Doctors Strike: 
Death rates Fall... 

 

Rath: The laws 
of the Pharmaceutical 
Industry

"read 'em `n weep"

"There is no way to be nice about this. There is no point in raising false hopes. There is no treatment or vaccine in sight. There is no miracle breakthrough on the horizon.

Medicine, as we know it, is dying. It's entering a terminal phase.

What began as an acute illness reached the chronic stage about a decade ago and progression toward death has been remarkably swift and well beyond anything one could have predicted.

The disease is caused by conflict of interest, tainted research, greed for big bucks, pretentious doctors and scientists, lying, cheating, invasion by the morally bankrupt marketing automatons of the drug industry, derelict politicians and federal and state regulators - all seasoned with huge doses of self-importance and foul odor."

--The late & great
Nicholas Regush

The purpose of this section is to discuss global issues regarding the situation of medicine and health care. What is the current state of medical care in the western world, and where is medicine going? Why? What actions we can take as consumers or voters (or simply as the owners of human bodies and minds) which will improve the situations that we might find undesirable in medicine? 
 

The current health system that we know in 'the west' is beseiged by problems in a number of areas, or arenas of action: 

• One obvious problem area comes from the economic unsustainability of the medical system, faced with exorbitant costs of both medical services and products. 

• Another battlefront is seen in the number of iatrogenic deaths and injuries that occur due to outright errors by medical practitioners, or other health care staff; particularly in hospitals. eg 1 , 2 

• A third area which is given much less attention but is arguably the most important of all, is the potential reliance by western medical clinicians and researchers upon inadequate scientific/medical theories; theories that nevertheless underlie the provision of medicine and health care. 

• A fourth arena arises through the presence of the first and third problems, in the manipulation of medical consensus and knowledge itself by the entities within medicine that hold massive power over what is or becomes accepted, credible medical knowledge. These entities apparently protect economic and professional vested interests over and above the supposedly predominant concern (/facade) for human health. 

• A fifth concern arises when we can see the present environment as a motivating force towards disease. This can be seen in terms of a multiplicity of factors that exist in all four quadrants of wilber's assessment of knowledge (see philosophy section for an explanation of Wilber's concepts). The multiplicity includes such factors as individual psychological dispositions towards self-annihilatory consumercide (more on this in consciousness ); external, physical-environmental toxins; and paradigm based erroneous conceptualisations and practice by health care professionals, dieticians, medical researchers, etc. that paradoxically encourage disease and it's subsequent maltreatment under the aegis of disease management (the latter factor has some parallels to point #3 above). 

• A sixth concern involves information distribution in medicine and health care. History has seen a great deal of oppression of medical knowledge for a variety of irrelevant reasons, delivered via anything from sheer arrogance through to the coercive and even violent protection of vested interests. The scientific peer review process of evaluation and distribution of research knowledge has represented at least as much of a stifling effect upon medical care as it has provided for progress in medical knowledge. The problem is compounded by the centralisation of mass media. However, the situation finds some respite in the growth of individual and community publication and interactive power as offered by the internet. 

The goose and the golden eggs: Reich 

A nice little essay on the professionalisation of modern medicine. 

Modern Medicine: The New World Religion -- 
The Hidden Influence of Beliefs and Fears :Olivier Clerc 

Interview with Martin Walker: author of Dirty Medicine

Why you can't trust medical journals anymore. Shannon Brownlee


Shame: A Major Reason Why Most
Medical Doctors Don't Change Their Views


The Illusion of Disease
by Mike Adams

head to newstarget.com for more of Mike's great health news

A brief background and review on the works of Harris Coulter. 

Coulter is arguably one of the most important medical historians of all time. His works are extremely important reading for establishing a detailed understanding of the historical background and present context of dissent to modern medical practice. (His website has vanished into thin air so check out info on his works from a search engine here. You can download the entire work on "The Controlled Clinical Trial" from here (local) and here is another secondary site.) 
 

At a future stage consumercide.com hopes to present summaries and contextual evaluations of all four volumes of his great work, Divided Legacy: A History of the Schism in Medical Thought. 

I. The Patterns Emerge: Hippocrates to Paracelcus 

II. Progress and Regress: Von Helmholt to Claude Bernard 

Review

III. Science and Ethics in American Medicine 1800-1914 

Information from the cover or publisher 
Society today is paying a heavy price in disease and death for the monopolygranted the medical profession in the 1920's. In fact, the situation peculiarly resembles that of the 1830's when physicians relied on bloodletting, mercurial medicines, and quinine, even though knowing them to be intrinsically harmful and precisely the same arguments were made in defense of these medicines as are employed today, namely, that the benefits outweigh the risks. In truth, the benefits accrue to the physician, while the patient runs the risks. 
-From the Postscript 

"A vast and well-documented attempt to paint the history of empirical medicine in constant tension with the rationalist tradition. 
-Ivan Illich, Medical Nemesis 

"A trenchant commentary on orthodox drug therapy and 'scientific medicine.' " 
-Alex Berman, Journal of the History of Medicine 

"An important book ... the reference work for all subsequent scholarship in the field." 
-Jerome W. Whitney, British Homoeopathic Journal 

"Provocative and worthwhile reading." 
-Gert Brieger, M.D., U.C.S.F. School of Medicine, American Scientist. 

