What will my other providers say about my CurePlan?
Ideally, you should be able to trust your providers, from nurse practitioners to specialists, with your overall health and wellbeing. We all want to think of our doctor as “the best” and trust their advice.
Sadly, most “providers” are now employees of organizations that determine what they can and cannot offfer. It is reasonable to ask, “Can I trust those who control my providers’ paychecks?”
Here are some helpful questions to ask yourself when determining if your provider is right for you:
What did my provider do to identify my chronic disease?
What are they offering to CURE (not just manage) it?
Do they wait and watch while it advances toward a more serious event such as heart attack or stroke?
Do they offer you what they do for themselves?
When asked to detect “presymptomatic” arterial disease, most providers will schedule you for a stress test. The benefits of stress tests are only in the assessment of symptoms. They miss all but the most advanced state of coronary artery disease. False positives or equivocal tests lead to coronary angiograms and often unnecessary life altering stents.
Stop! Ask yourself, “How does this help me when I have no symptoms?” before agreeing to this approach. The only stent my patients have needed in the past 10 years was to fix the failure of a stent placed for a blockage in the absence of any symptoms. The other stent placed was done so in spite of measurement of no reduction in flow before stent placement. Unbelievable but true.
For more information, we recommend reading the book Prevention Myths by Drs. Ford Brewer and Todd Eldredge.
Many modern providers are constrained by convention, guidelines, groupthink, complacency, and financial incentives to monitor and manage arterial and other chronic disease. They profit more from invasive, lucrative procedures and rehabilitation than they ever would from prevention. This is the business model that serves “health care” more than people. Surgery, stents and rehab are more profitable than healthy patients. You are not the customer in this model. Your chronic disease is the product.
This is not an attack on individual providers who work within the health care system, including your PCP and specialists. It is a sad observation of its brokenness and the corrupting nature of third party payment, employment of providers, and consolidation of healthcare into fewer and larger institutions. These institutions are dominated by those who have never uttered the Hippocratic Oath or watched a patient suffer in person.
You can do better.
At the CureCenter, we practice Proactive Medicine: Most of us are past the point of prevention. We tend to talk about prevention but act to fix a problem.
Our program reveals “presymptomatic” disease and “prevent” complications from progressive arterial disease. We expect to reverse your chronic disease and prevent untimely death or disability due to stroke, heart attack, or other major health events.
Side effects include feeling and looking better, more mental clarity and energy, and other positive effects. The goal is to live long, healthy, and happy.
Request a Discovery Zoom Call and start down the road to health today.