The most underreported
crime of the century.
by Thomas Smith
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. (more
info: natural diabetes treatments)
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.
Selling
Sickness: How the World's Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies Are Turning
Us All into Patients
situations formerly perceived
as mild problems are becoming redefined as serious illnesses requiring
drugs - courtesy of drug companies seeking to expand their markets. Conflicts
of interest abound in the process - expert physicians serving to set treatment
protocols or approve drug use are often on the payroll of the very drug
companies they are supposed to regulate; similarly, "support groups" for
those with various maladies are often partly funded by drug companies seeking
endorsements. Another strategm is to utilize scary statistics - eg. "33%
decrease," instead of lowers risk from 3% to 2%. Partly as a result, U.S.
dollars spent on drugs have increased 100% in the past six years. The bad
news is that often these drugs aren't needed and may even harm patients.
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. Todays 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. Todays 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 a 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. natural diabetes treatments
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, subscribe
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.
Loveland, CO 80537 Copyright 2002 by Thomas Smith (970)
669-9176 All rights reserved
Thomas Smith is a reluctant
medical investigator having been forced into seeking a cure for his own
Diabetes because it was obvious that his doctor didn’t have one. He has
published the results of his successful Diabetes investigation in his best
selling book entitled "Insulin:
Our Silent Killer" written for the layman but also widely valued
by the medical practitioner.
Thomas is also the author
of The Oiling of America, Will
the real quacks please stand up, and Gangsters
In Medicine. The degenerative disease epidemic that wracks the nation
came coincidentally with the introduction of engineered fats and oils.
It is the type of fats and oils that we consume that is directly correlated
to the rise of epidemic degenerative disease; it is not the amount of fats
and oils that we eat that causes the problem. It is by chronically
consuming the fats and oils that cause degenerative disease that we impair
our ability to consume healthy fats and oils. We also impair our ability
to consume carbohydrates and thus become Diabetic and Obese. Thomas has
also posted a great deal of useful information about the cause and cure
of this disease on his web page www.Healingmatters.com.
He can be reached by
email.
To
order "Insulin: Our Silent Killer" call this toll free number
1 (866) 320 7700.
Scandal
of scientists who take money for papers ghostwritten by drug companies
Scientists are accepting large sums of money from drug companies to
put their names to articles endorsing new medicines that they have not
written - a growing practice that some fear is putting scientific integrity
in jeopardy. The success of Prozac, the antidepressant which became a cult
"happy" drug in the 1990s, substantially raised the stakes in psychiatry.
Its promotion coincided with the decline of state funding for research,
leaving scientists in all areas of medicine dependent on pharmaceutical
companies to fund or commission their work. That in turn gave the industry
unprecedented control over data and ended with research papers increasingly
being drafted by company employees or commercial agencies.
On
The Take: How Medicine's Complicity with Big Business Can Endanger Your
Health
Jerome Kassirer M.D former editor-in-chief of the prestigious New England
Journal of Medicine.
"Some physicians become known as whores." This is strong language in
Kassirer's look at how big business is corrupting medicine—but according
to Kassirer, one doctor's wife used the word "whore" to describe her husband's
accepting high fees to promote medical products. Such personal anecdotes
distinguish Kassirer's look at the conversion of America's health-care
system into a commercial enterprise. Kassirer, former editor-in-chief of
the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine, notes the range of conflicts
of interest between profit-centered business and people-centered medicine,
such as the drug industry's huge expenditures (in the billions) for courting
doctors to use their products, for recruiting physicians to tout their
drugs or, more slyly, to present seemingly objective medical discussions
that, on closer examination, do favor the company's product over others.
Medisin
is a fascinating and unique perspective of the unholy practices of allopathic
medicine and the commercialization of devitalized and chemical based foods.
With the compelling facts and informative text, this nearly 400 page volume
covers a century of medical applications and the history of refined foods,
from Pasteur's false "Germ Theory" to the hidden cause of obesity. Medisin
is also comprised of factual information regarding the mis-education of
the health-care institution and nutritional dogma perpetrated by commercial
food corporations. The book features compelling topics like: "Why the religious
faithful are not disease free?", "Vacinnes-The Lie of the Needle", "Why
cancer is really not under control", "Splenda really isn't splendid", "Fluoride,
how America really got brainwashed", and the Medisins behind Hormone Replacement
and Hysterectomies." Simply put, Medisin seeks to give the masses
a comprehensive understanding of medicine, disease and the divine principles
of health.
