Originally Posted by
JamesNoBrakes
If it made doctors and drug companies a lot of money, it wouldn't be called alternative medicine.
Fixed it for you.
You know how many orthopedic and neurosurgeons I've had try to talk me into complex/risky back, hip and hand surgeries over the years due to sports injuries? Plus the non-stop pushing of drugs that would have kept me in a narcotic-induced semi-coma for the better part of 15 years if I had "just listened to the experts"?
Modern medicine is often (not always) a racket. As a country, we are way too inclined to cut and medicate for the profit of the medical-industrial complex. Sometimes you have to go that route, but there are often more effective and less risky alternatives.