The End of our Medical System is Nigh!
So where’s that going to leave us......?
We live in a world where medical discoveries have become routine events. The sheer volume of new findings, however, has overwhelmed practicing physicians. The result is that people are dying needlessly, even though therapies to prevent or treat their diseases already exist.
So what is new about that? In as much as we care to think about such things, hasn’t this always been so? Even in the developed world we knew or suspected the poor die in far greater numbers through neglect or because they couldn’t afford the care and the best treatment that was too expensive. I don’t think anyone buys the myth any more that the great state health systems of yesteryear can provide good quality healthcare for all. They are struggling simply to cope and stay afloat.
But what you may not know is you don’t have to be poor to receive bad health care. Increasingly the middle classes can’t afford the necessary insurance cover they need to get treated and, even if you are rich you may be no better off because there is an increasing chance your doctor or the hospital you go to may kill you anyway.
The essential fact you need to grasp is that the medical profession itself is the No.1 cause of unnecessary death and the third biggest killer after heart disease and cancer. Whether it be through mistakes, resistance to change, lack of knowledge, correctly and/or incorrectly prescribed drugs, an infection you pick up in a hospital, there is an unacceptably high chance that your contact with the medical profession may kill you.
The word for a large part of this phenomenon is “iatrogenic”, which is defined as illness that occurs as a result of a diagnostic treatment or procedure. The term is also used to describe problems occurring as the result of “exposure to a health care facility”. Quite apart from being unhealthy places where all the nastiest bugs live, statistics show many hospitalised Americans actually die of malnutrition in hospitals, so archaic and appalling are the conditions in our healing institutions.
Of course if you don’t consult a doctor your disease may well kill you anyway, so it seems you are damned either way.
Just don’t get sick.......
Other than stay well, what on earth can a poor body do? Actually, staying well is good, perhaps the best advise. Most of the diseases that kill us are so-called lifestyle diseases, we don’t need to get them, they are in fact elective. Since most people won’t be able to afford medical treatment very soon anyway it would seem that we are all going to be forced to greater levels of self-discipline and self-care whether we want to or not. Medicine today has got itself into an allopathic bind and cannot sustain itself for very much longer. The only sensible solution is a greater emphasis on preventative medicine. As individuals, as families we will need to take far greater responsibility for ourselves. And when it comes to the medical profession, it means we must inform ourselves and not go naked into that dangerous world.
There are today enormous quantities of lifesaving information on treating or preventing disease that are overlooked or ignored by the medical establishment. Marvelous discoveries are published in prestigious medical journals today, yet little of this information is used to save lives. It is as if an impenetrable barrier separates scientific solutions from those in critical need of such knowledge. Far too often the walls of ignorance, apathy and self-interest causing immense human suffering and death have been put in place by the medical profession itself.
Let the Record Show......
A quick look at history shows that time after time many decades have to pass and countless lives are lost before medical establishments will accept new concepts that improve the standard of medicine, in fact they usually fiercely resist them.
In the mid 19th Century a young up-and-coming Hungarian doctor Ignatz Semmelweis working at a major Viennese hospital noticed that many more babies delivered by midwives survived than those delivered by doctors. Looking into why this was, he noted that the midwives washed their hands, while the doctors, fresh from pathology, did not. Dr Semmelweis instituted a program in his department requiring that doctors disinfected their hands and infant mortality dropped by 20%. Far from being hailed for the discovery he was greeted with hostility and dismissed. Finding work in a small provincial hospital, where he continued to enrage his colleagues by trying to persuade them to wash their hands, Semmelweis was committed to an insane asylum for his pains. He died at the age of 42 after a beating from the asylum guards, it is said. The chief shrink looking the other way, while steadfastly refusing to wash his hands of the matter, no doubt.....
In 1928 Dr Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin and his work was published the following year. In 1945 Dr Fleming was awarded a Nobel Prize for his work and in 1946 penicillin finally became available to the general public. In the 18 years it took to introduce, how many millions of people, especially children, had to suffer agonising deaths from bacterial infections such as tuberculosis, diphtheria, rheumatic fever, cholera, syphilis and pneumonia?
