Death by Modern Medicine

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Death by Modern Medicine

by Dr. Carolyn Dean, MD ND

 

 

 

DEATH BY MODERN MEDICINE

The All About Book Series

by Dr. Carolyn Dean, MD ND

with Trueman Tuck, Rights Advocate

March 2005-Martix Vérité

Death by Modern Medicine identifies the tragic aspects of a medical system,

that, in its short history of about eighty years, has managed to kill tens of

millions of victims. Dr. Dean's widely circulated paper, " Death by Medicine " ,

written for Dr. Gary Null in November 2003, was the first to identify the extent

of these casualties. Dr. Dean verified that from 1990-2000 about 7.8 million

victims suffered Death by Medicine.

 

Many people were shocked at this figure, but since then people's eyes have

been opened to the full horror of modern medicine. There have been 140,000 fatal

or near fatal reactions to Vioxx; one third of the millions of women who took

fen-phen, the weight loss drug, suffered heart and lung damage; heart disease is

caused by Celebrex and all the other non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs;

Prozac is causing suicides and homicides as well as heart disease; and the list

goes on.

 

Death by Modern Medicine goes beyond the statistics of deaths due to drugs

to how the medical monopoly that created the system in the first place is

allowed to control health care. A tale of propaganda, health care bureaucracy,

the business of cancer, our own personal addictions to sugar and drugs, and the

denial we all harbor to help us cope with the overwhelming burden, are woven

into this 360-page volume.

 

Dr. Dean is a published author and has written many books including: The

Miracle of Magnesium, Natural Prescriptions for Common Ailments, Menopause

Naturally, The Everything Alzheimer Book and Homeopathic Treatments for

Children's Common Ailments.

 

Dr. Dean and Trueman Tuck invite you to read their book Death by Modern

Medicine so that you learn to make " informed " decisions about your own personal

health and that of your family.

 

In Death by Modern Medicine we use the terms " traditional medicine " ,

" natural medicine " , " natural healing arts " , and similar words to describe the

kind of medicine we support and envision. The terms allopathic medicine and

modern medicine are used interchangeably to describe drug-based medicine that

seeks to monopolize medical care.

 

For the record, the World Health Organization defines " traditional medicine "

as:

 

" Health practices, approaches, knowledge, and beliefs incorporating plant,

animal, and mineral based medicines, spiritual therapies, manual techniques, and

exercises, applied singularly or in combination to treat, diagnose, and prevent

illnesses or maintain well-being. "

 

It is against our belief system to use terms such as " alternative " ,

" complementary " or CAM (Complementary and Alternative), except when quoting. It

is unfortunate that the medical establishment and all too many of my colleagues

who practice traditional medicine have fallen into the habit of calling the

oldest and most successful form of healing by what are, in fact, demeaning names

such as " complementary " and " alternative " . We must always remember that

allopathy is only a medical model born of the industrial age and to suggest the

oldest and most used healing arts in the world are secondary to allopathy is not

only insulting but inaccurate as well. These traditional methods of restoring

and maintaining maximum health, by virtue of their track record of safety and

success, take second place to no other medical model.

 

 

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Excerpted from Chapter 1: Death by Modern Medical Doctors

Death by Modern Medicine by Dr.Carolyn Dean

Carolyn's Story

If the third-year medical students that interviewed me when I applied for

medicine had their way, I would never have set foot into medical school. I would

probably never have trained in naturopathy, acupuncture, homeopathy, herbalism,

nutrition, and Chinese medicine, all of which were invaluable tools in my former

medical practice, and continue to be priceless in my consulting, herbal

research, and writing careers. If I had not gone to medical school I would never

have developed an understanding of how traditional medicine and allopathic

medicine work and I would never have written this and a dozen other books.

 

At Dalhousie Medical School, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, third-year medical

students were part of the interview process for accepting new medical students.

During my interview, I was asked if I thought I could make a difference in

medicine. I said that I suspected I could. A week later I called in for an

appointment with the Dean of Students, Dr. Fraser Nicholson. He told me the

third-year interview did not go well. The interviewers thought I would not make

a good doctor. They felt I was naïve and had a Pollyanna approach to medicine

because I thought I could help people. I realized later, as I went through the

agonizing grind of medical school, that by third year, medical students are so

beaten down by the system and have seen so many sick people in hospital-based

settings, none of whom seemed to be getting " cured " , that they know medicine is

no place for a healer - an no place to get healed!

 

Prior to meeting with the medical students, I had already been interviewed

by Dr. Nicholson who seemed to think I had a good head on my shoulders, a

sparkle in my eye, and a sharp wit, all of which would make me a very fine

doctor. We both agreed that the third-year students had gotten it all wrong.

Thankfully, their negative opinion of me was tossed out the window and didn't

factor into my application or my acceptance into medical school.

 

That interview was in 1973, and idealism in medicine was a rare commodity.

Also on the endangered list were: nutrition, natural medicine, spirituality, and

ethics. I entered medicine with a view to educating people about nutrition and

lifestyle but what I found was a pervasive indoctrination against anything not

drug- and surgery-oriented. In my first days of medical school we were

repeatedly warned against chiropractors, herbalists, and health faddists. Making

my own yogurt and eating it during breaks made me a subject of derision among my

classmates, which only ended when Dr. Nicholson asked me in front of my class

for the recipe!

 

The three main battles I had in medicine were the " boys club " , lack of

ethics training, lack of nutrition education.

 

The Naughty Boys Club

 

In the very first week of medical school, one of the introductory

instructors peppered and spiced up his talk with slides of nude females from

" Playboy " . It was obvious this was 'standard operating procedure' at Dalhousie

and I was shocked and outraged. I could see that the other women in the class

were similarly horrified. What could we do? We muttered under our breaths and

the men just laughed.

 

I didn't know anyone in the class yet. In applying for medical school I had

learned that usually one quarter of the 100 medical students were women. Our

class was going to beat that barrier by accepting thirty-three women. Even so,

we were outnumbered but I knew something had to be done. Playgirl Magazine had

just hit the stands. I bought a copy at the local drug store amidst the stares.

I only had two days before that lecturer was back and I worked fast. I convinced

a medical professor friend to make me some nude male slides at the university.

Miraculously, he got them back to me the next day. He had a wicked sense of

humor and I think he wanted to see the proverbial dung hit the fan. Telling no

one my plan, minutes before class, I inserted the nude slides in the chauvinist

lecturer's slide carousel and waited for the explosion.

 

My heart was pounding from the excitement and anticipation. The lights went

down, a gorgeous hunk in his birthday suit filled up the room and the class went

hysterical. The women hooted, the men howled. The class immediately bonded, men

and women laughed together as the fumbling professor tried to regain his

composure and his slides. We actually never saw him or another nude female slide

from anyone else the whole year. I was told that similarly " insensitive "

pictures were immediately taken down all over the medical campus. That one

simple act leveled the playing field.

 

Read another excerpt from Dr. Carolyn Dean's

Death by Modern Medicine: Herbalists Charter of Henry the VIII

 

 

 

A tiny acorn contains a mighty oak in its heart.