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 The men were merely scientists practicing what they called, "evidence-based medicine" -- a term you still hear thrown around today by doctors and surgeons defending modern medical scams.
The madness of surgery continues into modern times
The madness of conventional medicine and its surgical procedures, sadly, is not yet a closed chapter in the history books. |
| Just to clarify, we do need great surgeons to save the lives of those suffering from trauma, accidents or physical birth defects. Some people genuinely benefit from cosmetic surgery, and I'm not just talking about silicone implants. Some dental patients really do benefit from oral surgery when things have deteriorated too far. There are many other examples where surgery has a legitimate purpose.
We need these technicians in society for many things, but not for half the things they impose upon us. |
| Today, just as a hundred years ago, the public and the press remain hoodwinked by the false authority and high-IQ language of surgeons pushing the latest surgical fads... all based on the latest and greatest "scientific knowledge" of the day (which will be considered nonsense in about twenty years).
But it doesn't matter how much technical knowledge they learn, nor the sophistication of their high-tech instruments, nor whether they can perform remote surgery over the internet with a robot-controlled arm. It sounds cool, but it's really just stupid. |
| Europe, and invited to speak to elite groups of leading doctors and surgeons. He was widely considered one of the pioneers in the diagnosis and treatment of mental health disorders. (Today, by the way, the theory of mental disorders has shifted from "pus in the organs" to "chemical imbalances in the brain" which are treated by toxic synthetic chemicals known as prescription drugs. Different era, different terminology. Same con. |
| Besides, we have new surgical fads now like bariatric surgery -- a lobotomy of the stomach -- where surgeons maim patients for life and then send a bill to the ones who don't die on the operating table. Actually, they get billed, too. Surgery ain't free, you know, even if you're dead.
Nearly five percent of such patients are, in fact, dead in the first year following the bariatric surgery, studies now show. And many more who survive the ordeal find that they overproduce insulin after ingesting food -- a condition known as hyperinsulinemia. |
| Much of the surgery being done today is a sham, and not coincidentally, it just happens to be a sham that keeps surgeons well paid, just like it has for over a hundred years.
Dr. Cotton would have been proud to see modern medicine carrying on his trademark insanity today. I can see him smiling right now, with no teeth. |
Melody Petersen
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 A hot topic of discussion among surgeons that year was just how much of the stomach could safely be cut out to get rid of the ulcers and keep them from coming back. Some surgeons were advocating the removal of as much as 40 percent of a patient's stomach, while others worried there was no way of telling which patients might die during such operations or shortly afterward.
Smith Kline's new scientist was imagining an entirely new approach. Dr. Black's goal was to stop the stomach from producing acid, which was believed then to be the cause of most ulcers. |
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 AAPS states:
The Association of American Physicians and surgeons today condemned the “vaccine roundup” executed in Prince George’s county Maryland this week, and promised to do everything it can to support parents who refuse to immunize their children.
“This power play obliterates informed consent and parental rights,” said Kathryn Serkes, director of policy for the Association of American Physicians and surgeons (AAPS), one of the few national physician groups that refuse corporate funding from pharmaceutical companies. |
| Even the American Association of Physicians and surgeons (AAPS) announced its strong opposition to the Maryland "Gunpoint Medicine" vaccination campaign. In a press release published Nov. 16, the AAPS states:
The Association of American Physicians and surgeons today condemned the “vaccine roundup” executed in Prince George’s county Maryland this week, and promised to do everything it can to support parents who refuse to immunize their children. |
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 They will look back and wonder why surgeons would remove entire sections of people's digestive tracts in an effort to help them lose weight. Of course, part of the answer is because these surgeons are in business to make money, and they make money by performing surgeries, regardless of whether or not those surgeries are actually safe or effective.
