Wish I knew.... Medical science (don't laugh out loud folks - I'm being serious for a change) has been responsible for providing solutions to control many illnesses and diseases and making life bearable and fruitful for thousands/millions who would otherwise have been doomed to a painful and dismal existence - if they had survived childbirth in the first place. Despite this, there will always be those who mistrust modern medicine. Just one of those traits that make populations into people I suppose.

There are certainly instances where members of the medical profession have behaved despicably, and also where the whole business of modern health care has one helluva lot to answer for, but all in all, we have to ask ourselves if this the fault of medicine or people's greed. Tell you one thing, I trust our family doctors, and I also trust the chiropractor and naturopath we have occasionally consulted. Just as I trust the hospitals where lives are saved every day. You get to know them, and the good ones work hard and with all due care to offer the best service they can for the particular complaint you've got.

Sure, there are practitioners who act unethically or incompetently, just as there are quack pseudo-natural healers, downright dangerous folk remedies, and hospitals where the staff are so over-worked that systems fail and patients suffer the consequences. But whose fault is that? Not medical science (either traditional or modern) - and not the capable practitioners of it. So it's not only unfair to tar everybody with the same brush - it's also downright dangerous to your own health if you deliberately refuse to take the best advice that a reputable practitioner offers. How to tell a reputable practitioner? That might be a little difficult if you refuse to trust anybody! Ask around... see what their reputation in the neighbourhood actually is.

What I'm not keen on are the businesses that make their money out of the misery suffered by those who can't afford to pay exorbitant prices..... Read the thread on health care in the US and think yourself lucky!