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The orthodox \u201chealth industry\u201d is claiming that wellness is a bad idea. Why? It eats into their profits, of course!<\/p>\n
So their platform is that all aspects of self-care, alternatives to drugs and surgery, diet and nutrition are bad, could kill the patients (as if) and is morally,\u00a0 even legally, wrong. Besides, it\u2019s \u201cnot scientific\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cWellness companies use the same strategies as evidence-based medicine, they claim, to sell tests for diseases that don\u2019t exist and treatments that don\u2019t work, recommended by individuals who aren\u2019t qualified.\u201d So says a rant by a couple of apologists, Andrea Love, PhD, and Katie Suleta, DHSc, MPH, MS, writing for MedPage Today.<\/p>\n
No mention in this publication of the fact that MILLIONS of patients are being killed by the clumsy, pseudo-scientific orthodox medicine approach that they are boasting of.<\/p>\n
Of course the medical profession peddles diseases that don\u2019t exist and treatments that don\u2019t work, but that\u2019s OK. Forget the fact that outcomes are deplorable. It\u2019s business as usual, fighting down the competitors!<\/p>\n
We all remain conscious of the startling paper in 2000 published by\u00a0the late Barbara Starfield of the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, which revealed that doctors are the 3rd leading cause of death in the US! (after cancer and heart disease).<\/p>\n
These deaths consist of:<\/p>\n
\u2022 12,000 \u2013 unnecessary surgeries<\/p>\n
\u2022 7,000 \u2013 medication errors in hospitals<\/p>\n
\u2022 20,000 \u2013 other errors in hospitals<\/p>\n
\u2022 80,000 \u2013 infections acquired in hospitals<\/p>\n
\u2022 106,000 \u2013 non-error, negative effects of drugs<\/p>\n
The last figure needs some explanation. She is saying that over 100,000 patients a year are dying of medications correctly prescribed, at the correct dose (in other words, not errors) but still proved fatal.*<\/p>\n
That\u2019s a total of 250,000 deaths per year from iatrogenic causes! Iatrogenic is a Greek word which means \u201ccaused by doctors\u201d.1<\/sup><\/p>\n I don\u2019t know if you consider that a quarter of a million deaths per year is a lot, in a population of around 300 million. But it ought to be zero, or very close. 250,000 a year is equivalent to a million people killed by doctors every four years,\u00a0in just one country.<\/p>\n Gary Null et al. gives a far higher number but we\u2019ll stick with Starfield. See\u00a0Gary\u2019s piece\u00a0<\/a><\/strong>here<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Now Starfield only calculated deaths. What about permanent injury or damage? Frederick van Pelt, a doctor who works for The Chartis Group, a health care consultancy, said another element of harm that is often overlooked is the number of severe patient injuries resulting from medical error.<\/p>\n \u201c\u2018Some estimates would put this number at 40 times the death rate,\u2019 van Pelt said.\u201d<\/p>\n *Actually, according to Starfield, who prepared the report for\u00a0The Journal of the American Medical Association,\u00a0<\/i>doctors are actually the number one killer, because they do not inform patients properly of the hazards of the procedures they offer (why would they? The patient might have second thoughts and that would lose income for the doctor!)<\/p>\n It\u2019s not just about errors of judgement and treatments. Misdiagnosis resulting in (of course) inappropriate and potentially harmful treatments is also rampant. A recent groundbreaking study published in\u00a0BMJ Quality & Safety<\/i>\u00a0(2024) that found approximately 795,000 Americans suffer permanent disability or death annually due to diagnostic errors.2<\/sup><\/p>\n Cancer blunders seem exceptionally likely. In 2012 The National Cancer Institute convened an expert panel which determined that MILLIONS of individuals may have been wrongly diagnosed with \u201ccancer\u201d of the breast, prostate, thyroid, and lung, when in fact their conditions were likely harmless, and should have been termed \u201cindolent or benign growths of epithelial origin.\u201d<\/p>\n Importantly,\u00a0no radical change occurred in the conventional practice of cancer diagnosis, prevention, or treatment.\u00a0Nothing improved. The harvesting of human suffering continued as before.<\/p>\n This is overdiagnosis to raise funds (not to help patients).<\/p>\n Along with overdiagnosis is the problem of overtreatment. When non-threatening abnormalities are labeled as \u201ccancer,\u201d women often undergo aggressive treatments that can cause significant harm with no real benefit. Surgery, chemotherapy and radiation therapy are not without serious dangers, never mind side-effect.<\/p>\n Yet these are handed out as if there was not, and could not be, any complications. Mastectomy can be very hurtful. If it\u2019s not necessarily then it becomes a major criminal assault, as in indictable offence in my view.<\/p>\n Then there are the numerous multiple hormone treatments, messing about with a woman\u2019s sacred physiology, all in pursuit of profits, not better health.<\/p>\n The scale is just mind boggling. A study published in the\u00a0New England Journal of Medicine<\/i>\u00a0some years ago estimated that over a 30-year period, 1.3 million U.S. women were over-diagnosed and overtreated for breast cancer.3<\/sup><\/p>\n If you do the math, that\u2019s 70,000 women a year receiving unnecessary treatment. Most appallingly, that includes an estimated 20,000-25,000 women undergoing needless mastectomies or lumpectomies annually.4<\/sup>\u00a0A quarter of a million breast \u201camputations\u201d per decade. Makes me shudder.<\/p>\n Yet orthodox apologists and the goons they defend dare to criticize alternative healers who, in a way, are protecting patients from the full onslaught of this greed and industrialized medicine. There are days when I wake up ashamed of my beloved profession!<\/p>\nBut That\u2019s Not All Of It!<\/b><\/h2>\n