The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
by Dan Schultz, DC
Let's give credit where credit is due; the practice of medicine saves many, many lives. They, along with general improvements in sanitation, hygiene, food supply, nutrition and standards of living, have increased human life expectancy in many countries. If you have had a heart attack, broken bones, wounds or severe infection, you should feel fortunate that the medical profession is well equipped to save your life. They've done a lot of good in this way.
It is a stark realization, however, to realize that there is absolutely nothing that the allopathic (medical) paradigm can offer to improve your health. Most of what people call "health care" is, in fact, disease care. Think about it.
Drugs to reduce fever doesn't make you healthier; drugs for headaches don't; drugs to lower blood pressure don't; drugs for cancer don't; surgery, therapy, treatment and more drugs don't do anything to improve enhance vitality. But in the vast majority of cases, they weaken the body. The allopathic model, in the wrong place at the wrong time, has killed, poisoned, altered, damaged and maimed billions of people on the planet. It's almost unbelievable that we could have done that to ourselves, but it's true.
LE Magazine August 2006
Gary Null, PhD Death by Medicine
To illustrate the claim, Gary Null, PhD., et al produced an excellent analysis of deaths caused in the United States. It shows, conclusively, that the medical profession has been the number one cause of death.
Journal American Medical Association July 26, 2000;284(4):483-5
Officially, the medical profession admits to being having been the number three cause of death, just behind heart disease and cancer. But these admissions have been found to be lacking.
However, this admission did not account for the significant incidence of underreporting or misreporting. Often, when a human being has died on the operating table from bypass surgery, the cause of death was recorded as heart disease. When a child has died hours after vaccination, the cause of death was recorded as Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. Moreover, death is just one of the obvious signs of what’s gone wrong. It's easily tabulated with just a little investigation, but once you get a feel for this cause and effect, one can see more readily the needless suffering that occurs for those that survive.
When humanity begins to proactively foster health in our lives (before disease/crisis occurs), wake up from this medical model nightmare, and see a different way of going about the business of health care, it will be the beginning of the end of our suffering.
Unfortunatly, most people prefer to live an unhealthy life and then seek MDs when their BP is sky high, they have chest pain, suffer complications from obesity - being proactive in their own health care just is not something the average person spends much time looking after. And why should they? TV offer numerous commercials selling drugs to improve health and all it requires is to take a pill! This pill lowers BP- YOU CAN STILL SIT ON THE COUCH & DO NOTHING! - this pill takes care of indigestion - EAT LIKE AN IDIOT!this pill takes away aches and pains - this pill takes away bladder control problems, irritable bowl syndrom, sleeplessness...and the list goes on. If the message is that the medical world can fix or ease just about any ailment why would anyone choose vegs over potatoes, water over pop, the stairs over the elevator? Perhaps I've fallen off point here, basically there needs to be some re-education about what "health" is, which was, afterall, the point of the article. So, how do we do this?
Posted by: A.M. Olson | January 06, 2007 at 10:54 AM