It's official: modern medical procedures like surgery are completely
worthless for a startling number of diseases and conditions, and doctors
exaggerate the benefits of whatever procedure they're hawking. This is
the truth about modern medicine you won't get in the United States: it's
from the British Medical Journal which actually studied the
effectiveness of surgical procedures like prostate cancer surgery,
mastectomies for breast cancer, and the surgical removal of impacted
wisdom teeth at the dentist. Their findings? These procedures -- and
many more -- are completely worthless. They offer no proven benefit
whatsoever.
Shocking, huh? This is the conclusion that doctors and
medical researchers were forced to come to after reviewing thousands of
clinical studies examining the effectiveness of these procedures. It's
all published in the BMJ Best Treatments guide, which isn't
available to U.S. citizens, by the way. This guide blows away a number
of common medical myths, most notably the myth that surgical procedures
have to be effective to be performed on patients. All across North
America, surgeons are convincing patients to undergo completely
unnecessary surgical procedures like mastectomies and removal of the
prostate -- yet it turns out these offer no measurable benefit
to patients. So much for modern medicine being based on "scientific
fact!" The science, in fact, says the procedures are just as effective
as doing nothing.
Of course, if patients did nothing,
they'd get the same results, but the surgeons and hospitals wouldn't
generate revenues. So, of course, there's a big push to corral patients
through hospitals in order to generate a steady stream of revenues. And
all it takes is a guy in a white lab coat with a stern look saying,
"We're going to have to operate." Most people don't question that. They
just agree and let the surgeon operate.
As Luisa Dillner, the editor
of BMJ Test Treatments says, "The big myth about medicine is that
people know what works. In fact, they do things for which there is no
evidence. There is a tendency for doctors to exaggerate the benefits of
what they do..." Keep in mind that's a quote from the editor of a
guide published by the British Medical Journal. This is a medical
insider commenting on the true situation in the medical industry, and
she's saying the industry is basically engaged in the widespread
practice of performing completely unnecessary surgeries.
The purpose
of publishing this guide is laudable: they're trying to bring
information to the patients, to give people the facts about medical
procedures so they can make better informed decisions. That's noble. In
the United States, you get just the opposite: doctors and surgeons warn
people away from the Internet. They want patients to be kept in the
dark. Doctors absolutely hate people who do their own research and walk
into their clinics with a long list of legitimate questions. (The
medical industry can't stand this website, either, since it actually
helps educate people about the truth of what's going on with organized
medicine.) You sure won't see the Journal of the American Medical
Association telling patients that common surgical procedures are
worthless -- they need to keep those surgeries going! It's good for the
business of the AMA's members!
Getting back to the guide, this is
groundbreaking research: someone finally bothered to take a look at many
of the medical procedures being done and analyzed the results. You'd
think somebody would have done this sooner, right? But here's the
shocker: surgeries don't have to be proven effective at all to be
practiced on human patients! You read that right: there's absolutely
no requirement that surgical procedures be proven effective to be pushed
onto any number of patients. It's bizarre. When you're talking to a
surgeon, you'd think that they would only recommend procedures that
actually work, right? Wrong. They can recommend -- and perform --
anything that's accepted by their peers, regardless of its medical
merit! That's how so many unnecessary surgical procedures get carried
out: hysterectomies, removal of the tonsils, mastectomies, and the list
goes on and on.
Now, I don't mean to paint all surgeons with the
same brush here. I give great thanks to the orthopedic surgeon who
reconstructed my clavicle after a sports injury. He did outstanding
work! But that's an injury, and I've always said that U.S. surgeons are
the best in the world at dealing with trauma. The problem is when
surgeons try to use scalpels to treat chronic diseases like cancer.
Cancer isn't a disease that responds to surgery because it's systemic,
not local. You can't "cut away the cancer," because it's a whole-body
failure, not a single tumor that can be removed. Surgery and cancer just
don't mix, but that doesn't mean the surgeons won't recommend it anyway.
Give a guy a hammer and everything looks like a nail... and the same is
true with surgeons. They're good technicians -- damn good -- but they
think cutting into the body is the answer to everything. The British
Medical Journal says it's often no more effective than doing nothing at
all.
Doing nothing, but the way, is a lot cheaper and safer than
surgery. And, as it turns out, it's sound medical advice.
About the author: Mike Adams is a natural health researcher, author and award-winning journalist with a passion for sharing empowering information to help improve personal and planetary health He has authored more than 1,800 articles and dozens of reports, guides and interviews on natural health topics, reaching millions of readers with information that is saving lives and improving personal health around the world. Adams is an honest, independent journalist and accepts no money or commissions on the third-party products he writes about or the companies he promotes. In mid 2010, Adams produced NaturalNews.TV, a natural health video sharing website offering user-generated videos on nutrition, green living, fitness and more. He's also the CEO of a highly successful email newsletter software company that develops software used to send permission email campaigns to subscribers. Adams also serves as the executive director of the Consumer Wellness Center, a non-profit consumer protection group, and regularly pursues cycling, nature photography, Capoeira and Pilates. Known as the 'Health Ranger,' Adams' personal health statistics and mission statements are located at www.HealthRanger.org
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