The
Truth About the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What to Do About
It
by Marcia Angell M.D, Former New England Journal of Medicine
A political tidal wave is building which will forever change both the
industry and many of its infamous business practices. It is sad to note
that the drug industry today is equally poorly regarded as the tobacco
companies, and this is a testament not only to the shortsighted foolishness
of their management, but also to the fact that you can fool some of the
customer some of the time, but not all of them all the time.
Medical
Journal Changes Policy of Finding Independent Doctors to Write - June
2002: The New England Journal of Medicine will announce that it has given
up finding truly independent doctors to write and review articles and editorials
for it, as a result of the financial ties physicians have with so many
drug companies in the United States The Journal says the drug companies'
reach is just too deep. In 2000, the drug industry sponsored more than
314,000 events for physicians — everything from luncheons to getaway weekends
— at a cost of almost $2 billion. On top of that, many doctors accept speaking
and consulting fees that link them to drug companies. Now, the Journal
will allow these critical evaluations to be written by people with financial
ties to drug companies.
What
Doctors Don't Tell You : The Truth About the Dangers of Modern Medicine
by
Lynne McTaggart Americans have become so accustomed to following
doctors' orders that many prescriptions, medical tests, and surgical procedures
are accepted without question. This blind faith can be dangerous! Modern
medicine offers us a wide range of powerful treatments for ailments large
and small. But did you know that some common "cures" come with serious,
life-threatening risks, or may do nothing at all? This groundbreaking book,
written by an investigative journalist, exposes questionable, harmful,
often life-threatening medical practices which all consumers should be
aware of, including treatments for asthma and arthritis, cholesterol-lowering
drugs, and heart surgery.
THE
MEDICAL MAFIA: How To Get Out of It Alive and Take Back Our Health and
Wealth by Guylaine Lanctot, M.D.
The medical establishment works closely with the drug multinationals
whose main objective is profits, and whose worst nightmare would be an
epidemic of good health. Lots of drugs MUST be sold. In order to achieve
this, anything goes: lies, fraud, and kickbacks. Doctors are the principal
salespeople of the drug companies. They are rewarded with research grants,
gifts, and lavish perks. The principal buyers are the public - from infants
to the elderly - who MUST be thoroughly medicated and vaccinated...at any
cost! Why do the authorities forbid alternative medicine? Because they
are serving the industry, and the industry cannot make money with herbs,
vitamins, and homeopathy. They cannot patent natural remedies. That is
why they push synthetics. They control medicine, and that is why they are
able to tell medical schools what they can and cannot teach. They have
their own sets of laws, and they force people into them. That is a mafia.
This sensational expose' also uncovers the truth behind vaccines, AIDS,
cancer, the World Health Organization, the Rockefeller Foundation, the
World Bank, and more.
This book is about so much more than the corruption among medicine,
pharmaceuticals, government and "Health" Organizations like the WHO. It
about regaining our health, our soveriegn right as individuals, our freedom,
self respect and love for our fellow man. While the current and corrupt
"Medical Mafia" poison, maim and kill millions no one is happy with it;
patients or doctors, except those who profit from it; the "industry" which
involves expensive testing, toxic drugs and sweeping global population
control policies.
Ms Lanctot offers a solution and the good news is that it is in OUR
hands. It involves claiming our right to make our own decisions about our
health and that of our children and recognizing that same right in others,
along with easy to follow suggestions about how to seek a responsible client/consultant
relationship with a medical care practitioner.
Something fascinating, and I truly hope you read the book! Louis Pasteur
"gave" the world our current concept of bacteria and viruses which lead
to transmission of disease. Yet another unaclaimed scientist of the same
time period as Mr Pasteur studied another possibility; that it is the disease
which causes the virus or bacteria.
It may be hard at first to contemplate that what we have been told all
our lives may be wrong and the disease-causes-germs paradigm should not
be accepted as fact without intensive study into this possibility. Sadly
the current drug and profit based research debilitates that possibility.
And scientist and doctors who try to adopt an approach which threatens
the current situation often end up suffering persecution from the "mafia";
forms which range from public ridicule, loss of research funding, suspension
of medical licencing(just ask Ms Lanctot)and many more. Gaston Naessens
has done further work on this theory; work on somatidian theory. A somatid
is the smallest particle of living matter, precursor of DNA....a web search
on any engine would verify this. Ms Lanctot says that our greatest illness
is that of submission, fueled by fear and our fascination with security
and protection which are only fantasies at best.
