Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Of course, part of the answer is because these surgeons are in business to make money, and they make money by performing surgeries, regardless of whether or not those surgeries are actually safe or effective.
For example, 60 percent of heart bypass surgeries performed in the United States are completely unnecessary. There's no medical justification whatsoever. However, they are huge profit centers for surgeons, hospitals and even anesthesiologists. Everyone makes a buck when people have heart bypass surgery, but is the patient truly helped by it?
More often than not, the patient isn't helped. |
Kelly Harford, M.C., C.N.C.
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 Unless your child is having an acute situation that demands immediate intervention please, please do not subject your children to dangerous, traumatic surgeries, procedures, and toxic drugs until you have explored safe, natural approaches that emphasize nutritional factors. There are thousands of surgeries performed every year on children who have had recurrent ear infections, for example; surgeries that could have been prevented by identifying and eliminating offending foods from the child's diet. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Of course, part of the answer is because these surgeons are in business to make money, and they make money by performing surgeries, regardless of whether or not those surgeries are actually safe or effective.
For example, 60 percent of heart bypass surgeries performed in the United States are completely unnecessary. There's no medical justification whatsoever. However, they are huge profit centers for surgeons, hospitals and even anesthesiologists. Everyone makes a buck when people have heart bypass surgery, but is the patient truly helped by it?
More often than not, the patient isn't helped. |
Ron Garner
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 They are imbalances in the body's hormonal system brought on by nutritional deficiencies, stress, pharmaceutical drugs, unnecessary surgeries, and environmental toxins. An industry has been created to exploit, and unfortunately, exacerbate these problems. It is estimated that 500,000 hysterectomies are performed annually in North America, 90% of which are classified as "elective surgeries."13 This procedure, when combined with removal of the ovaries, immediately triggers menopause. |
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| In fact, the Congressional Committee on Energy and Commerce reports that 20% of all surgeries performed in the US are unnecessary. surgeries you may not need...
•Prostate removal. The most common treatment for prostate cancer is removal of the prostate gland, but clinical studies show that the operation is of little benefit to men who have a life expectancy of 10 years or less because the cancer grows very slowly. This means that most men older than 75 have nothing to gain and may have side effects after sugery, such as incontinence and infection. |
Ray D. Strand
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 Uminate the need for nearly half of these surgeries.2
The lens of the eye collects and focuses light on the retina. In order to perform its job properly, it must remain clear throughout our lifetime. As we age, various components of the lens may be damaged and opacities may occur, leading to age-related cataracts.
Medical researchers believe it is essential to determine if supplying adequate levels of antioxidant nutrients to the eyes early in life will preserve lens function, protecting them from cataract formation. |
Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
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 What proportion of procedures could be replaced by fake surgeries, or by none at all? Whatever that proportion is, tremendous trauma and suffering, let alone huge expenditures, would be avoided.
PREVENTIVE SURGERY
It is the surgeon's task and calling to fix the broken body. The ultimate surgery—both ideologically and financially, for the physician—would anticipate a problem before it manifests itself. Maintenance would replace emergency. This is preventive surgery, surgery on symptom-free patients with the purpose of averting some future harmful condition. |
Kelly Harford, M.C., C.N.C.
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| There are thousands of surgeries performed every year on children who have had recurrent ear infections, for example; surgeries that could have been prevented by identifying and eliminating offending foods from the child's diet. As previously mentioned, doctors are not always familiar with, nor have the appropriate diagnostic tools for this task. Either do some research and experimenting on your own (See Chapter 9 ~ Clear the Way) or work with a holistic practitioner who is knowledgeable about food intolerances that can help you. |
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| Kyrgiou agrees that invasive surgeries are not always required for less suspicious lesions. "The treatment of precancerous lesions is necessary for the prevention of cervical cancer," she says. "However, it should be performed when it is necessary and appropriate by experienced clinicians, as a large proportion of low grade-mild lesions will eventually regress back to normal."
"Women should seek detailed information on efficacy, but also on long-term pregnancy-related morbidity before they consent," she adds.
