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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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