Most of the people I know (mostly guys in their twenties) suffer from at least one kind of medical condition they probably wouldn’t have it if it weren’t for our glorious medical care (by this I don’t mean solely the US medical system, since I’m from Europe). Like you said, Keoni, they create patients so they can cure them, and make a profit in doing so, as well as keeping as much people as possible dependent to them.
Personally, I’ve always had serious vision problems. The doctors always told me that they were genetic and inherited, and that there was nothing I could do about it; however, if I wore the newest model of glasses the eye problems would go away. Being the good, obedient slave I was I took their “advice” wholeheartedly. Now, ten years later, I’m half-blind without my glasses thanks to constant increase in prescription my ophthalmologist forced upon me. My options? Continue to wear even stronger glasses or get an eye surgery. The industry profits with both options: either way I end up paying them money to “cure” a condition I wouldn’t have in the first place (at least not in that intensity) if it weren’t for them. Now consider how many people nowadays are prescribed glasses to “improve” their vision (where it’s proven that glasses actually hurt vision) and how much money they make on it; it’s staggering.
And the thing that annoys me the most is that when I tell people this stuff they shrug their shoulders and spit the usual “you should take the doctor’s advice” crap. Ah, conventional wisdom.
And like I said, this is only my thing: one medical condition among hundreds they make a nice profit of. I wowed to myself that if I ever regain my health, specifically my vision, that I’ll start some kind of a project to raise awareness about the various medical scams people are subjected to without them knowing.
) and frustrate those around them by constantly having to ask "what's that sign say?"