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 Newborn Daniel Burton becomes blind when physicians at Brooklyn Doctors Hospital perform an experimental high oxygen treatment for Retrolental Fibroplasia, a retinal disorder affecting premature infants, on him and other premature babies. The physicians perform the experimental treatment despite earlier studies showing that high oxygen levels cause blindness. Testimony in Burton v. Brooklyn Doctors Hospital (452 N.Y.S.2d875) later reveals that researchers continued to give Burton and other infants excess oxygen even after their eyes had swelled to dangerous levels (Goliszek, Sharav). |
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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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 Naturopathic physicians will also spend a great deal of time with patients exploring their current lifestyle and diet. They may even ask about your relationships, your life history or any stresses that are currently impacting your life. Western doctors, in contrast, don’t usually ask these questions. They’re not really interested in what you’ve eaten because most of them don’t believe that food has any measurable impact on health -- a thought that is so rigid and outmoded that it can only be described as prehistoric.
Western doctors believe in the locality of disease. |
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| Newborn Daniel Burton becomes blind when physicians at Brooklyn Doctors Hospital perform an experimental high oxygen treatment for Retrolental Fibroplasia, a retinal disorder affecting premature infants, on him and other premature babies. The physicians perform the experimental treatment despite earlier studies showing that high oxygen levels cause blindness. Testimony in Burton v. Brooklyn Doctors Hospital (452 N.Y.S.2d875) later reveals that researchers continued to give Burton and other infants excess oxygen even after their eyes had swelled to dangerous levels (Goliszek, Sharav). |
David Brownstein M.D.
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 Bioidentical, natural hormones, when used appropriately, will enhance one's health and will treat or even cure diseases, all without any appreciable side effects. Many physicians erroneously believe there is no difference between a synthetic hormone and a bioidentical, natural hormone. That is usually because these physicians have little or no experience in the use of bioidentical natural hormones and other natural products. My clinical experience shows that there is no better substitute for the body's own production of hormones than the use of a natural form of that hormone. |
| Physicians are trained to properly diagnose the illness and to prescribe the drug therapy to treat the symptoms of the illness. physicians are not educated about wellness or about how to help patients achieve their optimal health.
Drugs do not promote health. In most cases, they only modify the symptoms of a disease process. The drugs, via blocking receptors or poisoning enzymes, often have harmful side effects that cannot be predicted in the individual.
This book was written to educate the reader about the mechanism of how the most common drugs work in the body. |
Paula Begoun and Bryan Barron
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 One important thing that many consumers and physicians aren't aware of, and this includes lots of physicians who are involved in these bogus studies, is the question, "Under what conditions were the studies performed?" Maybe it takes some experience even to ask. For example, in a skin-care study, the subjects participating often begin by washing their face and then stripping it clear with alcohol. Then the "before" photos are taken and measurements (wrinkle depth, skin tone, and water loss, among other parameters) are recorded. |
volker schulz and Rudolf Hansel
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 A Cure rates related to psychodynamic (placebo) effects in mild and moderately severe disorders treated by family physicians (after Schulz, 2000).
|m Costs and Benefits
The number of drug prescriptions covered by statutory health insurance in Germany declined by 30 % from 1992 to 2001. The costs per prescription during the same period rose by 78 %. The sharp drop in prescriptions mainly affected phytomedicines (see Table Ai in the Appendix). Initially, it was hoped that these containment measures would save money, but this has not been the case. |
| Phytomedicines merit special interest in comparison with other "complementary" medical therapies because rational phytotherapy is inherently in tune with scientific thinking. For many physicians, this academic stature is an essential prerequisite for their own acceptance of phytomedicine within modern clinical practice and thus for its successful utilization in patients. |
| Drug Commission of the Association of German physicians (AkdA), the American Academy of Neurology, and the British National Institute for Chemical Excellence have recently advocated the use of cholinesterase inhibitors (ChE inhibitors) in place of Ginkgo biloba extract (EGb) in patients with Alzheimer-type dementia (AkdA, 2001; Doody et al., 2001; O'Brian and Ballard, 2001). |
Paula Begoun and Bryan Barron
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| One important thing that many consumers and physicians aren't aware of, and this includes lots of physicians who are involved in these bogus studies, is the question, "Under what conditions were the studies performed?" Maybe it takes some experience even to ask. For example, in a skin-care study, the subjects participating often begin by washing their face and then stripping it clear with alcohol. Then the "before" photos are taken and measurements (wrinkle depth, skin tone, and water loss, among other parameters) are recorded. |
Andreas Moritz
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 In World War I, German physicians used a mixture of honey and cod liver oil to treat gunshot wounds. According to John Riddle, professor of ancient science at North Carolina State University, a medical text written on papyrus from 3000 years B.C. specifies the use of honey for head wounds. He says that perhaps "the honey helped prevent swelling and sealed off the wound to keep air and infection out."
