The Language of Disease

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I manage wellness; not disease. Why do I say this? I want to give you some perspective on how the focus on disease obscures, or obfuscates your knowledge about wellness, yourself, and your world. Obfuscation is a means of making something extremely difficult to understand — a powerful weapon that prevents you from peaking behind the curtain.

The Vocabulary Problem

Consider these numbers:

• Most adults have a vocabulary of about 20,000-35,000 words
• At one new word a day, it would take 80 years to learn 30,000 words
• Vocabulary growth stops at middle age for most people
• Shakespeare's combined written works totaled 25,000 unique words
• The Wall Street Journal used less than 20,000 unique words in all its newspapers for a decade

The ICD: Disease Classification

The International Statistical Classification of Diseases (ICD ver. 11) is the Gold Standard of global disease classification:

17,000

Categories

80,000

Concepts

120,000

Terms

Plus more than 1.6 million clinical terms interpreted!

80,000 concepts is more than THREE TIMES the average human's vocabulary! 120,000 terms is about FIVE TIMES the average vocabulary!

Are you starting to see the problem here? How can anyone possibly understand what a doctor says, or what pharmaceutical companies say about their drugs?

In addition, mental health has a completely different manual, the DSM (Diagnostic & Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders), with overlap that is not always in agreement. Plus chemistry, biology, physics, quantum physics, quantum biology all have unique vocabulary not part of these manuals.

The Obfuscation

So much information… and yet… we still know NOTHING. We are still in our infancy of understanding. Each new day shows yesterday's truths to be falsehoods.

How are you going to debate, question, evaluate or compare the recommendations and diagnosis from your doctors when it is unlikely that you can understand half of what they are saying? You can't do a very good job because the vocabulary is an enormous barrier.

You can spend five or ten lifetimes just trying to understand the language… which still doesn't help, since misdiagnosis is so high, and we are still ignorant. The vocabulary simply prevents you from confirming that the ideas are broken.

Perhaps worst of all is that all of those new words are used to label you, and create fear and stress. This is far more powerful and dangerous than you might imagine. Do not let them plant fears in you.

The Misdiagnosis Reality

If you still want to enter that world and play their game, consider the statistics on misdiagnosis:

12%

of patients receive a correct diagnosis from the first doctor they consult

~90%

of the time doctors give wrong treatment and advice

12 million in the US get an incorrect diagnosis each year from their primary care doctors alone, with about 33 percent of those wrongly diagnosed (about four million) dying or suffering permanent harm from the mistake.

— Johns Hopkins University

• 3rd Leading Cause of Death: U.S. Hospitals kill 250,000+ people a year with Medical Mistakes. Some estimates say 400,000+.
• U.S. Hospitals kill 100,000 people a year with HAI (Hospital or Healthcare Acquired Infections)

Focus on Wellness

Don't become a statistic. Focus on wellness and you will be far less likely to care about any of this. I don't need all that crazy vocabulary to help you heal, and I certainly don't want to put meaningless labels on you that will fill you with fear, uncertainty, and doubt.

Getting healthy and staying healthy doesn't have to be so complicated.

This article shares Victor Cozzetto’s own protocols and experience as a nutritionist and Certified Emotion Code Practitioner. It is educational and not medical advice. See the full disclaimer.