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Brief Introduction About Ayurvedic Medicine?
Ayurveda is a Sanskrit word that means “knowledge of life”. Broken down “Ayus” means life and “vedas” means knowledge. Ayurvedic Medicine is a form of Alternative medicine. It is Traditional Indian Medicine that scholars seem to be in a debate about over when it actually began. The general consensus is that it began roughly 4000 to 5000 years ago. Scholars have gone on to say that Ayurvedic Medicine is the oldest form of medicine around and that it was what influenced Greek medicine and Traditional Chinese Medicine. Due to this claim, Ayurvedic Medicine has been labeled the “Mother of all Healing”. It is the art of balance and longevity.
The High cost of Defensive Medicine
Copyright (c) 2009 Benjamin Glass
As the debate continues about health care reform one of the topics that is discussed is “tort reform.” Republicans argue for it and even the President, in a recent address, suggested that aspects of tort reform were “one the table” in order to fight the “high cost of medicine.” Proponents of tort reform argue for a limited right to sue a wrongdoer, either by imposing additional procedural roadblocks (expert certification before suit, for example) or by creating artificial limits to monetary recovery.
According to the argument in favor of imposing additional limits on patient’s rights, doctors routinely order extra, non-necessary tests, not because it is reasonable to do so but to prevent the health care provider from being sued later for “not performing every test.” There is a huge “hidden cost,” the argument goes, to all of these extra tests being ordered (and paid for by someone, usually an insurance company.) “We could lower the cost of medicine,” tort reform proponents argue, if doctors weren’t so afraid and thus, didn’t have to order all of these unnecessary tests.