{"id":247500,"date":"2016-06-03T03:15:50","date_gmt":"2016-06-03T03:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/old-country-doctor-turned-into-paper-pusher-and-virtual-md\/"},"modified":"2016-06-03T03:15:50","modified_gmt":"2016-06-03T03:15:50","slug":"old-country-doctor-turned-into-paper-pusher-and-virtual-md","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/old-country-doctor-turned-into-paper-pusher-and-virtual-md\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Country Doctor Turned into Paper-pusher and Virtual MD"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"386.52069023759\">\n<blockquote readability=\"21\">\n<p>I can\u2019t take a budget that eliminates marketing, outreach and in-person assistors seriously.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u00a0Teresa Mosqueda, member of the Washington State Health Benefit Exchange board.<\/p>\n<p>You can\u2019t afford to get sick, and you can\u2019t depend on the present health care system to keep you well. It\u2019s up to you to protect and maintain your body\u2019s innate capacity for health and healing by making the right choices in how you live.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dr. Andrew Weil, an American physician, author, spokesperson, and sort of guru for holistic health and integrative medicine.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Docs and Nurses Everywhere You Look<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I grew up around doctors and nurses, and while my surgeon uncle and nurse aunt had come from humble beginnings in Minnesota and Iowa, their practice in New Jersey and Dr. John\u2019s work at Columbia Medical Center and the Mayo Clinic allowed them to live comfortable and rich lives. A urologist son (my cousin) and doctor of psychology eating disorder expert daughter (my cousin) later, and to this day, these smart Princeton, Duke, UCLA, Vanderbilt graduates still have some major blind spots in their thinking even with successful practices.<\/p>\n<p>They do not understand the benefits of alternative medicine, veganism\/vegetarianism and what the poor in America really face when it comes to lack of health care and the stress caused by poverty, toxic neighborhoods and back-breaking\/sleep-depriving\/poor-nutrition inducing work. I thought I would go into medicine while a diving bum in college, but the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2016\/06\/old-country-doctor-turned-into-paper-pusher-and-virtual-md\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can\u2019t take a budget that eliminates marketing, outreach and in-person assistors seriously. \u2014\u00a0Teresa Mosqueda, member of the Washington State Health Benefit Exchange board. You can\u2019t afford to get sick, and you can\u2019t depend on the present health care system to keep you well. It\u2019s up to you to protect and maintain your body\u2019s innate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-247500","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}