Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 They breed them in hospitals, even though they try to confine them to certain floors. There are no antibiotics that can deal with these superbugs. There are things in the natural health world, like colloidal silver, that can help, but organized medicine still won't acknowledge this.
How bad is the care in hospitals? Here's a true story. This is a little outdated, but true nonetheless. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 This behavior has gone on for far too long. hospitals have sold out to fast food restaurants in order to make a buck on a lease. They have, in a sense, exploited the health of their patients in order to earn some extra money. And then those very same hospitals and clinics turn around and charge patients a couple of hundred thousand dollars to perform cardiovascular surgery that was caused by the very same type of foods those patients ate in the lobbies of those clinics in the first place.
How insane can things get in this country? |
| I say we ban fast food restaurants in hospitals and public schools across the nation. No hospital and no public school with any degree of ethics should support the financial success of food and beverage companies that serve disease-promoting products. This behavior has gone on for far too long. hospitals have sold out to fast food restaurants in order to make a buck on a lease. They have, in a sense, exploited the health of their patients in order to earn some extra money. |
| And then those very same hospitals and clinics turn around and charge patients a couple of hundred thousand dollars to perform cardiovascular surgery that was caused by the very same type of foods those patients ate in the lobbies of those clinics in the first place.
How insane can things get in this country? That's why it's people like Toby Cosgrove who deserve tremendous credit for having the courage to stand up and challenge this cycle of disease insanity that is unfortunately now the norm here in the United States, the most diseased country in the world. |
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| How bad is the care in hospitals? Here's a true story. This is a little outdated, but true nonetheless. A doctor wrote a prescription for some drops to be put in a patient's right ear, and on the script, he wrote, "R–ear" and the nurse read this and proceeded to administer the drops to the patient's anus (thinking the instructions said "rear").
Who puts eardrops in a patient's anus and calls it medicine? There was a trial in which people called nurses on the phone and pretended to be doctors. They asked the nurses to go get a certain drug and prescribe it to a patient down the hall. |
| 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? |
| For you, personally, do your best to stay out of hospitals. Work with a health provider, preferably one from the naturopathic world. I am not suggesting you ignore your health concerns. 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). |
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| I couldn't agree more. hospitals are supposed to be places of health and healing, and to have restaurants serving saturated fats, hamburgers with white flour buns, french fries with trans-fatty acids, milkshakes containing added sugars and soft drinks containing high-fructose corn syrup as well as aspartame is simply inconsistent with a place of health. 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. |
| REPPED: One of the most ridiculous things about many hospitals and surgical centers is that they host fast food restaurants like McDonald's and Pizza Hut. Now making headlines is the heated debate between the Cleveland Clinic and McDonald's restaurants. 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. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| 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. 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. |
Jack Challem
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 The reason? The hospitals made more money from treating the complications of diabetes than by preventing or controlling the disease. In fact, the hospitals often lost money when it came to prevention.
We all hear about how better nutrition, more exercise, and vitamin supplements could save the United States (and other nations) billions of dollars in health-care costs. So why doesn't the health-care system focus on prevention? The reason is really very simple. If we were to save, let's say, $10 billion in health-care costs, someone else would lose $10 billion in revenues. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 If you read about the pandemic of 1918, you'll find that hospitals were, in fact, playing such a role, as unfortunate as that may sound. During the 1918 pandemic, bodies were sometimes stacked six feet high on the floors of hospitals, schools and all other available buildings. There was such a massive inflow of patients that each patient received little or no care; hospitals were just places where people went to die. The only surviving patients overcame the flu thanks to the strength of their own immune systems. |
| 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. If you read about the pandemic of 1918, you'll find that hospitals were, in fact, playing such a role, as unfortunate as that may sound. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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 Doctors, hospitals, health maintenance organizations (HMOs), the media, drug manufacturers and the FDA all play a part in the massive consumption of drugs in this country. In this chapter, you have seen how the system is gamed with each group contributing to our national health crisis. But who is ultimately responsible for our over-reliance on prescription drugs?
Physicians have a tough job. They do their best under trying conditions, working long hours. Most hospitals have been systematically transitioned to for-profit business models. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 In modern, Western hospitals, you see MRSA (superbugs) that are resistant to every known antibiotic. They spread in hospitals, from one patient to the next and sometimes to the medical staff who have close contact with those patients. Viruses and infectious diseases really love the type of environment hospitals provide: a successful, concentrated battery of new hosts they can infect.
The bird flu gets more dangerous, but less lethal
Now, given all of this, let's go back to the very beginning and talk about the World Health Organization's announcement about the bird flu virus. |
| 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. In modern, Western hospitals, you see MRSA (superbugs) that are resistant to every known antibiotic. |
Jack Challem
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| In fact, the hospitals often lost money when it came to prevention.
