Dangers of Modern Medicine: Iatrogenic Diseases

February 24, 2003

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Dangers of Modern Medicine: Iatrogenic Diseases " 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. 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. " John ThomasWelcome to...Dangers of

Modern Medicine

Benjamin Rush MD - " Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the

time will come when medicine will organize into an underground dictatorship...

To restrict the art of healing to one class of men and deny equal privileges to

others will constitute the Bastille of medical science. All such laws are

un-American and despotic and have no place in a republic... The Constitution of

this republic should make special privilege for medical freedom as well as

religious freedom. " Benjamin Rush, MD, a signer of the Declaration of

Independence and personal physician to George Washington

Dr. Schulze - " Over the last 80 years, organized medical groups and

pharmaceutical companies, using lawyers, bribes, lobbyist, insurance companies

and the strong arm of the Food and Drug Administration, have been very busy.

They have corrupted elected officials to pass laws to remove any competition.

They have crushed Natural Doctors, Natural Medicine, and Self-Care. Their goal

is to monopolize health care and make us dependent on medical doctors and

pharmaceutical drugs. It almost worked! We have watched them pass more and more

laws restricting our rights; they have made many healing herbs, foods and even

nutrients illegal. Natural health professionals that flourished a few decades

ago are now barred by law to practice, and Natural Doctors, Holistic Healers,

Health Food Store Owners and even family members of the sick have been arrested

and jailed for using natural remedies.

If you disagree with your doctor regarding the medical treatment of your

children, they can be taken away from you, put in a foster home, and you can be

arrested for endangering the health and welfare of your child (more). There are

many people jailed every year, put there for disagreeing with medical doctors

and their policies. In order to break free from the clutches of organized

medical crime, pharmaceutical drug cartels and the monstrous insurance

companies, we must all work to change the unconstitutional laws that monopolize

health care. Dr. Schulze has tried to make changes in Washington and was

physically beaten and jailed. He then decided the best way for him to create

medical freedom was to take it to the people, his grass roots Natural Healing

Crusade. Dr. Schulze believes we can put the medical and pharmaceutical

industries in their place by educating everyone in the healing powers naturally

present in the human body and how to use the foods and herbs given to us by God

and Nature. Most importantly each of us must stop using and supporting these

deadly industries by learning the healthy and natural God-given alternatives. "

Dr. Schulze, master herbalist

The FDA " partner " of the Pharmaceutical Industry - In an unusually candid

comment for a senior government official Dr. Herbert Ley, former FDA

commissioner, remarked: “The thing that bugs me is that the people think the FDA

is protecting them. It Isn’t. What the FDA is doing and what the public thinks

it’s doing are as different as night and day.” more

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Guylaine Lanctot, M.D. - The medical establishment works closely with the drug

multinationals whose main objective is profits, and whose worst nightmare would

be an epidemic of good health. Lots of drugs MUST be sold. In order to achieve

this, anything goes: lies, fraud, and kickbacks. Doctors are the principal

salespeople of the drug companies. They are rewarded with research grants,

gifts, and lavish perks. The principal buyers are the public - from infants to

the elderly - who MUST be thoroughly medicated and vaccinated...at any cost! Why

do the authorities forbid alternative medicine? Because they are serving the

industry, and the industry cannot make money with herbs, vitamins, and

homeopathy. They cannot patent natural remedies. That is why they push

synthetics. They control medicine, and that is why they are able to tell medical

schools what they can and cannot teach. They have their own sets of laws, and

they force people into them. That is a mafia. This sensational expose' also

uncovers the truth behind vaccines, AIDS, cancer, the World Health Organization,

the Rockefeller Foundation, the World Bank, and more. Guylaine Lanctot, M.D is

the author of The Medical Mafia: How To Get Out of It Alive and Take Back Our

Health and Wealth.

