Hippocrates, the father of medicine taught healers the basic principle to do no harm. Now part of the Hippocratic Oath, the words are eternal, they are that crucial.

How closely do you think it's actually followed in the twenty-first century?

My teenage son has flat feet that point out, and even though I believed the problem related to his whole alignment, the pediatrician sent me to a podiatrist.

The day arrived and we were ushered in. I'm sitting across from my boy when the doctor walks in, looks at him for less than a minute, and proceeds to tell me he will have to do a complicated surgery immediately. He won't be able to walk for a year and will have a steel plate for the rest of his life. Right in front of my son!

Do no harm? I was livid.

Cut into the feet of a healthy child?

I was angry at that man for scaring my son, but I'm not so easily manipulated. My son is now doing daily exercises to correct the real issues.

Unfortunately, this is not an isolated case. People who are normally skeptical at sales presentations are much less so when they are being sold by a doctor. This was a $30,000 procedure (that the insurance would pay for and it doesn't pay for the much less expensive solution I found).

It goes back to the training in medical schools today: it's all pharmaceutical interventions and surgery.

While emergency operations and medications can sometimes save lives, the problem is that they've become the only way. Other means don't even come into their heads.

My search for a better way led to the discovery of an amazing place that actually taught that the body is self-healing and amazing.

Rather than traumatic interventions, they teach people to give the body all the nutrition it needs and stop overworking it with processed "foods", and amazingly it will go into high gear in healing itself.

The Hippocrates Health Institute, aptly named after the original Hippocrates. It truly follows the idea of do no harm and teaches people to take charge of their own health.

The experience I had at Hippocrates Institute was so completely different from the usual medical practice, I thought I had landed in paradise.

People call it a miracle when some with cancer, diabetes, high blood pressure, various tumors and so many other health conditions bring about their own healing using what they learn.