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How Modern Medicine Killed My Brother

 

Earlier this month, I traveled to Monroe, La., to bury my dear older

brother, Charles. Charles was not only a wonderful brother, but he was a man

with a heart of gold who always put the needs of others and his family

before his own. Charles, unfortunately, began smoking when he was in law

school, something I warned him about repeatedly.

Approximately four months ago, I noticed that he was getting horse. He

brushed it off and continued his hectic schedule. When I again visited him a

month later, he was still having the hoarseness. I advised him to see

someone about it. He took my advice and saw a local physician group. The

doctor was actually too busy to see him and had his nurse see him.

Before he went to the doctor, I told him it was critical that he have the

doctor examine his vocal cords. The nurse looked in his throat, but wasn't

trained to examine his vocal cords.

Two more weeks passed during which his doctors assured him that it was

nothing more than bronchitis. They treated him with steroids and

antibiotics, but no one examined his vocal cords.

Misdiagnosis After Misdiagnosis

I pleaded with him to see an Ear, Nose and Throat doctor, but he trusted his

doctor. For the next two and a half months, he was treated with steroids and

antibiotics. Finally, he developed pneumonia and was admitted to the

hospital, what was supposed to be one of the best hospitals in the area.

At the time, I was on vacation in North Carolina. He told me the doctors

told him he had a bruit in his carotid artery, a sign of atherosclerosis,

and that they wanted to do an arteriogram. I advised him against it,

suspecting he, in fact, had a cancer and attempting an arteriogram on

someone with such poor pulmonary function would be disastrous. The

arteriogram was cancelled. Still, no one had examined his vocal cords.

When I arrived, I called a friend of mine I had gone to medical school with,

and asked him to see Charles. Prior to this, I asked the doctor in charge of

his respiratory care to add vitamins and magnesium to his IV. While he

promised he would, he didn't. Every attempt to get Charles' laboratory

studies was met with obstruction based on the Patient Privacy Act. He soon

signed the necessary forms and finally I was able to see this closely

guarded data.

When I asked his doctor why the magnesium had not been added to his IV, word

was sent back to me through the nurse that she had never heard of using

magnesium. I sent copies of selected articles showing the immense value of

magnesium on pulmonary and cardiovascular function. Still there was no

response from the doctor. Not once did this doctor call me, or answer my

pages.

Finally, The Diagnosis is Made

My ENT friend did a very good workup and discovered Charles had a large

cancer in his left lower lung that was impinging on the nerve to his vocal

cord, causing one cord to be completely paralyzed. At that point, a

pulmonary physician did a bronchial biopsy and diagnosed a poorly

differentiated lung cancer, with no evidence of spread. Once the diagnosis

was made, an oncologist was naturally called, who wanted to start a complete

course of chemotherapy drugs.

I advised my brother against it, knowing the cancer would not respond and

the toxic drugs would dramatically increase his breathing difficulties,

hastening his death. He took my advice. Then, a radiation oncologist

suggested radiating the tumor to shrink it. I wasn't supportive of this

treatment, but my brother wanted something done.

Soon afterward, he started five and a half weeks of radiation treatment. At

that point, I started him on a nutrition program and he began to feel

better, his breathing improved and he was able to go back to work.

However, the oncologist told Charles he was losing too much weight and he

needed to eat more bread, pasta and even sweets to gain weight. Charles, at

the time of his diagnosis, was grossly overweight and needed to lose the

weight. I told him that losing the weight would make it easier for him to

breath. I had given him a copy of my book on the nutritional treatment of

cancer and told him it was critical he follow the advice exactly.

Unfortunately, Charles decided he didn't like the taste of the blenderized

vegetables and would do what the oncologist suggested. He began to eat ice

cream, cookies and other items that cancer patients should never eat. Once

he finished the radiation treatments, he developed fever, severe shortness

of breath and had to be admitted to the hospital.