IV; Twentieth Century Medicine: The Bacteriological Era 

Review 1
Review 2

Too much Medicine? Almost Certainly BMJ 

Checkout this link to the corporate dynamics section of HarPub. A brief description of corporate corruption in the medical arena, and a number of relevant links. Also a discussion on severe adverse drug reactions and the weaknesses in the health and food consumer markets that allow corporate exploitation to occur. Here's a pertinent quote from the work: 
"Responsibility for mass poisoning does not necessarily fall entirely on Novartis. The successful existence of a mass poison industry implies a paradox or weakness in human nature as much as in Novartis. Successful leaders and organizations exist by satisfying their constituencies and satisfying the desires of their consumers. Novartis claims that it knows its consumers best, however, most of us are unwitting or unwilling consumers." 
(Now that's consumercide...) 

Pharmacia, GlaxoSmithKline and Aventis on trial for “consumer fraud, commercial bribery and making false statements concerning inflated wholesale prices to government-operated subsidized health plans.” 

Drug company influence on medical education in the USA: Lancet study 

One face of the problem: Iatrogeny and the silent epidemic claiming elderly in Australian Hospitals 

Drug Companies: the next target after tobacco companies? 

Drug companies and techniques of truth distortion 

Drug Companies Collect Secret Reports on Doctors 

Drug Companies Engage in Illegal Sales Practices: U.S. Issues Warning 

Seroxat: Drug safety agency accused of cover-up: the riddle of the drug regulators; regulation of drugs, a secretive system...

CMAJ: Drug Risks Hidden from Public

Rath: The laws of the Pharmaceutical Industry

How low can they go? 
Glaxo guinea-pigs orphans

The link between industry, authors and their results

Click here to learn more about one of the most pernicious threats to health freedom. Also included in this section is information on the Australian Pan Pharmaceuticals "crisis". 

Also check out this piece on web censorship by the medical establishment

Doctors may be the #1 cause of death in America

Death by Medicine
A very comprehensive look at modern iatrogeny

When Legal Drugs Kill : Kalb 

How "public relations" disinformation by econocentric corporations and professions modifies the way we think about health and medicine, and how we need to be aware of this in order that we might change it. 

 

A similar comment to be made by Regush is here, this time questioning the role of the Institute of Medicine... 

UK Solicitor Miller on the unreliability of Scientific Papers as Evidence

A discussion on the admissibility of lay evidence, set in the context of the unjustified exalted position of scientific evidence in the court. Some serious questioning around the legal paradigm here.

The social construction of drug debates. 

Iatrogeny in Medicine (professional medical and medicine related disease and death). 

It might not be a startling revelation but
"Industry-Funded Medical Research Skewed Toward Industry" 

(UK article and comment by Regush/Red Flags) "Dozens of the Government's most influential advisers on critical health and environmental issues have close links to biotech and drug corporations, according to a dossier of Whitehall documents obtained by The Observer." 

A dying drug boss speaks out about industry practice 

The subsuming, hijacking or oppression of "alternative" and "complementary" medicines. 

"hysterical phytophobia" 

This topic is found in both problems and new paradigms sections, as it is relevant to both problem and solution; the former due to the suppression it has suffered, and the latter through it's potential... 
 

Case study: An Australian Experience; How The Cebu Ozone Clinic was Derailed. (also a study on mass media) 

T.L.Dormandy wrote this opinion in the Lancet of Nov 12th 1988. It is still highly relevant to the problems that exist in the medical establishment's current conceptualisations regarding peroxidation in vivo . Dormandy suggests that the understanding of these reactions in the body might be crucial to a better understanding of the mechanisms of the maintenance of health in the human body. 
(I think that the importance of this thesis cannot be underestimated...) 

Link: Sumeria on Oxygen Therapy 

Idiotic thinking in Medicine; C-REACTIVE protein. 
Dissent to a "pending hypothesis"? 

One example of a typical global dissident type of thinking, 
against the reigning paradigm. You be the judge on it's substance... 

and again... 

To reduce the risk of heart disease, why don't we all cut off our ear lobes?
A brief piece ridiculing the concept of a poly-pill for cardiovascular disease prevention...

