The best way to stay healthy is to avoid doctors and hospitals...

...and that's what I'm sticking with.

Dramatic Example of How Health Truth May Take Up to a Century to be Accepted:

"...this kind of willful ignorance on the part of the medical establishment is not particularly surprising. Some of medicine’s most glaring mistakes and deliberately ignored problems include:

* Bloodletting as a cure-all
* Promotion of cocaine, heroin, and other narcotics
* Lobotomy
* Thalidomide
* DES
* HRT: The menopause “cure”
* H. pylori, which is the true cause of ulcers
* The Vioxx disaster that killed 60,000
* Disregarding Dr. Semmelweis and his hand-washing recommendation"

Or, as most deftly put by my favorite philosopher R.A. Wilson,

"According to a study by the Office of Technology Assessment only 20% of American medical theory has been validated by randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trials. About 80% of the time, then, doctors follow prejudice, hunch, intuition, guessing, prayer, or just plain bluff."

Avoid unless absolutely necessary.