Health Viewpoints
Gallup’s recent poll on the public’s confidence in major institutions saw the most significant decline in confidence over the last two years in the presidency and the medical system. Only one-third of Americans now have a “great deal/fair amount of confidence” in the medical system and only one-quarter in the presidency. Yet the medical system is what all hospital-born Americans—or 98.4 percent of us—are thrust into at birth, according to the National Institutes of Health (NIH). From delivery by gloved hands, under the white coats backlit by fluorescent tubes, and jabbed the same day for a sexually transmitted disease, hepatitis B, and an insanely large dose of synthetic vitamin K, with aluminum poisoning in both of those shots, it’s a backhanded greeting of: Welcome to the world, baby!…