Disease-Mongers
: How Doctors, Drug Companies, and Insurers Are Making You Feel Sick by
Lynn Payer An expose+a7 of the health-care industry shows how doctors,
pharmaceutical companies, and insurers profit from making healthy people
think they are sick and reveals the growing influence of powerful lobbies
representing the industry.
Racketeering
in Medicine:The Suppression of Alternatives James Carter "I
have been reading various books on alternaitve medicine for years, and
this one sticks out as one of the top five in my library about how the
AMA, FDA and pharmaceutical industry has for years tried to discredit alternative,less
expensive, less invasive and often times more effective modalities of treatment.James
Carter does not just sensationalize but documents quite clearly the evidence
behind his assertion. He clearly shows that the governing bodies of modern
general or "accepted" medicine have a vested interest in supressing these
treatments and making sure that most average folks never know about them."
an
amazon reviewer: Christina Paul from Anamosa, IA USA
Confessions
of a Medical Heretic by Robert S. Mendelsohn
"For anyone who has doubts about the benevolence of the AMA, pharmaceutical
companies and the allied health industries or has suffered from drug interactions,
side effects, long-term effects, misadiagnoses, botched treatments, apathy
or arrogance on the part of medical providers, this book is MUST reading.
This is one of the first mainstream books to address these issues and to
suggest alternative treatments." an amazon.com reviewer
"Progress in medical science is, as a rule, achieved only after overcoming
the manifestations of a fixed mental status, ranging all the way from violent
and vitriolic opposition down to apathy and deadly intertia." Dr.
Edwin F. Bowers
Linda Johnston, MD, DHt - "Many efforts were used to advance
the allopaths by discrediting, restricting and abolishing the Homeopaths.
Typical were the laws passed in the early 1800's to prevent any practitioners
of medicine other than the allopaths from being able to go to court to
collect non-payment of fees. In every case, these and other similar laws
were unenforceable and extremely unpopular with the citizenry. All were
repealed within a few years. Undaunted, the allopathic doctors then turned
to their own medical societies rather than the legislative process to carry
out their desire for effective restriction of Homeopathy. Allopaths granted
themselves the right to restrict society membership, which was tantamount
to licensing powers. Fines were levied against anyone practicing medicine
without such a society membership. They had successfully usurped the power
to control who could practice. Eventually even these fines were also rescinded
due to unpopularity with the citizens. Pennsylvania and New York were the
first states to forbid membership in the society by medical doctors who
practiced Homeopathy. State medical society membership and representation
in the AMA
required that these societies purge themselves of any member Homeopaths.
After 1847, all state societies did this, except Massachusetts. In addition,
professional exchange, consultation and even conversation between allopaths
and Homeopaths were banned. This ban on interaction between the two groups
is a striking example of how a private organization, the AMA, could completely
flout the public will, and take punitive action for something that was
totally legal." Homeopathy,
Economics, and Government
Reclaiming
Our Health : Exploding the Medical Myth and Embracing the Sources of True
Healing by John Robbins, Marianne Williamson
"Absolutely fabulous, should be required reading for everyone. Knowledge
is power, yet Americans are consistently kept in the dark about medicine,
nutrition, and more. The country is set up to destroy YOUR health while
padding the pockets of the medical establishment and food corporations.
Read this and Diet for a new america, and as many other critical books
you can get your hands on. Then change your life for the better." An
amazon.com reviewer
THE
POLITICS OF CANCER - CANCER IS BIG BUSINESS! Cancer Industry
and their cover-up of natural therapies
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project including writing, publishing, and general help. Associated
with The Medical News publication, World
Psychology and AIDS Alternativa
International, this project is devoted to spearheading the drive
to take medicine out of the dark ages where medical madness is existing
in the areas of vaccines, AIDS, cancer and other medical practices. Have
your own work published together with others and participate in editing
and writing of The Medical News. The aim of this organization is to confront
the self-image and false concepts of medicine and then take medical practice,
without any self-image at all, to a place of medical purity that will serve
humanity in the way it desperately needs to be served. Write to:
Mark Sircus Ac., OMD email: MedicalNews@worldpsycholgy.net
The FDA "partner" of the Pharmaceutical Industry
In an unusually candid comment for a senior government official Dr.
