Drugs don't cure anything. They might make you feel better in the short term by treating the sympton while your immune system is hopefully
able to fix the problem. Here's a fun article on cure. As previously mentioned, have fun and ask your doctor if the drug that's
being prescibed will actually cure your alleged problem. $ However, many doctors apparently believe they are God and don't like to
be questioned. He or she might fire you as a patient. Unfortunately, too many people today believe their doctor is God.
They
seldom question anything. They simply run to the pharmacy and begin popping pills.
The Emperor Has No Clothes The Doctor Has No Cures
Once upon a time (like almost yesterday, eh) in Canada, there was a parade
in a small town. The local doctor was in the parade, in a shiny red convertible.
As one family watched the parade, a small boy exclaimed
I want to be a doctor when I grow up, and ride in a shiny red convertible.
His sister, about 13 years old, responded I don't want
to be a doctor like him. He doesn't have any cures!
Don't talk like that, the mother interrupted, of course he has cures. Everyone
knows the doctor has cures. He just doesn't have them in the car, they're at the pharmacy.
The girls responds, knowingly, There are
lots of medicines in the pharmacy, but I can't find any cures there. And, I checked all of the medicines in our medicine cabinet.
None of them say cure either.
Why were you checking our medicines?, asked the mom, curious.
I'm writing a report for school about
cure. But when I went to the library and checked the medical dictionary, the word cure was not in the dictionary.
I can't
believe it the mom replied.
I couldn't believe it myself, the girl responded, So I went back the next day to check again. Our
library has the Oxford Concise Medical Dictionary, latest edition. The words cure, cured, and cures are not in the dictionary.
That's why I say doctors don't have cures.
How come you're writing a report about cure, when you don't want to be a doctor! the
boy challenged.
We were studying scurvy in school. Our book said that people from England were called Limeys because they learned
to cure scurvy with limes.
I had to write a report, but I thought everybody would write about scurvy so I decided to write about
cures. The problem was, I couldn't find any, except for penicillin.
So, then I went over to Suzie's house (Suzie is the doctors daughter), and we looked in one of the doctors big medical books. It's
called MERCK something. It has thousands of pages.
First we looked in the index for cure. But cure wasn't in the index. We looked
in the table of contents, which went on for pages and pages. But the word cure wasn't there either.
Then, I had an idea!, she said
with excitement, and we looked up scurvy.
And what did you learn?, asked the mom.
Well, scurvy is in the book. But there is no
cure. The book recommends a treatment with ascrobic acid, or something like that, and a healthy diet. But it doesn't say how to cure
scurvy.
Well, that's just silly, the mom gave a small laugh.
I still want to be a doctor, and ride in a red convertible! the boy
exclaimed.
The girl replied angrily, I don't want to be a doctor like that, I'd rather be a doctor who cures.
Cure: to stop the progress of an illness by addressing the cause
I have checked dozens of dictionary definitions of cure. There are
lots of definitions. Not a single one mentions cause. It's time for a change. It's time for a cure. Be-cause.
If an illness is caused
by a diet lacking foods containing Vitamin C, it is cured by a diet of foods containing Vitamin C.
If a disease is caused by eating
too many foods that are bad for you, it is cured by not eating those foods.