Andreas Moritz
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 In its October 1991 issue, the prestigious British Medical Journal (BMJ) confirmed this report by stating that about 85 percent of all medical procedures and surgeries are scientifically unproven. In other words, 80 to 90 percent of the common medical treatments available to the general population have no scientific backing, and it is doubtful whether they are justified at all. These findings fall in line with World Health Organization (WHO) statistics, which confirm that 90 percent of all diseases prevalent today are not treatable with orthodox medical procedures. |
Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D.
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 Treatment Options
Various medical procedures exist for treating benign diseases such as BPH, as well as cancer if you decide that the discomfort of your symptoms or rate of the cancer's growth outweighs the risks associated with losing your prostate. In some cases, surgery may be preferable to taking drugs for the rest of your life. In fact, 30 percent of men will eventually undergo some type of prostate surgery. Following are the procedure options, but it's a fast-changing field, so you should talk to your doc about all available options.
For Cancer
þ Radical prostatectomy. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 This whole situation creates stress and worry for everyone, and it results in the needless deaths of individuals who are denied lifesaving medical procedures simply because their insurance won't pay. Want a picture of how the industry really operates? Just watch the behavior of the Dr. Kelso character in the popular "Scrubs" television series -- it's more accurate than you might suspect!
Addicted to profit
So if nurses, doctors, employers, state governments and nearly all the people in the country want universal health care, why hasn't it happened yet? |
Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
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 Office of Technology Assessment, only 15 to 20% of medical procedures have ever been evaluated in rigorous scientific trials.31 The remainder's beneficence is assumed. This is not to say that procedures in this latter category are ineffective. In the wise book, Lives of a Cell, Lewis Thomas—dean of medical schools at Yale and New York University and, at the time of his death, CEO of the Sloan-Kettering Institute—claimed that most medical technology is "so effective that it seems to attract the least public notice; it has come to be taken for granted. |
Andreas Moritz
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| Suppressing the symptoms of illness though prescription drugs or other medical procedures undermines the inflammatory responses the body requires to heal and save itself.
Most diseases are inflammatory responses by the body. These include allergies, age-related frailty, arthritis, asthma, Alzheimer's disease, atherosclerosis, cancer, chronic fatigue syndrome, congestive heart failure, dementia, depression, diabetes, heart attack, inflammatory bowel disease, kidney disease, lupus, macular degeneration, osteoporosis, periodontal disease, obesity, skin disorders, stroke. |
| The reputable medical journal New Scientist announced on the cover page of one of its more recent issues that 80 percent of the medical procedures used today have never been properly tested. Nobody really knows what effects they actually have on patients. So many factors contributing to disease cannot be treated away simply by taking a few drugs or having surgery (more about this in What Doctors Should be Telling You, Chapter 16). |
Paula Begoun and Bryan Barron
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 Each product tempts you to defy age while bypassing medical procedures. Yet all of them use high-tech ingredients as mere window dressing—meaning not much of the good stuff is in here—while charging exorbitant prices. The company's Defense 4 blend of antioxidants claims to provide the "most complete defense against free radical damage," something I'd love to see proof of, because that would be no small miracle. |
Andreas Moritz
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| Different parts of the blood are used for the medical procedures, including blood albumin, plasma, and whole blood or red blood cells. In its 1989 publication entitled "Blood Technologies, Services and Issues," the Office of Technology Assessment Task Force in the U.S. examined the overuse of the various blood products. It came to the conclusion that as much as 20-25 percent of the red blood cells, 90 percent of the albumin and 95 percent of the fresh-frozen plasma transfused into patients are unnecessary. This situation has not changed since the study was done. |
| For an increasing number of people, natural forms of healing are much more likely to trigger a placebo or healing response than standard medical procedures, which explains the current tremendous interest in alternative or complementary forms of medicine.
The Paradigm Shift
A definite shift is taking place among medical doctors in the United States and other industrialized nations from the specialized areas of practice toward a more holistic approach to health and healing. |
Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D.
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 The current focus of medicine is to use high-tech approaches to develop new drugs and medical procedures. Despite the benefit for patients, this approach leads to a problem: some of the lower-tech means of treating patients—the art of medicine that allows the doctor to hear the patient—fall by the wayside. This problem is due not only to high-tech ways of developing new medical treatments, but also to decisions about what medical insurance will cover, and for how much money. |
| Also obviously, the results of tried-and-true medical procedures and reliable tests weren't going to provide the answers she or her doctor needed. Without effective communication between Mrs. Jones and her physician, however, she might have felt almost as badly about the care she was receiving as she did physically.
