Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George
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 Personally, I find the lapses in ethical behavior in the medical profession distressing. After all, we expect businesses to try to sell their products, and improve their bottom line. Conversely, we expect medical professionals to fulfill their social contract and to give counsel about health—not to help sell pills and devices. Redressing the problematic relationship between medicine and industry and establishing an ethical synergy is one of the greatest issues facing modern medicine—an issue that I wish the newly emergent field of bioethics was more proactive in tackling. |
| The relationship between the medical profession and the health industry (device manufacturers and drug companies) is problematic to say the least. Arthur Kleinman, the famous medical anthropologist from Harvard, has called the corrupted partnership the greatest ethical problem in medicine today. Personally, I find the lapses in ethical behavior in the medical profession distressing. After all, we expect businesses to try to sell their products, and improve their bottom line. |
Charles Barber
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 But the most nefarious and manipulative practice of all is barely known, even within the medical profession. It is a dirty little secret that a good percentage of "scientific" articles in even the top journals are now "ghostwritten"—meaning that a failure to identify, in the author credits, a person who has made substantial contributions to the writing or research of the article. Many journal articles are "ghostwritten to order for drug companies, often by writers for medical communications companies, who appear to be acting as intermediaries to distance drug companies from the articles. |
Too Profitable to CureBrent Hoadley, Ph.D.
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| Why hasn't the medical profession insisted on knowing more about the human body through basic research? Why are people so trusting that their chronic disease is going to be "cured" by the drugs of the pharmaceuticals? Why can't we trust the FDA to approve safe food and drugs? The FDA, in many cases, will not approve human studies on these products which have, anecdotally, been shown to have medical benefit. Why?
We allow our disease problems to make us susceptible, weak and targets for the rich and powerful. When are we, as a group, going to say NO and rise up against the true evil. |
Dr. Paula Baillie-Hamilton
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 This profound level of ignorance and general apathy on the part of the majority of the medical profession is what prompted me, a medical doctor and academic but also housewife and mother of four, to write this book. Through my study and research, I (along with a growing number of other highly qualified scientists) have been able to glimpse a world as yet unseen by the great majority of the medical profession.
An understanding of how toxic chemicals work and the knowledge of how to reverse their damaging effects is of extreme importance when dealing with all health issues. |
Shannon Brownlee
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 Sometime in the late twentieth century, the medical profession and patient advocacy groups came to the conclusion that the best way to keep people healthy was to scare them into the doctor's office, where they could be screened for diseases they didn't even suspect they had. These days, it goes almost without saying that prevention is the path toward better health. "Prevention" has become the doctor's watchword, the mantra that lies behind the screening tests that are now a routine part of every yearly exam. |
Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D.
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 The truth is that the medical profession knows better. We have known for a long time that one out of every four persons who have heart attacks has a blood cholesterol level between 180 and 210 mg/ dL,2 and we know that more than a third of those in the Framingham Heart Study who had heart disease showed cholesterol levels between 150 and 200 mg/dL.3 That means that millions of Americans who are doing the best they can to meet the standards set by national health officials are, in spite of their efforts, getting sick. |
| Over the past one hundred years, the mechanical treatment of disease has increasingly dominated the medical profession in the United States. Surgery is the prototype, and its dramatic progress— light-years removed from the cathartics, bloodletting, and amputations that dominated medicine in previous centuries—is nothing short of breathtaking. But surgery has serious flaws. It is expensive, painful, and frightening, often disabling and disfiguring, and too often merely a temporary stopgap against the disease it is intended to treat. It is a mechanical approach to a biological problem. |
| I believe that we in the medical profession have taken the wrong course. It is as if we were simply standing by, watching millions of people march over a cliff, and then intervening in a desperate, last-minute attempt to save them once they have fallen over the edge. Instead, we should be teaching them how to avoid the chasm entirely, how to walk parallel to the precipice so that they will never fall at all.
I believe that coronary artery disease is preventable, and that even after it is under way, its progress can be stopped, its insidious effects reversed. |
Dr. Abram Hoffer, MD, FRCP (C) and Dr. Harold D. Foster, PhD
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 Although this is an interesting hypothesis, it has not been examined seriously by the medical profession, chiefly because of a skeptical attitude toward Scientology, not because of its therapeutic merits. In 1998, under the title "Scientology Unmasked," Joseph Mallia argued that the promotion of this detoxification program using niacin was merely an attempt to enhance and expand the influence of the Church of Scientology. |
Jonny Bowden, M.A., C.N.S.