The " Evidence Based " Physicians Take Over

Sadly, he chose a hospital that was even more rigid in its control of the

patient than his previous hospital. It was a local hospital affiliated with

the Louisiana State University Medical Center. Charles was admitted to the

intensive care unit, where he had to be intubated and placed on a

respirator.

Again, I was out of town, in fact, giving a talk at the Westin Price

Conference in Washington, D.C., on nutrition. As before, I could not pry any

information about my brother concerning his laboratory test, chest x-rays or

the reason he was deteriorating so rapidly. His doctor refused to call me,

despite numerous attempts by my sister and me to have her call.

In all my 26 years of neurosurgical practice, I have never seen a situation

where a doctor treating a gravely ill patient would not discuss the case

with a family member who is a physician. It was as if my brother belonged to

the hospital and his physician and the family was to be kept in the dark.

Finally, I was able to speak to one of the consulting doctors, who told me

my brother had a very low hemoglobin count. I asked him if he was giving him

blood.

After a long pause, he answered, " No. " I responded, " Well, with him unable

to breath, don't you think it would be a good idea to increase his

oxygen-carrying capacity by giving him blood? " He mumbled in agreement. I

told him that I wanted my sister and her son to give the blood and that they

were in the process of doing that as we spoke. He agreed. Yet, before my

sister could have the blood transferred to Charles, the doctors had already

given him blood from unknown donors.

I rushed to my brother's side and found him awake, on a respirator and very

frightened. He was receiving no magnesium in his IV and was getting a tube

feeding-formula that contains significant doses of glutamate, something

known to cause pulmonary deterioration. Again, his doctor never heard of

that.

An Incredible Admission

At that point, Charles was lapsing into a coma. Still his doctor had not

contacted me or communicated with me in any way. Disgusted, I told the nurse

to have her come to the room and I didn't want any excuses. I asked to speak

to her in private. She insisted a nurse remain with her. I told her of my

absolute amazement that a treating physician would not speak to the family,

especially when one of the family members was a doctor. She denied she had

ever gotten a message, which was a bold-faced lie.

I then told her that I wanted my brother to have certain supplements that

had been shown in careful medical studies to improve lung function. She had

never heard of them, but agreed to give them if her superior, the Chief of

Medicine, agreed. Therefore, I gave her a stack of medical abstracts and

told her to let me know if there was a problem.

Within five minutes, she returned and stated that he would not agree to it

and responded that the Chief of Medicine told her that he would not agree to

change the treatment based on abstracts. I told her I wanted to talk with

him that minute.

He arrived, looking very arrogant and self-important. I decided that I would

try to calmly discuss with him my brother's case and why he needed the

supplements. Again, I asked for a private meeting. He wanted Charles' doctor

to be present.

I explained to him what I was asking for was backed up by peered-reviewed

studies and that none of the supplements had ever shown any harmful side

effects in any dose. In a very arrogant tone, totally unsympathetic to my

concern for my brother, he stated that he only read and trusted four

journals:

* Lancet

 

* New England Journal of Medicine

 

* Annals of Internal Medicine

 

* Journal of the American Medical Association

Shocked that anyone would admit to being so intellectually limited, I told

him there were thousands of peer-reviewed medical journals, most of which

were reputable. He responded that he didn't have time to read or look up

additional material.

What an admission!

I reminded him I practiced neurosurgery for 26 years and was a hell of a lot

busier than he had ever been. I also told him I had managed to write three

books and 30 articles for peer-reviewed journals in addition to three

chapters for medical textbooks. He had no comment.

I told him I found it inconceivable that a physician holding the position of

Chief of Staff in a teaching hospital would:

* Admit they read only four journals

 

* Didn't have time to research material that would improve a patient's care

 

* Would be so obstinate and filled with so much self-importance they would

allow a patient to die rather than try something that had strong clinical

evidence of benefit without any complications

The doctor still refused to change his mind.