Herbert Ley, former FDA commissioner, remarked: “The thing that bugs me
is that the people think the FDA is protecting them. It Isn’t. What the
FDA is doing and what the public thinks it’s doing are as different as
night and day.”
The FDA is good for business. To expect it to protect the public from
bad food and drugs is an American fantasy. There is a process in place
called “double dipping”. In the FDA it works like this. A young Ph.D. leaves
school to work for the FDA. He soon makes connections with senior officials
in the corporate business he is supposed to regulate. It isn’t long before
an understanding emerges. His “regulation” of the corporate business won’t
negatively impact their bottom line. In return he can look forward to a
cushy vice presidency with the corporation after he retires from federal
service. Is this why this regulatory agency fails to regulate big business
activities? Thomas
Smith
YOUR HEALTH FREEDOM IS IN JEOPARDY
Dr Benjamin Rush "Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution,
the time will come when medicine will organize into an underground dictatorship...
To restrict the art of healing to one class of men and deny equal privileges
to others will constitute the Bastille of medical science. All such laws
are un-American and despotic and have no place in a republic... The Constitution
of this republic should make special privilege for medical freedom as well
as religious freedom."
James DeMeo, Ph.D. "In recent years, there has been an upsurge of police
activities in the USA, the nature of which most Americans would more readily
associate with repressive dictatorships. We Americans have been educated
to believe that democracy, due process, assumed innocence-until-proven-guilt,
and Constitutional protections against illegal search and seizure are the
laws of the land. On paper, these protections are there; but in reality,
these basic Constitutional rights and freedoms have been gradually and
steadily eroded away by new laws, judicial rulings, and bureaucratic decrees.
One of the lesser-known but more significant leaders of this assault on
American freedom has been the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)."more
Politics
in Healing: The Suppression and Manipulation of American Medicine by
Daniel Haley
An ex-congressman from N.Y., Haley has written an historical account
of immense importance. Here are detailed the true stories of ten
physicians and their non-toxic cancer and other medical cures that were
smashed by a pharmaceutical -AMA - federal machine which continues
today. For anyone interested in the truth behind who controls the FDA
and other federal agencies this is a must read. All health care professionals
need to have a look at the reality existing today in the manipulation of
the health care system as shown in these stories. POWERFUL!
Seven drugs approved since 1993 have been withdrawn
after reports of deaths and severe side effects. A two-year
Los
Angeles Times investigation has found that the FDA approved each of
those drugs while disregarding danger signs or blunt warnings from its
own specialists.
"Risk Was Known as FDA OKd Fatal Drug"
At least one senior
manager believed that if an FDA medical officer who had questioned the
drug's safety and effectiveness didn't please the company, he would be
"out." The records also shed new light on the state of knowledge
within Warner-Lambert of Rezulin's potential danger: Executives knew that
patients who took the drug in clinical studies had suffered life-threatening
liver damage -- yet the company assured an FDA panel that the risk was
trivial. Los
Angeles Times Sunday, March 11, 2001
Most
Doctors Who Set Guidelines Have Industry Ties "The vast majority of
doctors involved in establishing national guidelines on disease treatment
have financial ties to the pharmaceutical industry that could potentially
sway their recommendations and inappropriately influence thousands of other
physicians.Eighty-seven percent of guideline authors had some type of relationship
with drug companies." Dr. Mercola
"The medical industrial complex refers to the close-knit association
of organised medicine with pharmaceutical manufacturers and governmental
medical regulatory agencies. The connections between these groups is of
course, a web of money, power, and prestige. Selling medical drugs is very
big business. Medical research is dependant on $ billions of grants from
the National Institutes of Health (N.I.H.) and the private pharmaceutical
industry. The two are closely interlocked; managers in one tend to come
from success in the other with many examples of interchangeable personnel."
"Licensed doctors are easy to control. All practising U.S. physicians must
accumulate a given number of hours of continual medical education or C.M.E.
But where does he acquire his C.M.E credits? From authorised C.M.E. Seminars
- that's where! And who authorises which seminar for C.M.E. credits? Organised
medicine, That's who! And who sponsors and who provides the speakers for
C.M.E. credited seminars? The pharmaceutical industry and it's great funded
corps of academic researchers, that's who!U.S. physicians are captive audience
for pharmaceutical advertising. This applies to other countries as well.