For example, 60 percent of heart bypass surgeries performed in the United States are completely unnecessary. There's no medical justification whatsoever. However, they are huge profit centers for surgeons, hospitals and even anesthesiologists. |
Dawson Church
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 This effect was stumbled upon by plastic surgeons giving patients cosmetic injections of Botox. Botox, a therapeutic variant of the protein present in botulism toxin, paralyzes muscles into which it is injected. When injected into the facial muscles of patients with deeply lined skin, it paralyzes the muscles, and the skin smoothes out for a few months.
What cosmetic surgeons began noticing, however, was that in some of their Botox patients who were depressed, the depression lifted after the injection. According to one report:
Kathleen Delano had suffered from depression for years. |
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 I am glad that there are some doctors and surgeons who know what they are doing. They did a phenomenal job. That, along with strength and weight training, gives me shoulder strength that most people only dream of. I can do shoulder shrugs of almost 500 pounds, and it still holds together. I thank U.S. surgeons for that, and I repeat my position that U.S. surgeons are the best medical technicians in the world.
I have always said that hospitals are great for trauma. If something serious has happened to you, a U.S. hospital emergency room is a great place to be. |
Melody Petersen
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| A hot topic of discussion among surgeons that year was just how much of the stomach could safely be cut out to get rid of the ulcers and keep them from coming back. Some surgeons were advocating the removal of as much as 40 percent of a patient's stomach, while others worried there was no way of telling which patients might die during such operations or shortly afterward.
Smith Kline's new scientist was imagining an entirely new approach. Dr. Black's goal was to stop the stomach from producing acid, which was believed then to be the cause of most ulcers. |
Michael T. Murray, N.D., Joseph E. Pizzorno, N.D.
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 One of the most disturbing findings is that the rate of surgeries performed in a given area has more to do with the number of surgeons in the area than with the size of the population. One study showed that an area with 4.5 surgeons per 10,000 people experienced 940 operations per 10,000, while an area with 2.5 surgeons per 10,000 people experienced 590 operations per 10,000.32 In other words, when the concentration of surgeons doubles, so does the rate of surgeries. After all, these surgeons need to perform surgeries to cover overhead and maintain their desired income. |
Dr. Steven R. Gundry
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 Young heart surgeons learn to be accomplished gallbladder surgeons before operating on the heart. Yoga masters did a lot of settling in along the way, and you will, too.
SKIP THE SCALPEL
Need another reason to accept the pound-a-week approach? Try this on for size: If you lose weight slowly, your skin will keep up with it, but lose too fast and you'll almost always need plastic surgery to get rid of excess skin. |
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 Result: Over the last several decades, surgeons have removed tens of millions of tonsils, maiming children with a medically useless procedure that has now been proven virtually worthless. But it sure did raise funds to pay for the luxury German sedans driven by those surgeons!
1980's
Microwave all the food you feed children. It's quick, convenient and perfectly healthy! Result: A massive increase in the consumption of processed, artificially modified and dead foods. The introduction of the microwave correlates nearly perfectly with the explosion of obesity and diabetes in western nations. |
Dr. Steven R. Gundry
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| I was one of the original twenty surgeons who tested the first successful artificial heart, one of the first surgeons to use robots in operations, and the first to design and perform heart-valve operations through two-inch holes!
You could say I'm a maverick. I've always looked at problems of the heart, and survival, from a different perspective. |
Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 Identification of hibernating myocardium is a significant challenge to cardiologists charged with determining where surgeons should run new plumbing during coronary artery bypass graft surgery. If the hibernating segments are not identified as viable they are assumed to be dead, and the surgeon will not supply blood flow to the tissue. This 1991 study clearly showed that treating these hearts with ribose before thallium imaging woke up the hibernating segments, allowing the cardiologist to locate them and giving surgeons a road map to follow during surgery. |
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| Of course, part of the answer is because these surgeons are in business to make money, and they make money by performing surgeries, regardless of whether or not those surgeries are actually safe or effective.
For example, 60 percent of heart bypass surgeries performed in the United States are completely unnecessary. There's no medical justification whatsoever. However, they are huge profit centers for surgeons, hospitals and even anesthesiologists. Everyone makes a buck when people have heart bypass surgery, but is the patient truly helped by it?
