Rick Levy and Lou Aronica
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 She'd just come from her surgeon's office where she learned she had a "highly suspicious" mass in her left breast that a mammogram and ultrasound indicated could be cancerous. The mass was so dense that her surgeon broke two biopsy needles during his examination. She had a history of breast cancer in her family, so the odds were against her. Her surgeon had her scheduled for a lumpectomy two days hence, and they both agreed he would perform a mastectomy if the mass was cancerous, which seemed very likely.
I met her at my office at 5:00 the next morning. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 This decline began after the surgeon General's first report on the dangers of smoking in 1964. This warning could have been made earlier -- in 1957 and again in 1959 then-Surgeon General Leroy Burney was the first federal officer to publicly state smoking was a cause of lung cancer.
As discussed in various NewsTarget stories, when the surgeon General's report finally surfaced in 1964, the American Medical Association did not endorse the report. Just a month prior, the AMA had accepted $15 million in funding from the tobacco industry. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 You know what the surgeon's modern solution to this problem is?
They open up the patient and slice off part of the pancreas! Amazing, huh? That way, it won't produce so much insulin. It makes you wonder what the surgical cure for headaches might be.
With similar insanity, the modern treatment for an overactive thyroid is to fry it with radiation so powerful that people who undergo the procedure are now setting off nuclear materials detection scans at airports. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Speaking of outstanding science, a White House spokesperson today said the Bush Administration has never forced former surgeon Generals to censor their speeches or scientific conclusions, except for requiring that they avoid talking about same-sex couples, stem cells, secondhand smoke, emergency contraception or anything involving climate change. surgeon Generals were also required to repeat the phrase, "Bush is King" at least three times in every speech.
Salmonella for ya, Aaarrrr!
Salmonella contamination was recently found in Veggie Booty snacks. |
Dan Buettner
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 State Department in 1963, he was a surgeon on the Loma Linda heart surgery team that brought open-heart surgery to that country for the first time. He pointed to a photograph of a girl who, with her family, had walked 100 miles to get an operation. In Vietnam, a year before South Vietnam fell, the work of the heart surgery team in Saigon was featured on the Walter Cronkite TV program.
As a surgeon he was a pioneer of open-heart procedures. (Dr. Leonard Bailey, who has performed more infant heart transplants than anyone in the world, unabashedly refers to Wareham as "my mentor." |
Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 Kris is a thirty-seven-year-old veterinary surgeon and researcher at a major university in the United States. In 2002 Kris became so debilitated with fibromyalgia she was forced out of the operating room and had to all but give up her practice. There was so much pain in her legs she could not stand at the operating table, and her arms and shoulders were so sore she could not hold the instruments needed to perform her duties as a surgeon. Kris had tried all the traditional medical interventions for fibromyalgia, but with only very limited success. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 And chances are your doctor or surgeon probably didn't explain this fully to you. Surgeons have a habit of making everything sound really simple, up until the day you have the procedure done. Then, you start experiencing all sorts of rather serious side effects, and they say, "Oh yeah! That could happen as well."
Hopefully, in this experience, you've learned a lesson. And that lesson is, don’t have body parts removed by overzealous surgeons. I don’t know how to state it any simpler than that. |
Dr. Steve Blake
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 By 1617, John Woodall, a surgeon for the British East India Company, published a cure for scurvy—lemon juice.
James Lind was another British surgeon. He wrote Treatise on the Scurvy in 1753. James Lind gave some sailors two oranges and one lemon each day, while other sailors received cider, vinegar, or other possible scurvy cures. This may have been the first scientific nutrition experiment in the history of science. He proved that fresh citrus fruit prevented and cured scurvy. By 1795, limes were standard supplements on British ships and scurvy was no longer a problem. |
Kevin Trudeau
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 When the patient went to the surgeon to schedule prostate removal surgery the surgeon conducted a basic pre-surgical evaluation. Lo and behold, the prostate was no longer cancerous. The surgeon could not understand this. He suggested that perhaps there was never any prostate cancer to begin with. Maybe there was a misdiagnosis. Maybe there was some miraculous spontaneous healing. The patient obviously was elated at this good news and informed the doctor that he had just concluded a thirty-day fast with herbs and colonics. |
Rick Levy and Lou Aronica
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| The mass was so dense that her surgeon broke two biopsy needles during his examination. She had a history of breast cancer in her family, so the odds were against her. Her surgeon had her scheduled for a lumpectomy two days hence, and they both agreed he would perform a mastectomy if the mass was cancerous, which seemed very likely.
