On Aug 25, 10:14=A0pm, Raymond <Bluerhy...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> "Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason
> not
> to give it."
> --- Agatha Christie:
>
> Health Care in America
>
> Even with free universal health care, no one is safe from the
> incompetent,greedy medicine men. Whether we pay for health care or it
> becomes free to all, something has to be done to improve the quality
> and the safety to the care to the patient.
>
> As author, Vernon Coleman,(What Doctors Don't Tell You) said, "The
> person most likely to kill you is not a relative or a friend, or a
> mugger or a burglar or a drunken driver. The person most likely to
> kill you is your doctor.
>
> More and more Americans are waking up to the reality of our medical
> community and its corruption and dangers.
>
> " I often say a great doctor kills more people than a great general.
> "
> - Gottfried Leibnitz
>
> SEE Gangsters in Medicine.
> GANGSTERS IN MEDICINE
> By Thomas Smith
>
> NewsWithViews.com
>
> Disease in America.
> Some of the economics of Medicine.
> Exceptions to the rule.
> Takeover of the American medical Association.
> Treatment instead of cure.
> Insurance fraud.
> Government coercion in medical practice.
> What to do.
>
> The Journal of the American Medical Association recently re****ted
> that
> as many as 106,000 deaths occur annually in US hospitals due to
> adverse reactions to prescription drugs that are properly prescribed
> by physicians that use them as directed by the drug companies.
>
> Even worse, the National Council for Patient Information and
> Education
> re****ted that an additional 125,000 deaths occur annually due to
> adverse reactions to drugs that the physician never should have
> prescribed. In these deaths the doctor did not follow the
> instructions
> on proper administration of the drugs. For example, Glucophage, a
> diabetic oral hypoglycemic, should never be prescribed for patients
> with Kidney disease or Congestive Heart Failure because it can cause
> fatal Lactic Acidosis in these patients. A warning label is
> prominently placed on the medication container to warn of this
> potential misuse.
>
> However, JAMA re****ted that almost 1/4 of the patients who had been
> prescribed Glucophage had Kidney damage or Congestive Heart failure
> or
> both.
>
> The annual death toll from synthetic prescription drugs, both from
> the
> correctly prescribed and the incorrectly prescribed, amounts to about
> 231,000 deaths every year. To put this into perspective, this is the
> equivalent of a world trade center disaster every week for over a
> year
> and a half or the crash of two fully loaded 747 aircraft every day of
> the year.
>
> No information was re****ted on the number of outpatient and doctor's
> office deaths caused by these very same drugs when prescribed by
> these
> very same doctors. The re****ted figures alone, however, make drug
> deaths caused by physicians the third leading cause of death in the
> US. It is far ahead of accidents, drunk driving, homicides, airline
> accidents, as well as all other disease with the sole exceptions of
> cancer and heart disease.
>
> Many of these drugs responsible for the death statistics cited are
> diabetic drugs. None of these drugs cure or even were intended to
> cure
> diabetes. During the time a patient is on the drugs his body is
> suffering great damage due to the uncontrolled progress of the
> disease. This is in addition to the risk and damage caused by the
> drug
> itself.
>
> According to Dr. Mendelsohn, author of "Confessions of a Medical
> Heretic", 2.4 million unnecessary operations are performed every year
> and they cost over 12,000 lives. When the records of six New York
> hospitals were examined it was found that 43% of the Hysterectomies
> that were performed were medically unnecessary.
>
> No one should ever submit to any surgical procedure without first
> obtaining several unrelated medical opinions, at least not here in
> the
> United States. Women are particularly vulnerable to this type of
> victimization.
>
> Disease in America.
>
> According to the World Health Re****t 2000 the United States ranks
> twelfth, that is second from the bottom, in their thirteen country
> survey of sixteen available health indicators. We are dead last for
> low birth weight and neonatal and infant mortality. We rank between
> ninth and twelfth for all life expectancy categories between one year
> and 40 years. Another study ranked the United States as fifteenth in
> the twenty-five industrialized countries studied.
>
> Diabetes, Hypoglycemia, Hyperinsulinemia are so widespread in the
> United States that it is estimated that over half the population
> exhibits one or more symptoms of these life destroying diseases.