Recent Research shows that honey is far superior to antiseptics and antibiotics. Israeli researchers took honey to the test. |
| Radiation burns cause skin ulcerations that had been nearly incurable until physicians began trying the old folk remedy of the aloe vera leaf.
Today, aloe vera has gained such great popularity that it is being used in many cosmetics and health products. Aloe vera juice that is taken internally has been found to be effective in almost every illness, including cancer, heart disease and AIDS. In fact, there is hardly any disease or health problem for which aloe vera has not been proven successful. |
| Russian physicians believe that a toxic, congested body does not properly respond to their treatment programs. Some Israeli hospitals don't even treat patients until they had a colon cleanse.
Colonic irrigation, also called colon hydrotherapy or colonic, is perhaps one of the most effective colon cleaning therapies. Within a short passage of time a colonic can eliminate large amounts of trapped waste that may have taken many years to accumulate. During a 40-50 minute session of colonic irrigation, a total of two to six liters of distilled or purified water is used to gently flush the colon. |
Bill Sardi
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 While physicians have an "ethical obligation to engage patients in
8%
Watchful Waiting
12%
Radiation Therapy
A study of 1,809 men conducted in 2000 at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis found men chose treatments in this order:
79% Surgery
(Radical prostatectomy)
Between 1984 and 1990 prostate cancer surgery increased by more than 500%, with a complete lack of evidence that it prolonged life or reduced discomfort. |
Andreas Moritz
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| Accidental deaths caused by physicians are 120,000 per year. The risk at dying at the hand of your doctor is therefore substantial. In a recent Harvard University study, researchers found that "long-shift" doctors committed five times as many diagnostic errors as their shorter-shift counterparts. These weren't just errors in diagnosis. In one instance, a long-shifter ordered 10 times the correct dose of a powerful blood-pressure drug. Another error caused a patient's lung to collapse when a sleepy intern botched inserting a tube into a nearby artery. |
Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
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 But," I listened to myself arguing both sides, "public health professional training is quite different from what physicians get."
A Baltimore Oriole sang to us from a nearby treetop. We craned our necks, but could not find it.
"Its focus," said Fran, "on the whole population, rather than the individual, is fundamentally different." After a moment she added: "In public health, an effect of five deaths per thousand is, and should be, quite significant. But the practicing physician sees one patient at a time. So it's yes or no, rather than a probability equation. |
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| A former president of the Royal College of physicians in London once estimated that only 10 percent of all diseases could be manipulated effectively by modern methods of treatment, including the administration of drugs. Disease manipulation does not necessarily mean that drugs have a curative effect. Actually, most of them merely suppress symptoms, and they are costly. By contrast, a placebo is very cheap or even cost-free. And it has no harmful side effects. |
Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
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| For healing happens despite the physician, independently of an elaborate and expensive system of treatment. physicians want no part of the placebo effect, for it messes up their experimental designs, and worse, it undercuts their authority. The very idea of mind-body medicine lies outside the medical model. For it to be taken seriously would require a considerable reconceptualization of what is meant by the notions of health and illness.
BELIEVE IT OR NOT!
As a kid, I was a big fan of Ripley's Believe It Or Not! |
| We are reminded of a New Yorker cartoon, which shows the outside of a suite of physicians offices. A sign lists each doctor with an appropriate specialty, from neurosurgery to hand surgery. The last physician's specialty is shown as "side effects!"
