The issue you have with doctor falibility seems a bit harsh. Yes doctors can hold your life in their hands but their still human. I bet you have made mistakes before, im sure your mechanic has stuffed up before, your trainer has said left hook and held up the wrong pad thats called human error. Ask your average GP what they see each day. Its probably a fat old fucker with a smoke in their mouth and a burger in their hand saying im more tired than i used to be and my chest hurts. Once again i dont know what its like where you live but no australian can seriously claim they dont have a basic idea of healthy eating and exercise requirements. Thats BS. The people who parade through GP offices on a regular basis do not want to do the preventative work, they want the pills and the sick note for work. Wouldnt you become jaded? I think the problem lies with people wanting the quick fix and the easy way out. You can get your home delivered pizza and your liposuction to suck it back off your gut. Medicine is a comodity not a calling. The market provides joe average with what he wants or the market folds. This leaves an opening for the alternate systems. What Chek is plugging and probably charging heaps to reveal is just his view of "the right way". The problem with both "western" and "alternate" medicine is that they both spawn closed minded view points. Both preventative medicine and pharmacology have their place in the scheme of health. If a person truely wants to work on their health rather than just cure their illnesses then they can find the information they need from traditional or alternate health care. Quite frankly i think Chek sounds like another place thats cashing in on the medicine backlash rather than some holy grail of health. My vote goes to common sense. Dont eat crap all the time, exercise regularly ie put in the maintenance and your immune system should do its job the way its supposed to. But if i break a bone or some part of me starts failing im going to visit the guy who spent 8 years studying the human body and ask him to fix it. Im not going to refuse to send my car to the mechanic because hes "part of the system" and im not going to refuse to see a doctor who has spent years studying information that has been tried and peer reviewed. It all reeks of conspiracy theory to me the whole "the systems out to screw me" idea.