The question to ask at your next check up: What's up, Doc?

Is your doctor satisfied with his work?

I know what you're thinking: I'm the one with the symptoms! Who cares if HE'S satisfied?

But your doctor's level of job satisfaction is important, and it can affect the care you get in his office (or hers, yes, I know). Not because a frustrated physician can't help you, but because doctors who feel like their hands are tied - because of HMOs guidelines, needless laws, or from a general paranoia of repercussions - can't give you the best possible medicine…

And they KNOW IT.

Here's the proof. Recently, I read the results of a survey that revealed a steady, rapid decline over the last few years in the satisfaction many conventional doctors get from their work. And SURPRISE - it's not because they don't make enough money…

According to the survey's 12,000 respondents, it's because they feel like they lack the independence to treat and cure their patients in the best manner possible. What's this mean? It means that what I've been saying all along is true: That today's doctors have less freedom than most criminals - they live in constant fear of ruin at the hands of an ever-increasing bureaucratic and legal quagmire…

But as lamentable as this survey's results are, there is a glimmer of hope contained within: The notion that conventional MDs all across the fruited plain are growing weary of the bloated, ineffective system of mainstream medicine…

That means there's hope that the safe, natural, drugless, untainted-by-the-big-money-mainstream alternatives I've been touting for years may yet become the medicine of first choice for the physicians of tomorrow.

Hey, a man can dream, can't he?

All for protecting our guys in uniform,
William Campbell Douglass II, MD