In 1996, I felt that my freedom of practicing good medicine and pursuing happiness have been totally stripped away by the HMOs. The freedom of prescribing best but expensive drugs is taken away from us. Each HMO has its own preferred drugs in each category and many times they vary from one HMO to the other. Good formal medical education is important, and I'm grateful for this foundation in basic medicine, but there was something to come that was far more important to my career as a physician. That is the people's right to get the best medical service despite its cost.
Human life is simply much more precious than any money can buy.
So I retired from my active medical practice in August 1996. I traveled to California, Canada and Mexico for a few months. Then I started my study in computer applications and Internet commerce. In May 1998, I developed a stomach ulcer from taking Ibuprofen for my arthritis. This brought on my first research of healing my ulcer with natural remedy.