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DOCTORS Should you go see one? YES, when ever you have a medical question to which you do not have the answer you should consult your doctor. But, if you do not have the time or interest to acquire a basic understanding of good health, then you may spend a great deal of time in the Orthodox Medical Community. Dr. Robert C. Atkins, M.D. author of Health Revelations 1-800-223-1982 ext. 247 has compiled a list of 24 extreme conditions. For twelve of these, he suggests that Orthodox Medicine offers the most sensible treatment.
He then lists twelve conditions for which Alternative Medicine has much better answers.
Please re-read MISSION STATEMENT for my basic philosophy on all this. If you go to a doctor and say "I hurt, give me a Drug to make it go away.", then in all likelihood you will get a drug. And guess who sets the guidelines as what what drug you get? First of all doctors want to help, and by "fixing" your pain they will be the heroes. Like the mouse that removed a thorn in the lion's paw, curing pain is a good way to make friends. In addition, the doctor has to make a living, and he knows that if he doesn't give you something to make the SYMPTOM go away, then he will probably lose you as a patient (source of income), as you will go find a doctor who will (HEALP) you. ...replace he with sc. Think about it: If your doctor only makes money when you are sick, is it in his self interest to help you become healthy? Rare indeed is the Orthodox doctor who would suggest that the patient is at least partially, if not wholly responsible for the problem, and thus is able to take the cure upon him or herself. (Indeed that doctor would be accused of switching camps, and joining the alternative medicine crowd.) If I seem down on doctors in general, I am. According to JAMA they are the third leading cause of DEATH in the US. The profession is driven by an entrenched bureaucracy that seems to have little connection to reality. If your local doctor, on his own, found a cure for AIDS, and cured 200 consecutive patients with no failures, his results would be termed "anecdotal evidence" and will never be accepted by the medical establishment as valid science. And should his remedy be from a pineapple stem, garlic bulb, or a tree trunk, then it is a non-patentable, natural substance, and no pharmaceutical house would be interested in producing it. So it would never reach the general public. And the doctor, if he tried to use it in his practice would probably be shut down by the AMA. (The AMA by the way was founded in 1846 to eliminate competition, particularly homeopathy, under the guise of protecting the public.) Thus there is small incentive for big business to find a "CURE" for their biggest moneymaking diseases, especially if the problem might be found in the food that the patient insisted on stuffing himself with. So to quote Thomas Edison: "the doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet, and the the cause and prevention of disease." If you don't have access to a doctor like that, perhaps you should start looking, if only so that you can get a second opinion. When you look for a doctor you might consider this additional information: Vitamins | Drugs | Herbs | Stamina | Pollution | Stress | Headache | Allergies | Digestive Problems | Weight Loss . Julian Whitaker, M.D. states in his Health and Healing report (1-800-777-5005) that" ---in most medical schools, nutrition is not just ignored -- its importance is systematically denigrated. The brain-washing in medical schools is virtually complete, as illustrated by a study done some time back in which both entering med students and graduating seniors were asked if they believed that nutrition was important to health. The entering students answered 75% yes. The graduates answered 100% NO. This was documented in a recent study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. The nation's physicians are not only nutritionally ignorant, but are actually major obstacles to public nutrition education. It is not unusual for patients seeking nutritional advice from their physician to meet a wall of ignorance -- reinforced with arrogance. The end result is a patient belittled for even asking about a vitamin or diet regimen." Medical Specialists as a group have a problem. Stephen C. Scheiber, M.D. in his book "The Impaired Physician" states that "22,600 to 33,600 are alcoholics, recovering alcoholics, or soon to be alcoholics." "Alcoholism is a primary disease to which physicians as a group, seem highly susceptible and often goes hand in hand with drug abuse" Harvard just did a study noting that "59% of physicians and 78% of medical students use psychoactive drugs (usually marijuana and cocaine) and that 40% of "orthodox" doctors get high with friends on a regular basis. "A Hospital is no place for a sick person to be" so says Dr. Lowell Levin, professor of public health at Yale University. "The increasing use of potent antibiotics is one of the reasons for the ever present life threatening hospital infection. As more and more potent antibiotics are developed, increasingly resistant strains of microbes evolve" Health Alert, Vol.3, No. 1. Dr. Bruce West "Health Alert P.O. Box 22620 Carmel CA 93922" Says: "It is now routine for me to hear from patients that they were given antibiotics for a couple of years to treat a passing acne problem. Or that kids have been subjected to antibiotics more than 20 times before their third birthday. These scenarios are the cause of our problems today, and they are tantamount to malpractice and, in my mind ought to mean loss of medical licence." Why do doctors prescribe certain drugs over others? For even more on doctors. To receive updates on this subject click here. Vitamins | Drugs | Herbs | Stamina | Pollution | Stress | Headache | Allergies | Digestive Problems | Weight Loss
IGNORANCE as related to DISEASE.
Ignorance Doesn't’t Change the Facts One way to tell the ignorant from the stupid: (although often you can’t tell either of them much)
Specialist: I suggest the above two definitions have a lot to say to most people, health professionals especially. If you know a doctor personally, you know he works long hours and struggles to keep up with his own specialty. If he is honest I believe that he would agree that even if he did only research, it would be impossible to stay abreast of the rapidly expanding information just in his own field. What about all the other areas we seem to expect doctors to be expert in like nutrition, mental health, exercise, finance, politics, etc. Only 1/3 of the medical schools in the US have any courses in nutrition yet we often blindly accept our doctors advice as to our diets. In these pages I suggest that you take personal responsibility for your health and regard your doctor’s advice on nutrition as you would that of a non professional friend. Thank him for it, and then check it out. You have the time the interest and the resources to produce a healthy body. Do it! Did you know that only about half of all the prescriptions written by doctors are actually filled? Doesn’t it seem logical that when somebody prescribes a DRUG for you to put in your body that you know what it is and what the side effects are? There is a book , I call it "the Poison Book" ; otherwise known as the PDR "Physicians Desk Reference". I have that book on CD ROM, and can discover the "known" side effects and interactions between most common medications. This is NOT secret information. I suggest that it is YOUR responsibility to discover this information and decide whether you should be taking what ever it is you are taking. (Just as an example see what you didn't know about ASPIRIN.) Discuss your findings with your doctor and you will get an education. Dr. Joel Robbins states that about 5,000,000 people each year are so seriously poisoned by their physicians as to be hospitalized. Ralph Nader says 300,000 of those are KILLED..(his words) by those drugs/doctors. In 1991 a team of Harvard researchers published a landmark study in the New England Journal of Medicine. They discovered that an estimated 150,000 to 200,000 Americans die annually from hospital mistakes. The Institute of Medicine says it's only 98,000 killed. According to U.S. News and World Report, 400 people die every single day from the side effects of drugs. Whatever the real numbers are, those people all had faith in their doctors. Do you have similar faith in your doctor? Do you just accept whatever your medical professional says? Again: Be an informed consumer. The time is past when doctors made house calls and knew you as a friend. More and more, medicine is becoming a mass produced service, with less and less personal attention spent on each patient. Your medical professionals do the best they can with what they are given, but over their heads more and more is some faceless bureaucratic entity telling them how many patients they must see each day, and what tests and services they can and can’t provide. You can assist them in their efforts by taking responsibility to know as much as you can about your problem. Do your utmost to STAY OUT OF HOSPITALS! This will require work on your part. .are you worth it? For a start, check out: "The 7 Deadly SINS."
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