Every system has its flaws what im talking about is the baby with the bathwater approach. Medicine is a market it provides what the customer wants or it fails. The flaw lies with what the customers want not with the people who provide the service. If a doctor refuses to operate on a obese person because of possible complications with the anasthetic theres another doctor out there who will. If the market for chiropractors was as big as it is for doctors there probably would be an uproar over deaths. I cant think of too many life threatening situations a chiropractor would be working with! Theres no denying the figures are scary, so is the number of road fatalities,teenage pregnancies, and crime rates. The point i possibly didnt make well is that people should be taking a more common sense, proactive approach to their own bodies. Mabey people should be looking at what their doing to stuff their bodies up not blaming "the system" for failing to fix up their stuffed up bodies. Your doctor or chiropractor or even your trainer cant be with you 24/7 to make you do the right thing. People make choices about their bodies and their lives and if someone isnt prepared to put in their share of the work no doctor or alternate practitioner can help them. What im suggesting is people need to realise that the resposibility is theirs not go winging its not fair why am i sick all the time. Theres no doubt that a whole lot of complete BS has been marketed in the name of health (smokes etc)so the problem seems to be education in general rather than just medicine. If someone is so gullible that they are prepared to belive everything put out there they have a problem, some people are prepared to believe any crap your prepared to tell them. More fool them. If you take the time to find a good doctor and bother to ask them to explain why they prescribe meds and what causes your illness then they can be fantastic. There are alot of sheep out there but holding the same opinion of others doesnt mean you havent thought about the underlying causes and reasons for why things are the way they are. Your absolutly right follow the money! right back to the same lazy bastards who blame someone else for everything else that goes wrong in their lives. No hard feelings i hope. I think its fantastic that your health is important to you and your prepared to get as much info as you can from as many sources as possible, i just feel the problem lies with other people not being prepared to do the same thing rather than the system. Its not the system thats the problem its the people who use it and expect someone else to have all the answers. The responsibility lies with the individual.