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By Byron J. Richards, CCN

 

August 15, 2008

NewsWithViews.com

 

Before the dust settles on the Bernie Mac tragedy it is important for everyone

to understand two things:

1) It is abnormal to die from pneumonia at age 50.

2) There are millions of Americans with autoimmune problems of one type or

another at risk for the same fate as Bernie Mac.

 

Conspicuously absent from the facts surrounding Bernie's death is the lack of

specific information about what actually caused his death. We are left to

connect the dots based on non-specific comments made by family members that were

reported in People magazine. Isn't it convenient that doctors and hospitals can

hide behind medical privacy, especially when their blunders and off-label

experiments are the likely cause of death?

 

It is a national disgrace that more than 100,000 Americans needlessly die every

year in a system they have turned to for help. Add Bernie Mac to the list.

 

Are Hospitals Even Safe?

 

Bernie Mac was hospitalized with serious pneumonia on July 24, 2008 at

Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, considered one of the best hospitals

in the city and above average nationally. Northwestern Memorial Hospital is also

a teaching hospital.

 

According to People magazine, Mary Ann Grossett, Bernie's sister-in-law, stated

" He was critically ill when he was in the hospital. He was in intensive care the

whole time..and he contracted a second strain of pneumonia while in the

hospital. "

 

While on average the care may be better in teaching hospitals, they also carry

their own unique life-threatening risks. In an April 23, 2006 Time magazine

cover story, reporting on why a doctor's greatest fear is becoming a patient,

the problem of teaching hospitals was explained, " For all their fame and

all-star doctors, teaching hospitals carry risks of their own. The sickest

patients often have compromised immune systems and may need to be treated with

broad-spectrum antibiotics - which increases the chance that

antibiotic-resistant strains of staph and other bacteria will make the rounds of

the intensive-care unit. "

 

It is also known that the death rate in teaching hospitals jumps in July, as a

new round of interns arrive on the scene. I wonder how many interns with three

weeks experience were involved in Bernie's care. Did someone forget to wash

their hands?

 

The reality is that teaching hospitals struggle to teach themselves how to keep

their intensive-care units in a condition suitable for the patients they need to

treat. What responsibility does a hospital bear when it further infects a

patient who is struggling for his life with an existing infection?

 

A Grossly Incompetent Medical System for Autoimmune Problems

 

Most of the commentary about Bernie's underlying health problems have pointed

out his long-term struggle with sarcoidosis, an autoimmune problem wherein a

person's immune system inappropriately attacks normal cells of their body. In

this case cells stick together forming clumps that can affect any organ in the

body, but most often restrict the function of the lungs. Since Bernie had the

illness for several decades it is likely that his lungs had extensive tissue

damage/scarring, making them a significant " weak spot " in his health. This point

should have been well understood by any physician prescribing medication for his

condition.

 

The focus relating to sarcoidosis in the aftermath of Bernie's death has been to

raise awareness of this somewhat infrequent problem. While it is fine to raise

awareness on any health issue, this emphasis has shifted the concept of cause

relating to his death to his condition, not to the care he received. My focus is

much different - it is to raise awareness of the barbaric stone-age experiments

carried on by physicians around the country treating millions of Americans with

autoimmune problems - including much more common autoimmune problems like

rheumatoid arthritis.

 

Working with a near-kindergarten intelligence level, the Big Pharma-sponsored

model for dealing with autoimmune issues is to treat the immune system itself as

the disease. The logic goes like this: since the immune system is excessively

reacting against the person's body, treatment means we need to kill off the

immune cells doing the damage. Our strategy will be to poison them to death. We

will use prednisone, chemo drugs, or malarial drugs - all drugs that poison

immunity into a state of reduced function, thus containing the overactive immune

system. Almost no thought is given to getting the person's immune system to work

normally again.

 

An appropriate analogy is to consider an autoimmune problem like a forest fire

burning. You must do something to put out the fire. Medical treatments are like

dumping fire retardant on the fire, not a bad idea when it is threatening to

burn up valuable body parts. Such concepts have clear medical validity and

utility - especially when they are used as temporary solutions to bring a

problem under control.

 

However, you would never manage a forest on a long-term basis in this way, even

if it were prone to fire flare ups. Most likely you would want to know how the

fires are starting - something doctors almost never consider.