I pointed out to him, for 20 years there was a mountain of evidence that

magnesium offered tremendous protection to the heart and brain, but because

of people like him, it was only recently that magnesium has been added to

the " protocol " for heart patients. I, then, reminded both of them that tens

of thousands of patients died during that 20-year period because of their

unwillingness to use a harmless mineral like magnesium. Then I said, " Is my

brother to die because of your narrow mindedness and arrogance " ?

I pointedly asked him if he could see the logic, the reasoning behind what I

was asking. He responded that he did up until to the point about all the

people that must die because of waiting for the elite of medicine to make up

their mind. I turned to the female physician and asked her the same

question. She said she agreed with the logic but trusted her chief.

Blind Leading the Blind

I asked the Chief of Medicine if he would want the same treatment for his

brother. He thought a minute and then said, " Yes. " He again, appealed to the

fact that he didn't have time to research all these things. I reminded him

that his job was to do whatever was necessary to provide his patients with

the best medical care, based on the latest medical evidence available no

matter how much time he had to sacrifice. He could not fall back on time

constraints or the fact that he trusted only four journals.

The Chief of Medicine left, a lot less openly arrogant and self-assured. He

was not able to give a single argument to support his intellectually

bankrupt concept of medicine.

It reminded me of the title of a book I had recently purchased: Intellectual

Morons. He certainly fit the description. Before he left, I reminded him it

was doctors like him who were the problem in modern medicine -- arrogant,

condescending to patients and certain the medical care protocols established

by the elitist academians were holy writ. Further, it was because of such an

attitude that patients by the millions were leaving the medical care system,

and seeking answers from so-called alternative medicine.

Patients were fed up with having drugs and treatments shoved down their

throats that only led to more misery and rarely helped their disease.

The Danger of Regimentation

The practice of medicine has changed drastically in the world, especially in

this country. When I first entered the world of medicine, doctors were able

to practice independently, always maintaining a close relationship between

themselves, the patient and the patient's family. Creative, caring doctors

could alter their care to match new developments in medicine and nutrition

to the greatest benefit of their patients. Third parties such as insurance

companies, government and medical elite were held at bay.

Yet, the new thinking is that the practicing physician, and especially the

patient, is unable to make these decisions. Instead, they are to follow a

system of regimented medicine that assigns treatment protocols the physician

is to blindly follow.

Elite boards appointed by medical associations, such as the American Medical

Association, American Academy of Family Practice and others, design these

treatment protocols and hand them down to the " ignorant automatons " making

up the vast majority of treating physicians. They are to follow these

regimented treatments without question and to the letter.

The new breed of doctor, like my brother's doctors, fits this new pattern

well. They are convinced this " cookbook " medicine is superior and their

elite journals and medical associations know best. Like members of the

society Aldous Huxley described in A Brave New World, they are mere cogs in

the wheel of the state's machinery. They do not question the authorities or

the wisdom of their decrees. They do what they are told. They are unable to

think for themselves.

In fact, I asked Charles' doctor, " Can you not think for yourself? " She

looked at me sheepishly and said, " I just trust the Chief of Medicine. "

I also reminded the arrogant Chief of Medicine these elite decision-making

bodies have been racked with scandals that involved financial connections to

pharmaceutical companies and other medical product manufacturers. In

addition, similar scandals occurred among the editorial staff of one of his

favorite journals, the New England Journal of Medicine.

This collectivist regimentation of medicine will only get worse. Families

are now excluded from medical care decisions, doctors do not talk to

families, the entire hospital experience is shrouded in secrecy and patients

have no say in their care. While more innovative doctors can alter the

protocols or even reject them, soon they will not have that option. To

deviate from the collectivist plan is to invite the wrath of the legal

system.

Fear of Financial Ruin

Litigation pushes many physicians into following elitist protocols out of

fear of financial ruin. In fact, these protocols have become the " standard

of care " used by the legal system. Unfortunately, doctors, like those who

killed my brother, are being turned out of medical schools all over the

country like robots. They repeat the mantra of collectivism as if they

thought of it themselves. To this new breed of doctors, individualism and

independent thought is to be discouraged and reviled. Dependence on elite

leaders will be automatic.