> Symptoms of Adult onset diabetes are now being routinely noted in six
> year old children. Obesity and it's related Endocrine dysfunction are
> commonly observed in teenagers. Heart Failure, a symptom of advanced
> Type II Diabetes, remains in the top three killer diseases in the
> Westernized countries.
>
> Although the cause and cure for Type II Diabetes and related
> endocrine
> failure has been increasingly well understood in the scientific
> community for the last forty years, this disease is not being cured
> by
> todays orthodox treatment regimens. In order to find a cure it is
> necessary to seek alternative medical approaches to this disease.
>
> Some of the economics of Medicine.
>
> A large part of this medical disaster that the United States
> currently
> experiences is due to the way our medical community is organized.
> Basically it is not organized to heal and to cure disease; the
> medical
> community, particularly at its upper levels, is a commercial venture
> organized to make money for its practitioners.
>
> Although the record of the United States Medical community in the
> cure
> of disease is deplorable, the same cannot be said for its ability to
> produce income and profit. For example, for the top fifteen
> pharmaceutical companies, including such names as Abbot, Wyeth,
> Hoffman-La Roche, Merck and others, the second quarter revenue for
> 2002 was re****ted as $63,520.6 million and the corresponding re****ted
> income was 11,731.8 million respectively. This is second only to the
> defense industry in the United States.
>
> In 1997, the latest year for which we have the figures, the earnings
> of physicians were re****ted by Broad as averaging around $200,000 per
> year. The lowest re****ting specialty, Rheumatology re****ted $158,500
> and the highest, cardiovascular surgeon, re****ted $363,300. When
> examining the numbers, we noted that the high salaries seemed to be
> concentrated in members of the AMA. Those belonging to less powerful
> trade unions did not fare nearly so well even though they did most of
> the actual patient care work. For example, the median staff salary of
> registered nurses was $35,256
>
> The Cardiac surgeon, for example, does nothing whatsoever to cure
> cardiac disease. Three to five percent of the heart surgery patients
> die on the operating table. Cardiac surgery provides no better three
> year survival rate than no treatment at all. A Harvard survival study
> of 200,000 patients revealed that the long term survival rate of
> patients subjected to surgery was no better than the survival rate of
> those that had no surgery.
>
> Of course, your cardiac surgeon will not tell you this when you need
> to make a decision on whether or not to elect cardiac surgery.
>
> Never in history have so many ac***ulated so much wealth for
> providing
> their customers or clients or patients with so little real benefit.
>
> Exceptions to the rule.
>
> Many doctors of integrity are as much victims of the system as are
> their patients. Today's doctor is not free to treat disease as his
> conscience dictates. He is forced to administer approved protocols
> whether they are known to work or not. To deviate from these approved
> protocols invites law suits, peer criticism and censure from State
> medical licensing boards.
>
> This writer knows of two local doctors who tried to buck the
> establishment and really help their patients. Both lost their license
> to practice medicine. One is currently working as an administrator in
> a California hospital and the other has started a nutritional clinic.
>
> Takeover of the American medical Association.
>
> This sad state of affairs is directly traceable to the takeover of
> the
> American Medical Association by the Carnegie and Rockefeller
> foundations in the early part of the twentieth century.
>
> At the turn of the century the medical community was in a sad state
> of
> disrepair. There were no qualifications to become a doctor. If one
> wanted to be a doctor it was only necessary to hang out a ****ngle and
> start the practice of medicine. Medical schools were poorly financed,
> often taught contradictory medical philosophies and had little impact
> on the practice of medicine. In 1910 the American Medical
> Association,
> todays AMA, was on the verge of bankruptcy. Few doctors belonged to
> it
> and even fewer paid any attention to it. Quackery of all kinds was
> rampant. The market was flooded with fake cancer cures and 80 proof
> liver tonic.
>
> It was in this environment that Rockefeller and Carnegie moved in and
> bought the AMA and then used it to take control of the entire United
> States medical establishment. In 1910, Henry Prichard president of
> the
> Carnegie foundation, bought control of the AMA for the sum of
> $10,000.
