Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Instead of allowing him to leave the hospital, health authorities arrested and jailed the teen, throwing him in into a 15 x 20 foot isolation chamber and not allowing him to leave until he submitted to chemical treatments pushed by doctors at the hospital. Francisco is being described as "...a threat to public safety" due to his tuberculosis. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 I am simply saying you might consider the real dangers of being in a hospital and take steps to avoid ever ending up there. An ounce of prevention really is worth a pound of cure (and probably a $200,000 hospital bill to boot). |
Rick Levy and Lou Aronica
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 Along the way, I led the National hospital Privileges movement, which succeeded in winning hospital privileges for psychologists and ensured that patients in general hospitals would have access to psychological services. I also engineered the first credentialing standards for psychologists who practice in hospital settings. I was quite conservative—very "suit-and-tie"?devoted to the most rigorous scientific methods.
As far back as I can remember, I have been fascinated with human potential, the nature of thought, and the power of the human mind. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| As these cases of Gunpoint Medicine clearly demonstrate, you now surrender your rights when you walk into a hospital. You are not a patient; you are a prisoner. And if the medical authorities, in their own opinion, perceive you as resisting their authority, they can have you arrested on the spot, without a court order, without a trial, and even when you pose no threat to others (such as having cancer). These medical arrests are taking place in clear violation of both the Fourth Amendment (protection from unreasonable search and seizure) and Fifth Amendment (due process) of the U.S. |
| If they decide that, for whatever reason, you should not be allowed to leave the hospital, you may be arrested at gunpoint and thrown into jail for an indefinite period of time until you agree to undergo their toxic -- even deadly -- treatments.
But isn't Santos contagious?
Skeptics of this assessment will point out that Santos has a contagious form of TB and is a genuine threat to society. Therefore, the thinking goes, medical authorities are justified in locking him up against his will, without a trial or court order.
That's a fascinating bit of delusional thinking. |
| He is no more of a threat to public health than your typical doctor, and no patient should be imprisoned by hospital authorities simply for having an infection of a disease that doesn't even pose a threat to healthy individuals.
The alternative is to turn the U.S. into a medical police state, where anybody with a cough is arrested at gunpoint, and AIDS patients are thrown into detainment camps, and anybody who refuses "treatment" with synthetic chemicals gets thrown into jail. Imagine being arrested for not taking your statin drugs, antidepressants or blood thinners. |
| Personally, I think Santos should sue the hospital and local law enforcement authorities for violating his civil liberties. What, exactly, is his crime anyway? If being sick is a crime, then practically this entire nation should be locked up, because we're the most diseased population in the modern world.
Update:
The mainstream media is reporting today that Santos has finally agreed to start taking synthetic chemical medications while sitting in jail. Gee, what a choice, huh? "Here, take these medications or rot in your jail cell." That's the choice Santos has been given. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| The foods are part of the hospital's standard menu. Some of the hospitals have fast food right on the premises. You can come in for heart bypass surgery and grab a cheeseburger and fries on the way out. Nothing like repeat business to keep the money coming in, huh?
Hurry up and wait to see the doctor
You know what else is bad about doctors' offices? If you make an appointment at 3 p.m. and you get there on time, they make you wait. It is kind of like a contract between you and the doctor. But when you show up, they tell you, "You have to go and wait in the waiting room."
What is that? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 They spread by putting the patient into a hospital and then infecting the hospital staff.
In the history of infectious disease, especially in Africa, we've seen a trend: At some point, the hospital staff says, "Forget this -- I'm outta here!" Then they flee the hospitals, often taking the virus with them (because they've been infected). They flee into the forest. This is actually, from a bigger-picture point of view, a good strategy to protect human life. When they're off in isolation, those infected people cannot infect other hospital staff or other patients. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| I have had some personal experience with people in the hospital. You go in and look around and say, "This passes for health care?" Grab a nurse and say, "Don't you know this is the wrong dosage? What are you doing here? What about the interaction between these two drugs? What about this person? What about their bed sores?"
We have a terrible healthcare system in this country. I don't trust the hospital to give anyone decent care. I am not saying that these nurses and physician assistants are intending to do harm. |
| An ounce of prevention really is worth a pound of cure (and probably a $200,000 hospital bill to boot). |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Pushing drugs and abandoning the people
For the Brigham and Women's hospital, I think this action we're seeing today is yet another example of how organizations that once accomplished meaningful work have apparently sold their souls to Big Pharma and now operate as little more than drug company front groups. Gee, I wonder where their funding comes from?
To show you just one tiny example of how closely tied Brigham and Women's hospital is to the financial influence of drug companies, consider the bio of one senior investigator working at the hospital: Christopher P. Cannon, M.D., F.A.C.C. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| If something serious has happened to you, a U.S. hospital emergency room is a great place to be. Emergency doctors get a thumbs-up from me. They are brave and fast acting, and they don't panic easily. What can be done in the emergency room is a great testament to organized medicine.
In contrast to that, what I'm criticizing is the barbaric treatment of patients who really have no justifiable need for drugs or surgery. "Let's do gastric bypass surgery. That will help your obesity," say some surgeons. They take out part of your digestive tract. Have you ever thought about this? |
| Test this out when your loved one is in the hospital getting poor care. Talk to the doctor and ask some basic questions like, "What about this drug? Is this the right dosage? What about this food? What about this I.V.?" A lot of the doctors will be taken aback by the fact that you dared speak up.
