Your body is mastered by the system, not yourself.

I really astonish to read "Teen loses fight to use alternative cancer treatment".

That means once you went to a hospital and started with treatment, your body would belong to the medication. Even it failed to cure you and be so till you died. No problem, they would give a full report explaining that it was the fault of your body or the gene leading to the death, not the medication. Remember to pay the bill if you had no insurance.

Sometimes, we may hope that the judge should go through some of such mishaps so that we can know how they would feel. Without real experience, it is always easy to give such verdict.

Some years ago, one driver was caught for violation of a traffic regulation in Hong Kong. He was lucky because the judge had drove through the same turnaround by chance and was forced to violate the same regulation without being caught by any policeman. So the judge let the guy free and demanded the traffic department to solve the problem.

No matter how smart a judge would be, without facing the same situation, he/she would be unable to give any correct judgment at all.

I feel sad for that young guy and just hope that he can recover. Otherwise, that would become a case "murdered by the judge who lack of any humanity touch and the tyranny of medication system".

Should we know less truth to be without sadness?

After the doctors, then the researchers, now are the hospital chiefs. Check "Hospital Chiefs Get Paid for Advice on Selling to Hospitals".

In other words, the whole system is full of fraudulent cases.

The most hated ones should be the wolves in sheep's skin.

If you were greedy, if you are bad, no problem, just show us and we would not blame because we became victims due to ignorance or carelessness.

But, if we investigate further, it may be the one who set up the system should be responsible for these cases. Perhaps we have relied on the wrong guys to lead our societies.

I just hope that we shall not realize that the so-called modern world was destined to such annoying facts in the future. If that were what we want, then the wealth of a nation would depend on the number of bad guys.

As I use to say, it is the worst crime to gain on our health, especially without taking us as priority.

A robber would get our money and might left our bodies in good shape. A bad medical expert would rob our money and health. What will you choose?

We may not have any researcher without financial tie from drug companies.

It is certain that researchers must be free from any ties to give us something true. No matter it is done earlier or afterward, JAMA has proved to us the principles that should be guarded. Check: "Medical Journal Says It Was Again Misled".

The problem is not about whether JAMA etc. can avoid making such mistakes. Worst of all, we may not have any researchers without some forms of ties.

Perhaps we have too many universities and research units and there are too few non-business foundation or government-supporting fund to keep them alive.

As an outsider, I am not sure whether any research really need so much money or we need so many researching units that seems to be overlapping each other's work. Yes, there is competition. Competition for glory and money will make things ugly.

If we spend time to check those great findings that were beneficial to our lives, we might realize that the best researchers did not have any fortune at all. Therefore, we can assume that great works are not related to money and money would not be a factor of success in research.

The previous problem with the Korean scientist is certainly a victim of greedy. A long time ago, when two scientists fought for the first discovery of Aids, I asked a friend who was a doctor about the reason for such argument. He told me that when one got famous with new discovery, he/she might have millions funding and the best thing of all was just a few reports within certain months or years would be fine and no auditing would be enforced about how those millions were spent.

This is just another example of the vice of money. Have our civilization moving in the wrong direction? Perhaps it is time for us to think whether a kind of revolution will be needed.

Remember that we already suffer from huge medical bills. We should not blame the doctors; they just need money as we do. We should not blame the governments; they cannot support the unlimited budget of medication. So what should we do?