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The Unsatisfactory Mirages of Purely Chemical Medicine Healthcare

ned hoke   (7 April 2006)

The Unsatisfactory Mirages of Purely Chemical Medicine Healthcare 7 April 2006
ned hoke, ecological medicine USA Send response to journal: Re: The Unsatisfactory Mirages of Purely Chemical Medicine Healthcare	Any significant national discussion of priorities for more effective public spending for health simply must address the uncomfortable truths hidden in plain sight. Conventional healthcare has become mostly an industrially produced artefact absent much of the most basic positive biology known to sustain and benefit real health. The delights of chemical denial, the many charms of successful commerce and the ease of service providing all have created an ineffective monster that is both enormously expensive, wonderfully successful in many ways but hardly a full expression of what a rational and humane national health system needs to be. The costs discussion simply further bury and distract one from an essential central unresponded-to reality Competing interests: None declared