I have to qualify all this with one comment. I have been the recipient of reconstructive surgery on my shoulder due to a sports injury. I am glad that there are some doctors and surgeons who know what they are doing. They did a phenomenal job. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Furthermore, hospital staffs are not very good at washing their hands to prevent the transmission of infectious disease. That has been proven by numerous studies in recent years. So what do you do about hospitals? Well, you can't close them, because that's where people are going to go when they get the flu, even though it won't do them much good, since hospitals can only treat their symptoms and attempt to use late-stage antiviral drugs with less-than-ideal success rates.
In effect, hospitals become death traps during any pandemic. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| In the history of infectious disease, especially in Africa, we've seen a trend: At some point, the hospital staff says, "Forget this -- I'm outta here!" Then they flee the hospitals, often taking the virus with them (because they've been infected). They flee into the forest. This is actually, from a bigger-picture point of view, a good strategy to protect human life. When they're off in isolation, those infected people cannot infect other hospital staff or other patients.
Even in modern times, infectious diseases spread rapidly in hospitals. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Cosgrove, and they actually want restaurants like McDonald's in the hospital so that they can eat those foods any time they feel hungry.
The McDonald's restaurant, for its part, is actually calling this a racism issue because it turns out this McDonald's franchise is owned by an African American. So instead of answering the true issue here, which is whether or not unhealthy, disease-promoting foods should be served to heart clinic patients, they are playing the racism card, trying to turn this into a racial issue when it clearly is not. |
| Thus, the doctor wants McDonald's out of the hospital.
Interestingly, McDonald's defends its position by claiming to offer -- get this -- healthy menu choices. The Vice President of this particular McDonald's restaurant said, "Our menu is something we're all proud of," which is sort of interesting all by itself since I've never hear the term "pride" used in the same sentence as "McDonald's menu."
But there's something else to consider here, too: apparently the staff member of the Cleveland Clinic are hoping to keep the McDonald's restaurant there! |
| Another interesting point about all of this is that some of the workers at the clinic don't appreciate the hospital acting as their parents. They think this attitude by Toby Cosgrove is paternalistic and that they should have the right to make their own decisions about what they want to eat. On the other hand, it shows that these people need parenting because they obviously don't have the wisdom to choose healthy foods on their own -- they're eating like their children would eat if they were locked in a candy store.
What's my take on all of this? |
| But if they're going to go to a hospital or a place of public education, they should not be tempted with foods that we now know directly promote chronic disease. In a sane world, none of these institutions would have ever agreed to let fast food restaurants and soft drink companies onto their premises in the first place, but it seems like sanity is sometimes late to the party, especially here in the United States where free market greed tends to be the number one priority regardless of who gets hurt in the process. |
| It's only through these wake up calls like skyrocketing rates of obesity and chronic disease, the Vioxx scandal and the FDA credibility scandal (where we find that even two thirds of the FDA's own scientists don't have confidence in the agency's ability to protect the American public) that we are reminded to open our eyes, take a look around and ask some serious questions like "Hey, if this is a hospital treating heart patients, should we really be serving french fries and double cheeseburgers in the lobby?" Well, of course not! Only a McDonald's representative would insist that they should. |
| Toby Cosgrove, director of the Cleveland Clinic and a cardiovascular surgeon, wants McDonald's out of the hospital. He says (paraphrased) it is ridiculous to offer foods that are inconsistent with the heart healthy advice doctors are attempting to give their patients.
I couldn't agree more. |
Ann N. Martin
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 When I asked Alan Schulman, DVM, who works at a veterinary hospital in Los Angeles, about the disposal of euthanized pets, he stated, "In our hospital, the options for owners are to take the remains of their pet for burial at the LA. pet cemetery, or we utilize CalPet Crematory for individual cremations of pets with return of the ashes in an urn to the pet owners."1
Some veterinarians, including Lynn Nelson in Santa Monica, California, stated that about 50 percent of pet owners want their pets cremated. |
Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan
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 Lukes-Roosevelt Medical Center
Clinical Instructor, Department of
Ophthalmology Columbia University, College of
Physicians and Surgeons New York, New York
Rock Positano, DPM, MSc, MPH Director
Non-surgical Foot and Ankle
Service hospital for Special Surgery New York Presbyterian hospital New York, New York
Joseph Scharpf, MD Associate
Head and Neck Institute Cleveland Clinic Cleveland, Ohio
John J. Stangel, MD Medical Director Westchester County Reproductive Medicine Associates of Connecticut
The Center for Advanced Reproductive Medicine Norwalk, Connecticut
Randall M. |
| DiMartino, MD, PhD Assistant Attending Physician hospital for Special Surgery/
New York Presbyterian hospital Instructor of Clinical Medicine Weill Cornell Medical College New York, New York
Loren Wissner Greene, MD Clinical Associate Professor Department of Medicine Co-director, Osteoporosis and Metabolic Bone Disease Program of the Department of Medicine New York University School of
Medicine New York, New York
Axel Grothey, MD
Senior Associate Consultant
Division of Medical Oncology
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, Minnesota
Stuart I. |
Dr. Sharon Moalem
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 Soon you will be hustled upstairs, hurried into a hospital gown, and hooked up to an IV; if you've ever been to a hospital before because you were actually sick—instead of pregnant—it's all probably feeling a bit too familiar right about now. You're having a baby—couldn't they make it a little more fun?
Of course, all of the medical drama is for very good reason; in 2000 the United Nations estimated that more than half a million mothers died of complications resulting from pregnancy—but less than 1 percent of those deaths were in the developed world. |
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