This is the continuation of the part 1.
PROFIT – MONEY AND MORE MONEY!
Dr. George said conventional medicine is all about medicine and in reality that we are living today.
Modern medicine is run by big pharmaceutical companies whose interest is in making money from patenting expensive drugs – there is no primary interest in curing people of difficult health problems.
The problem is that they also brain-wash medical doctors to believing that these “magic drugs” can solve all the health problems of the world. Wrong again! He said.
If this was the case, then why are the rates of cancer, diabetes, heart disease, arthritis and many other health problems increasing? Surely, if drugs could solve all these degenerative diseases, then they would have been eradicated by now! He asked
Dr. Guylaine Lanctot, M. D. who wrote The Medical Mafia has this to say:
“The medical establishment works closely with the drug multinationals whose main objective is profits, and whose worst nightmare would be an epidemic of good health. Lots of drugs MUST be sold. In order to achieve this, anything goes: lies, fraud, and kickbacks.
Dr. George Georgiou further said Medical Doctors are the principal salespeople of the drug companies. They are rewarded with research grants, gifts, and lavish perks. The principal buyers are the public – from infants to the elderly – who MUST be thoroughly medicated and vaccinated…at any cost!
DEATH BY MEDICINE – THE STATISTICS!
Finding cure for a remedy is not luxury, it is a human need and no one should use this need to for personal gains. Something is wrong when people die of this need.
According to Dr. Georgiou, Something is also wrong when regulatory agencies pretend that vitamins are dangerous, yet ignore published statistics showing that government-sanctioned medicine is the real hazard.
Until now, no one had ever analyzed and combined ALL of the published literature dealing with injuries and deaths caused by government-protected medicine. That has now changed.
Backing his claim he said a group of researchers who methodically reviewed the statistical evidence and their findings are absolutely shocking.
The researchers have authored a paper titled Death by Medicine that presents compelling evidence that today’s system frequently causes more harm than good.
This fully referenced report shows the number of people having in-hospital, adverse reactions to prescribed drugs to be 2.2 million per year.
The number of unnecessary antibiotics prescribed annually for viral infections is 20 million per year.
The number of unnecessary medical and surgical procedures performed annually is 7.5 million per year. The number of people exposed to unnecessary hospitalization annually is 8.9 million per year.
The most stunning statistic, however, is that the total number of deaths caused by conventional medicine is an astounding 783,936 per year.
It is now evident that the American medical system is the leading cause of death and injury in the US.
(By contrast, the number of deaths attributable to heart disease in 2001 was 699,697, while the number of deaths attributable to cancer was 553,251).
Each year approximately 2.2 million US hospital patients experience adverse drug reactions (ADRs) to prescribed medications.
In 1995, Dr. Richard Besser of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimated the number of unnecessary antibiotics prescribed annually for viral infections to be 20 million
In 2003, Dr. Besser spoke in terms of tens of millions of unnecessary antibiotics prescribed annually
Approximately 7.5 million unnecessary medical and surgical procedures are performed annually in the US, while approximately 8.9 million Americans are hospitalized unnecessarily.
The estimated total number of iatrogenic deaths – that is, deaths induced inadvertently by a physician or surgeon or by medical treatment or diagnostic procedures – in the US annually is 783,936.
It is evident that the American medical system is itself the leading cause of death and injury in the US. By comparison, approximately 699,697 Americans died of heart in 2001, while 553,251 died of cancer.
The Campaign for Truth who conducted a lot of this research (www.campaignfortruth.com) also estimated that over a 10-year period a total of 7.8 million iatrogenic deaths occurred which is more than all the casualties from all the wars fought by the US throughout its entire history.
Their projected figures for unnecessary medical events occurring over a 10-year period also are dramatic.
These figures show that an estimated 164 million people – more than half of the total US population – receive unneeded medical treatment over the course of a decade.
IS CONVENTIONAL MEDICINE WORKING?
This is what they had to say to the question, ‘Is American Medicine Working?’ which could of course extrapolate to medicine practiced all over the globe:
US health care spending reached $1.6 trillion in 2003, representing 14% of the nation’s gross national product. Considering this enormous expenditure, we should have the best medicine in the world. We should be preventing and reversing disease, and doing minimal harm.
Careful and objective review, however, shows we are doing the opposite. Because of the extraordinarily narrow, technologically driven context in which contemporary medicine examines the human condition, we are completely missing the larger picture.
Medicine is not taking into consideration the following critically important aspects of a healthy human organism:
Stress and how it adversely affects the immune system and life processes
Insufficient exercise
Excessive caloric intake
Highly processed and denatured foods grown in denatured and chemically damaged soil
Exposure to tens of thousands of environmental toxins
Instead of minimizing these disease-causing factors, we cause more illness through medical technology, diagnostic testing, overuse of medical and surgical procedures, and overuse of pharmaceutical drugs.
