First of all do we have a crisis?

In a ‘boids’ eye view of health care we look at the three simple rules that appear to govern our complex adaptive health care system and show why it is so expensive.

How the system is paid looks at insurance problems

Politics looks at how our government has dealt with health care issues.

The incestuous relationships among members of the health care family; and how to deal with inbred weaknesses.

Information about how we practice medicine in the light of current biology.

Of primary importance is how we see illness.

Treating symptoms risks blocking defenses.

Diabetes applies common sense methods to our current epidemic.

Colds: How the Nose Keeps Us Healthy: a primer on how the nose cleans itself.

Cold Season and Dry Air: Why is wintertime cold season?

Antihistamines and decongestants (cold-pills): how they continue the blood-letting.

Seeing bacteria in a new light addresses the problem of antibiotic resistance.

Heart disease: modifying the risk.

Women and heart disease: largest killer here too.

Heart disease: is there an evolutionary advantage?

Heart and emotions:environmental stresses and evolution.

Asthma: is it a defense?

RSV, SARS And Washing Nasal Passages: if this is where they start why not clean it regularly?

How to Prevent Ear Infections (Otitis): these infections start from bacteria that also live in the back of the nose.

Violence as a Health Care issue

The roots of violence that we would like to ignore. For or against warfare—wouldn’t it be nice to have an alternative to violence. Medical experience points the way to what works and what doesn’t.

Violence is mostly a guy thing: what the founders of our nation left out.

Links for more information

By far the greatest source of information is to be found in our book, The Boids and the Bees: Guiding Adaptation to Improve our Health, Healthcare, Schools, and Society. Published in 2009 by The Institute for the Study of Coherence and Emergence (www.iscepublishing.com, or www.emergentpublications.com), the book, as the one reviewer on Amazon put it, “is deep stuff.” It is deep because it challenges the way we think. But the reviewer also said it was something he looked forward to; and if you read it you too will begin to see simple answers to many of the problems in your lives too as you learn to see differently.

Medical Savings Accounts—see www.ncpa.org.

Evolutionary medicine—see Maryland Public TV documentary.

Complex Adaptive Systems and health care—see Institute for Healthcare Improvement.

Problems with the pharmaceutical industry—see The Center for  Prevention of Medication Side Effects

More about helping our defenses—see our web page on nasal xylitol.