The Book: Politics In Healing

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Forward

 

 

It has been my good fortune to get to read the manuscript of a book written by

former legislator Dan Haley documenting a serious problem that exists in our

society. It points out documented facts that clearly illustrate the suppression

of new medical treatments if those treatments come from other than conventional

sources.

 

I have been tremendously impressed with this manuscript. Such a book could only

be written by a person such as Mr. Haley who has experience in the field of

politics and a willingness to search out the facts. Thank God it is not written

by a doctor giving you his or her beliefs, but rather by an investigative person

reporting documented facts.

 

I have been tremendously impressed with this manuscript. Such a book could only

be written by a

 

 

 

 

 

 

person such as Mr. Haley who has experience in the field of politics and a

willingness to search out the facts. Thank God it is not written by a doctor

giving you his or her beliefs, but rather by an investigative person reporting

documented facts.

 

It is extremely important that the facts in this book be made available to the

public. It points out how innovation in medicine is suppressed in our society by

current laws, regulations and policies, and what has happened as a result.

 

I served for 12 years in the United States Congress. I found most members truly

dedicated to trying to do the right thing. Unfortunately, too frequently we did

not have sufficient facts to be able to make the right decisions. Few members of

Congress are aware of the problem which the facts in this book clearly point

out. It is only by getting these facts to the people and the politicians that we

can hope to see the problem addressed and innovation and creativity encouraged

and rewarded in medicine and health as it is in almost every other area of our

society.

 

There is growing interest in alternative medicine. I would expect that many of

those who read the book would recommend it to their friends, and furnish it to

their legislators. I would expect it to be widely read in the alternative

community, and I would hope in government circles as well.

 

Berkley Bedell

Former Member of U.S. Congress.

 

NOTE: Former Congressman Bedell originated the idea for the Office of

Alternative Medicine (OAM), and for the Access to Medical Treatment Act. The

healing crises he survived via alternative medicine are described in Chapters 7

and 8.

 

Introduction

 

 

 

The struggle between good and evil is a common theme. In modern cinema evil has

often claimed the souls of corporate or government leaders, while good is

embodied in one or two individuals who " take on City Hall, " trying to right a

wrong or give voice to the truth. In the movies the good guys usually prevail,

as it makes us all happy to see good triumph over evil. Very few cheer for evil

over good.

 

When the movie ends and we return to the daylight of real life, a strange

phenomenon occurs. We suspend belief in the struggles between good and evil.

What was so real, so believable, so contemporary on the screen only moments ago

inexplicably disappears as we walk to our cars. We delude ourselves with the

comfortable notion that real life does not embody such stark differences between

good and evil. We see only various shades of gray.

 

Why do we do this? Why do we deny the presence of good and evil when they are so

clearly and believably expressed in art? Surely it is because acknowledgement of

real-life evil is uncomfortable.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Daniel Haley has written a very important book about the medical profession,

detailing the struggles between good and evil as no one ever has before.

 

Of course, others have been written about scientific discovery and the titanic

struggles of ego and belief systems over the ages. We know about the travails of

Galileo, how the Catholic Church threatened him with torture if he did not

recant his thesis that the earth was round. Galileo recanted, publicly embracing

the prevailing view that the earth was flat and was the center of the universe,

and for the last eight years of his life was kept under house arrest by the

Church. And Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis, who was ridiculed for his crusade to convince

his colleagues that their failure to wash their hands before assisting women in

childbirth was the cause of the infections that killed over half of the women

giving birth during that time. He died in an insane asylum.

 

But was the Catholic Church, the reigning authority of Galileo's day, evil? Were

the physicians of Semmelweis' era? Many would say they were, but I would not be

so harsh in judgment. Virtually every scientific discovery over the ages has met

a wall of resistance vested in the prevailing belief system and buttressed by

rigid bias, dead set - often viciously so - against the innovation and the

innovator.

