GANGSTERS IN MEDICINE

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GANGSTERS IN MEDICINE

 

By Thomas Smith

 

December 23, 2002 NewsWithViews.com

 

 

 

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, todays 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. Today's 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 as 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,

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.

 

© 2002 Thomas Smith -

 

 

 

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