"Our system of health care, as it has become a runaway financial freight train, has allowed those with extensive employer fund health care an inordinate amount of diagnostics and treatments whether they are valid or not. This allows the doctors to try many therapies.

A great number of therapies are beyond medical justification but are offered because the health insurance company will pay the bills. The 'off label' use of medications are not strictly regulated so there is a 'try this and see if it helps' method of medication use. The need to maximise profits by the health care provider allows for excesses in care."

It may not be morally correct but at least it some progress compared to over here. We do have private medical insurance but that is not so widespread ( I used to have it - a story for another day) but every employee and company over here has to pay "National Insurance" tax which is for our "free" national health service and benefits service. Last year I contributed $12,000 in national insurance tax and still haven't been properly examined in 9 months.

Unless your head has been split open doctors don't really consider concussion to be much of a condition.

Whilst there seems to be plenty of research little seems to filter down from the academics to medical staff and nothing to the patients.

I just can't believe how backward the UK seems to be in this - mind you were still shooting "shell shocked" soldiers less that 100 years ago