A MEDICAL PARADOX

The paradox of all medical paradoxes is that physicians recognize pathology as its own cause. For example, when a surgeon removes a tumor, tonsil, adenoid, appendix etc., and then pronounces his patient well ("cured"), he assumes that the growth/inflammation is its own cause. All of these procedures leave the cause untouched and result in the building of more pathology. No attention is given to cause. The patient's life is not changed, his habits are not corrected, and in a short time he is sick again. Neither the physician nor the patient are able to trace a connection between the two so-called diseases. So-called health is again restored and the incident gets forgotten. Again, within a short time, another illness (which is as much of a surprise as were the prior two illnesses) develops and still no thought is devoted to its connection with the two preceding illnesses. So long as the real nature of disease and real source of cause are not understood, this will continue to be true.

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