Hippocrates, The Greek Father of Medicine said Do No Harm

Hippocrates, known as the father of medicine coined the phrase now repeated in the Hippocratic Oath: do no harm. The idea just as it was taught by the Greek philosopher and scientist is vital and alive even today.

But in this fast-moving age, is it practiced?

Recently I took my son to a podiatrist after the pediatrician told me that’s who I would have to see and wrote out a referral. He’s 13 and has flat feet that point outwards when he walks.

The podiatrist looked at him for a whole 30 seconds and began to tell me right in front of my son that he needed an immediate triple surgery where a portion of his foot would be removed and a steel plate inserted. He would not be able to walk for a year, and it would likely give him trouble for the rest of his life.

Do no harm? I was livid.

To cripple a healthy 13 year old boy?

I wasn’t intimidated, but I was angry that he had scared my son. Instead, he is doing exercises to address the underlying issues.

Unfortunately, this is not an isolated case. People who are normally skeptical at sales presentations are much less so when they are being sold by a doctor. This was a $30,000 procedure (that the insurance would pay for and it doesn’t pay for the much less expensive solution I found).

It goes back to the training in medical schools today: it’s all pharmaceutical interventions and surgery.

Sometimes this is essential and will save lives, but how many times are other alternatives simply overlooked?

My search for a better way led to the discovery of an amazing place that actually taught that the body is self-healing and amazing.

Rather than traumatic interventions, they teach people to give the body all the nutrition it needs and stop overworking it with processed “foods”, and amazingly it will go into high gear in healing itself.

Known as the Hippocrates Health Institute, it was named after the greek Hippocrates. Doing no harm and teaching people to take responsibility for their own health is the cornerstone of this healing center.

Hippocrates Institute was totally unlike anything I had ever experienced in healing. For me, it was a taste of paradise.

It seems like a miracle when the body goes into healing - from all manner of conditions: high blood pressure, diabetes, cancer and tumors.

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