CNN just posted an article about long waiting time for a doctor appointment at the waiting office.

The article is focused mainly on gynecologists, but it can be easy related to other types of practice, where people are patient or not to seat and seat and seat on waiting room chairs.

As CNN writes, and as I remember from times I used to seek the help outside – one can wait between 15 minutes to hour an half.

People do all sorts of things while waiting; they read ” Prevention ” or other pharmaceutical periodicals, they talk on their carcinogenic cell-phones, they watch … pharmaceutical advertisements on TV, they get angry, because the doctor just does not show up.

One blogger even made a video while waiting and posted it on his website.

My question is : Do you value your time and your health enough to WALK AWAY AND LEARN how to be your own doctor ?

My husband is a Doctor Chiropractor and he is currently working on his PhD in Nutrition. I work with him sometimes and I see frustration people feel when they have to wait. Now, I am not saying, that the doctors are unnecessary. In some cases we need them and they can save our life. All I am opting for is choosing the practitioners that are focused on health and nutrition not the diseases.

Dr. Bob Martin and his ” A-ha ” Radio Show !

Three days ago I attended a lecture of very famous doctor Bob Martin that some of you may know from popular radio show he hosts. I went to the lecture out of curiosity and wanted to actually hear and see him in person. As I suspected the talk was mainly about diseases people struggle with and drugs that might help them. Dr Bob plays this nice trick about ” being different than other health practitioners ” by talking about them as not meaningful medics regarding what they can do for a patient. Dr Bob sees himself as a more alternative doctor, because drugs he recommends have less side effects. That is most of what I got from the lecture which topic was focused on stomach problems. For at least an hour I was gratified with knowledge about potential bugs I carry within me and pills that would help. There was one (one!) sentence about diet in the subject of digestive track. Shame, what a shame. I couldn’t wait for the end and I just felt more and more anxious to leave, so – I left without asking a question : Where are the slides about the best foods ever that would help the stomach to be happier ever before ?!

I was watching all these, mostly obese people making notes about recommended pills and drinking some type of soft drinks. The first thing Dr. Bob should do is to pick up one of this sodas and say : from now on we stay away from these. But he didn’t. Maybe they were his sponsors.

People believe the others without asking them questions.

People ask others before they even go to the libraries and dig real deeply to find some trails they could walk toward welness.

People are oversaturated with information and they just get tired, give up and buy the drug or some type of ready to use magic.

And doctors simply don’t care. They are drained, because of politic, economy or whatever and go home without any remarkable insights.

RAW FOOD BOOKS ON READING TABLE

The patients in our office are able to read superior literature of raw food, nutrition, self development. They are lucky to watch videos that we brought from our seminars. To put these types of books or some superficial magazines on a reading table takes the same amount of time to do, but the outcome is different. People ask serious, live questions.

The thing that comes to my mind regarding the CNN article is the amount of tasks one could achieve by staying at home instead of going for some standard fruitless check ups when they get brainwashed with all the media they are pounded with through books on the office’s shelves and the TV grease :

IN AN HOUR YOU CAN :

• make quite a few green smoothies
• juice the best juice ever
• fill up your goal setting page in your notebook
• do some joga
• plant few plants
• make green smoothie, do some yoga, drink the juice

and many more … and still – one would have a half an hour to spare.

I truly believe people go to the doctors to testify ( intuitively ) about their own ” crimes ” they do to their holy bodies and to get allowance for commiting these small silent suicides again by taking another pill prescribed by obese Mr. Doctor.

How many useless trips one makes to the medics and how many pointless questions people ask other people instead of educating themselves with objective knowledge and sifting through it with open head and heart ?

Why are we so detached from our inner voice and why don’t we trust our gut ?

Is it a self pitty ? Are we not enough confident and don’t we believe in our own power because of lack of approvement from others ? Who have ever said that I ( YOU ) don’t, can’t, will not ?

If I am commited to master myself in subjects I want to grow in, I am able to be my own leader and student.

It must happen only because I choose to, I can, I want, I dare and I do.

And I value my time enough to know that watching brainless TV shows in waiting room of doctors who treat me like a needle/pin cushion is simply a waste of my exceptional life.