Problems in Psychology & Psychiatry: the Mental Illness Industry 

Rethinking The Mental Illness Industry 

Coercive psychiatry, human rights and public participation 

(external link) 
 

Problems in Dentistry 

See the Under construction New Section. 

also check out these links; 

http://www.hugnet.com/
http://www.algonet.se/~leif/yfVIM90a.html
http://www.altcorp.com/
http://www.algonet.se/~leif/AmFAQigr.html

Under Construction

2.
New Paradigms / Suppressed Alternatives in Health Care. 

mercola.com 

This site really deserves to be listed in all of the categories of this 'metamedicine' page. You will find critiques of the medical orthodoxy, health solutions, and intelligent commentary untainted by the pharmaco disease of "wetiko". Enough said, please browse it!

Dr Hulda Clark Research Association

Hulda Clark is a proponent of the idea that disease in the body is caused by two factors: parasitical invasion and toxins within the body. The former is usually synergistic with the latter; certain toxins may break own the intestines protective capacity against parasitic organisms, allowing them to set-up life cycles in organs of your body where they can't be dealt with by the body. Hulda probably goes a bit to far in her zeal regarding the total impact of parasites and toxins, yet there is no call to "throw out the baby with the bathwater", i.e., her information and research absolutely is fascinating, and well worth consideration by anyone wanting to know more about their body and/or employ alternative medical technologies for the maintenance/restoration of health.

Checkout this introductory essay on Clark and on The End of Cancer?

Epsom Salts based Liver Cleanse 

Here's a link to one description of the liver cleanse that I was first introduced to via Hulda Clark's writings. Although being entirely asyptomatic of disease myself, I have tried this procedure and found it to be the most incredible experience. Firstly, in seeing what my body had accumulated over the years (and the positive health benefits of the elimination of it), and secondly, to see first hand the evidence of the simplicity and effectiveness with which this remedy is applied --in comparison to the dangerous and complex surgical method that is nevertheless held up as the orthodoxy's best solution to the problem of gallstones. 

http://abarefootdoctor.com/Liver%20Cleanse.htm

From that website; 

"The Liver cleanse procedure contradicts many modern medical viewpoints. Gallstones are thought to be formed in the gallbladder, not the liver. they are thought to be few, not thousands. They are not linked to pains other than gallbladder attacks. It is easy to understand why this is thought: by the time you have acute pain attacks, some stones are in the gallbladder, are big enough and sufficiently calcified to see on X-ray, and have caused inflammation there. When the gallbladder is removed the acute attacks are gone, but the bursitis other pains or digestive problems remain." 

Checkout the rest of the barefoot doctor's site for more on alterative therapies including oxygen therapies. 
Checkout Curezone health forums for wideranging (internet) community discussions on these topics. A massive resource which offers a number of different methods of liver cleansing. 

Hydrogen Peroxide Therapy: Supplement to The Art of Getting Well 

Ozone and Hydrogen Peroxide in Healing: Altman 

oxytherapy.com 

The Assemblage Point

Is this one of the frontiers of a new medicine, based on the understanding of the human body's bioelectric fields?

"The ‘‘Fundamental Principle", the energy vortex, is called the 'Assemblage Point'

The Assemblage Point is the missing link that is absent in all current medical, psychological, scientific, philosophical and spiritual models. Many of the current dilemmas and criticisms which all types of medicines, therapies, treatment procedures and social rehabilitation programmes are now experiencing can be easily resolved with stringent application of Assemblage Point diagnosis and correction procedures."

Colloidal Silver: Potential Panacea?

Mercury & Alzheimer's

A potential, suppressed paradigm?

u.c. 
 

"The more effective you are as a conventional physician, the less a human being you often find yourself becoming. " Ken Wilber on an integral medicine . 

"Part of the problem with modern medicine is that it is fuelled by commercial interest, rather than health. Here's one article on the health benefits of turmeric that makes mention of this problem... 

Breathe.

Vegetarian Diet and Natural Healing.
See the section on food politics for more. 

health-science-spirit.com
 

3.
Disease Related Miscellaneous Issues in Modern Medicine. 

Heart Disease 

Article on AA Oxidopathy- 
"The Core Pathogenetic Mechanism of Ischemic Heart Disease ." 

much more to come on this killer... 

www.calcify.com
"Has heart disease been cured?" 

http://www.statinalert.org/
Alerting the world to the dangers of statins!

