 So about three years ago, I had been with my girlfriend at the time in an American Ninja Warrior training gym A friend was having a very creative birthday in a launch party and as my girlfriend has was jumping off these monkey bars She actually jumped into a platform weird and instantly broke her ankle And it was a pretty severe fracture and when we went to the hospital that night One thing really struck me and it's something I hear a lot from patients now about the modern medical system And it was that the physician was really pressuring my girlfriend into doing a Procedure or a surgery right away and any discussion other than what he was recommending was met with a lot of pressure Resistance and even fear so you will never heal or walk again Unless you do this surgery right now Now I find this a lot many of my patients so far have commented that the thing They don't like the most about the modern medical system is the way physicians pressure patients into doing procedures or things like that out of fear And are not open-minded about Going to see another physician whether conventional or alternative or adjunct care And it leaves a very bitter taste in the mind of the patient But in this video I want to share what I think is really a much bigger problem in the field of medicine and some ideas For how we can overcome it Hey, I'm Alex Hein author of the book master the day current doctoral student in traditional or classical Chinese medicine Now I've included the first link in the description there is a free download for a PDF on Five ways to add ten years to your life with classical Chinese medicine There's some pretty cool exercises there. You can check out the first link right there in the description So the first thing that I've noticed is the problem of the modern physician acting more like God Then a highly educated expert that can give one piece of advice And I think the big issue with this is not that a physician is not an expert but really the entire mindset of a Person let's just use cancer because that's the emperor of all maladies in this era in history People come in and they're afraid. They're scared. They don't know what to do They don't know what their chances are they don't know what the protocol is going to be for treating their illness and they're vulnerable and A person comes in who supposedly the physician comes in who supposedly has the patient's best interests at mind And they don't say you know rather than being like I know you're afraid. This is how we typically treat it This is how it usually goes. I understand if you want a second opinion Here's a great colleague of mine. You can check out also if you do want to work with other forms of therapy I'm happy to work together, but we really should do this Rather than doing that what comes up so often is that many physicians will almost threaten the patient and say You have to do this or you'll die You have a 10% chance of being healed You should do this and even though there's an 8% chance of survival for your colon cancer you should still do this aggressive theme chemotherapy and Overwhelmingly when a person comes in they're vulnerable They're afraid rather than the physician being a reassuring presence that I don't know how you'll do but we're going to try our best They're instilling the most poisonous toxic disease inducing belief structure, which is fear The second thing is that fear does not allow a person who's already probably in a state of fight-or-flight to make a clear Emotionally clear conscious response So one time for example, I was crossing a bridge in New York City And I didn't have my wallet on me and I didn't know there was like a $12 ticket And this was at the peak of rush hour 5 p.m. On a Friday I'm crossing the bridge didn't have my wallet and then I was like crap There's this $12 toll here going over the Tappan Z bridge or whatever and I pull up to the window and I told the woman I was like sorry. I forgot my wallet He gave me a ticket and she kind of like Huffed and she got angry and she's like look at the line behind you and two people started honking just in 10 seconds I was waiting they're honking. She's not happy. They're keep honking. She's like you forgot this My god, you're giving me a hard time. Look at this line. You're killing me and I'm like Can I pay can I pay another way? Can I like what are you gonna send it to my house? You're gonna give me a ticket and it was this weird high-pressure awkward moment when it could have been super smooth and super clear Now I know that doesn't compare to getting a cancer diagnosis and saying we need to begin aggressive treatment immediately But under the pressure the pressure of the physician or the practitioner and the duress of the stress When a patient's under duress they're already not thinking clearly and this idea of pushing them Pressuring them out of fear to make a decision This does not this is not in the spirit of medicine This is not in the spirit of the a healer coming with the best entrance of the sick person That I'm gonna do my best to help you get better and I'm an ethical person of integrity I will do my best. I will be honest. I'll try to communicate that sometimes I fail This is medicine and I don't see that in so many practitioners with the amount of negative feedback I get from so many of my patients the fear and the I'm God you are wrong This piece of research you brought to me is valueless The third big problem is that fear and the desire to be right as I am God the physician Fear is the enemy of growth because for our profession for the entire medical profession to grow and evolve People must be willing to constantly challenge the status quo the status quo 75 years ago physicians and even pregnant women were smoking cigarettes and 200 years ago germ theory wasn't even a mainstream practice In fact some of the early observers that germs this theory of germs could be making people die from post-surgical infections This was considered a form of quackery So the ability of a person to be confident stand their ground Challenge the status quo and say you know what I don't think that's right. I'm not the physician I'm the patient, but something feels funny, and I don't think it's right and I'm gonna get a second opinion That is the foundation that medicine stands on to improve in the future for the sick person And when we're dealing with a physician or practitioner who's so So set on being right or maintaining this is how it's been done These people are the enemy of growth and the enemy of self-healing in the name of the patient So I know this is a cliche and it's a stereotype that the physician is the egomaniac God That's this is the word of God if you don't listen to what I'm saying. You're stupid But there's some aspect of truth to that and this is you know This is me maybe on my soapbox or public service announcement to remind us that if you are the caretaker It's your job to make the sick person feel safe And if you are the patient at the end of the day, you are your own physician You are your own best advocate if something feels off to you intuitively Listen to that and get a second opinion Make sure you're taking the physician's advice, but always listen to the inner voice because When I've studied these cancer remissions that I'll be publishing shortly One of the overwhelming trends was how often they ignored conventional advice It doesn't mean they ignored modern medicine or didn't do chemo But they ignored the specific caretakers advice and did something else and that is an undeniable consistent association that I see So just a little bit of a medical rant there for the moment I think it's really important if you're the healer in the healing role Your job is to make the person feel safe like they're your child and take care of them Not to tell them you don't do this and you'll die Do this and you're stupid Your job is to watch after them and as the patient your job is to do everything imaginable to heal and try to figure out Who's in your own best interests? So I hope that helps again for me in Chinese medicine I had a long history of going through the modern medical ringer of a system and Before finding someone who could actually solve my problems All right guys time to step off my soapbox I hope that helps of course you can download the first link in the description If you click that you're gonna get a free infographic on how to add ten years to your life with classical Chinese medicine Five cool practices you can do today. You can also check out my last two videos right there and right there