Because our expensive medical system is limited to only using Pharmaceutical Drugs to treat bacterial and viral infections, such as MRSA and other "super-bugs", our doctors are forced to let patients die rather than use proven Natural products that have been shown effective, such as essential oil of oregano.
The idiocy of using 80% of the antibiotics produced in the USA to feed to livestock, which we then eat, has caused the creation by natural selection of super-bugs which are resistant to all known antibiotics. The best place to get one of these infections, ironically, is in an expensive modern hospital.
Modern medicine has limited itself to using only pharmaceutical drugs, which has added enormous costs, but has denied patients ancient natural herbal remedies and natural products such as colloidal silver, garlic preparations, and essential oils that still work -- but they can't be patented and so are ignored. This is insane.
To make things worse, insurance and Medicare/Medicaid won't cover anything but the failing pharmaceutical protocols that have "hit the wall" in terms of their limited and declining effectiveness.
Meanwhile, Big Pharma's protector -- the FDA -- goes after any natural therapy that dares to talk about proven medical benefits that their customers regularly experience, thus limiting the public's awareness that there might be a better way.
How many friends and family members must we watch die at the hands of a medical system that evidently values corporate profits over effective natural remedies?