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Western medical science and America's
substitute medical treatment
Socrates, the first person in the world to think about medical science once said that
all living things had natural healing powers given by god, and that when we get sick, only
when our natural healing powers were not suffficient enough to heal that sickness, doctors
and medicines should help heal that sickness . However , as time passed , western medical
science began not to accept this natural healing powers. This meant that when a medicine
was given to 100 peaple, all that counted was how many people recovered by that medicine.
Even if some peaple recovered by that medicine, it the number was small, medicine was not
accepted. Now, a recent article claims that this view of medical science is changing,
mainly in the USA. This change began about 10 years ago. A trend to turn to substitute
medical treatment to receive treatments not possible by western medical acience to grow
stronger. nearly half of American citizens, mainly those higher social status, began to
expect for subtitute medical treatment during illness instead of western medical
treatment. Why ? American reports as much as annual 106,000 deaths due to medical canker.
This ranks forth place in America's cause of death. Although Japan does not report such
deaths, death due to medical canker does occur in Japan as well.
Thus, Americans feel that:
(1)Western medical treatment lacks kindness!
(2)There are too much side effects
(3)The medical expenses are too high
30,000,000,000,000 yen is spent annually on medical expenses in USA. In
the future, the younger generation will have to bear all of it. To make things worse, the
expense is increasing by 1,000,000,000,000 yen per year. People began to demand for a
treatment that is more kind, had less side effect and cheaper. By 1990s, National Cancer
Research Institute of America began to make plans to use less anticancer drugs, which has
serious side effect, and more medication that is more natural and kind to the human
beings.