 

On the other hand, the struggles chronicled in Daniel Haley's book are

different. Here a common pattern emerges. The authority figures first recognize

and thus acknowledge the value of the discovery. Next, they try to separate the

innovator from his discovery, to essentially steal it, usually with a profit

motive in mind. And finally, without fail, they pursue a no-holds-barred course

to destroy the discoverer. This, ladies and gentlemen, is evil.

 

As you read this book, you may find some of the episodes Daniel Haley relates

hard to believe. You may ask yourself could the author, in his zealousness to

make his point, have massaged the data or fabricated these horrendous events?

 

The answer is no. Incredible as these stories may seem, they are true. This book

is very well researched and extensively documented. The information comes from

numerous newspaper accounts, court records, evidence presented at jury trials,

and, in some cases, testimony from people who were helped by the therapies.

 

The test of the veracity of this book for me was how the author handled the case

of Stanislaw Burzynski, M.D. I have very personal experience with the struggles

of Dr. Burzynski, having visited his clinic five times, spoken with numerous

patients who survived terminal cancer as a result of his therapy, and

interviewed his major opponents in the FDA and academic medicine. I know that

this account is accurate. If anything, it understates the energy and force that

the government used in trying to destroy Dr. Burzynski. Only the evil will try

to destroy a man and his medicine at the same time that they're trying to steal

it from him.

 

For those who want stories to have a happy ending, this book is not an easy

read, for evil often wins over good. Valuable therapies have been buried, sick

people have been sacrificed, and the lives of innovative scientists and

physicians have been shattered. However, this book does much more than tell

tales that need to be told. First, it can put you on guard as to what the face

of evil actually looks like. It identifies individuals and organizations such as

the American Cancer Society that are not worthy of our trust and certainly not

our money.

 

It can also be used as a blueprint for researching your options and protecting

yourself should you become ill. All too often individuals with serious cancers

who go the accepted route of chemotherapy and radiation suffer not only from

cancer, but also from a lack of understanding as to how the medical profession

functions and how it has turned its back on its mission.

 

Finally, this book can serve as a call for action. It makes you want to go out

and start a crusade to change things and Haley, a one-time legislator, spells

out specifically what needs to be changed. How long are we going to tolerate

authority figures who at will, if not at whim, destroy innovation? I am

convinced that the best protection against the evil that lurks among us - and

make no mistake that it lurks among us - is information. Daniel Haley's

contribution is as good a start as you're likely to find.

 

Julian Whitaker, M.D.

 

 

Preface

 

 

Without the experience of six years (1970-76) as a member of the New York State

Legislature, I might never have perceived the political patterns described in

this book. During the Albany years, I learned to look under the tables and

behind the doors to try to figure out what was really going on. It sometimes

seemed that the main problems (not the penny ante stuff the press runs after)

were occurring on such a large scale and at such a level that one couldn't even

see them. That principle is applicable to the ten stories in this book, stories

that should not have happened, stories about political harassment and

suppression. This is not skullduggery by elected officials, whom the press will

always go after, but by the appointed ones whom the press routinely ignores.

 

Over a period of 10 - 15 years, I kept hearing about effective, non/toxic

therapies which saved many lives and would have saved many more but for

political interference. Since politics is a field I know a little about, it

occurred to me " maybe someday I can be helpful " .

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is not an encyclopedia of everything that's out there in alternative

medicine. It is not even about medicine, but rather about political intrusion in

medicine and healing.

 

I have written these ten stories as a reporter telling the tragic truth about

politics in healing and cancer. Each story stands alone and can be read

independently of the others. Together, they tell a much bigger story of the

existence behind the scenes of a solidly entrenched policy that has been ? and

is ? profoundly dangerous to American health.

 

Not a doctor, I advocate no specific therapy but rather a free market where

non-toxic therapies can compete freely and openly with the toxic therapies

currently accepted by the medical establishment, and the freedom for doctors and

patients to use them. This book is not intended and should not be understood to

offer any medical advice. Instead, it reports on things which, sadly, actually

happened, and, even more sadly, are still happening.

 

Daniel Haley