Mass Murder in Medicine

by Dr. Len Horowitz

Discussing “Iatrogenocide” Dr. Len Horowitz delves into the darkest side of

drug-based medicine, including the mass killing and poisoning of people for

profit and politics. This free program is dedicated and donated to grassroots

activists and organizations worldwide working to stop this ongoing

medically-induced mass murder that Dr. Horowitz christens “iatrogenocide.” Find

out why trusted vaccines, blood supplies, and drugs play a primary role in what

amounts to genocide for profit, psychosocial control, and even depopulation. We

urge you to make copies of this exceptional 45-minute presentation, help spread

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Americans have become so accustomed to following doctors' orders that many

prescriptions, medical tests, and surgical procedures are accepted without

question. This blind faith can be dangerous!

The most underreported crime of the century.

by Thomas Smith

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. (more info: natural diabetes treatments)

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.

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February 24, 2003

I can really relate to this article! I suffer from an iatrogenic

illness due to taking Levaquin, a fluorquinolone antibiotic, and a

member of the same class of antibiotics as Cipro, the " anthrax

drug " . What the doctors don't tell you is that these drugs can

cause spontaneous tendon ruptures, joint and muscle pain, CNS and

peripheral nerve damage, tremors, kidney or liver damage, psychotic

episodes, eye damage...the list is endless. This damage may be

transient, or it may be permanent and severely debilitating. Most

insulting is when you report this adverse events to your doctor, and

they proclaim " It can't be the drug " , although all of these adverse

events, and more, are printed on the drug monograph, and in the

PDR. Although there are literally thousands of articles and

documents pointing to severe safety issues with this class of

antibiotics, and groups such as Public Citizen have addressed many

of the Pharmaceutical companies to put more stringent labelling and

warnings on their drugs, they are still being pushed as first line

of defense antibiotics for common ailments that could be treated

with cheaper and safer drugs....it's still big business damaging the

little guys for the sake of profit!

Jen

February 25, 2003

Folks I gotta throw my 2 cents in here.

First, let me introduce myself. My name is Lev and I'm an MD who started

his medical life in alternative medicine, specifically Traditional

- acupuncture, herbs, etc..

The reason that I continued on with allopathic medicine is that I saw

the limitations of alternative medicine as well as the limitations of

alloplathic medicine. My reasoning and goal was to be able to offer MY

patients the best medical treatment be it conventional or alternative.

That's called Integrative Medicine, which, obviously, I am a VERY big

fan of.

Now, allopathic medicine has much wrong with it and I'm the FIRST to

admit it, esp. with the healthcare system that prevails in the U.S.

(though I don't currently live or practice there), esp. with the

autocratic AMA. But, by the same token, western medicine does have its

place in the arsenal of healing, incl. things like antibiotics. I've

used them and have frankly saved many lives because of them. As well as

with surgery and other conventional treatments. Does that mean the first

thing I reach for is my prescription pad? No, it doesn't. But I will use

it when I deem it necessary.

There are people who are reactive to meds like you Jen. I am sorry to

hear that you had a negative reaction to Levaquin. But it happens. I've

had patients w/ negative reactions to herbs! And serious ones at that. I

had one case where, thank God, I was a regular MD who could order

someone's stomach pumped because she had used herbs on her own, herbs

that frankly, I would have prescribed for her condition had she been my

patient! That happens too.

What I am strongly opposed to is manipulation by pharmaceutical

companies, esp. of physicians, to use their products, the lack of

education of physicians who take the hype drug salesmen slobber about

as if it were gospel, their overall lack of knowledge about alternatives

and most importantly, about their persecution of physicians who either

espouse or utilize alternative and unorthodox approaches to healing. To

imprison a physician who utilizes a non-AMA-standard option to cure a

patient with cancer is just absurd!

But, in any event, let's not throw out the baby with the bathwater

(interesting where that phrase originates from, if anyone is

interested). Technology too has also given us an edge in treatment that

has helped thousands to survive or at least ease their suffering.

Dr. Lev

Jen Zeigler <nettazig [nettazig]

Monday, February 24, 2003 10:54 PM

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