Goldstein's advice for doctors is to think twice about using LEEP on young women. |
| Bariatric surgeries result in weight loss, but they can [also] result in complications and death. They can improve the complications of obesity and the quality of life, and they may increase longevity," says Livingston. However, the decision about whether to have the surgery is a complicated one and needs to be made on a case-by-case basis, he adds
"These findings indicate more morbidity in the initial three years after surgery. People should be aware when they're making this decision that this is a possibility," says study author Dr. |
| Since the late 1980s, the number of gallbladder surgeries has increased by 40%. The reason is the advent of minimally invasive laparoscopic surgery. This procedure can be done in an outpatient setting —conventional surgery typically requires three days in the hospital—is more convenient and more profitable for doctors. But it is often not necessary. Before agreeing to gallbladder removal, consult an experienced internist about nonsurgical options, such as a special diet or the gallstone-dissolving medication ursodiol (Actigall).
•Wisdom tooth extraction. |
Marshall Editions
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 Several surgeries may be needed. Other surgical procedures include a sympathectomy, which removes the nerves responsible for transmitting the signal to sweat. This can be an effective procedure for relieving excessive sweating in the face, head, armpits, and palms of the hands. The procedure can be performed using an endoscope, which is less invasive and requires a shorter recovery time.
TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE
Herbs: Consult a doctor to identify the cause of sweating. A herbal formula may be prescribed by a practitioner of Chinese medicine depending on the cause of the condition. |
Too Profitable to CureBrent Hoadley, Ph.D.
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| For years, I've read RD's medical update pages and success stories involving latest surgeries or other life-saving measures. I enjoyed their articles personifying various body parts, gaining a basic understanding of how we humans function. Then one day, I counted the number of pages in one issue devoted to pharmaceutical advertisements. Hmmmm! My rejection might not have been only for lack of writing style. This publication is flying under the radar. While purporting to report the truth, it cannot be ignored that RD could not afford to offend their corporate sponsors. |
Shannon Brownlee
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 When Redding Medical Center built the Tower and allowed Moon and Realyvasquez to recruit more cardiologists, the people of a rural, lightly populated area of northern California began getting even more unnecessary surgeries and cardiac procedures.
Once you begin to understand the concept of supply-driven care in medicine, all kinds of strange, seemingly inexplicable observations begin to make sense. For instance, think back to chapter 2, to Elliott Fisher's study of how much care patients with the same condition received in different hospitals. |
Hyla Cass, M.D.
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 It requires multiple medications, possibly including daily insulin injections; blood-glucose monitoring equipment; frequent doctors visits; and, as complications mount, is likely to lead to surgeries (including open heart surgery or amputations), dialysis, and increasing disability As you can see, this progressive condition causes damage to the body in many ways.
The good news, if caught early, diabetes can be controlled without medications. |
Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
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| We should add to this total of unnecessary gynecological surgeries the episiotomy (incision in the birth canal prior to delivery), done more often than either C-sections or hysterectomies. Of these almost one million episiotomies per year:
There is little scientific support... for rhis procedure. The suggested advantages of episiotomy are challenged easily and the surgery is not without risks. Adverse effects... include an increased incidence of severe lacerations, blood loss, pain, delayed healing, dyspareunia [pain during sexual intercourse], psychological trauma and medical cost. |
Ray D. Strand
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| One of the great causes of oxidative stress is injuries or major surgeries, and Evelyns physicians felt that the trauma of the accident had triggered the MS.
Evelyn has always tried to have a good attitude toward her diagnosis and promised never to let the disease get her down. Doctors started her on a drug called Betaseron, which is a common drug used for MS. Betaserone is actually beta interferon, a chemical that tries to build up the immune system— very expensive and very hard to tolerate. Evelyn s body was just barely able to tolerate this medication, and she became very sick. |
| The stressful, frantic surgeries that followed in attempts to mend soldiers are still vivid in my mind. Did you know this same scenario is happening every day inside our bodies? We have a sophisticated team of triage nurses, anesthesiologists, and surgeons that are busy repairing the damage caused by the free radicals our body is producing.
There is both a direct repair system and an indirect repair system within each of our bodies. We really don't know much about the direct repair system; however, it is well documented that it does exist. |
| It has been estimated that a ten-year delay in the development of cataracts in the U.S. population would eUminate the need for nearly half of these surgeries.2
The lens of the eye collects and focuses light on the retina. In order to perform its job properly, it must remain clear throughout our lifetime. As we age, various components of the lens may be damaged and opacities may occur, leading to age-related cataracts. |
Shannon Brownlee
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| There were obvious hot spots, in Boise, Idaho, and Redding, California, where hospitals and doctors were doing absurd numbers of certain surgeries and procedures.
