{"id":43305,"date":"2019-01-30T06:22:14","date_gmt":"2019-01-30T11:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=43305"},"modified":"2019-01-30T06:22:16","modified_gmt":"2019-01-30T11:22:16","slug":"two-different-kinds-of-healthcare-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=43305","title":{"rendered":"Two Different Kinds of Healthcare&#8211;Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/21z6r9yf8x02eaff51wxrs58-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/File-Attachment-Header-image-for-both-parts-690x300.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/permaculturenews.org\/2019\/01\/28\/two-different-kinds-of-healthcare-part-1\/\">TWO DIFFERENT KINDS OF HEALTHCARE \u2013 PART 1 <\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The doctor visit and the pharmaceutical prescription\u200b\u200b usually get us back on the job quickly and with a minimum of inconvenience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Modern pharmaceutical medicine is like the medical equivalent of fast food \u200b\u2013 it\u2019s fast, it\u2019s convenient, and too much of it erodes our health over time.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe width=\"698\" height=\"75\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u200bIn contrast, at-home healthcare and natural remedies are like home-cooked, real food, in that they take more time and effort. They also \u200bwork more slowly\u200b, and they \u200bwork best if there is already a foundation of healthy living habits in place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe width=\"698\" height=\"60\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u200b\u200bHome healthcare \u200band natural \u200bremedies \u200bmay sometimes be less convenient, but over time they build robust \u200bhealth on many levels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recently, one of our children had a bacterial skin infection called impetigo or \u201cschool sores.\u201d&nbsp;It took several weeks for us to resolve it, and there was a point in time when I was not sure that home remedies were going to be sufficient.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In my search for solutions I spoke to women who have dealt with school sores in their family and community, I did lots of reading, and I made an appointment with a doctor. That was our first doctor appointment since well before my children were born more than 11 years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Everyone I spoke to and everything I read told me that I\u2019d end up using oral antibiotics,because that was the only alternative to a long, traumatic battle with a dubious outcome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m relieved and happy to report that although we did go to a doctor and receive a prescription for antibiotics, we never had to use it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The experience left me pondering the contrast between these twovastly different kinds of healthcare, which led to this article.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>AT-HOME HEALTHCARE, VERSUS THE MODERN HEALTHCARE SYSTEM<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the one hand, we have<strong>\u00a0at-home healthcare.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TWO DIFFERENT KINDS OF HEALTHCARE \u2013 PART 1 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The doctor visit and the pharmaceutical prescription\u200b\u200b usually get us back on the job quickly and with a minimum of inconvenience. Modern pharmaceutical medicine is like the medical equivalent of fast food \u200b\u2013 it\u2019s fast, it\u2019s convenient, and too much of it erodes our health over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1022,22072,16723,19660,24216],"class_list":["post-43305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-healthcare","tag-kate-martignier","tag-natural-medicine","tag-permaculture-institute","tag-pharmaceuticals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43306,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43305\/revisions\/43306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}