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 Are we going to help the Doctors understand obesity just as the alcoholic had to educate the medical profession?"
From that time on—although it is little known—there has always been a faction of OA that believes strongly that "abstaining" from carbohydrates (with a very low-carbohydrate diet) is a necessary component of emotional sobriety when it comes to food, just as it is a necessary strategy for weight loss in carbohydrate-sensitive individuals. Could this be another case of the patient profoundly understanding the disease far in advance of the medical professionals? |
Paul D. Blanc, M.D.
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 Thereafter, a remarkable silence on the subject fell over the medical profession. The hush in U.S. medical journals was joined by the British, French, German, and Italian journals, all of which were also completely mute on the topic of artificial silk.
Meanwhile, the manufacturing sector was active. The Lansdowne mill closed, but its U.S. patent was acquired by the British viscose magnate Courtauld. It initiated American Viscose Company operations in Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania, late in 1910. In 1920, patent rights changed hands again, now taken over by DuPont. |
Dr. Abram Hoffer, MD, FRCP (C) and Dr. Harold D. Foster, PhD
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| Multiple Nutrient Deficiency and Dependency
Dr David Horrobin, in the British Journal of Nutrition, has challenged the medical profession to apply these principles of nutrient deficiency and dependency in clinical practice. "Let's be imaginative and give multi nutrient supplementation a chance," he states. "We may already have most of the knowledge required to produce huge improvements in human health. To test the proposition, we may have to abandon two failed notions, the holistic one that we need to change diets, and the reductionist one that we should initially study single nutrients. |
Ron Garner
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 Research on colloidal silver shows it to be an effective resource against infections and pathogens, yet very little is known about it by the general public or the medical profession. Prior to 1938 it was in common use by doctors.
According to Alexander G. Schauss, PhD, of Johns Hopkins University, considerable scientific evidence has been published regarding the effectiveness of silver as an antiseptic against "several hundred pathogenic organisms." He also points out that silver is not an antibiotic because, by definition, antibiotics are derived from living organisms. |
Dr. Abram Hoffer, MD, FRCP (C) and Dr. Harold D. Foster, PhD
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| During the past 50 years, however, the medical profession, in its attempt to become more scientific, began to doubt and, eventually, to dismiss anecdotes as valueless. Today, they are not considered scientific. Judgment based upon testing the validity of anecdotes has been replaced by a reliance on statistics. As a consequence, P |
Too Profitable to CureBrent Hoadley, Ph.D.
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| Next, the prestigious halls of higher learning, where research and teaching for the medical profession are accomplished, have been purchased by corporations. One of the primary missions of our colleges and universities has historically been to produce unbiased research and share results among the scientific community This mission has been compromised by the influx of corporate dollars. Universities now compete for pharmaceutical funding, and consequently have prostituted their works for the almighty dollar. |
Ray D. Strand
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 After reviewing these studies I too am amazed at the unwillingness of the medical profession to offer this option to their patients. Only 1 percent of the cardiologists in the U.S. recommend CoQlO to their patients with heart failure or cardiomyopathy.11 It is not as if they have a good alternative therapy in mind. The National Institute of Health has funded most of the studies involving CoQlO in the United States. But unlike the plethora of synthetic drugs, CoQlO is a natural product, and as such cannot be patented through the FDA. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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 At that point in history, the conventional medical profession began to influence the health-care system in several ways. It abandoned some of its barbaric bloodletting therapies and toxic mercury dosing and replaced them with more effective and less toxic treatments. |
Sophie D. Coe and Michael D. Coe
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 The views of the medical profession on chocolate vary wildly. Some doctors claim it to be an anti-depressant, interacting with female hormones in a way that produces incredible premenstrual cravings for chocolate. Others can find no such effect. The most extensive medical study of chocolate is by a French doctor, Herve Robert, who published a book in 1990 called Les vertus therapeu-tiques du chocolat. |
Roberta Bivins
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 Homeopathy, on the other hand, was instrumental in opening the medical profession to women (and to a lesser degree, non-whites) particularly in the United States. This openness was not entirely disinterested. Doctors had long recognized that women were the family decision-makers in matters of health. |
| Although other travellers in South and East Asia also described moxabustion in their memoirs and travelogues, Busschof was among its most prominent proponents, and was widely cited by the medical profession, including the influential Sydenham. The importance and persuasiveness of his account stems from a combination of factors. First, Busschof experienced moxabustion's curative effects himself. As an educated European (and in England, as a Protestant), his account had greater credibility than either translations of native sources, or descriptions of the technique's effect on non-Europeans. |
| To render acupuncture assimilable by the 'regular' medical profession at the beginning of the nineteenth century, its proponents had relied on the pragmatism of the average practitioner and patient, and presented it as simply, empirically, an effective treatment for particular ailments. And at the beginning of the nineteenth century, good empirical evidence of success in particular cases was enough; a culturally challenging theory for which no material evidence could be found was considerably worse than no theory at all, at least in terms of rendering acupuncture acceptable. |
| And then, to heap indignity upon injury, their own patients and parliamentarians called upon the orthodox medical profession to validate this foreign remedy through scientific examination.