I met her at my office at 5:00 the next morning. I used hypnosis to guide her into super-conscious awareness—a hypnotically induced state of deep meditation—where she remained for about forty-five minutes. When she opened her eyes, she was smiling.
"What was that? |
Kevin Trudeau
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| When the patient went to the surgeon to schedule prostate removal surgery the surgeon conducted a basic pre-surgical evaluation. Lo and behold, the prostate was no longer cancerous. The surgeon could not understand this. He suggested that perhaps there was never any prostate cancer to begin with. Maybe there was a misdiagnosis. Maybe there was some miraculous spontaneous healing. The patient obviously was elated at this good news and informed the doctor that he had just concluded a thirty-day fast with herbs and colonics. |
Gary Null and Amy McDonald
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 Recent comments from Richard Carmona, US surgeon General from 2002 to 2006, are revealing. Carmona says that during his tenure his speeches were censored by the Bush administration and he was stopped from providing accurate scientific information to the public on a variety of issues. If it doesn't "fit into the ideological, theological, or political agenda," he told a congressional committee in 2007, it "is ignored, marginalized, or simply buried."
"The job of surgeon general is to be the doctor of the nation," he lamented, "not the doctor of a political party. |
Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
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 More recently, a team of physicians discovered that sham arthroscopic surgery (in which the surgeon makes an incision but no instruments enter the knee joint) worked as well as the real surgery for patients suffering from osteoarthritis. Over a two-year period, the group that had the real surgery suffered as much pain and had as much difficulty in walking or bending as did the group that received sham surgery. The study calls into question the necessity of the 650,000 arthroscopic procedures performed in the United States at a cost of $1.5 billion per annum.28
How are these findings possible? |
| As far back as 1939. a surgeon developed a procedure—ligation (restriction) of the internal mammary artery—to relieve pain from angina pectoris. Three-quarters of all patients reported improvement or elimination of symptoms and the surgery became part of general practice. Twenty years later, researchers found that sham surgery—wherein patients were anesthetized and got chest incisions, but nothing more—worked just as well as those on whom the ligation procedure was actually performed! |
| In this procedure, the surgeon does indeed stop the heart, and graft a piece of vein (usually the saphenous vein from the thigh) into one or more of the coronary arteries.
Does "cabbage" save lives? The first major clinical trial was in the early 1980s. The Coronary Artery Surgery Study (CASS) consisted of 780 patients who had mild but stable angina. Half were randomly chosen for bypass surgery; the other half received "conservative" treatment. Five years later, 82% from the first group were alive, but 83% from the second. |
| The story is this: a male nurse felt uncomfortable assisting in a Marshall-Marchetti procedure, an operation which requires a nurse to place fingers into the female patient's vagina in order to support the bladder as it is being stitched by the surgeon. This particular urologist dismissed the male nurse for an early lunch and concluded the procedure. When the nurse returned, he was told that the operation was just beginning, requiring him to penetrate the patient's vagina with his finger for ten minutes, after which he was informed about the "joke. |
Dr. Steve Blake
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| James Lind was another British surgeon. He wrote Treatise on the Scurvy in 1753. James Lind gave some sailors two oranges and one lemon each day, while other sailors received cider, vinegar, or other possible scurvy cures. This may have been the first scientific nutrition experiment in the history of science. He proved that fresh citrus fruit prevented and cured scurvy. By 1795, limes were standard supplements on British ships and scurvy was no longer a problem. British seamen are called "limeys" to this day because of this custom. |
Andreas Moritz
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 Khare, an allopathic doctor and Mumbai-based follower of AUT, says: "The Italian surgeon Stanislau R. Burzynski, now settled in America, separated antineoplaston from human urine and showed remarkable results in the treatment of cancer. Another substance found in large quantities in the urine is called dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA). It is a hormone related to testosterone. This, as research showed, has anti-cancer, anti-obesity and anti-aging properties. It has also been found that urea when recycled by ingesting, is converted into essential amino acids. |
Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
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| That any sane nation, having observed that you could provide for the supply of bread by giving bakers a pecuniary interest in baking for you, should go on to give a surgeon a pecuniary interest in cutting off your leg, is enough to make one despair of political humanity. But that is precisely what we have done. And the more appalling the mutilation, the more the mutilator is paid. He who corrects the ingrowing toe-nail receives a few shillings: he who cuts your inside out receives hundreds of guineas, except when he does it to a poor person for practice. |
Dr. Arthur Janov
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 We see this clearly in split-brain surgery (the surgical split of the left and right brains), where the surgeon will feed input into the right brain, but because of the lack of inter-hemispheric connection, the left is forced to rationalize a feeling it doesn't even recognize. The doctor will feed something funny to the right side while the left laughs and concocts a strange explanation for his laughter: "That white coat you are wearing is very funny." The fact that the left frontal area doesn't recognize the feeling doesn't stop it from manufacturing all sorts of rationales. |
| The original "antipsychotic" drug, Thorazine, was first used by a French surgeon, who noticed that it made surgical patients indifferent or apathetic toward the pain they were undergoing. One author noted that scientific evidence supports a theory that most psychiatric drugs "work" by producing a kind of anesthesia of the mind, spirit, or feelings.
