| The ethics of cancer care
I'm continually puzzled over the ethics of the medical profession. In the backwards world of cancer care, an alternative medicine practitioner will be labeled a health quack for offering an unproven remedy for cancer, but a Mayo Clinic-trained doctor who performs disproven care will not be sanctioned by the state medical board.
Patients are bewildered, overwhelmed, and often too ill to make decisions for themselves. They must rely upon their doctors to make decisions for them. |
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This study alone is sufficient evidence to indict the entire medical profession for lack of interest in true prevention of disease. Other, similar studies corroborate this study. [Gut 34: 963-67, 1993] Yet, researchers continue to debate the issue of antioxidant therapy.
A review of 14 different studies concludes antioxidant therapy does not reduce colon cancer mortality rates. |
Devra Davis
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 The medical profession should be better educated about the need for exhaustive case histories which carry the individual's jobs record in detail back as far as twenty-five years, about the urgency of checking medical suspicions of industrial cancer hazards against careful epidemiological studies of all workers in a plant, and about the paramount importance of impressing plant management with the seriousness of the problem. |
| These widespread medical murders could not have taken place without the full cooperation of people in the medical profession throughout Germany and elsewhere.
A story from an old German colleague told to the distinguished diplomatic historian and Holocaust survivor Gerhard Weinberg discloses how extensive the killing program became. "My colleague had a sickly younger brother who had been repeatedly hospitalized for a variety of ills. The last time that her mother brought her weak brother to the hospital, the kindly family doctor warned her, 'Don't ever bring him back. |
| Hueper writes:
The Director of this organization in Cincinnati [Kehoe], testifying as a consultant of the oil company, had to confess that none of the results of his institute's studies with these oils had been published or had been made available to the medical profession in general or to labor organizations, because the data were considered by the oil company as 'privileged' information, i.e., the property of the oil company. |
Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
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 This particular telling of the story begins in the early 1960s, when the medical profession hailed estrogens as the fountain of youth and beauty, and as the elixir of femininity and sexuality. Prominent gynecologists "discovered" that menopause was a deficiency disease, just like diabetes. And just like diabetes, it had a cure. A bold promise was made that so-called estrogen replacement therapy (ERT) would let women avoid menopause entirely and keep them "feminine forever," the title of a popular and widely quoted book by gynecologist Robert Wilson. |
Too Profitable to CureBrent Hoadley, Ph.D.
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| At the heart of current representations of diabetes (and I might add, other chronic diseases) is a medical profession that has lost a sense of duty to cure rather than chastise. Diseases are being allowed to define the person, and fetished around bad patient behavior rather than a cure for the patient's physical problem. Maintenance or therapy drugs become a cop-out for research into cures.
This is basically the plan for pharmaceuticals to keep us all victims: research therapy, not cures. |
Andreas Moritz
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 They are the most popular choice of the medical profession for stopping infections and relieving pain. At least one of every six prescriptions written each year is for an antibiotic drug. Antibiotics are so popular with doctors and patients because they provide relief very quickly.
Having grown up in a generation in which antibiotics are frequently prescribed for a stubborn case of cystitis, a sore throat or an itchy skin rash, we may readily accept that the "magic bullet" prescribed by the doctor is the best option to deal with such bacterial infections. |
Too Profitable to CureBrent Hoadley, Ph.D.
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| Who grants the required CME (Continuing Medical Education) credits for the medical profession? The ADA spends a great deal of money to gather the troops to encourage government to spend money on a cure, thus saving ADA contributions for staff activities and "educational" materials.
A quote from John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) comes to mind when considering how the ADA (and charities for other diseases) regards their clientele. "A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inactions [my emphasis]; and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 It's important to understand this climate so that you can fully appreciate what we're up against when trying to inform the public about treatments and interventions that don't have the "official" medical profession seal of approval. It's an uphill battle, but not an unfamiliar one.
Those of us who argued against the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) food pyramid and against the officially sanctioned high-carbohydrate, high-sugar diet have experienced this kind of resistance before. It's pretty hard to get a fair hearing for a low-carbohydrate diet when a good portion of the U.S. |
Too Profitable to CureBrent Hoadley, Ph.D.