In 2000, Wennberg's colleague Elliott Fisher launched a study that would finally persuade many of the skeptics that the variations the Dartmouth group were seeing were real and were causing patients harm. He showed that Medicare recipients living in high-cost regions were no healthier and no less disabled than those living in regions where recipients got less care. Nor were they living any longer. |
| Different levels of illness simply couldn't account for the huge variation in tonsillectomies and other surgeries that Wennberg and Gittelsohn were seeing in different parts of the state.
Other physicians did not share their skepticism. When Wennberg went to his colleagues at the University of Vermont and showed them the data, they dismissed it as self-evident: Of course differences between patients were driving the differences in the amount of surgery. Patients in areas where surgery rates were higher obviously needed more surgery. |
| At its peak, Redding Medical Center was performing nearly eight hundred open-heart surgeries per year—many of them done by Realyvasquez.
With the enormous volume of procedures came high incomes and lavish lifestyles. Moon owned a rambling hilltop estate on the west side of Redding, with a view of Mount Shasta and No Trespassing signs posted at the bottom of the driveway. Realyvasquez lived on the east side, at the end of a tree-lined street behind an electronic gate. The doctors were popular figures in town. |
| In the case of tonsillectomies, it turned out that the huge numbers of surgeries in Morrisville, which had the highest rate in the state, were being performed by just five physicians, a mix of family practitioners and surgeons. Little consensus existed in the early seventies about when a child really needed to have his tonsils removed. When
Wennberg went to Morrisville and sat down with each doctor he learned that they were simply very quick to use the scalpel compared with their colleagues in other parts of the state. |
Devra Davis
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 Yet those of this age who had gone through yearly tests had more than twice as many surgeries, and nearly three times more follow-up diagnostic procedures as those over fifty. We worried about the fact that women whose lives could be saved by mammography—those over fifty—were getting fewer exams, while those in whom it made less sense were getting more of them. |
John J. Ratey, MD
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 My arm required two surgeries that kept me out of commission for several years. I quit competing in tennis and didn't do much else athletic for at least a decade.
I got back into being active during my residency, which was during the running craze surrounding Bill Rogers's success and the popularity of the Boston Marathon. Running made me hungry to play tennis again, and then I got into squash with a couple of colleagues, including my good friend and longtime collaborator Ned Hallowell. We played three times a week for almost twenty-five years, competing, cajoling, and encouraging one other. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Anyone foolish enough to follow their advice will only end up a victim of chemotherapy, radiation or useless cancer surgeries.
And why do I get so riled up about this topic? Because black women are needlessly dying of a disease that's simple to prevent, that's why! The system of organized medicine that controls the cancer industry today is preying upon black women, pretending to not know why they keep dying from cancer, and refusing to tell them the truth about how their skin color causes vitamin D deficiency. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Men have always dominated Western medicine, and they have always used chemicals and surgeries to control or dominate women. Even today, the male-dominated breast cancer industry is a for-profit system that preys upon women through harmful mammograms that actually cause cancer and produce shockingly high rates of false positives. As I've stated in previous articles here on NewsTarget, mammography harms 10 women for every 1 that it helps. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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 These surgical procedures are still associated with a high rate of relapse, persistent pain, permanent or intermittent need for catheterization, and additional surgeries.
SEEING A LICENSED PRIMARY HEALTH-CARE PRACTITIONER
(N.D., M.D., D.O., N.P., P.A.)
The symptoms of IC can range in severity from mild and intermittent to chronic and very severe. The main reason to see a licensed health-care practitioner is to diagnose the cause of the symptoms. |
| These surgeries can be done separately or together. The incidence of hysterectomy and oophorectomy in the United States is substantial. Women who undergo a bilateral oophorectomy have an increased risk of developing osteoporosis, coronary artery disease, and/or atrophy of the genital area at a younger age. Probably the most dramatic entry into menopause is to have both ovaries removed.
From 1994 through 1999, an estimated 3,525,237 hysterectomies were performed among U.S. women aged 15 years or older.4 During this time, the overall hysterectomy rate for U.S. women was 5.5 per 1,000 women. |
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