“Wellness” – there’s a word thrown around by everybody from pharmaceutical companies to hospitals to insurance companies to drug stores.
Well… most of those entities’ profits depend on you getting sick and staying sick.
I contend they know nothing about real wellness. Their business is to let you get sick, detect the illness early (which is usually what they call wellness) and keep you on meds for the rest of your life.
They have absolutely NO financial gain in getting or keeping you well.
Then why are they in charge of most corporate wellness programs? OSU once had an ad in the Dispatch that said mammograms were your best breast cancer prevention. How smashing a breast and irradiating it is prevention is beyond me.
So how about a new paradigm?
Rather than hiring the people who make trillions from the consumer getting sick and staying sick, how about hiring real wellness professionals?
Hire us at Worthington Optimal Wellness. We have a long list of lunch and learn topics and have shared it at many corporate offices, events and health fairs over the years. (See testimonials from our corporate lunch and learn sessions.)
We have no stake in keeping you on lifetime drugs or over utilized CT scans or hospital stays. Let us work with the employees who are not yet showing symptoms to prevent the need for drugs and surgery and help them achieve true wellbeing. Let us work with the already ill employees with safer, less expensive options.
I will be speaking at a “Health and Wellness Conference” for the Ohio Manufacturers’ Education Council. There is no other group speaking who isn’t invested in keeping us sick. The instructions were to avoid duplicating other speakers. Somehow I don’t think that will be a problem.