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| The pharmaceutical companies lie to us, and the medical profession "practices" on us —FOR PROFIT. Currently, many research projects are characterized as searching for a cure; again, we're talking about deceptive semantics. Developing an implantable insulin pump; creating an implantable blood glucose monitor; fashioning "diabetic" foods; and experimenting with better protocols that will, perhaps, allay or at least delay complications. These are not cures. These are nothing more than prophylactics. If they improve or simplify your quality of life, that is merely an added bonus. |
Anne Harrington
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 Because they did not understand what they were really doing, however, their results had been inconsistent, and the medical profession had failed to take any of their claims seriously. Braid believed his discoveries provided an entirely new basis for serious investigation:
I have now entirely separated Hypnotism from Animal Magnetism. I consider it to be merely a simple, speedy, and certain mode of throwing the nervous system into a new condition, which may be rendered eminently available in the cure of certain disorders. |
| If the scene portrayed by Mackay even approximated the actual mood of intrigue surrounding Mesmer's work in Paris, then it is hardly surprising that some people, in the medical profession and elsewhere, should have begun to clamor for him to be investigated. In the spring of 1784, King Louis XVI authorized two royal commissions made up respectively of members of the Royal Society of Medicine and of the Royal Academy of Sciences to carry out the job.27 The work of the first, strictly medical, commission was largely forgotten soon after its report. |
| But there is no evidence that either of these exhortations had much effect on the research and clinical interests of the American medical profession as a whole. Nor, to my knowledge, did any clergymen in the United States make Lourdes the focus of an effort to call people back to the faith. Perhaps Henry Adams had been onto something when he suggested in 1907 that scientifically minded Americans—dazzled more by X rays than cathedrals—did not really respond to the "force of the Virgin. |
| Then, the French neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot, one of the most charismatic and internationally respected figures in the medical profession at the time, proposed that it was time to take hypnosis seriously. In a lecture before the French Academy of Sciences in 1882, he described hypnosis as an artificially induced modification of the nervous system whose medical interest lay not—as Braid and others had thought—in its potential therapeutic applications, but in the fact that it could only be produced in patients suffering from hysteria. |
| By transforming hypnosis into an induced (hysterical) pathology that followed regular, physiological laws, Charcot had succeeded in doing two things: giving an aura of respectability to the subject; and staking a clear claim to the medical profession's exclusive competency to deal with it. The effect, as French psychologist Pierre Janet would later recall, was stunning; a true tour de force of persuasion.48
Charcot's link between hypnotism and hysteria is the key to understanding his rhetorical success. |
| Believing they had been abandoned by the mainstream medical profession (in part, many thought, because people did not really care if homosexuals died), a radicalized community of HIV-positive patients decided they would simply refuse to believe they were going to die. If the new research was true that the brain and the immune system were in constant communication, they of all people— with grossly compromised immune systems—needed to be sending only messages of survival to their bodies. |
Too Profitable to CureBrent Hoadley, Ph.D.
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| George Bernard Shaw
The American Diabetes Association (ADA) is and has been the advocacy group most closely associated with diabetes and most trusted by government agencies, the medical profession, and diabetics. (Other chronic diseases are represented/advocated by other organizations.)
The ADA parades movie stars, athletes, and other successful people with diabetes before the camera. These celebrities tell you that you can have a "normal" life and achieve untold success, especially if you —like them —follow guidelines promoted by the ADA. |
Dr Ron Roberts
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 The orthodox medical profession theorises that faith healers simply reinforce the mental attitudes of patients and they feel better, even if their actual condition is not cured. The body's natural defences actively respond to the belief, stress is reduced, health-giving hormones may be produced and antibodies—the cells in the blood that fight infection and disease—are strengthened.
Ron's decision to stop smoking was the result of a healing service he attended 20 years ago. |
Andreas Moritz
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| This practically makes the medical profession, together with hospitals, the leading cause of death.
6. Hospitals—A Major Health Threat
In 1995, a report in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) said that, "Over a million patients are injured in U.S. hospitals each year, and approximately 280,000 die annually as a result of these injuries. Therefore, the iatrogenic death rate dwarfs the annual automobile accident mortality rate of 45,000 and accounts for more deaths than all other accidents combined." These statistics have become a lot worse since 1995. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It's the miracle nutrient of the millennium, and yet the entire medical profession tries desperately to pretend that vitamin D has no biological function whatsoever. Hence the support of sunscreen (the anti-vitamin D product).
