Change In The Healthcare Industry

“Be the change you wish to see in the world” – Mahatma Gandhi. This quote is engraved on everything that I aspire to reach. In order to change the world, one has to be aware of what needed to be changed. By reaching new levels of awareness, there is an increase in productivity and how someone decides to approach a task. If there was no one who became aware of an issue that affected them, then would anything be different? For me, health is something I am very aware about. Without having good health, being a productive member of society becomes physically limiting. Currently, medicine has become an industry instead of a place of healing. With obesity reaching new levels of severity every day, it is important to treat the person than to treat the symptoms of their current life. This ideology scares me to no end; at the rate of industrialization we are reaching, we will soon look like numbers than people. Health also radiates into other large-scale outcomes; having destructive habits can hurt the world. Health has a gripping effect on me. When I was a little girl, I was somewhat overweight to the point where it worried my doctor and my mother; I was placed onto a diet. The idea of eating a certain way in my mind was “diet”; an empty, sad relationship with food. Acknowledging that a “diet” was not a way to live, it took time for me to learn that I should eat to thrive and not thrive to eat. This ideology means that food should not control your world, but support your body to be capable of any type of tasks. Even though it is common logic to be healthy, it is not apparent in our extreme epidemic. Sadly, the world we live in is focused on a complicated quick fix than a simple, consistent lifestyle. Obesity costs us so an abundance of money from a patient standpoint, because of the medicine needed to treat the variety of disorders that encompasses this epidemic (diabetes, heart problems, cancers, etc.). …show more content…
The doctors make business by selling medication leading to ideas that obesity can be maintained; it is still self-destruction. I want to change that perception and uncover everything medical industry will not mention to damage their reputation. Having knowledge that medicine is an industry is quite frightening. When one becomes aware, an instinct is to change themselves within because of power regained to an individual. This cycle can be easily broken with proper nutrition.
In my eyes, the true reason I want to be a healthcare professional is for the people; I want to fix the problem from the inside out. While working with patients, I would advertise the crucial benefits of a plant-based diet. The goal I have is to create a sustainable (both ecologically and lifestyle) environment that can change lives everywhere. What a person decides to put on their plate is not only a local problem, but a global problem. The global issue that results is a losing cycle. The grains that …show more content…
It is a very difficult journey to reach because the current generation have become slowly and steadily set in their ways, but I am determined to change what I can. No one should live in a world like this; the view should be to live as a person not as a number. Healthcare is interested in making a profit off of a patient. If decided to become thriving, healthy individuals, power is taken away from this industry to then be placed elsewhere. On a global scale, there will be capabilities to feed the hungry and to protect the environment. Every gesture adds