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The
Journal of the American Medical Association recently reported 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 reported
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 reported 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 reported on the number of outpatient and doctor's office
deaths caused by these very same drugs when prescribed by these very same
doctors. The reported 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 Report 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 reported as $63,520.6 million and the corresponding
reported 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 reported by Broad as averaging around $200,000 per year. The
lowest reporting specialty, Rheumatology reported $158,500 and the highest,
cardiovascular surgeon, reported $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 accumulated 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 shingle 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, toadies 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 report, as it was then called, to gain popular
support for the changes that were to be made in the medical community. With
public backing secured by the publication of the Flexner report, 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. Toadies 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
important 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 a
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 important thing that we all must do is to recognize that our
health is our most important possession. We have no choice but to accept
total responsibility for our own health. To leave such an important
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 important 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 important
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 important, 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 importance of what you have found and give him all of the support 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
flourishing 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.
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 report entitled "Insulin: Our Silent
Killer" written for the layman but also widely valued by the medical
practitioner. This report 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 page www.Healingmatters.com He can
be reached by telephone at 970 669-9176.
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