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**peakyesno** · 09-04-2012, 03:22 AM

The medical system in the western world serves corporations, corporations want to make profit, they develop drugs that suppress symptoms...because the cure would mean no profits.

And the riba system including the industrial lifestyles, the bad food, all cause illnesses. In short going back to the sunnah is its own cure and sanity.

You are only partly true. Western medicine has done alot of good. I do agree adherence to the sunnah will cause drastic falls in disease and health-care costs but even then we still need a small tax rate probably even lower then singapore to fund the short-comings in pursuing sunnah lifestyle.

There is alot of curative medicine and surgery in western health so you are only partly true about intentions of pharmaceuticals. We cannot negate the curative treatments. Most infections are cured by anti-biotics. Most surgical conditions are cured by their respective surgeries. Also targetting symptoms is taking into account things which Allah has made incurable so it is also supposed to be pursued. Some chronic diseases can only be supressed and not cured so medicine their tries to make these peoples life comfortable. The corporations want curative treatment because if they invent anything extra-ordinary, they can put big prices and patents to it.

Also fact that most medicine is public based and government pays doctors, doctors are very skeptical of pharmaceutical interests and most research includes conflict of interest declarations. Doctors in western hospitals dont treat and dont use expensive equipment to assist coroporations make money. They think of welfare of patient and best treatment. They have nothing to gain by not giving best evidenced science to patients as they are paid by governments not corporations. And that is another reason why public health care out-performs private health care almost always. WE need public health care in Muslim lands and we need an appropriate tax rate to fund that.

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peakyesno Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 377 Senior Member	The medical system in the western world serves corporations, corporations want to make profit, they develop drugs that suppress symptoms...because the cure would mean no profits. And the riba system including the industrial lifestyles, the bad food, all cause illnesses. In short going back to the sunnah is its own cure and sanity. You are only partly true. Western medicine has done alot of good. I do agree adherence to the sunnah will cause drastic falls in disease and health-care costs but even then we still need a small tax rate probably even lower then singapore to fund the short-comings in pursuing sunnah lifestyle. There is alot of curative medicine and surgery in western health so you are only partly true about intentions of pharmaceuticals. We cannot negate the curative treatments. Most infections are cured by anti-biotics. Most surgical conditions are cured by their respective surgeries. Also targetting symptoms is taking into account things which Allah has made incurable so it is also supposed to be pursued. Some chronic diseases can only be supressed and not cured so medicine their tries to make these peoples life comfortable. The corporations want curative treatment because if they invent anything extra-ordinary, they can put big prices and patents to it. Also fact that most medicine is public based and government pays doctors, doctors are very skeptical of pharmaceutical interests and most research includes conflict of interest declarations. Doctors in western hospitals dont treat and dont use expensive equipment to assist coroporations make money. They think of welfare of patient and best treatment. They have nothing to gain by not giving best evidenced science to patients as they are paid by governments not corporations. And that is another reason why public health care out-performs private health care almost always. WE need public health care in Muslim lands and we need an appropriate tax rate to fund that.
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