In 1870, the Australian Medical Journal (AMJ) printed a letter from a layman, describing the Chinese treatment and enclosing a sample packet of what he referred to as 'John's magic powder' ('John Chinaman' was a common generic sobriquet for the Chinese in the colony). |
Bill Sardi
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 If the medical profession is not even close to being of one mind, how is the woman to know?" asks Donald A. Berry, statistician at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.
Doctors are likely to respond to this new study by saying to patients: " Well, but just to be on the safe side, why don't we at least try one course of chemotherapy." They leave treatment decisions in the patient's hands, and these uncertain patients generally elect to undergo more aggressive treatment.
Here is how oncologists justify chemotherapy for breast cancer. |
Dr Ron Roberts
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 Recovery from illness is impeded by anxiety, tension, depression and nerves. The medical profession regularly sees the outcome of positive and negative attitudes. People with happy dispositions want to get better. They are up and out of bed in no time. Their healing is faster and their recuperation time is less than those who are unhappy, depressed or despondent. Instead of being infected with disease you can become infected with good health. Wanting to take charge of your asthma by taking steps to improve your health is the reason you are reading this book. |
Dr. Abram Hoffer, MD, FRCP (C) and Dr. Harold D. Foster, PhD
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| As a consequence, the public now pays more attention to anecdotes than the medical profession, which ignores or attacks the use of such patient histories. Several years ago Dr Hoffer was given a booklet published in the 18th century and written by a mother for her daughter when she married. This contained valuable recipes, including one for scurvy. The mother advised her daughter to use "scurvie grass" if she was suffering from the common symptoms of this disease. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 Although coenzyme Q10 represents one of the greatest breakthroughs for the treatment of cardiovascular disease as well as for other diseases, the resistance of the medical profession to using this essential nutrient represents one of the greatest potential tragedies in medicine," says my friend, board-certified cardiologist, nutritionist, and noted author Stephen Sinatra, M.D.
CoQ 10 has been an approved drug in Japan for congestive heart failure since 1974. And several studies have demonstrated a relationship between depleted CoQ 10 levels and heart disease.
So What Is CoQ10, Anyway? |
Bill Sardi
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| American Journal Surgical Pathology 30: 866-70, 2006]
Given the miserable track record of the medical profession regarding accuracy of information on cancer, and the chaotic state of affairs in regards to care of prostate cancer, more men should decline prostate biopsies.
Strategy against prostate cancer
Where do men turn when facing a state of prostate cancer care that is confusing and contradictory?
PSA testing is over-promoted and likely misleading. Biopsies are upgraded by pathologists to encourage more needless treatment and make it appear mortality rates have dropped. |
| Lancet 363: 1820-24,2004]
Smokers as pawns to industry: screening programs
Smokers also find themselves as pawns to the medical profession. Many smokers know that early detection is their only hope for successful treatment. Smokers are eager to hear of any new technology that can detect lung tumors when they are still only a few million cells in size, small enough to remove surgically before they spread.
A so-called consumer group that represents smokers is suing Philip Morris to pay for yearly cancer screening. |
| If the medical profession is not even close to being of one mind, how is the patient to know?' asks a reviewer of cancer treatment. [New York Times, May 12, 2006]
"Despite promising discoveries and multibillion-dollar investments, cancer research is quietly undergoing a crisis," says another report in the New York Times. [NY Times, Dec. |
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