> He then financed the publication of the Flexner re****t, as it was
> then
> called, to gain popular sup****t for the changes that were to be made
> in the medical community. With public backing secured by the
> publication of the Flexner re****t, Carnegie and Rockefeller commenced
> a major upgrade in medical education by financing only those medical
> schools that taught what they wanted taught. Predictably, those
> schools that had the financing churned out the better doctors.
>
> In return for the financing, the schools were required to teach
> course
> material that was exclusively drug oriented. That is why today our
> doctors are so heavily biased toward synthetic drug therapy and know
> little or nothing about nutrition.
>
> Dr. David Edsall, former dean of Harvard medical school, said "I was,
> for a period, a professor of Therapeutics and Pharmacology, [at
> Harvard] and I knew from experience that students were obliged then
> by
> me and by others to learn about an interminable number of drugs, many
> of which were valueless, many of them useless, some probably even
> harmful...."
>
> For a time, these changes actually improved the practice of medicine
> in the United States. Then, as the distorted medical curriculum began
> to churn out doctors whose only concern was prescribing synthetic
> drugs, things began to deteriorate into what we see today.
>
> Today the average medical doctor receives 3 hours or less training on
> nutrition despite the fact that our bodies are constructed entirely
> of
> what we eat and drink. Today's doctor receives much of his ongoing
> education from detail men. The detail man is the drug company
> salesman
> whose job it is to teach the doctor how to use the latest drugs.
>
> Treatment instead of cure.
>
> Even with all of this history the medical doctor retained a great
> deal
> of his autonomy through the 1930's and into the late 1940's. In 1949
> another major change took place in the medical community that set the
> stage for the disaster we see today. It was in 1949 that the medical
> community reorganized itself into the competing medical specialty
> groups we see today. Prior to 1949 a doctor was a doctor; he dealt
> with all disease and injury. After 1949 this was not so.
>
> The reorganization established many of the specialties that we know
> today. It was then that the Cardiac Specialist, the Endocrinologist,
> the Hepatic and Biliary Specialist and many other professional
> specialty groups were formed. The symptoms of the then raging
> epidemic
> of Type II Diabetes were divided among the specialty groups so that
> each group had their own set of proprietary symptoms.
>
> The story given out for the reorganization was that it would help to
> focus more attention on the then current Diabetes epidemic. However,
> in practice it caused the entire medical community to treat their own
> proprietary symptom set and nobody focused on curing the disease
> anymore. This was the origin of the "treat the symptom" and "ignore
> the cause" philosophy that now dominates the entire medical
> community.
>
> This was the turning point event that led to the removal of the word
> "cure" from the medical vocabulary. Today, if you mention the "c"
> word
> around your doctor he will usually glaze over and pretend not to hear
> you. He only responds to the word "treatment".
>
> Under the Rockefeller and Carnegie influence their pharmaceutical
> firms started to pour out the vast array of synthetic drugs that the
> doctors trained to their medical school standards now prescribed
> almost to the exclusion of any other remedies. Among the first drugs
> to be marketed this way were the oral hypoglycemic agents. They were
> deliberately designed to treat the symptom while not curing the
> disease.
>
> Insurance fraud.
>
> Since the name of the medical game was money, a means had to be
> devised to provide the patient with money that could only be used to
> pay for approved medical treatment. Enter the insurance company
> concept. Today employees have, as an im****tant part of their
> remuneration for their work, a health insurance policy. This health
> insurance policy does not pay for all health related needs; it only
> pays for those health related services that are approved. These, of
> course, are the synthetic drug therapies that are known to work
> poorly, if at all.
>
> In order to secure effective medical treatment from the alternative
> sector of the economy the patient must pay for it himself; insurance
> companies specifically exclude virtually all alternative treatment.
> One wonders why so many continue to pay for an insurance program that
> cannot, even in principle, be of any real benefit to them.
>
> Government coercion in medical practice.
>
> In the ordinary course of events, good medicine would eventually
> drive
> out bad medicine. As more and more people discover ways to maintain
> and improve their health, without drug therapy, they will simply
> abandon bad medicine and resort to alternative therapies.
>
> Indeed, this is happening. Also happening is a concerted government
> effort to discredit and declare unlawful those effective therapies
> that represent the greatest threat to orthodox medicine. In the last
> fifty years many effective cures have been developed for many of the
> major killer diseases that we have. In each instance the developer
> has
> been branded a quack, his business has been ruined and in some cases
> he has been sent to jail.