They learn which drugs to prescribe. They do not learn of alternative procedures
and perhaps better ways of caring for their ill patients." EDUCATE
- NOT MEDICATE - AND FREE THE RADICLE WITHIN by doctor Keki Sidhwa
INSANE
PSYCHIATRY A Profession Run Amok By Nicholas Regush
February 16, 2002 - There is no drug that can cure modern psychiatry.
This is a profession that is close to routinely practicing medical terrorism
by shamelessly over-prescribing drugs to people of all ages, often for
phantom diseases and for purposes that have no rational basis in science.
What’s needed is something akin to a War Crimes Tribunal to investigate
psychiatry’s relationship to major pharmaceutical companies. Haul all the
big
product
champions and psychiatry associations in and determine their involvement
with money-grubbing schemes and the abuse of patients. And let me re-emphasize
this point: this is a medical specialty that is second to none in ripping
off and abusing patients. The situation has long been out-of-control. It
is no longer a matter of a few bad apples screwing everyone left and right.
It’s become a full-scale assault on humanity. Ritalin:
Wonder Drug or Medical Fraud?..............................................Nicholas
Regush produces medical features for ABC News
Campaign
Against Fraudulent Medical Research
The Campaign Against Fraudulent Medical Research is a non-profit group
dedicated to promoting true health and a clean environment by supporting
valid research, disease prevention, freedom of choice in health care, a
reduction in the use of toxicants, and independence of health care and
environmental protection from the dictatorial influences of the drug/chemical
interests.
Tetrahedron
Tetrahedron is an Educational Corporation that deals in health science
and U.S. government cover-ups. We educate people around the world on public
health matters that concern all humanity. You will also discover information
on natural healing, and alternative therapies, to promote health in body,
mind, emotions, and spirit, that is, the holistic approach.
Toxi-Health International
Dr. Mohammed Al-Bayati, Ph.D., D.A.B.T., D.A.B.V.T., provides
expert consulting in the vast field of toxicology.
"... Dr. Mohammed A. Al-Bayati's conclusions were that my diagnosed
illness, Pulmonary Fibrosis had been produced by my exposure to JP-4 and
JP-8 aviation fuels plus other toxic chemicals in the workplace. Kerosene,
one of the key ingredients of jet fuel also created lesions in my airways,
lungs, and other tissues, as well as instituting memory loss. Dr. Al-Bayati,
discovered that the steroid treatments, Prednisone and Azathioprine
had completely destroyed my immune system and were the culprits that
were not allowing my bodily systems to repair themselves. In essence my
HMO gave me the appearance of medication induced "Aids."
Larry
J. Boyd, Suisun City, California (more
on the danger of steroids)
Dr. Al-Bayati, author of "Get
All The Facts: HIV does not Cause AIDS", received his Ph.D. from
the University of California Davis in Comparative Pathology
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and in the search for the correct treatment.
From the Wall
Street Journal, Friday, October 12, 2001
Worries About Safety Of Its Anthrax Vaccine Put the Army in a Bind
Soldiers
Ordered Inoculated Against Biological Threat Claim Harsh Side Effects."...But
soon after his first inoculation in February, the 29-years-old Mr. Nietupski
showed up at an urgent -care facility with sores all over his mouth and
throat. "The side of my tongue was all raw with little canker sores, and
bloody mucus was coming out of my nose, " Mr. Nietupski says. His maladies,
ultimately diagnosed as an autoimmune disorder in which his body accidentaly
attacked itself, grew worse as he got the next two installements of the
six-shot regime. Mr. Nietupski and several of the doctors who have examined
him, believe the anthrax vaccine caused his severe reaction and may also
be to blame for the blood clots Mr. Nietupski experienced in his
legs months later."
more on anthrax vaccines
Learn about therapeutic options for
the treatment and prevention of infections using herbal, homeopathic, and
nutritional remedies.
What
Every Parent Should Know BEFORE Their Childen Are Vaccinated! Why are
a growing number of parents and health care professionals around the world
questioning vaccination? The controversy stems from the thousands of deaths
and permanent disabilities attributed to vaccination annually, as well
as the many published medical studies, government statistics, congressional
testimonies, and other credible sources that directly contradict commonly
held assumptions about vaccine safety and effectiveness.
