What's the impact from a medical system that has specified more than 90,000 diagnoses? Naming constellations of symptoms vs. identifying root causes.
Establishment medicine's diagnosis system (the ICD-10-CM) is 22 chapters & 288 sections, with more than 90,000 possible diagnoses. The HHS takes another 115 pages to document accompanying rules.
Chronic illness — mental or physical — is to a large extent a function or feature of the way things are and not a glitch; a consequence of how we live, not a mysterious aberration.
Dr. Gabor Mate MD
I’ve healed from many diagnoses which the medical industry and the psychiatry industry calls “incurable.” By the time I was 18, I was nearly bedridden with an autoimmune disease, and consuming a pharmacy-worth of medications every day. Top doctors across the country had told me, “This disease is incurable. Your only option is to take pharmaceutical drugs for the rest of your life, and likely face extreme surgical procedures in the future.” Yet, at age 19, I learned how to heal this disease using nutrition and holistic approaches.
Lauren Geertsen
Contents
Naming Constellations of Symptoms vs. Identifying Root Causes
What’s the Impact from Having More than 90,000 Diagnoses?
Who Benefits?
It’s Your Choice Where to Apply Your Energy
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Conventional (Allopathic) Medicine: A Corrupt & Failed System
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Naming Constellations of Symptoms vs. Identifying Root Causes
For healing to happen, logic demands that the cause of disease be resolved. But in most cases, a medical diagnosis is simply a name for a constellation of symptoms with no concern for the cause. [dictionary]
A diagnosis of chronic disease is not an understanding of the foundational cause and resolution. In fact, medical literature is rife with diagnoses for which the cause is “unknown” and there is “no cure.”
You can verify this for yourself by examining how establishment medicine defines diagnoses for depression, autoimmune disease, chronic pain, OPLL, and so on.
For example, a diagnosis of Hashimoto’s disease or depression or IBS is a description of symptoms with a complete disconnection from underlying conditions that cause the symptoms. The underlying conditions and root causes can certainly be discovered (e.g. microbiome imbalance, chronic stress, chronic inflammation, excess toxic load, vitamin D deficiency, etc.) but the diagnoses themselves are a superfluous naming exercise and inadequate for defining and addressing the causes.
What’s the Impact from Having More than 90,000 Diagnoses?
Allopathic Medicine uses the World Health Organization (WHO) classification system for diagnoses called the ICD-10-CM (with “10” referring to the 10th edition). [source]
This is a list of diagnosis codes, broken into 22 chapters and 288 sections, each section containing multiple diagnoses. [source]
When I last checked, the total number of possible diagnoses was 97,296*. [source]
The U.S. Dept of Health & Human Services (HHS) takes another 115 pages to document “a set of rules” to “accompany and complement” the ICD-10-CM.
This prompts considerations of fundamental importance to humanity:
How much time and money has been required by people in the medical establishment to understand 97,000 possible diagnoses and 115 pages of related rules, and to track and report on them with every single person in their care? Who has that benefited?
How has this diagnostic process impacted the amount and quality of attention individuals have received from doctors?
Specifically, how has this system affected the intention, motivation and capability of doctors in their role of determining the cause and course of action best suited to healing?
*Medical Diagnoses
From here:
Certain infectious and parasitic diseases (1,307)
Neoplasms (2,093)
Diseases of the blood involving the immune mechanism (415)
Endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (1,222)
Mental and behavioural disorders (1,086)
Diseases of the nervous system (912)
Diseases of the eye and adnexa (3,447)
Diseases of the ear and mastoid process (871)
Diseases of the circulatory system (1,789)
Diseases of the respiratory system (461)
Diseases of the digestive system (1,076)
Diseases of the skin and subcutaneous tissue (1,064)
Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue (8,633)
Diseases of the genitourinary system (1,037)
Pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (3,023)
Certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (565)
Congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities (1,051)
Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (937)
Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (53,944)
External causes of morbidity and mortality (10,573)
Factors influencing health status and contact with health services (1,785)
Codes for Special Purposes (5)
Total: 97,296 diagnoses
Who Benefits?
This system of diagnosis is arguably only beneficial to a system corrupted by industry, focused on having as many diagnoses as possible to match to as many profitable drugs as possible.
