Imagine finding out, after two back surgeries and recurring pain, that all you had was a torn muscle that could have been repaired with a non-invasive therapy called platelet-rich plasma (PRP) that stimulates the healing of bone and soft tissue.
Or imagine learning about natural, effective treatment for balancing hormones after years of suffering from night sweats, hot flashes, weight gain, and other symptoms of menopause and being told by your physician that all they can do is prescribe sleeping pills, antidepressants, and pain killers.
Don’t waste another minute feeling terrible when you can enjoy your post-reproductive years.
Dr. Erika Schwartz, an expert physician in the fields of natural hormone therapies, anti-aging and disease prevention and author of Don’t Let Your Doctor Kill You: How to Beat Physician Arrogance, Corporate Greed, and a Broken System, wants you to own your life and your health. She says that when it comes to your healthcare, there’s only one person who should be in the driver’s seat, and that’s you.
“Patients need to say to their doctors: you are not going to touch me or do anything to me because I’m not going to be your victim,” Dr. Schwartz says. “Either you’re going to be my partner, and support, encourage, and care for me, keeping me healthy, or I’m out of here.”
Dr. Schwartz helps patients live their best lives by focusing on prevention, a theory she says conventional medicine needs to practice in order to survive. Stanford researcher Randall Stafford, MD, PhD, agrees in a New England Journal of Medicine article that healthcare should be about the patient, not special interest groups, like insurance and pharmaceutical companies.
“You’re better off with no healthcare than the quality of care typically provided,” Dr. Schwartz says. She practices conventional medicine at Evolved Science in New York City, where patients are welcomed into a warm, compassionate environment, and her team of doctors helps them live healthier and better-balanced lives.
“I ran a trauma center for five years,” Dr. Schwartz says. “I know people need emergency care if they get hit by a bus. But the hospital should be a last resort.”
“I give talks to physicians and medical students,” says Dr. Schwartz. “When I wrote this book 14 years ago, we wouldn’t be having this conversation because everyone would have thought I’d lost my mind. But today, more people are searching for answers. There are a lot of mistakes being made in healthcare. Now mainstream medicine is seeing how bad, uncaring healthcare and physician arrogance is leading to terrible outcomes.”
Now more than ever, people need to take healthcare in their own hands.
Vanessa Sheets is a freelance journalist whose health articles have appeared in print and online magazines and business websites.
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