Much research over the years has shown that elderly people hospitalised for heart attack are often anemic and were 78% more likely to die over a 30-day period than those who were not anemic. Despite this and the knowledge that anemia is common among cancer patients also, and a strong predictor of death among the elderly, anemia can be easily detected by routine blood tests. But busy doctors will often say anemia is a normal state in the old people and do nothing to treat it. Something you might like to know when a parent or other loved one has to go into hospital.....
In the late 60’s Dr. Kilmer McCully in Boston published his work showing that elevated serum levels of homocysteine was a leading cause of atherosclerosis, just as much serum cholesterol. The only difference being elevated homocysteine is easily and cheaply lowered with vitamins B6, B12 and folic acid. Not something which went down well with the medical establishment who were fixated on dietary fat and drugs for lowering cholesterol. Dr. McCully’s promising career went into a nose dive. It was not until 30 years later that Dr. McCully’s findings were accepted as correct. And yet to this day, doctors will readily test you for elevated cholesterol and whack you onto the latest anti-cholesterol drugs costing $130 a month. Few will test you for homocysteine and put you on a Vitamin B complex costing $10.00......
Over the last 35 years many non-mainstream doctors and numerous researchers have warned us that synthetic estrogen replacement was dangerous for women, that it increased the risk of breast and endometrial cancer unacceptably. It was not until 2002 and the deaths of tens of thousands of women from breast cancer that the medical profession generally was prepared to accept the truth of this.
It Isn’t Working.....
Why is it that doctors are so fiercely resistant to change? Particularly at the cost of so many lives lost. Particularly when any honest physician must see they don’t have the answers when it comes to healing chronic disease. What is it about the medical profession and the way it is structured that makes it such a depressing and bankrupt picture for the future? Yes there are villains. Big Pharma has a lot to answer for in the way it has co-opted and co-erced doctors. Yes, there are always those physicians who care a lot more about maintaining their authority and standing than about healing people, but the great majority of doctors are concerned and try their best. So why isn’t it working?
I believe the answer is twofold.
First there is simply so much scientific information out there that it is very hard to keep up with it all.
Second, the major pharmaceuticals have taken advantage of this fact. They make drugs. Drugs don’t cure people, but they can and often do relieve the symptoms. The drug companies bombard doctors with the information which says “this” drug for “that” disease. All the doctor now has to do is select which drug from the competing drug makers who duke it out amongst themselves to divide the spoils. The doctor is not in the business of healing any more, he has become a glorified pharmacist. When the drugs don’t hack it, he passes his unfortunate patient on up the medical food chain, to a specialist, a surgeon and finally a hospital.
A Legal Solution.....?
I’m not overfond of lawyers, but if you’ve got the money a reputable legal firm will go a long way to win your case for you and earn their share of the winnings. The medical profession ain’t like that. They don’t get paid any more or less if you live or die. What they get paid for is the number of people they see in a day. Even if you’ve got the money and you’ve got a life-threatening cancer, do you reckon your doctors would pull out all the stops to get a winning result in the way a team of attorneys would? I don’t think so.
If you are not rich (and even if you are) my advise to you is to look after yourself and do whatever it takes not to get seriously sick. I know it’s not easy to really do that until it’s too late.... but try.
If you do get sick, you need to get reliable information. Unfortunately that is a lot easier said than done. Your doctor says operate immediately and take these nasty drugs or he’ll not be responsible for the consequences, your best friend trills “meditate with these crystals and go see my guru....”, the man you met sitting next to you in an aeroplane tells you about this incredible urban shaman in Rio, who apparently can cure......and so on. Go on the net and it’s worse, all you find is people trying to flog you things. A serious health challenge is stressful enough in many many ways. It is the time you need to have the best up-to-date integrative options you can get, not someone selling you a bill of goods allopathic or alternative, however well meant. Armed with such data you will be better equipped to level the playing field and hold the medical priesthood to account. (Anyone needing an info steer, feel free to e.mail).
The essential fact you need to grasp is that the medical profession itself is the No.1 cause of unnecessary death and the third biggest killer after heart disease and cancer.
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