 

Here is where medicine gets in a lot of trouble and causes a lot of harm. The

" fire fighting " strategy becomes long term care. Prednisone makes a person fat,

destroys their bones over time (bones are where your immune cells are born), and

induces Candida albicans to grow in the sinuses, digestive tract, and lungs.

These factors alone significantly add to the inflammatory burden of the

individual and further contribute to immune system confusion, in turn feeding

fuel to the underlying autoimmune problem and locking it into place as a chronic

health condition.

 

When the side effects of prednisone become unbearable or the drug is no longer

effective, then the next levels of poison are pulled out. Chemo drugs and

malarial drugs are high level toxins. Of course they have devastating side

effects to healthy tissue - once again inducing more tissue inflammation and

confusion to the immune system.

 

Any person with an autoimmune problem quickly finds themselves between a rock

and a hard place. If they don't take the toxic drugs then their " forest fire "

flares back up. If they do take the toxic drugs they keep heading into a

condition of overall worse health. Millions of Americans are stuck in this

predicament, betrayed by false practitioners of health beholden to the Big

Pharma golden idol and its system of " medical " training.

 

The finest medical treatment facilities in the country seldom bother trying to

figure out why a person's immune system is misbehaving in the first place.

Instead, these practitioners take the fifth - saying they just don't know what

the cause could be. The sick part is they don't even bother asking the person,

who can often tell them exactly how their problems started and what inflammatory

situations in their life caused their immune systems to overheat. Oftentimes the

patients will volunteer to their doctors the data they need to know, and such

information is simply ignored and the patient is told that what they have to say

is not relevant and could not be causing their problem.

 

Autoimmune problems are triggered by traumatic stress, ongoing stress, chemical

exposure, pollution, the use of many medications including antibiotics,

digestive problems, sinus problems, estrogen, chemicals in food, junk food, etc.

The " straw that breaks " the immune system's back is almost always in plain view

and relatively easy to figure out simply by questioning the individual - and is

often different from person to person. Such low-tech, labor-intensive detective

work is disdained at the Disney World technology centers pretending to be the

authorities on health. Yes, these places can measure almost anything in the body

down to the molecular level - can they talk to the patient?

 

Bernie's Turning Point

 

Place yourself in Bernie's shoes. You've been struggling with this problem for

20 years. You finally got it into remission on some cocktail of poisons, but

they are either not working so well anymore or you just can't take the side

effects. You go to your doctor and ask for help. What else can be done?

 

And now you enter the world of medical experimentation. The off-label use of

powerful new drugs that no longer act as poisons, rather this new generation of

biological medicines throw gene switches that control function in a much more

powerful way. In the case of autoimmune problems, these drugs are targeted to

turn of inflammatory immune system messengers such as TNFa.

 

There is one major problem; your immune system needs TNFa in order to mount an

immune response to fight an infection. What happens if you get sick when you are

on one of these newfangled biologic drugs that have your immune system turned

off?

 

Once again we turn to People magazine and Bernie's sister-in-law to help us

understand what likely happened, " He had sarcoidosis, but it was in

remission..But because he had it, his immune system was compromised. He had an

infection..He was on a new medication that suppresses the immune system, and

that's where the pneumonia came from. "

 

Because sarcoidosis is not as common as rheumatoid arthritis, Big Pharma will

not spend millions to prove the safety of the drug specifically for this

problem. That means doctors will conduct what is known as an off-label

experiment on sarcoidosis patients, giving them the new biologic medicine and

seeing what happens - even though such drugs contain clear warnings of their

powerful immune suppressing features that could pose a problem. The bumbling FDA

stands by counting the deaths, assuming they are reported at all, while

preoccupied damaging the tomato industry and watching tainted drugs come in from

China.

 

There are currently three of these new TNFa medications on the market today

(Remicade, Enbrel, and Humira), approved for the treatment of rheumatoid

arthritis. The risk of the use of these drugs is highly problematic even in

arthritis patients, but arthritis patients don't typically have lungs as a

primary weak spot that can easily become infected.

 

The death of Bernie Mac was most likely the result of off-label medical

experimentation, occurring against a backdrop of general medical incompetence

treating and solving autoimmune problems. Quality of care at Northwestern

Memorial Hospital didn't help.

 

© 2008 Truth in Wellness, LLC -

 

 

 

 

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