Doctors don't always think to go into great detail when describing why they order certain tests and what it means when these tests fail to provide answers—information that, as it happens, proved crucial to solving Mrs. Jones's case and allaying her fears. |
Andreas Moritz
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| These findings fall in line with World Health Organization (WHO) statistics, which confirm that 90 percent of all diseases prevalent today are not treatable with orthodox medical procedures. Yet, the official medical system claims to have the ultimate authority over treating these diseases. Many doctors actually believe that most of what they practice is based on pure science.
However, it would be erroneous to generalize these findings. Some very successful methods in modern medicine are unmatched by any other form of treatment. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 They'll spend thousands of dollars on prescription drugs and tens of thousands on medical procedures, but they balk at the idea of spending a couple of thousand dollars on their health of their own body.
I think it's well justified to spend this kind of money on yourself, especially when an investment in the right kind of equipment -- combined with the willingness to put that equipment to use -- can help you avoid huge medical expenses later on in life. |
Marshall Editions
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 Staphysagria: This can be especially helpful in easing cystitis symptoms that set in after any medical procedures involving catheterization. It can also ease symptoms that are triggered by sexual intercourse. Classic symptoms include an unpleasant sensation of being unable to completely empty the bladder. Urine passed appears dark and concentrated, and stinging, burning sensations occur after urinating.
Sarsaparilla: If passing urine is most painful as the bladder becomes more empty, try Sarsaparilla. |
Steven V. Joyal
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 Chapter 4
Looking at the Big Picture: Screening for Diabetes
It is unthinkable that in this age of advanced medical screening tests, sophisticated medical procedures, and the availability of detailed health-related information on the Internet and from other sources that the diagnosis of type 2 diabetes can be tragically delayed for as long as nine to twelve years, and that as many as one-third of people who have the disease are unaware that they do. Yet these statistics are true. You, your friends, and your loved ones don't want to be counted among them. |
Devra Davis
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 Tom Chalmers was one of the first physicians, along with Archie Cochrane, to urge the scientific study of medical procedures and drugs.20 He was the man Dr. Love and I turned to when we wrote our article for JAMA. We quoted his insistence that research alone would provide the only guidance on how to design better medicine.
Chalmers and I first met on a bus when we worked together in 1980 as experts brought in to advise the government on what to do about Love Canal, a vastly polluted area. |
| Many big-ticket, big-profit medical procedures, including annual chest x-rays, the conventional treatment of back pain and glaucoma, the use of bone marrow transplants for breast cancer, and many forms of cardiac surgery, simply don't work. This work exposed the soft underbelly of medical technology. There is little proof that a large part of the $2 trillion we spend every year on medicine actually does what we think it will—and lots of reason to think that it doesn't. A revolution in looking at medicine has begun, fueled by these unrelenting analyses. |
Shannon Brownlee
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 When it was created by Congress in 198 c, the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research was given three tasks: to fund studies on the effectiveness of medical interventions; to create evidence-based clinical-practice guidelines for physicians; and to make recommendations to Medicare and Medicaid about what drugs, devices, and medical procedures to cover. But most Americans and many doctors have probably never heard of the AHCPR, partly because its name has been changed but also because the agency suffered a near-death experience shortly after the Republican takeover of Congress in 1 994. |
| When hospitals and doctors give patients medical procedures and tests they don't need, or when they fail to give patients care they do need, they are responding to the perverse incentives built into the byzantine and often-precarious reimbursement system that keeps them all afloat. In the days before health insurance and Medicare, most hospitals were run by religious charities, which operated under the motto "No margin, no mission. |
Rick Levy and Lou Aronica
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 It will also reduce or eliminate acute pain of the sort experienced during catastrophic injuries, childbirth, or painful medical procedures like surgery.
