Review: `The health care (`sick care') system is failing and has been monopolized by the pharmaceutical industry.'
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 10 6, 2013
James R Granger, III, MD live in Marietta, Georgia, has a general practice that provides treatment for narcotics addiction as well as providing treatment for worker's compensation and auto injuries. He works closely with chiropractors, massage therapists and physical therapists. He has written a book about his experiences and opinions with allopathic medicine (Note: Allopathic medicine is an expression commonly used by homeopaths and proponents of other forms of alternative medicine to refer to mainstream medical use of pharmacologically active agents or physical interventions to treat or suppress symptoms or pathophysiologic processes of diseases or conditions.), the pharmaceutical and food industries. He states his `book is a must read for health practitioners, people concerned about their health, network marketers, conspiracy theorist or in other words everyone!'Dr. Granger is angry and introduces his anger with medicine as influenced by the pharmaceutical industry and government by citing his own experience with a hand tremor he noted and discovered that it was due to the ingestion of Aspartame, an additive to foods and medicines. He discusses the need to change our approach to health care and the failure of our current medical system to keep us well.  He argues that obesity is due to toxins in our food that must be cleansed of food additives like Aspartame, MSG, high fructose sugar, etc. The average diet is acidic and thus carcinogenic so keep the body alkaline, use only organic foods, stop caffeine, sweeteners, sugars, pharmaceuticals, replace beef wand poultry with fish, focus on prevention and alternative healing methods - alternatives to antibiotics, chemotherapy and surgery. His message is to concentrate on what we eat, practice meditation, and always be skeptical about what our physicians advise because of the failure of our current medical system to keep us well since they are in partnership with the pharmaceutical industry and government.There are problems with this book that are not so much dealing with the anger he wishes to share to alert us that our medical system has failed (a timely subject now with ACA on everyone's agenda) but in the manner in which he writes. More time is spent giving websites for articles to support his thoughts than on reinforcing his approach to `well being' and by avoiding preaching to his audience instead of relating humanistically to his readers - one of th emany objections as to how his fellow physicians practice medicine. His concerns are valid: his deliver is too stretched with personal anger to follow. Grady Harp, October 13