More pictures of vaccine damage available to view at the
CDC
website
"Bart Classen, a Maryland physician, published data showing
that diabetes rates rose significantly in New Zealand following a massive
hepatitis B vaccine campaign in young children, and that diabetes rates
also went up sharply in Finland after three new childhood vaccines were
introduced."
Nicholas
Regush ABCNEWS.com
In fall 1997, two influential professional magazines featured articles
asking the question: Has the decrease of infectious diseases in childhood
through the mass use of vaccines been replaced with an increase in chronic
diseases such as diabetes and asthma? The Economist, a prestigious international
magazine read by world leaders in government, business and public policy,
and Science News, a magazine read by both health care professionals and
the general public, explored the reported links between vaccines and chronic
diseases in their November 22, 1997 issues. Learn
more about vaccine and diabetes connection --- asthma and
vaccine connection --- SIDS and autism and vaccine connection
--- "Shaken Baby Syndrome": the vaccination link One hundred
years ago, children received 1 vaccine (the smallpox vaccine). Forty years
ago, children received 5 vaccines routinely (diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus,
polio, and smallpox vaccines) and as many as 8 shots by 2 years of age.
Children now receive 52 vaccines, in the form of 15 shots, by the time
they are 6 months of age if they receive all the recommend shots, including
the Prevnar pediatric pneumonia shot.
Congressman is calling for criminal penalties for any government
agency that knew about the dangers of thimerosal in vaccines and did nothing
to protect American children.
Congressman Dan Burton (R-Indiana)
during Congressional Hearing: "You mean to tell me that since 1929, we've
been using Thimerosal, and the only test that you know of is from
1929, and every one of those people had mennigitis, and they all died?"
For nearly an hour, Burton repeatedly asked FDA and CDC officials what
they knew and when they knew it. (Thimerosal contains a related mercury
compound called ethyl mercury. Mercury is a toxic metal that can cause
immune, sensory, neurological, motor, and behavioral dysfunctions.)
Please get informed! Enter the vaccine information
site
Homeopathy
can be used successfully to prevent and treat smallpox, measles,
whooping
cough, chickenpox, and other ailments.
Would you allow big brother to enforce vaccinations on your kids? Government
Enforced Vaccinations
Vaccination Tracking Registry - Government programs
that limit your choices -and your rights- in health care when it comes
to mandatory vaccination. These mandates last for 40 or so years
and they're impossible to repeal. Also, learn about Legal Requirements
and Exemptions
Are Vaccines Damaging Our Pets?
Routine Vaccination: Is it really
safe and effective? Most recently, an article appeared in the
Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association entitled "Are
We Vaccinating Too Much?"
Physicians
Right to Practice Alternative Medicine
Alternative Medicine Bill
Bills that enable physicians
to provide “alternative” treatments are called Medical Freedom Bills. New
York, Alaska, and Texas in addition to other states have passed such bills.
For more information on the states that have passed medical freedom bills
or have pending bills
The
Voice of Natural Health Consumers Citizens For Health is a free,
grassroots, consumer advocacy group that champions public policies empowering
individuals to make informed health choices. Let your voice be heard! Without
your voice, there is no choice!
You cannot poison your body
into health with drugs, chemo or radiation "Health can only be achieved
with healthful living" T.C. Fry
Free book online
Health
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Pharmaceutical
Industry and FDA Endangering Your Health for Profit 
Dr.
Henry Jones, M.D. "Soon after the medical monopoly was formed, it began
to push its agenda of destroying all competition. A well-organized and
-funded nationwide purge of all non-M.D.s was undertaken. Over the course
of the first half of the Twentieth Century this medical monopoly managed
to shut down over forty medical schools. Their idea was to keep the number
of doctors low in order to keep fees up. After WW II the medical monopoly
started rigidly controlling how many of each medical specialty it would
allow to be trained. So, ophthalmologists, orthopedists, dermatologists,
obstetricians, and others began to be in short supply. And of course when
supplies are low, fees are high. The medical monopoly also managed to outlaw
or marginalize over seventy healthcare professions. Protection of the healthcare
consumer was, as always, the rationale for this power grab. Whether the
object of destruction by the medical monopoly be homeopaths, midwives,
chiropractors, or internet prescribers, the purge is conducted in the same
manner. No scientific proof or research data is offered to discredit these
practitioners. The entire approach is one of character assassination directed
at their profession. " More: 
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