Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 I have a theory on why medical schools, in particular, don't want to teach ethics. It's because ethics aren't black and white. There's no direct, easy answer when you start asking ethical questions. What medical schools want is one answer for one symptom. They want a clear-cut solution for every problem. It must be compartmentalized or framed in a reductionistic mindset in order to appeal to medical schools. |
| I suggest we initiate a fundamental change in our medical schools and public schools. Perhaps we should stop trying to be such virtuoso technicians and, instead, learn to apply ethics to these technical skills. Because if you're not making the right decision from a moral, ethical viewpoint, then what good is all the technology in the world?
With sufficient technology, for example, you can grow organs for human transplants inside the bodies of living, breathing mammals (like pigs). We have the technology to do that right now. |
| It must be compartmentalized or framed in a reductionistic mindset in order to appeal to medical schools.
Yet ethics education is exactly what conventional medicine needs most, because so much of what's going on in organized medicine today is practiced without ethics, without compassion, and without any real recognition of the very humanity of the patients the industry is supposed to be serving. Too often in modern medicine, general practitioners, oncologists and surgeons look at patients as just another paying customer... another person to run through the system. |
| You won't find it taught in our public schools, it's never mentioned in medical schools and it's only rarely approached at universities. But it's perhaps the most important lesson of all, and it's something that's desperately lacking in our society. What is it? The lesson of ethics.
In the United States, we are not taught ethics as children or adults. Unless our parents happened to be great teachers of these subjects, no one teaches us the lessons of honesty, integrity, or how to practice compassion. |
Ray D. Strand
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 This is not shocking, since, as I mentioned in Chapter 1, a course in nutrition is still required in only a few of the medical schools around the country.
Elective courses in nutrition are offered in about 50 percent of the medical schools;27 however, as I mentioned in the introduction, recent studies have shown that only about 6 percent of the graduating medical students have received any training in nutrition. I would boldly state that even those students who received a course in nutrition did not study much about nutritional supplementation. |
Ron Garner
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 At that time, all medical schools in America taught the use of only natural remedies for healing. Students did not learn to use drugs for treatments and therefore doctors did not prescribe the pharmaceutical companies' products. This was not good business for the cartel. Its solution to this problem was to form the Council of Medical Education in 1910, through the American Medical Association. This became the body that accredited medical schools. Schools that were accredited received funds from the government, but were also required to comply with the Council's requirements. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 In fact, for the 1979-1980 academic year, only 12 of 126 medical schools in the United States had required nutrition courses, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC). By the 2004-2005 school year, 123 of 125 medical schools offered at least one required nutrition course, and 67 schools offered separate elective courses, the AAMC found. In addition, some nutrition is couched in other school courses. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Mike: Do you think change is coming in medical schools?
Dr. Haas: It has changed a lot. I feel that there are more medical schools, as well as naturopathic schools and osteopathic schools, that are a little more health oriented, but I want to help get nutrition education into more medical schools. When people start cleaning up and changing their diet and dropping weight, they start to feel better. The medicines are too strong because their body becomes healthier.
Mike: Is this common that once people go through the detox process, they are able to get off of prescription drugs?
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Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 In the world of so-called "evidence-based medicine," the defenders of conventional medicine, which include the American Medical Association, medical schools and conventionally trained doctors, also want to protect their territory. They want to remain in control over all medical decisions and health-related interactions with patients. Yet, they have very few qualifications for actually doing so. For example, medical schools don't even teach basic nutrition, and doctors graduate from medical schools and residence training with practically no understanding of nutrition whatsoever. |
Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D.
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 The consequences of this focus have not hit yet, but they will. medical schools will spend even more of medical students' time on teaching new mechanical procedures and techniques and less on teaching them how to hear you and understand how you feel and think. That will lead to more diagnoses of "nothing wrong"—even when something very definitely is wrong. Then people will again be left feeling that they're on their own when it comes to finding a pathway to wellness. But that's not to say that we should leave the evidence-based approach behind. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The only difference is that Big Pharma has been so successful at dealing drugs that it has enough funds to buy off Congress, the Food and Drug Administration and practically the entire psychiatric industry (not to mention medical schools and mainstream media outlets).
Today, more than 40 percent of the U.S. population ingests FDA-approved synthetic chemicals manufactured and marketed by drug companies.
Drug companies think this number is too low. Their goal is to have 100 percent of the U.S. population taking not just one drug per day, but multiple drugs every day, for life. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 Little if any curriculum is devoted to nutrition or to any complementary medical practices in most medical schools. Medicine, at least in this country, is a business—and if you're in the business of selling lawn mowers, you don't talk much about golf carts.
The result of all of this is that the average doctor has a limited tool kit, and that tool kit consists exclusively of drugs. Asking the average doctor to recommend a natural treatment or supplement is like asking your piano teacher to recommend a tennis racket.
It gets worse. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Big Pharma now has a near-total chokehold over everything to do with medicine in the United States, from what is taught in medical schools to what's accepted as "scientific" by the medical journals. The takeover of America by drug companies is now nearly complete.
Of note, the most profitable corporations in the world -- the drug companies -- have now demonstrated majority control over the United States government. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 And drug companies now exercise astonishing degrees of control over the FDA, the USDA, the DEA, medical schools, doctors, media outlets and non-profit groups.
