It has been my observation that doctors and many would-be doctors, from dietitians to faith healers, are extraordinarily successful in curing diseases that don't exist.
The expansion of certain diseases to huge numbers of previous unsuspected afflicted souls is worrisome to this ignorant soul.
I was startled recently to discover that Bill Gates is autistic. A google search will quickly reveal this awesome news and even purported admissions from Mr. Gates himself. Such news is rather surprising considering the hallmark of autism is language difficulties so severe that most autistics never learned to speak. Bill Gates doesn't seem to have ever been noticeably impaired when promoting his dang Windows like Albert Einstein was in trying to tell the world about relativity that nobody understands yet.
My list of expansive diseases that ranges from autism to osteoporosis is a rather lengthy one and perhaps does not give full credit to the many healers who would, for example, prevent vaccination to keep a Bill Gates from having trouble foisting Windows on the unaware.
Sunday mornings on the regular network shows are not just devoted to politicians prescribing solutions for all the world's problems but also many heartwarming stories of healers curing all manner of maladies.
Here is one fellow who apparently is 100% successful in curing a disease:
Muriel
John Lee, M.D. has treated fibrocystic breast disease with success for decades. He writes: "Muriel came into my office at age 50 with exercising woman with fibrocystic breast diseasemultiple scars on both breasts from seven different excision biopsies, all of which found dense fibrocystic breasts. She readily admitted chronic cancer anxiety. In addition, she suffered from reactive hypoglycemia. She performed breast self-exams routinely and the finding of each new lump aroused fear and trepidation because of her cysts. Now, at menopause, she wanted hormone replacement therapy. Instead of traditional HRT (hormone replacement therapy), I recommended physiologic dosages of progesterone without estrogen. Her fibrocysts disappeared within six months, her sense of energy and libido returned, her hypoglycemic episodes became a thing of the past, and her tennis game improved. Further , serial density (BMD) tests over the subsequent ten years remained good, and her cancer anxiety faded away with the improvement in her breasts."
This miraculous healing of even tennis problems has one problem, unlike Bill Gates' autism condition.
From the American Cancer Society:
Fibrocystic Breasts: A Non-Disease Fibrocystic Breasts
Fibrocystic changes are the most common cause of breast lumps in women ages 30 to 50. Although fibrocystic changes may also be referred to as fibrocystic disease, this is not a disease, but a condition. It can be known as cystic disease, chronic cystic mastitis or mammary dysplasia. This condition is not cancerous. At least 60% of the women in their reproductive years have "lumpy" breasts as a result of these non-cancerous conditions. This is a very concise and informative page about fibrocystic breasts.
Some women can get a bit hyster - er, concerned when this non-disease "condition" has a surgeon threatening to cut off their breasts.
You take my wife, for instance. Her doctor was somewhat less than pleased when she refused to sign the consent for removal of a breast if cancer was diagnosed following the biopsy because of the "condition." I discovered to my own personal perverted pleasure that my wife was a heroine to the nurses. One young nurse even whispered to my wife of her dread of going to the doctor with a lump in her own breast. That was long ago BTW when American doctors as a whole were adamantly opposed to the lumpectomies being performed in Europe.
A biotech with another cure for a non-disease with a common remedy for all sorts of things presents something of a dilemma for me.
Maybe you can yet see a problem with a non-disease that puts women on the operating table, among other things. I sure can. Less sure what can or should be done about it.