>
> Even with outright governmental attacks on those that would promote
> effective therapies in America, the tide is turning. More and more
> Americans are waking up to the reality of our medical community. More
> and more they are finding it to be a fraud and they are turning to
> less conventional treatments and modalities.
>
> Informed Americans that require effective medical treatment for
> anything more serious than a head cold are turning away from orthodox
> drug quackery in droves. The medical community is trying hard to make
> it illegal to refuse their treatment. A major effort is currently
> underway (Codex) to severely restrict the availability of nutritional
> supplements to those that use them throughout the world. Our
> government is seriously considering mandatory vaccination programs.
>
> Many believe that our Food and Drug Administration, FDA, represents
> the American people and that the FDA acts to insure that our food and
> drugs are safe and effective. Nothing could be further from the
> truth.
> The FDA acts entirely to restrain and manage competition between and
> among those that manufacture our food and drugs. They do this only
> for
> the purpose of minimizing competition in business. Rockefeller is
> famous for proclaiming the only sin is competition.
>
> Willy Ley, a former head of the FDA, said it best when he said "What
> the Food and Drug Administration does and what the public thinks that
> it does are as different as night and day".
>
> Today in America the practice of medicine is not free. It is one of
> the most tightly controlled commercial enterprises in the world. That
> is why it produces such extraordinary income for it's favored and
> such
> misery, disease and death for its victims.
>
> What to do.
>
> Given the growth of the medical monster that ate the United States,
> what can we who live here do to effectively manage our own health.
>
> Perhaps the single most im****tant thing that we all must do is to
> recognize that our health is our most im****tant possession. We have
> no
> choice but to accept total responsibility for our own health. To
> leave
> such an im****tant consideration to someone who clearly has much to
> gain by lying to us just does not make sense. Typically, we buy our
> cars and houses with a great deal more wisdom than we bring to the
> doctor's office when we go there.
>
> The modern orthodox medical community treats symptoms; they do not
> cure disease. When you visit the doctor, it is perfectly in order for
> you to ask bluntly whether or not the treatment he wants to give you
> will cure the disease you have.
>
> Some years ago, when I had a serious case of Type II Diabetes, I
> asked
> my doctor that question about the treatment he offered me. First he
> pretended he did not hear me. When I persisted and made eye contact
> and repeated the question he replied "this is the prescribed
> treatment". Such an evasive answer to such a direct question sent me
> to the library where I did the research to get a better answer. I
> quickly discovered that the drug he offered me would not only not
> cure
> the disease, but that it was guaranteed to put me on the road to
> becoming an invalid long before my time.
>
> Fortunately I rejected his treatment. I went on to search the
> scientific literature where I quickly found what I needed. It had
> nothing to do with synthetic drugs. It took me about 3 1/2 months to
> fully reverse my diabetes. That was seven years ago. The disease
> remains in full remission to this day.
>
> There is one im****tant caveat that must be mentioned at this point.
> If
> you are currently under a doctors care and are dissatisfied with the
> results you are getting, do not just stop taking the prescribed
> medication. Get your doctor, or another doctor if yours will not
> cooperate, to help wean you off prescription drugs and to help you to
> devise a workable alternative therapy. Many of these synthetic drugs
> will produce serious side effects if they are abruptly discontinued.
> When I had the problem I had not yet taken prescription medication.
>
> After accepting full responsibility for your own health, the second
> most im****tant consideration is to do your homework and learn about
> the disease or disability that you have. Buy books, attend seminars,
> subscribe to newsletters, search the internet, learn about what it
> takes to actually reverse the disease that afflicts you. Investigate
> alternative medical practitioners. Many Naturopaths and Chiropractors
> can be of great help in actually curing disease. Do not fall for the
> idea that only doctors are smart enough to understand these things.
>
> Look for that unusual doctor that will risk really trying to help
> you;
> and, realize that he is taking a substantial risk when he does so. In
> other words, do the best you can to find something better for
> yourself
> than what your doctor offers. Help each other. If you discover
> something im****tant, don't be afraid to share the information. Be
> vocal when government organizations attempt to restrict or deny your
> access to natural nutritional supplements.