Doctor: “You don’t have Parkinson’s, Mr. Jones. At this point, I’m not even sure I know what Parkinson’s is. But I can tell you this. You have Lead-in-Water Brain Damage Disease. You’ve been drinking water with lead in it. That’s how you caught the disease.” Imagine that happening. Or how about this? Doctor: “Mr. Smith, you have Roundup Disease. Your nervous system has caught the disease from the pesticide.” No. The people who come up with names of diseases—they’re in the business of covering up poisoning.
To validate Rappoport’s conclusion, examine the well-researched harms from toxins and the Root Cause Index.
It’s Your Choice Where to Apply Your Energy
To be aware that a diagnosis is typically just an exercise in describing symptoms — disconnected from the underlying causal conditions — may inspire people to direct more of their limited energy toward resolving the underlying issues and restoring health.
For example, having a misguided sense of the value of diagnosis makes it easier to identify with the label rather than focusing on identifying and resolving the underlying causes. To focus on a statement such as, “I have diabetes” (or high blood pressure or osteoporosis or depression or Crohn’s disease) can lead to believing the verifiable propaganda of pharmaceutical companies that benefit from customers who accept such conditions as lifelong burdens rather than seeing the symptoms as a prompt to identify and resolve causal factors.
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More on this subject here: Beyond Diagnosis: Healing Principles
Conventional (Allopathic) Medicine: A Corrupt & Failed System
Failed Health Outcomes — The U.S. spends nearly twice the per-capita amount on healthcare than the next highest spender, yet Americans are the most chronically ill, and rank 48th in life expectancy, among other countries. In addition, medical misdiagnosis causes permanent harm and death to 795,000 people every year.
Verifiably Corrupt — Establishment medicine as a system* is verifiably corrupt, serving the interests of industry — not health. (*Obviously, not every individual working in establishment medicine is unethical. Rather, the system that educated / indoctrinated them, and that sets policy, hires, pays, and promotes them is verifiably corrupted.)
Big Pharma & Biotech: Immoral Business Model — Corporations, by design, are beholden to profit above all else, acting as powerful entities that are “essentially psychopathic and without conscience.” Pharmaceutical and biotech companies are the utmost example of corporate psychopathy, demonstrating inhumanity in response to human suffering.
Regulatory & Professional Betrayal — Government agencies entrusted to regulate the field of medicine fail to do so. The majority of influential professional organizations such as the American Medical Association are corrupted by industry.
Not Evidence/Science-Based — The bulk of establishment medicine’s standard of care is not based on unbiased, reproducible science. (We prove it here.)
Harms by Drug and Diagnostic — Establishment medicine providers routinely utilize diagnostic testing and “treatments” that cause harm (“adverse”, “side” effects). Get verifiable evidence of the harms, organized by drug, treatment, or test (mammograms, CT scans, antibiotics, statins, benzos, etc).
Failed Philosophy & Strategies — Allopathic medicine (also called conventional medicine, Western medicine, and Rockefeller medicine) was created to exploit the profit potential of drug patents. Born from a compromised report published in 1910, this system does not acknowledge the conditions under which the human body creates health, nor does it seek to identify and resolve the root causes of illness. On the contrary, it suppresses symptoms with drugs, creating more symptoms and distracting efforts from true healing. Diagnosis is disconnected from the wisdom inherent in the purpose and message of symptoms.
What’s the Impact from Creating More than 90,000 Diagnoses? (you’re here) — Establishment medicine’s diagnosis system (the ICD-10-CM) is 22 chapters and 288 sections, with more than 90,000 possible diagnoses. The U.S. Dept of Health & Human Services takes another 115 pages to document accompanying rules. Naming constellations of symptoms vs. identifying root causes: how has it impacted health?
Solutions-Based Tools
Beyond Diagnosis: Healing Principles — In this lesson, we consider key issues that underlie most disease and healing principles that are consistently and verifiably effective.
Root Cause Index — In this vast curation of evidence, we cite hundreds of research papers on the root causes of diseases.
Health Systems & Techniques — In this curation, we bring together 20 systems of medicine + nearly 200 health and wellness techniques, structuring the material in an organized way for efficient research.
Diseases & Conditions Glossary — In this lesson, we provide a succinct glossary and resource links for more than 150 terms used in discussing health issues, conditions and diseases.
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