The way out
How do we end this medical madness? First, we've all got to come to our senses and stop believing every mood, habit or challenge in our lives is caused by some mysterious disorder. People need to start taking responsibility for their own behavior and stop blaming fictitious diseases (or bad genes) when things don't work out the way they want. |
Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D.
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| Nine times out of ten, these facilities are found in medical schools. One way to find a doctor with scientific curiosity is to check the faculty of a medical school near you. Another advantage of finding a doctor who works in a medical school is that, unlike other practitioners in the community, relatively few of these doctors are involved in the kind of managed-care practice that requires them to see a patient every fifteen to twenty minutes. Academic medical practice is often an add-on to the faculty member's other duties. |
Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey
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 In allopathic medicine—the system of conventional medicine that is taught in most medical schools and that most people use?integrative health care has come to refer to the practice of using both conventional and complementary healing approaches, something that more allopathic physicians have come to accept—or at least tolerate?because millions of their patients are using complementary therapies even while they seek conventional medical care. |
Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D.
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| What a shame medical schools don't have time to teach this kind of treatment. In fact, if I could change one thing in the modern medical school curriculum today, it would be to add a course on the principles of wellness therapy so it could be a part of every doctor's own personal therapeutic tool kit. Wellness therapy uses the strength of the doctor-patient relationship to help people with chronic illness feel better.
Here the key word is "better. |
Ron Garner
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| This became the body that accredited medical schools. Schools that were accredited received funds from the government, but were also required to comply with the Council's requirements. Those that did not apply for accreditation were forced to close. The Council's call for the discontinuance of all courses teaching natural healing methods and the institution of courses teaching drug therapy were the finishing strokes. Within the ama an anti-natural-healing arts, pro-medical arts propaganda committee was formed. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Mike: Do you think a naturopathic approach is having an impact of catching on in traditional medical schools?
Dr. Pizzorno: No question about it. I think most conventional schools now have at least one course on alternative medicine. Now, from my perspective, those courses are kind of survey or familiarization courses -- they don't actually teach much in the way of skill, but it's definitely become more present in conventional medical schools. Interestingly enough, I think it's primarily being driven by the students. |
Roberta Bivins
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 US medical schools offered some training on complementary and alternative therapies by 2000, and the University of Exeter in the UK has a chaired professor in Complementary and Alternative Medicine. And as Sagli and others have documented, access to the underlying alternative medical theories plays a substantially greater part in all of these modes of transmission. The concepts and body models underlying cross-cultural, complementary, and alternative medicines also play a significant role in consumer responses to them. |
| Moreover, as we saw, over the course of the nineteenth century homeopathists developed their own professional journals, medical societies, research institutes, hospitals, medical schools, and even corporate pharmaceutical offshoots. Reactions to homeopathy from within the orthodox profession, although initially moderate and assimilative, rapidly became violently hostile (if still, surreptitiously, assimilative). |
| Like the United States, nineteenth-century Britain also suffered from proprietary medical schools, over-competition among medical practitioners, and popular contempt for large portions of the orthodox profession. The luxuriant growth of British homeopathy was therefore no less threatening and loathsome to its orthodox profession. |
| Few of the homeopathic medical schools (and indeed few 'regular' institutions) met this standard, or could raise the funds necessary to improve their facilities. Many went under; but the last surviving homeopathic medical school (the Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital of Pennsylvania) only finally severed its ties to the homeopathic system in the 1950s after over a century of teaching. |
| By 1830, the United States had twenty-two medical schools, and thirteen states had passed laws which allowed local medical societies to license medical practitioners. Although these laws carried little force, they did raise the status of 'regulars' and gave them the exclusive right to sue for the payment of their medical bills. |
| Medical societies were founded (the first, in Boston, in 1736), as were medical schools (beginning with the College of Philadelphia in 1765). Shortly thereafter, medical societies began to promote binding codes of practice which discriminated against 'irregulars'—lay and religious healers, itinerant practitioners, proponents of non-canonical medical systems, and anyone else claiming to practise medicine in the absence of training either through apprenticeship with an established doctor or surgeon, or in a medical school. |
C. W. Randolph, M.D.
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 BHRT is not yet taught in medical schools, and most physicians remain uneducated about it.
However, since the World Health Institute has begun detailing the significant health risks of synthetic hormone replacement, this trend is shifting. In the last several years, hundreds of doctors have attended national continuing medical education forums on the subject of BHRT. In most cases, these doctors have been prodded by their patients' demands for safe and effective alternatives; as a result, these doctors have taken the initiative to educate themselves. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| For example, medical schools don't even teach basic nutrition, and doctors graduate from medical schools and residence training with practically no understanding of nutrition whatsoever. They have no real qualifications to talk to patients about disease prevention through healing foods, or to talk about how to live a healthy life through intelligent food choice. These are the basics of health, yet they are almost entirely ignored by modern medicine.
Many of the most promising healing modalities are not just ignored by conventional medicine; they are in fact ridiculed. Homeopathy comes to mind. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| I feel that there are more medical schools, as well as naturopathic schools and osteopathic schools, that are a little more health oriented, but I want to help get nutrition education into more medical schools. When people start cleaning up and changing their diet and dropping weight, they start to feel better. The medicines are too strong because their body becomes healthier.
Mike: Is this common that once people go through the detox process, they are able to get off of prescription drugs?
Dr. Haas: Yes, very common. |
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