As an example, I recently spoke to a large group concerning the harmful

effects of glutamate, explaining it is now known that glutamate, as added to

foods, significantly accelerates the growth and spread of cancers. I asked

the crowd when was the last time an oncologist told his or her patient to

avoid MSG or foods high in glutamate. The answer, I said, was never.

After the talk, a crowd gathered to ask more questions. Suddenly, I was

interrupted by a young woman who identified herself as a radiation

oncologist. She angrily stated, " I really took offense to your comment about

oncologists not telling their patients about glutamate. "

I turned to her and asked, " Well, do you tell your patients to avoid

glutamate? " She looked puzzled and said, " No one told us to. " I asked her

who this person or persons were whose job it was to provide her with this

information. I, then, reminded her that I obtained this information from her

oncology journals. Did she not read her own journals?

Yet, this is the attitude of the modern doctor. An elitist group is in

charge of disseminating all the information physicians are to know. If they

do not tell them, then, in their way of thinking, the information was of no

value. Of course, 10 or 20 years from now, it may be the new standard and on

all the protocols.

How many cancer patients will have died during the long wait for the

elitists to conclude the information was important? A million? Five million?

Do they even care?

In my conversation with the two physicians responsible for my brother's

" care, " they obviously didn't care.

It is too late for my brother. But, maybe, just maybe, if enough people

decide they do not care to leave their fate and that of their loved ones in

the hands of these arrogant regimented physicians, something will change.

Russell L. Blaylock, M.D.

Neurosurgeon

Ridgeland, MS 39157

(Dr. Blaylock is author of Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills, Health &

Nutrition Secrets to Save Your Life and Cancer Strategeries,

http://www.russellblaylockmd.com <http://www.russellblaylockmd.com> )

USED BY PERMISSION OF THE AUTHOR

 

Click on photo for purchase information. Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills

(Paperback) by Russell L. Blaylock

It is almost a cliche in this day and age for someone to ask the waiter at a

Chinese restaurant 'no MSG, please,' as is the waiter's knowing smirk in

response. MonoSodium Glutamate (MSG), or 'The essence of taste' (as coined

by the Japanese), is used as a 'taste-enhancer' in nearly every form of

processed food on the market today, though 'taste addiction' may be a more

correct term. But what exactly does it do? And how is it harmful?

Dr. Russell L. Blaylock answers these questions and poses some startling

evidence as to the eventual consequences of a heavy MSG-diet in his book

_Excitotoxins: The Taste that Kills_. In basic terms, MSG (and other,

similar agents) pierces the blood-brain barrier and over-stimulates the

neurons of a brain to a deadly degree. Habitual intake among animal

experiments has shown the development of tumors, memory loss, and a whole

host of neurodegenerative diseases as the end result of excess excitotoxin

intake, including Alzhiemer's, Parkenson's, Lou Gerhig's etc.

Walk into any gas station in the United States (or grocery store, for that

matter) and, upon close investigation, you will find that 75%-90% of the

available food has been 'enhanced' to some degree by excitotoxins. The

chemical agents are often disguised by such ambiguous terms as 'spice' and

'natural flavors' or, my personal favorite, 'hydrolyzed vegetable protein.'

A consumer society must have consumer slaves to keep it functioning; MSG is

the crack cocaine of the food industry...and it is legally perpetuated by

slush-fund advocates and a pork-glutted FDA. As proven again and again,

money talks, ... [you can finish the maxim for me].

Blaylock's thesis is written in a technical style, but the use of repetition

throughout each chapter hammer in his myriad points into the reader with

precision and power. An important book for anyone concerned with the health

of self and family. You are what you eat---but do you know _what_ it is you

are eating, below the surface of taste/fulfillment?

 

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