More often than not, the patient isn't helped. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 His discoveries, if allowed to leak out, might make trouble for surgeons, psychoanalysts, and other medical specialists. To this day, hyperinsulinism or low blood glucose is a stepchild of the disease establishment," he concludes.
The Medical Community Brands Hypoglycemia a Nondisease
Here's where hypoglycemia's history becomes even more baffling. In 1949, the AMA finally honored Dr. Harris with the Distinguished Service Medal, its highest scientific award, for the research that led to his discovery of hypoglycemia. |
| Weil's University of Arizona Program in Integrative Medicine and the Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine at Columbia University's College of Physicians and surgeons.
What's more, Dr. Weil's rapidly growing University of Arizona Program in Integrative Medicine offers physicians from around the world extensive in-person and online training in nutrition and mind-body medicine. |
Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D.
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 I have often thought about the irony here—how two surgeons sharing the same locker could end up approaching coronary artery disease from such diametrically opposite positions.
But perhaps Dr. Favaloro and I were not so much at odds, after all. Not long before his death in July 2000, Dr. Favaloro himself described "an unreasonable gap between the medical enthusiasms devoted to acute interventions and the meager efforts currently devoted to secondary prevention. |
Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan
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Medicine Weill Cornell Medical Center New York, New York
Sharon Lewin, MD Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine
Columbia University, College of
Physicians and surgeons New York, New York
Larry Lipshultz, MD Professor, Scott Department of
Urology Baylor College of Medicine Houston, Texas
Michael Osborne, MD Director
Breast Cancer Programs of Continuum Cancer Centers of New York
New York, New York
Rochelle L. Peck, MD Attending Physician Montefiore Medical Center St. |
Amarjit S. Basra
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 A wide range of medical practitioners, including physicians, surgeons, and barber surgeons, used plants, minerals, and animals. One of the richest and yet least used resources (in a systematic and comparative manner) that we have about the history of basic medicine and pharmacy are the herbals, surgical and barber-surgical texts that summarize scholarly medical knowledge and offer clues as to the folk traditions of Europe. |
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
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Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
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 No question: the routine hysterectomy is now under scrutiny.15 surgeons are becoming defensive. The title of a 2002 editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine—"Hysterectomy—Still a Useful Operation"16—says it all.
How many hysterectomies are unwarranted? There is little agreement within the medical community. If we assume 30%, probably a conservative estimate, then 190,000 of these procedures—each involving considerable trauma and expense, as well as some attendant morbidity and mortality—ought not be done. |
Brigitte Mars, A.H.G.
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 Other Uses
Juniper tea was once used to disinfect surgeons' tools. As an incense, juniper has been burned for its purifying properties, at times during epidemics. The essential oil repels insects and is included in some perfumes. In European and Native American folk-loric traditions, juniper is said to offer protection against theft, accidents, wild animal attacks, sickness, and evil. It is also sometimes used as an ingredient in love incenses. |
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| Many surgeons are already performing local ablation instead of resection because they have already recognized the positive effect of it," Mack says.
"I believe that minimally invasive tumor ablation together with chemotherapy will play the most important role in the treatment of tumors in the years to come," he adds.
NOT READY FOR PRIME TIME?
Some experts, however, don't think this method is as good as the standard surgery for the treatment of liver cancer.
"I would be wary of making too much out of this new technology," says Dr. |
Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
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| In one online self-report survey in 2002, cardiologists claimed the largest annual income of all surgeons, $475,000 (a nonsurgical specialty, radiology, was next at $415,000).3
Once again, Fran and I are reminded of who the real doctors are! and are not!
Estimating the numbers and types of surgical procedures is complex. Data for inpatient and outpatient (termed "ambulatory") surgeries are collected separately. The very definition of "surgery" is not always intuitive—especially the newer, less invasive techniques. |
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