Diabetes 

Diabetes is not a disease of blood sugar Ron Rosedale, MD

Credence re. diabetes type 2

And from the http://www.health-science-spirit.com website:

Diabetes – How I See it

The Truth about Diabetes is different than you have been told by your doctor

Holistic Diabetes Treatment or how to help yourself

Multiple Sclerosis 
 

"Medicine uses immune-suppressing drugs in the belief that MS is the result of 
  a dysfunctional immune system and therefore, by reducing the effectiveness 
  of the immune system, one may retard the spread of the illness. This is what I 
  term a 'scorched earth' policy, where the only cunning plan you have come up 
  with to halt the advance of the enemy is to burn and destroy all the land in the 
  path of his advance in the hope that you will starve him into submission. Not 
  such a great strategy, in my humble opinion."

Philip Day's Intro to the subject

McTaggart on MS

Case study: How side effects of Dianette were mistaken for MS

Section on parenting, childbirth 
and infant rearing issues . 
This section is for miscellaneous items not specifically related to issues about vaccination. 

A Reference; 

Geison, Gerald L. The Private Science of Louis Pasteur. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995. 

 Gerald Geison has meticulously examined Pasteur's actual scientific procedures as recorded by Pasteur in his own handwriting in more than 140 private, laboratory notebooks and compared them to Pasteur's published reports of his research. On the basis of discrepancies between the private records and public announcements and papers, Geison argues that Pasteur deliberated deceived the public about his methods in several highly publicized episodes, the anthrax trial at Pouilly-Le-Fort and the rabies treatment of Joseph Meister. Pasteur's motives appeared variously, depending upon the episode, to be to hide the incomplete nature of his research preparation or to falsify the riskiness (either falsely to heighten it so as to accent his courage or falsely to downplay it so as to accent his soundness as a researcher) of his trials. In Geison's view Pasteur never conducted fraudulent science, but his commitment to theories sometimes outran his empirical evidence and his move to human subjects did not reflect sufficient clinical caution (Pasteur was not an M.D.). 
 
 

Phillips: Conspiracies, Plots and  Other Anti-Democratic Notions
 
 

•  "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." 
~  Chinese proverb

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

REVISED OATH FOR DOCTORS
This more comprehensive Oath was drawn by Dr. Leo Rebello in 2003, since Hippocrates Oath is now partly outdated being
centuries old. This revised Oath has been widely circulated, accepted and appreciated. 

1st July is celebrated as Doctors Day all over the world. The day usually passes ithout a whimper. Many doctors have forgotten
their Hippocratic oath or humanism. Therefore, I would like to administer the following oath to the doctors to serve as a reminder as
to how important is their profession. Doctors to please repeat after me. 

I, -------------, do hereby swear on this solemn day that :- 
I shall NOT prescribe unnecessary medicines and tests to my patients; 
I shall NOT give false counseling; 
I shall NOT overcharge and accept cuts and gifts; 
I shall NOT rape tiny tots with innoculations or vaccinations, for they pollute the blood stream of small children leading to serious
diseases like AIDS, Cancers later in life; 
I shall NOT prescribe lethal drugs, like anti-retrovirals, chemotherapy, or give ECT to my patients; 
I shall NOT be afraid of any authority and fabricate medical records or give false evidence; 
I shall NOT exploit students studying under me; 
I shall NOT manipulate findings or results to win grants. 

I, -------------, further solemnly affirm that:- 
If I cannot treat a disease, I shall not say that AIDS, cancers, diabetes has no cure. 
But will tell the patient to try other systems of medicine. 
I shall treat health practitioners of other systems with respect and not tell deliberate lies 
to prove my importance. 
I shall study holistic healing modalities to increase my knowledge and wisdom. 
I shall not even by mistake say that "HIV=AIDS=death" or cancers cannot be treated. 
I shall not frighten my patients with unnecessary comments, opinions or advice. 
I still remember what Hippocrates said, namely, "Let diet be your medicine" and shall accordingly prescribe fresh fruits, vegetables
and good diet to my patients, rather than tonics, syrups, synthetic multi-vitamins, specially to children. 
I shall NOT perform surgery, unless it is absolutely must and will not indulge in rackets like amniocentesis, caesarian section, silicon
implant or liposuction. 
I shall work to ban the useless and cruel animal experiments in the name of medicine. 
I shall participate in periodic workshops, seminars, and conferences at my expense or on scholarship (no pharma funding) to educate
myself and speak from my conscience if I am called upon to speak or preside. 

Finally, I realize and aver that a great responsibility of people's well-being is upon my shoulders and I shall carry on my onerous task
with utmost dedication. 

This I swear in the name of God on this solemn Doctors Day and I shall repeat this oath daily lest I forget that I am in a divine
profession to heal the world.

Oath written and administered by 
Dr. Leo Rebello 
Tel. (91-22) 28872741 
Email : leorebello@vsnl.com
Website : www.aidsalternativa.org

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