Hypnotic pain relief has many benefits. As any neurologist will tell you, chronic acute pain inflames nerve endings and otherwise "conditions" the nervous system to be hypersensitive to pain. Hypnotic pain relief allows the nervous system to relax and regain normal functioning. This will help you recover more quickly. If you are a chronic pain sufferer, you spend a lot of mental and physical energy on pain management and endurance. |
Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey
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 In persons with more severe and active forms of disease, a number of factors can significantly affect quality of life including symptoms, health care requirements, dietary changes, malnutrition, pain, fecal continence, surgery, medical procedures, medications, and social embarrassment [11-13]. Underlying disease factors include genetic susceptibility, environmental factors, and therapeutic interventions. Taken together, these factors affect the severity, clinical course, treatment, and overall outcomes of the disease [1-3]. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 An AMA spokesperson explained, "The technology will allow us to keep better track of who we've killed," and emphasized that so many patients are now killed by AMA-supported medical procedures that it's becoming difficult to keep the bodies organized. "Thanks to technology, we will soon be able to track patients regardless of whether they've alive or dead," said the spokesperson. "It's all part of our commitment to the best health care system in the world!"
If the RFID tags don't work, U.S. health authorities have announced plans to simply barcode everyone instead. |
Dawson Church
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 There are scores of important medical procedures that were discovered years, or decades, or even centuries, before the experimental confirmation arrived to demonstrate the principles behind the treatment. Larry Dossey, in his book Healing Beyond the Body, urges us to "Consider many therapies that are now commonplace, such as the use of aspirin, quinine, colchicine, and penicillin. For a long time we knew that they worked before we knew how... This should alarm no one who has even a meager understanding of how medicine has progressed through the ages. |
Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George
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 We place ourselves on diets that promise to tack on years to our life, and undergo medical procedures that will help us live longer. Although the instinct for survival is a powerful driving force intrinsic to all human beings, our culture does little to encourage our deep reflection about the precious little time we have on earth, and to help us draw inspiration from our mortality.
Death, or at least the process of dying, can be terrifying, but the confines it places on all of our lives should endow each of us with an awesome sense of vitality and urgency. |
Mark Sircus
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 However, they advocate medical procedures that do little to nothing to protect us, but cost billions nonetheless.
Dr. Eleanor McBean was an on-the-spot observer of the 1918 Influenza epidemic and said, "As far as I could find out, the flu hit only the vaccinated. Those who had refused the shots escaped the flu. My family had refused all the vaccinations so we remained well all the time. We (who didn't take any vaccines) seemed to be the only family which didn't get the flu. It has been said that the 1918 flu epidemic killed 20,000,000 people throughout the world. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Health insurance companies are raking in billions more by denying payment for medical procedures. Lawmakers are on the food chain too, addicted to health care industry money for their reelection campaigns. The corporations in power today are allied against any switch to universal health care because it would take the profit out of the system and deliver quality health care services on the cheap.
Think about it: Americans pay the most, by far, for health care. We pay monopoly prices for pharmaceuticals. It's a great scam if you're cashing in as a drug company or corrupt FDA official. |
Dr. Timothy Scott
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 What did finally bring a dramatic reduction in lobotomies were two media (film and print) events which solidified the opinions of both physicians and the public: (1) mental hospitals began to be portrayed as snake pits and their more severe medical procedures (insulin therapy, ECT and lobotomies) as ghastly mistakes107 and (2) the "miracle" of new antipsychotic mind drugs were declared "one of the most spectacular triumphs in the history of medicine."108
Behavior is influenced far more by the perception of what is true and right than by truth itself. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Rich people, even in 1922, were just as gullible as rich people today when it comes to trading their wealth for medical procedures based on junk science.
Despite the astonishing death rate, patients couldn't get enough of Cotton's cutting-edge treatments, and they were willing to fork over top dollar to subject themselves to various organ lobotomies in the hopes of curing mental illness that was most likely caused by simple nutritional deficiencies. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 This is how conventional medicine creates doubt in the minds of customers who, out of fear, continue to suffer the harm of prescription drugs, chemotherapy and other barbaric medical procedures. You see this all the time with cancer. An oncologist is talking with a patient, trying to convince them that they have three to six months to live, but if they get chemotherapy, he says, they will live six to 12 months. Of course, the patient wants to live six to 12 months, so the patient says, "Go ahead, doctor. Put in the IV and pump me up with toxic chemicals. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 And frankly, if our nation continues to be so diseased (cancer, obesity and diabetes are all at record heights), then we're going to basically drive ourselves into extreme poverty because you cannot afford to keep funding chronic disease and the treatment of symptoms through prescription drugs and expensive medical procedures. You can't keep doing that over and over, with the same patients, generation after generation, if you want your nation to be financially solvent. You just can't keep doing that. You can't spend 25 percent of the GDP on health care and be the world economic leader. |
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