Finally, medicine is a science. The definition, diagnosis and treatment of illness are neutral and objective, unaffected by moral or subjective judgments, or by personal cultural or financial interests. Expertise takes on the highest value, which inevitably means that the physician knows best. |
| It is directed by a powerful ideology that guides the way physicians think and act. This so-called medical model is based on six assumptions about the body and the nature of disease. I ticked them off in my mind.
First, the concept of health is not defined at all; instead, as in the World Health Organization's definition, it is assumed in the "absence of disease."19 The physician's task is not to maintain health, but to treat disease, a distinction that has tremendous implications both for clinical medicine and for health care policy. |
Andreas Moritz
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| Particularly in the United States, where insurance fees for malpractice are exorbitant, physicians are increasingly interested in attending to their patients' spiritual needs. By building more personal relationships with their patients, a doctor lowers his risk of litigation considerably. This may also restore the doctor's image as an infallible caretaker, a role that used to be the rule rather than the exception. The doctor's role as a friend and guide during the difficult times of sickness can, in fact, be a very crucial element in leading a patient to recovery. |
Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
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| If a quack is one who knowingly gives worthless medicine, then Moertel (along with many other physicians) must be one—a (somewhat facetious) judgment I shared a year later at a symposium I organized at the American Association for the Advancement of Science.^ One panelist, a prominent historian from Emory University, who had written widely on quackery, disagreed. Moertel cannot be a quack, he asserted, because he is using the scientific method in an attempt to advance medicine. In other words, MD medicine cannot by this particular definition be considered illegitimate.
Well, perhaps. |
Bill Sardi
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| After treatment, patients are sent back to their primary care physicians, often without a plan for follow-up care. The big problem is that doctors aren't reimbursed for follow-up care, so it gets neglected. [CA Cancer Journal Clinicians 56: 65-67, 2006] This is puzzling since a list of good health habits, dietary measures and dietary
I [ Over age 50 - begin cancer prevention program today
— Review health habits - what can be realistically done to minimize or overcome cancer risk? |
| Journal Association physicians India 53: 623-27, 2005] There appear to be misdirected efforts to keep COX-2 inhibitor drugs on the market by combining them with fish oil to overcome their side effects. [Cancer Research 65: 8022-27, 2005]
COX-2 Inhibitors not living up to expectations
Inflammation is a key element in nearly all diseases including arthritis, cancer, diabetes, Crohn's and heart disease. Steroidal hormones (cortisone) reduce inflammation but reduce wound healing, may cause swelling and cataracts and deplete the body of many essential nutrients. |
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 Diabetics should check with their physicians before using this plant and use with caution while monitoring their blood sugar levels regularly as the dosage of insulin medications may need adjusting.
Many in vivo clinical studies have demonstrated the relatively low toxicity of all parts of the bitter melon plant when ingested orally. Other studies have shown extracts of the fruit and leaf (ingested orally) to be safe during pregnancy. drug interactions
MODERATE RISK
Antidiabetic Agents: Concurrent use may result in an increased risk of hypoglycemia. |
| Seventy-five percent of physicians and patients reported very good and/or good results with Nettle treatment. Five patients in the monotherapy and 5 in the combination therapy group reported gastrointestinal discomfort. Six patients experienced allergic reactions (primarily dermatologic in nature) and 3 patients reported increased diuresis (Ramm & Hansen, 1996). |
| Rhodiola rosea in stress induced fatigue — A double-blind cross-over study of a standardized extract SHR-5 with a repeated low-dose regimen on * the mental performance of healthy physicians during night duty. Phytomedicine; 7(5): 365-371. 2000.
De Bock K, Eijnde BO, Ramaekers M, Hespel. Acute Rhodiola rosea intake can improve endurance exercise performance. Int J Sport Nutr Exerc Metab; 14(3): 298-307. 2004.
De Sanctis R, De Bellis R, Scesa C, Mancini U, Cucchiarini L, Dacha M. |
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