Shopster,

I know nothing of Dr. Hyman or his philosophies. If what Alice says is true, he doesn't sound half bad. You appear to be doing him a disservice and insulting us at the same time. You are making him sound as if he wants everyone to stop their medical treatment (which according to Alice isn't true), and you are telling us we we are sheep who should not be taking pills.

I'll be the first to admit that there are problems with the system. I'll go even further and say (as an Obama supporter, no less) that I don't think the affordable healthcare law is the answer. I think it was poorly structured and will have to be fixed sometime in the first ten years before the system begins to unravel.

But I digress. The pills we take on this site give us a quality of life we would not otherwise enjoy. For most of us here, they give us our strength back. For me, they go further than that and give me the ability to walk, and control intractable pain. For you to come here and tell me that I am poisoning myself and should stop taking my medicine is insulting, it is wrong, and it discounts the 15 years of hell I went through to get to the point I'm at today--where I can wake up and actually be glad I'm still alive and want to get out of bed in the morning.

I will look into Dr. Hyman, but only because if he is as Alice described, I do not want my poor opinion of you to prejudice me against him.

We all currently work within a broken medical system which has to be fixed. But until it is, it is the system we are stuck with and using it to get life saving treatments or improve our quality of life is better than receiving no medical care at all.