The Medical Wild West: Why Self-Advocacy Matters

Things are getting wild out there in healthcare land! As a medical professional for almost 60 years I have never seen such confusion, disinformation, frustration and blatant monetizing around health care and wellness products!

It truly has become the Wild West in relationship to what "choices" we have for understanding our bodies, how to take care of our particular needs and the "What, Why and How" of prevention.

We are being offered everything from animal de-wormer paste to surgical approaches to deal with our most basic health and wellness. We are confused, afraid and don't know where to turn!

The answer in this author’s opinion lies in advocacy – self-advocacy, family advocacy and health advocacy for every level of healthcare consumers.

We now have our lawmakers and regulatory bodies working in complete opposition to one another, creating an unprecedented state of concern for consumers. What can we do to counter act this serious situation? How can we separate the true from the false and know our most appropriate choices?

The National Institute of Whole Health, a 48 year old, accredited healthcare education organization, led by healthcare veteran Dr. Georgianna Donadio, offers everyone an opportunity to get up to speed on how to deal with our broken healthcare system and get the care and information THEY need!

Demystified health information about What causes dysfunction in the body, How the dysfunction becomes a chronic condition and What can you do to be present to or address this.

Self-Advocacy and how to advocate for those we care about is currently the #1 skill each of us needs to circumvent the unapologetic monetization of health care. Care seems to have gone out of healthcare and we must be prepared to advocate for ourselves and those we care about in all areas and fields of health services!

Medical professionals send us in the direction of pharmacy to use drugs, often with disturbing side effects, while the Alternative medicine folks are providing us with 40 minute videos hacking the latest "research" they have done to come up with to have us spend our hard earned money on their new enterprise.

One organization is offering a radically cost effective training for individuals to take to understand how to advocate for themselves, their families and friends. The program provides a comprehensive training in advocacy and eight outstanding health education courses in: Obesity, Cardiac Health, Inflammation, Chronic conditions, Functional Medicine, the Immune System, Digestion and Nutrition and Exercise Physiology.

If you or your loved one need support and/or advocacy for their health or recovery from illness you may wish to visit them at www.niwh.org. The National Institute of Whole Health is the 47 year old, accredited pioneer of Whole Health and Whole Person Care.