Are you mad enough to be a health freedom fighter?

[Guest guest]

Are you mad enough to be a health freedom fighter?

 

Dr. Carolyn Dean, MD, ND and

Elissa Meininger

 

For anyone who understands the modern medical-industrial complex, the failure of

government to provide appropriate help is not news. The refusal to allow real

healers to meet our needs is not news, either. While modern medicine’s backers

brag we have the finest medical system in the world and these same backers have

control of our government officials, millions of us have run as fast as we can

away from the dangers of modern medicine. In the process we have created a

spontaneous army of political activists to fight tooth and nail to free us from

the same mindless management that FEMA and elected officials are providing to

victims of Katrina. What we want is to be free to control our own bodies and to

contract with the people we choose to provide the health services we really need

and use the natural health products we have been depending on for generations

that we already know are safe and effective…not to mention cheap!

 

Each of us who have found ourselves actively fighting for health freedom has a

reason why we became politically active. My own fight began when I was in

medical school. I was interested in nutrition and read every book I could lay my

hands on even before I went into medicine. There was a little voice inside of me

that didn’t agree with the mantra “better living through chemistry” and the

suppression of Mother Nature. Proper diet, exercise and nutritional

supplementation to augment the nutritionally depleted food supply (thanks to

modern growing and manufacturing techniques) seemed to be the best medicine I

could provide my patients. The idea that synthetic pills, which did nothing but

mask symptoms and provide possible adverse reactions including death, didn’t

make sense to me as a person or a professional healer. However, in the drug

industry run medical schools across the US and Canada, my interest in practicing

acupuncture and simply eating home made yogurt at lunch, ostracized me

and everyone like me. And by simply practicing natural medicine I was labeled a

maverick when all I was trying to do was practice safe and effective medicine

and use my common sense to avoid dangerous therapies.

 

These days, MDs in most states who, like me, want to branch out and provide

homeopathy, herbal medicine, dietary supplements and other natural healing arts

services not taught in medical schools, must first check the political climate

of their state licensing boards. There are no laws against MDs providing such

services but licensing boards are fierce fiefdoms of their own, just like FEMA,

and they “know it when they see it” when it comes to those unwritten rules

called “code of ethics” or “standard practice of medicine” violations. Whatever

the local climate is, suddenly becomes an unwritten law and many an MD has been

dragged up to his or her licensing board with the threat of being de-licensed

for promoting homeopathy and all manner of other safe alternatives to drugs.

 

Thanks to the political actions of literally thousands upon thousands of

ordinary citizens across America since the early 1990’s, there are some 16

states with laws now on the books to protect MDs from harassment for providing

non-modern medical (aka non-allopathic) services. The process of getting these

laws on the books pretty much boils down to an incident where some poor MD gets

caught up in a political fight with his or her licensing board. Angry citizens

organize and start campaigning at their state legislature to pass a law to

protect MDs and after a while they succeed. That’s because the patient who wants

access to safe health care services that work is often in a life and death

struggle whereas the modern medical-industrial complex can’t outvote voters at

the ballot box. They can only buy influence in the cloakrooms.

 

 

 

Please read the entire article (in 2 parts) at;

 

http://www.newswithviews.com/Dean/carolyn10.htm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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