Here I sit this afternoon, with the back getting worse by the hour, with at least three calls into different people trying to get me into a spinal specialist sometime this week. I won't delve into the gritty details about how many times I've struggled to prove my point, and even to shout them down in order to get that point across.
It makes me wonder: Is the healthcare industry ready for the up-and-coming generations as they get older and we get larger & more diverse? At the same time companies are cutting back benefits, we get scare bulletins on occassion that say we better be careful how to eat, how to breathe, and so forth.
Nothing in this world seems to be healthy for you anymore, and yet there's precious little quality medical care available to help us? It reminded me of a computer blog entry I made last April addressing these scare tactics. It's divided into two parts... enjoy.
Humans do not possess an infinite life-span, and were never intended to do so. Early biblical teachings pontificate that Adam and his descendants would live to ages approaching 800-900 years... What makes modern media and medical science believe that such a life is possible: scare tactics or hard evidence?
One could argue a bit for both, although the common physical logic will drown out the hard evidence. We live in a world filled with scare tactics, designed only to hold our attention more than it was held during the previous tactic. Common physical sense tells us that we have beliefs that drown out what the media is saying. In this case, we know we will not live forever. Predestined or not, our demise will be recorded at the appropriate time...
But why has medical science touted breakthroughs in increasing life expectancy for decades now? Our life span is easily a decade longer now than in the early 1900s. Cures have been found for a barrage of diseases and many more are in research. Does this give them the right to insinuate that we can live to be 100-150 years old in the near future? Think for a moment what that would do to the population of the planet, which is increasing at an alarming rate and whose citizens of impoverished countries cannot feed their own.
Look also at the pronouncements made by groups like the AMA, which offers "scare" bulletins every month or so, saying that something-or-other will cause cancer in a person. That point alone is my focus here.
An "All in The Family" character, Justin Quigley (age 92) once said, "They make all sorts of remedies to make us live longer, then they don't know what to do with us."
(Conclusion below)