The huge disservice of this therapeutic strategy is the result of little effort or money being spent on preventing disease.
They go on to conclude:
“We are fully aware of what stands in the way of change: powerful pharmaceutical and medical technology companies, along with other powerful groups with enormous vested interests in the business of medicine. They fund medical research, support medical schools and hospitals, and advertise in medical journals.
With deep pockets, they entice scientists and academics to support their efforts. Such funding can sway the balance of opinion from professional caution to uncritical acceptance of new therapies and drugs. You have only to look at the people who make up the hospital, medical, and government health advisory boards to see conflicts of interest. The public is mostly unaware of these interlocking interests.”
For example, a 2003 study found that nearly half of medical school faculties who serve on institutional review boards (IRB) to advise on clinical trial research also serve as consultants to the pharmaceutical industry.
The study authors were concerned that such representation could cause potential conflicts of interest.
A news release by Dr. Erik Campbell, the lead author, said,
“Our previous research with faculty has shown us that ties to industry can affect scientific behavior, leading to such things as trade secrecy and delays in publishing research. It’s possible that similar relationships with companies could affect IRB members’ activities and attitudes.”
MEDICAL ERRORS – A GLOBAL ISSUE
A five-country survey published in the Journal of Health Affairs found that 18-28% of people who were recently ill had suffered from a medical or drug error in the previous two years.
The study surveyed 750 recently ill adults.
The breakdown by country showed the percentages of those suffering a medical or drug error were,
18% in Britain
23% in Australia and in New Zealand
25% in Canada
28% in the US.(113)
In 1995, a JAMA report noted,
“Over a million patients are injured in US hospitals each year, and approximately 280,000 die annually as a result of these injuries. Therefore, the iatrogenic death rate dwarfs the annual automobile accident mortality rate of 45,000 and accounts for more deaths than all other accidents combined.”(23)
At a 1997 press conference, Leape released a nationwide poll on patient iatrogenesis conducted by the National Patient Safety Foundation (NPSF), which is sponsored by the American Medical Association (AMA).
Leape is a founding member of NPSF.
The survey found that more than 100 million Americans have been affected directly or indirectly by a medical mistake. Forty-two percent were affected directly and 84% personally knew of someone who had experienced a medical mistake.
MORTALITY RATES DROP WHEN DOCTORS GO ON STRIKE!
Making his argument on this assertion, Dr. Georgiou further said that it is interesting to see what happened in Israel in the year 2000 when Industrial action by public health doctors helped to reduce the death rates in most of the country.
A large number of doctors across the country went on strike for 127 days while funeral directors complained of less work. To find out whether the industrial action was affecting deaths in the country, the Jerusalem Post interviewed non-profit making Jewish burial societies, which perform funerals for the vast majority of Israelis.
HananyaShahor, the veteran director of JerusalemsKehilatYerushalayim burial society said,
“The number of funerals we have performed has fallen drastically.”
Meir Adler, manager of the Shamgar Funeral Parlour, which buries most other residents of Jerusalem, declared with much more certainty:
“There definitely is a connection between the doctors sanctions and fewer deaths. We saw the same thing in 1983 when the Israel Medical Association applied sanctions for four and a half months.” Interesting!
MEDICAL BRAINWASHING
On this particular issue, according Dr. George, When one discusses issues with medical practitioners there is definitely a ‘brainwashing’ that does not correlate with the scientific literature or even their own personal experiences working with their patients.
They literally believe that if everyone in the world only had enough drugs in their bodies, we’d all be super healthy!
If we just had enough vaccines with Thimerosal, (a preservative used which contain 50% mercury to give to babies and has increased the autism rate), and enough cholesterol drugs for all the senior citizens, and enough antidepressants for all the middle-aged people, we’d all be healthier, they claim.
And the way to get more people healthier is, to push more drug ads to mandate more vaccinations. To require more “mental health screening” of schoolchildren, just in case they might need ADHD (attention deficit) drugs such as Ritalin
Watch out for the concluding part
Dr. Raphael Nyarkotey Obu is a Research Professor of Prostate Cancer and Holistic Medicine –faculty of Holistic Urology, Da Vinci College of Holistic Medicine, Larnaca City, Cyprus. He is the National President of the Alternative Medical Association of Ghana (AMAG). A registered alternative Medical practitioner with specialty in orthomolecular oncology, Prostate Cancer Policy maker and researcher. He can be reached on 0541090045. E mail: [email protected]