We all hear about how better nutrition, more exercise, and vitamin supplements could save the United States (and other nations) billions of dollars in health-care costs. So why doesn't the health-care system focus on prevention? The reason is really very simple. If we were to save, let's say, $10 billion in health-care costs, someone else would lose $10 billion in revenues. Junk-food companies, drug makers, surgical instrument companies, hospitals, and physicians would probably be the biggest losers. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| This brings up another question: What about hospitals? hospitals are perfect for the spread of infectious diseases. They have re-circulated air, they are enclosed spaces and they typically house people who have compromised immune systems and are more susceptible to the disease. 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? |
Ron Garner
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 HOSPITAL INFECTIONS
The Chicago Tribune conducted a study of the files of 5,810 hospitals in the U.S. in the year 2000. The report found that, "nearly three-quarters of the deadly infections—about 75,000—were preventable, the result of unsanitary facilities, germ-laden instruments, unwashed hands and other lapses." It estimated that approximately, "50% of doctors and nurses in hospitals do not clean their hands between patients." The conclusive finding was that preventable deaths from hospital germs are now the fourth leading cause of death among Americans. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 We should also ban junk foods and fast foods at schools and hospitals. I think it's crazy that some schools have fast food chains right in the cafeteria where children can buy disease-promoting foods for lunch. It is just as crazy that our hospitals, which are supposed to be institutions of health and healing, also serve the same junk foods. There are actually hospitals with McDonald’s restaurants inside the hospital!
Were people out of their minds when they allowed these restaurant chains into our schools and hospitals? |
Rick Levy and Lou Aronica
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 After I earned my PhD in Clinical Psychology, I held a number of traditional leadership roles that included chairmanships of the Departments of Psychology at two state hospitals, Assistant Professor of Psychology at Frostburg University, and staff psychologist at St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Washington, D.C. 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. |
Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
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 It seemed that my lifelong fear of hospitals was actually justified.
"What about people who die from infections they get in hospitals," asked Fran.
Back and forth I traveled again to the library, examining 1999 statistics. I learned that so-called nosocomial (hospital acquired) infections afflict about 6% of all hospital admissions, costing an additional $4.5 billion per year in health care expenses, and causing 88,000 deaths—the sixth leading cause of deaths, ahead of diabetes which killed 68,000. |
Charles Barber
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 After an exhaustive search, she found a similar group of patients in Maine, who had left the Maine state hospitals. She matched each patient in Vermont to a Maine patient on just about every demographic imaginable—diagnosis, age, sex, length of hospitalization, and so on. What Harding found was that the recovery rate for the Maine cohort was still higher than what Kraepelin and those who followed him would have expected—48 percent—but still significandy lower than that of the patients in Vermont. |
| But with Thorazine and its many successors (it was but the first of a series of antipsychotic medications), American public mental hospitals by 1988 lost 80 percent of their patients from their historic height of more than half a million people in 1955.68 With the arrival of Thorazine, psychoanalysis began to decline. A relative of Ludwig Bin-swanger, Freud's Swiss disciple and the director of a famous analytic clinic, was treated with medications by a young pharmacologically oriented German psychiatrist named Fritz Flugel. |
| Behavioral health" is the latest politically correct name for the field of mental health—the thinking being that mental is too narrow a term to encompass all the realms of emotion and action and that it has connotations of "mental hospitals" and "mental illness." While the intention is no doubt noble, I find the term behavioral health also to be limited. The problems are not limited to behavior; any phrase to describe what Lisa Fenton and other therapists do has to include a reference to feeling and thinking, to inner states. |
Dr. Abram Hoffer, MD, FRCP (C) and Dr. Harold D. Foster, PhD
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 In 1914, Dr Joseph Goldberg was assigned by the United States Public Health Service to identify the cause of the pellagra epidemic in the Southern states> 5 He soon discovered that the well-fed staff of both mental hospitals and prisons did not develop pellagra, while malnourished patients and inmates often did. He concluded that pellagra must be a nutritional illness, not one caused by germs, as was generally believed. |
Charles Barber
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| India's other advantages include English-speaking medical personnel, lots of hospitals (700,000 specialty beds), and medical colleges (221). But of all these, cost savings is the big one. Forty percent of the costs of developing a drug come from clinical trials, and India can conduct them for about a third less.52
In 2006, the Union of Concerned Scientists surveyed scientists who work at the FDA for their thoughts on what could best be done to improve the integrity of the agency. Almost one thousand responded. The results, which are posted, unedited, on www.ucsusa.org, are revelatory. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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 Abnormal Lie
Many hospitals will support the vaginal birth of a healthy frank breech infant (butt first). Footling breech—with the feet first—is unsafe vaginally, because the feet can come down through the partially dilated cervix—as can the cord—before the entire infant will fit. An alternative to delivering an infant in the frank breech position is to rotate the fetus, or rather coax the fetus to rotate, from outside, which is successful about half the time. Neither of these procedures should be undertaken at home. |
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