One of the more obvious reasons why medicine has become so complicated and costly is the fact that the research

and production of pharmaceutical productsand eventually their patient evaluationhas become monumentally

expensive. To boost the sale of regularly and heavily advertised products, not only do highly paid medical

representatives present their sales pitch, but doctors are also enticed into promoting the drugs by the "perks"

offered. Patients continue to use them because they are not cured. They are not supposed to be cured! They are

only treated! This is the ideal way that commercialism in medicine can thrive. This is not the only shameful loose

end in medicine.

Techniques-oriented advancements in medicine are made possible as a result of "gadgets" production. This, too,

adds to the cost of medicine. Teaching hospitals and research institutions depend heavily on funding from the

industrial side of the health care system. Thus, research in medicine has traditionally been directed according to the

wishes of health care industrialists who release funds for their own profit-generating projects.

Now comes a moment of great rejoicing. It has been discovered that the human body possesses a variety of

sophisticated indicators when it runs short of wateremergency indicators of dehydration and thirst. The body has

many more than the one "dry mouth" indicator of water shortage. Equally obvious, the greatest tragedy in medical

history is the fact that medical professionals have not understood the human body's variety of calls for water. They

have traditionally resorted to using chemicals and "procedures" to deal with chronic dehydration of the body. A

monumental mistake, but a blatant fact!

The unkindest cut of all is the way the mainstream medical community still prefers to adhere to business as usual

and ignores the good news. Fundamentally, this basic ignorance of the manifestations of the water needs of the

human body is the primary reason for the high cost of health care in our society, without a hope of Improvement in

the way it is presently designeda very bad design that only serves its operators and not the health-care-needing