressing the root cause which was his body's alignment issues.
I wish this was an isolated case. Being sold by a doctor for a $30,000 procedure (the insurance would pay for that, but not the therapy he is having), using fear tactics made me angry. But many people, who are skeptical of other sales "jobs" are afraid.
Look at the training the medical profession receives: it's all drug intervention and invasive surgeries.
While emergency operations and medications can sometimes save lives, the problem is that they've become the only way. Other means don't even come into their heads.
In searching for better answers, I found a rare gem; a place founded on the belief that the body is an amazing self-healing live "mechanism".
It seems archane: the idea that if you will give the body all the tools and nutrition it needs and stop overworking it while it's healing - it will go into high gear.
Named after the father of medicine, the Hippocrates Health Institute truly believes and practices "do no harm" as it teaches people how to create their own healing.
The experience I had at Hippocrates Institute was so completely different from the usual medical practice, I thought I had landed in paradise.
It seems like a miracle when the body goes into healing - from all manner of conditions: high blood pressure, diabetes, cancer and tumors.
