I completely agree with this.
But, in medicine it comes down to risk vs benefit. BP meds are a great example. many of them cause horrible side effects, but when your bp is 220/115 you need those meds badly or you're going to die of a stroke or be a vegetable and your family have to take care of you for the rest of your life.
I actually agree with a lot of what you have to say, especially in regards to the pharma comps. I just don't share as much disdain for the medical community as you do, because I work in it and neither me or any of the staff I work with make money off of keeping people ill.
I also find it interesting that you don't think that the same human greed that drives pharma groups to sell their pills doesn't apply to supplement companies.
Oh I never said I wasn't as cautious with the supplement markets and some of the "New Age" crap out there that one has to wade thru to get good supplements, and information for that matter.
However where as the medical field has absolute control of ones body through different forms of laws and policies and so on and so forth, your still somewhat free to do your own research and find the right combination of nutrients to use, which best fit your own body as you understand it. the supplement markets are full of charlatans as well, but there is still some degree of freedom left. At least for the time being.
Although there might be a glimpse of benefit of the medical cartels the risk factor for going to one is too great to balance out that minute benefit.
In essences, medicine want absolute control of our bodies to do as it pleases. At the very least that's the equivalent to rape, and at the worse case its eugenics...
I have no doubt that you or your wife make very little money in the medical field compared to the huge profits brought in. But you are components of the machine.