Sunscreen directly promotes vitamin D deficiency. You show me a person who regularly uses sunscreen, and I'll show you a person who's on the road towards cancer and other degenerative diseases. People who use sunscreen are killing themselves and they don't even know it! |
T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Thomas M. Campbell II
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 HOOKED ON DRUGS
John touched on another important area where the medical profession has lost credibility: its ties with the drug industry. Medical education and drug companies are in bed together, and have been for quite some time. John talked some about the depth of the problem and how the educational system has been corrupted. He said:
The problem with doctors starts with our education. The whole system is paid for by the drug industry, from education to research. The drug industry has bought the minds of the medical profession. It starts the day you enter medical school. |
Richard Bartlett
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 The diagnosis is, in part, driven by what the medical industry will accept as proof that the physician is performing his or her service, according to what is standard and customary, as agreed to by the guidelines and parameters set by each medical profession. Descriptions of what diagnoses are acceptable, and therefore reimbursable, are in part generated by the big-monied interests of the pharmaceutical corporate giants. |
Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D.
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 Would that the medical profession could bottle this effect.
So, consider the practitioner who has a treatment guaranteed to cure you; the physician who charges you $5,000 for an evaluation and then sells you a product that he or she endorses (and may even make); or the physician who listens to your story and then goes to the medicine cabinet for drugs that he or she claims are specific for what ails you. Which of these is a quack, and which one believes in the treatment he or she espouses? |
John J. Ratey, MD
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 By quantifying exercise as a dose, he hopes to cast treatment in terms the medical profession might accept. This is all-important, because doctors have to spend time with their patients to figure out what sort of regimen is likely to keep them moving.
In one study, Trivedi and Andrea Dunn divided eighty depressed patients into five groups, four with exercise protocols of different intensities and frequencies and one control group assigned to supervised stretching only (to see if social interaction with the supervisors had any effect). |
David Winston, RH(AHG), and Steven Maimes
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 As the years went by, it fell into disuse by the orthodox medical profession (probably because it didn't really cure rabies) and only herbalists and sectarian physicians such as the Eclectics, physiomedicalists, and botanic practitioners continued to use the plant. Although it was no longer used for treating rabies, it was used for epilepsy, delirium tremens, nervousness, insomnia, torticollis (wry neck), muscle spasms, and other nervous conditions. As botanic practitioners disappeared during the twentieth century, so did the use and popularity of this herb. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 Gyland, and myself, are aghast, dumbstruck, and horrified by the traditional medical profession's dismissive stance toward reactive hypoglycemia.
Dr. Harvey Ross, coauthor of Hypoglycemia: The Classic Healthcare Handbook, aptly sums up the sad situation: "How much needless suffering could be relieved but goes on because some physicians will not consider alternatives? |
Mark Sircus
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 According to the New York Times, "New evidence keeps emerging that the medical profession has sold its soul in exchange for what can only be described as bribes from the manufacturers of drugs and medical devices."1 A soulless medicine's first crime is its failure to seriously embrace preventive medicine and avoid disease in the first place. None of the pharmaceutical companies are interested in preventive medicine for they make all their money from sickness and disease.
Preventive medicine is as important as any other type of medicine. |
Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D.
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| This doctor shopping is very unsatisfying and leads to your having problems with the medical profession and a sense that you're on your own, which may make you feel out of control and turn you to alternative therapies. While these could prove useful in putting you onto the road back to wellness, you have to be cautious in taking this step. We live in a time when late-night television is filled with hours of commercials for potions and tablets whose value is dubious at best, if not completely worthless. Telling the good from the bad is important. |
Gary Null and Amy McDonald
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 The symptoms that go with environmental illness are numerous and have to be taken seriously by the medical profession. It is not all in our heads.
—Betty
The Political and Social Dimensions of Nutrition and Mental Health
With so much expertise available and so many proven solutions, you have to wonder why Americans still suffer as much as they do. You also have to wonder why the number of people afflicted with mental trouble across the spectrum?from mild depression and lack of concentration to schizophrenia and other forms of dementia—continues to increase. |
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