>
> If you are fortunate to find a doctor with this kind of integrity,
> understand the im****tance of what you have found and give him all of
> the sup****t that you can give. There is a medical doctor in
> California, we will call him Doctor Q, that refused to compromise his
> integrity in his practice of medicine. He ended up in jail, put there
> by his fellow doctors. His patients got together, got him out of jail
> and had a special bill passed in the State legislature to protect his
> practice of medicine. Today he still runs a flouri****ng practice
> where
> he ministers to patients from all over this country. He is actually
> curing disease not just treating it.
>
> Third, after accepting responsibility for your own health and
> becoming
> informed, recognize that medicine is a business. Your doctor is a
> paid
> consultant just like your electrician or plumber and he is listed in
> the same yellow pages. You have every right to get the information
> for
> which you are paying. When your doctor retreats into arrogance and
> refuses to provide direct answers to direct questions, consider
> getting another doctor. There really are many safe and effective
> therapies that go far beyond drugs. However, we must demand them on
> the firing line, in the doctor's office, when we need them.
>
> --- 2000 Thomas Smith - All Rights Reserved
> Thomas Smith is a reluctant medical investigator having been forced
> into seeking a cure for his own Diabetes because it was obvious that
> his doctor would not or could not cure it. He has published the
> results of his successful Diabetes investigation in his special
> re****t
> entitled "Insulin: Our Silent Killer" written for the layman but also
> widely valued by the medical practitioner. This re****t may be
> purchased by sending $25.00 US to him at PO Box 7685 Loveland,
> Colorado 80537. He has also posted a great deal of useful information
> about this disease on his web pagewww.Healingmatters.comHe can be
> reached by telephone at: 1 (970) 669-9176 E-Mail:
> Val...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> The Disturbing Truth About Doctors and Your Medical
Safetyhttp://www.alte=
rnet.org/healthwellness/51949/
>
> Medical Malpractice Caps are Unwarranted by the Payout of Claims Data
>
> Each year, the debate in state legislatures around this country
> regarding the so called need for tort reform and caps on medical
> malpractice cases intensifies. Big medical cor****ations and insurance
> companies, who are only motivated about increasing premium revenue
> and
> decreasing payments to victims, lead the fight with big dollar
> lobbying campaigns. =A0Unfortunately, these lobbying efforts rarely
> contain accurate facts and figures and in the end, leave innocent
> victims of malpractice with little or no recourse for even blatent
> acts of malpractice.
>
> http://medmalblog.thecochranfirmno.com/archives/cat-medical-malpracti...
>
> Our Tax Dollars Are Being Used to Kill People
>
> Doctors May Be Third Leading Cause of Death
> by Joseph Mercola, D.O. Pharmaceutical Industry News
>
> Joseph Mercola, D.O.
>
> Dr. Mercola is a licensed Osteopathic physician and board-certified
> in
> family medicine. He served as the chairman of the family medicine
> department at St. Alexius Medical Center for five years and has been
> trained in both traditional and natural medicine. Dr. Mercola has
> been
> practicing natural medicine actively since 1990 and is the publisher
> ofwww.mercola.com, the most visited health site on the internet.
>
> View all articles by Joseph Mercola, D.O.... Doctors Are The Third
> Leading Cause of Death in the US, Causing 250,000 Deaths Every Year
> This week's issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association
> (JAMA) is the best article I have ever seen written in the published
> literature do***enting the tragedy of the traditional medical
> paradigm.
>
> This information is a followup of the Institute of Medicine re****t
> which hit the papers in December of last year, but the data was hard
> to reference as it was not in peer-reviewed journal. Now it is
> published in JAMA which is the most widely circulated medical
> periodical in the world.
>
> http://www.chattanoogahealth.com/Articles/2135/1/Doctors_May_Be_Third...
>
> Also:
=A0http://www.healingdaily.com/Doctors-Are-The-Third-Leading-Cause-=
of-De...http://thebitt.com/2007/05/19/doctors-are-the-third-leading-cause-o=
f-...
>
> World Health Education
Initiativehttp://www.health-care-reform.net/caused=
eath.htm
>
> Doctors are just the same as lawyers, the only difference is that
> lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you, too.
> - Anton Chekhov
>
> HELP.
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