The problem with government is it oversteps itself too often. It legislates where angels fear to tread.
For instance, in 1770s, the medical procedure of the time was to use leaches to bleed a patient. If a patient was strong enough, then he or she might even get better. The physician could then claim his “cure” worked.
In the current world, our legislatures would then declare that bleeding a patient was a cure for everyone and make legislation to insure that was the only way to cure that disease. They would make that “cure” part of the law, legislating that all physicians everywhere could only treat a patient by “bleeding” them.
Don’t think that could happen? It all ready has. The “cure” for cancer is to place radioactive isotopes in the body in hope of poisoning the cancer out of a person. This has been made a law so that it takes the other options off the table for a physician. Physicians are restricted by law to prescribing only certain medicines for certain diseases by the FDA.
Dentistry has similar laws. The Dentist has only certain legal options in dealing with a patient.
These laws consistently tie the hands of qualified doctors. The laws are often 50 years out of date.
The American Medical Association is protecting its wallets. That is the (Read More....)