Work by R. Gaunt put rats under stress (tied to a board), then gave them tranquilizers. They seemed indifferent to their problem, but their bodies weren't. There were high readings in stress hormones. |
| If we are looking for a good surgeon, we should find one that is left-brain dominant. We can be assured that she will be precise. If we want a therapist who can feel and sense things, we may want a right-brain dominant individual; but, of course, someone with a balanced brain is always the ne plus ultra.
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We must not refute the importance of feelings and their connection in psychotherapy. Further, we must not take at face value someone who is apparently well adjusted who claims contentment. |
Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
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| In this procedure, the surgeon removes stenotic or ulcerated lesions at the cervical carotid bifurcation. The intent is to prevent a stroke. In symptomatic patients, the procedure reduces strokes by 5% per year; in asymptomatic patients, the risk reduction is only 1% per year. However, the perioperative mortality is 1.8 percent.29 In a JAMA editorial, two physicians conclude that the procedure "is clearly efficacious in preventing stroke in selected cohorts of both symptomatic and asymptomatic patients with carotid stenosis. |
Anne Harrington
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 Of all who argued this way, none was more influential than the Yale University surgeon Bernie Siegel. As Siegel later told the story, it was his cancer patients who showed him the way—not those who died as expected, but those who, against all odds, survived. "I simply began to question why some people didn't die when they were supposed to," he told an interviewer some years later. "I'd ask, 'Why didn't you die?' And I'd hear things like, Well, I moved to Colorado. And the mountains were so beautiful, I forgot.' "74
Siegel set out to discover what kind of personality it is that "forgets to die. |
Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D.
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 Someday We'll Have to Get Smarter"
When I returned in 1968 from duty as an Army surgeon in Vietnam, I was offered a position in the Department of General Surgery at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio. My major specialties were thyroid, parathyroid, gastrointestinal, and breast surgery, but I was always interested in vascular medicine, and made a point of taking extra training in the subject.
Medicine ran in the family. My father, Caldwell B. Esselstyn, was a distinguished physician, a great innovator in group practice in upstate New York. |
| In the process, we could demonstrate that the leading killer of Americans, heart disease, was a paper tiger that could be defeated—and without the use of a surgeon's knife.
By now, most everyone is generally aware that what you eat has something to do with whether or not you will develop heart disease. Back when my study began, this wasn't at all established. But also out of a personal sense of threat—everyone in my family had died early—I had begun looking for some alternative fate and had come up with the idea of low-fat, plant-based nutrition. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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 It turned out that the heavy steroids his rheumatologist had prescribed for his arthritis had eaten through the sutures his stomach surgeon had sewn in, and the peritonitis that ensued caused his body to go into shock and his heart to arrest. "Normal courses of antibiotics proved unsuccessful," read his death report.
We knew so little then. Still, thirty years later, when my own frightening journey through autoimmune disease began, it seemed to me that we knew little more than we had in my father's era. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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 Surgeon General's report concludes that secondhand smoke causes premature death and disease in children and in adults who do not smoke.10
If you are overweight or obese and you smoke cigarettes, the health risks are increased dramatically. Since cigarette smoking speeds up your heart rate and constricts the flow of blood throughout your body, it will significantly increase your odds of experiencing a heart attack.
Nicotine addiction also results in withdrawal symptoms when a person tries to stop smoking. |
Anne Harrington
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| At 30, promptly upon diagnosis, I was handed a magazine interview of this Yale surgeon who said cancer was "God's reset button." I was hooked. I was desperate to save, that is, to heal my total life. It took years for me to sort through the issue of blame vs. responsibility. But I did. I decided that blame is beside the point. So is total responsibility for getting or curing cancer. No one has total control. But responsibility for the fulfillment of one's life, including what one does with one's cancer—that's a different matter. |
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