Medical Armageddon

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Misty L. Trepke

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Medical Armageddon

 

Given that

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Conventional Medicine is Far Riskier Than Supplements the following

figures and issues are simply ignored by the regulators, who seem to

have all the resources in the world, in time and money, to go after

essentially safe and efficacious health products while ignoring the

real health issues.

 

It is clear, with so much data on death and injury from supposed

safety tested drugs, surgeries and devices, that the regulatory

framework is more about protecting the vested interests then the

constituents.

 

Surely, with such a dismal track record why are the regulators

needed in the first place? Is this not like trusting the fox to look

after the interests of chickens? In my view less the bureaucracy,

the better. This at least will take away the free lunch from the

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medical Mafia, who cleverly a have made us to do their dirty work

with our own tax money...

 

Chris Gupta

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Recently a New York Times editorial mused about testosterone

replacement therapy stating, " One wonders whether 'another' medical

debacle is in the making. " Medical debacles are common occurrences

these days, so common that every ten days, in the United States

alone, the same number of people die from the effects of

prescription drugs as were killed in the September 11th World Trade

Center attack.? Dr. Barbara Starfield of the Johns Hopkins

School of Hygiene and Public Health reported in the Journal of the

American Medical Association that 250,000 people in the US were

dying each year from errors in medication, unnecessary surgery,

infections caught in hospitals, and 106,000 per year from non-error,

negative effects of drugs.

 

Research compiled by Gary Null, Ph.D., Carol Dean, M.D., and Martin

Feldman, M.D., place the numbers significantly higher. In a paper

called

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Death By Medicine, published by the Nutrition Institute of American,

according to a " definitive review and close reading of medical peer-

review journals, and government health statistics, " over 780,000

Americans die each year as a direct result of conventional medical

procedures and/or medications. This compares to the approximately

700,000 Americans who die each year due to heart disease, and the

approximately 550,000 who die due to cancer.

 

At the same time the 8 biggest pharmaceutical manufacturers in the

USA increased revenues by 20% in 3Q 2003. This was the largest

growth in any quarter since at least 1999. Pfizer, Merck, Bristol-

Myers Squibb, Abbott Labs, J & J, Wyeth, Eli Lilly and Schering-Plough

achieved total sales of $42.5 billion. As sales go up death goes up.

 

A senior marketing executive at Parke-Davis, which manufactures the

seizure medication gabapentin (Neurontin) was quoted during a

teleconference as saying to medical liaisons (drug detail

personnel) " Neurontin for pain, Neurontin for monotherapy, Neurontin

for everything. I don't want to hear that safety crap either. " It

just so happens that the FDA does not approve Neurontin for any of

these purposes yet the company's employees have the receptive ears

of medical doctors who are prescribing the drug for unapproved uses.

Through the creation of concocted uses for gabapentin Parke-Davis'

turned the drug into a " blockbuster. " A blockbuster is the Wall

Street description for any drug that sold $1 billion per year or

more. In 2000, the company reported that gabapentin had earned $1.3

billion. As much as 78 percent of these sales were for uses without

evidence that gabapentin was safe and effective. In 2001 a market

research firm estimated that gabapentin sales totaled $1.7 billion .

 

This is just one story of many such stories. People are dying in

great numbers. Perhaps it was the physical structure of the World

Trade Center that made it so important, not the people who died

inside. If we take 106,000 per year from non-error, negative effects

of drugs in the states as a 'conservative' base line and project

that onto the world population it would not be far fetched to assume

more than a half million people a year are dying from 'safe'

medication. If we look at overall medically induced death rates, at

the number of people who die each year as a direct result

of conventional medical procedures and/or medications we are looking

in the order of between three to five to even ten million deaths a

year. And each year the numbers are getting worse.

 

Medical News Editorial

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See also:

 

<http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2003/10/29/medical_system_is_le

ading_cause_of_death_and_injury_in_us.htm>Medical

system is leading cause of death and injury in US

 

 

 

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