In part one of this series, I aimed to illustrate how members of physician class are often unable to see medically induced (iatrogenic) injuries, and this leads to a significant degree of suffering for patients who are in effect gaslighted by these doctors. I argued this blindness is due to a combination of doctors lacking the capacity to recognize iatrogenic injuries and doctors being unwilling to recognize iatrogenic injuries. I will now seek to explain why they often lack the capacity to recognize these injuries. As this is part of a series, some of the concepts within this article will be difficult to fully understand without reading the previous section.
I moved home in 2013 and registered with a new doctor here in the UK. I was 61 years old at the time. My new doc called me in for a "geriatric assessment" which was such an offensive phrase that I laughed. The doc became somewhat aghast when we completed his examination.
"You are the only person over 60 on my list who takes no medication!" he exclaimed.
I think I was more shocked than he was!
I am now 70. I still do not use pharmaceuticals and, given the recent 2 years, I am unlikely to ever start.
I am firmly convinced that most doctors are ill equipped to deal with our present health issues because none of them are trained to recognise the effects of electro-magnetic radiation.
The atmosphere is saturated with non-ionising radiation since the invention of mobile phones but doctors do not know what effect this has been having and how damaging it is in accumulation.
This, in spite of multiple studies and campaigns, is now the most taboo subject online.
Just mentioning it is enough to give social media platforms the excuse to exclude or cancel us.
I despair that medicine will never catch up with real world problems.
I'm of the opinion the thing that really causes the health issues for doctors (especially the ones who work overnight shifts in hospitals) are all the fluorescent lights. Wifi etc does matter too but it doesn't seem to have as overt a correlation with physiologic disruption as the fluorescent lights.
I agree with you about the lights. When I was quite ill with expanding food and environmental allergies, I was more of a canary. I noticed that stepping into a room with fluorescent lights would quickly lower my body temperature by a whole (Fahrenheight) degree, indicating thyroid problems, and I would feel tired and often sad.
One of my colleagues knows a physician who will become paralyzed if fluorescent lights are turned on and has to wear a necklace explaining this for when it ends up happening.
I feel emfs but am not disabled by them. There's a ton of research showing they have negative effects. Devra Davis's disconnect and Arthur Fristenberg's Invisible Rainbow are the best books on the topic (although I disagree with his opinion radio caused the 1918 pandemic)
Doc, you FEEL emf's? Can you explain? in your body .. . brain? what is the sensation? details? It is hard to understand and believe as this does not seem to correspond with our five main senses. How can you "know" it is an emf you "feel" and not something else? Typical example? thanks.
No way to do it concisely because that would be a book to write out. I feel and sometimes hear them. I find stronger ones a bit irritating. Most people who feel EMFs tend to be partially disabled by them. There's a controversial medical condition called ectromagnetic hypersensitivity (EHS). I know a lot of people who have this. I just personally feel better when I live in places with reduced EMFs so I try to live in cell phone dead zones, don't have wifi at my house, use a low EMF phone etc.
I primarily feel them in my head and I mostly notice things in the microwave spectrum.
hmmm. This phenomenon is unknown to me. Amazing, I'm 71 and never experienced or heard of anyone with first hand experience. One would think it necessary to have metal of some sort to be capable of interacting with fields.
I have an idea / suggestion. I am a hunter. Search for HECS. It is basically a camo FARADAY cage! It would really be interesting if you wore this around a known source of emf's that would effect your senses. An interesting experiment. they make thin versions and you could wear it under other clothing. . .
I am not talking about doctor's health issues! I am talking about everyone! Schools, hospitals and many municipal buildings are bristling with antennae and wifi is everywhere. Doctors refuse to look at the evidence against electro-magnetic radiation. Looks like you won't either!
Frances, you are exhibiting a pattern of aggression against people who don't sufficiently wholeheartedly support your point of view. You poke people even if they do not necessarily disagree, but just don't treat it as the same high priority as you do. You are being confrontational on your own Substack, as well as the Substacks of other people. You end up being disliked and blocked, and then you argue this is further evidence that people are corrupt and the world is against you.
There is merit to your claims about the harms of EMF. But this is hard for people to investigate right now, when we're still fighting the idea that INJECTING POISON causes anything other than positive, healthful effects, and that vaccines and Remdesivir should be forced on babies.
There is a way to be constructive, and there is a way to be destructive while believing you are doing good. If you were indeed a lama in a previous incarnation, then it seems to me that in your present being, you are not exhibiting the wisdom that should come with this.
What you choose to view as aggression I see as assertion and urgency.
We would not need to fight the vaccines if we can show that the root cause of Covid19 is not a virus.
The whole house of horrors hangs on that deception.
I am not here to be liked or admired. I do not believe the "world is against me" - it never crosses my mind to think that way!!
At least you have proven with your final paragraph that you have thoroughly checked out my work.
Let me advise you of something essential in life:
EACH OF US HAS OUR OWN PATH.
Return to that post about my previous lives...... read it again. Since being a Lama many many lives ago, I was a warrior, dying in battle, for many, many lives - do not assume that my soul is pure. It is not. It is honed. It is fierce and it does not suffer fools gladly.
There is a famous quote (I could not dig up the exact one) that essentially said:
"If all the drugs were flushed down the toilet everyone would be better off except for the fish." (wish I could find the exact quote, it's much better worded).
My own more nuanced view is that around 80-90% of drugs in use either cause more harm than benefit, or just have minimal benefit. At the same time, there is a solid 10-20% that are quite useful and many cases life saving, so it's difficult to take an absolute position on anything. In general however, I feel the chronic disease management prescriptions are more likely to harm than benefit the patient.
“I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica, as now used, could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be better for mankind and all the worse for the fishes”.
This is a bit of a pandora's box to open, but there are a lot of issues with pharmaceuticals in the water supply that do not get cleaned out. I think the biggest issue arises from birth control pills being recycled back into humans.
Incinerate them with lime (calcium oxide) to avoid emitting hydrogen fluoride. However, I agree with the author here, a few drugs are actually useful, and some of those are fluorinated.
This exact experience happened to my mother in the US. Her doctor retired. She went to a new one. Doctor's first statement is: "you aren't on any medications!!?!" Second thing she did was to spend five minutes berating my mother for not taking the covid injections. After my mom's test results came back she wanted to put her on a statin even though her previous doctor had said her blood pressure was fine. My mom isn't going back.
Lots of doctors are like that. I think if insurance did not cover medical care and there was not a monopoly on the treatment, they would not be able to get away with practicing medicine like this.
I believe Rudolph Steiner was very perceptive and made some very important observations that have benefitted my medical knowledge; however I never became an ardent adherenet of his theories.
I had my new to me doc note that, too. First physical with him, at 56. He stared at the tablet, exhaled, then shook his head. "Your record is incomplete. I can't find ANY prescs."
"Nothing missing. Haven't had anything more than Amoxicillin in 25+ years."
"Interesting."
I asked him about vitamins, bioavailability of different forms, and how to use food as medicine. He didn't even understand what I was referring to.
The next one, he confirmed still no drugs and said, "Well you are very healthy." He then gave me some pamphlets about vitamins in foods. OK, he at least learned a little from the first year.
However, he would not consider prescribing Ivermectin. "People are getting sued for that."
"True. But many hundreds times more are dying because doctors won't prescribe it."
I understand your point and agree 95%. But I feel like they *can* be better at detecting changes and at least telling me things I observe that are nothing to worry about. I suspect some things their diagnosis is helpful, but I am unlikely to take any action they prescribe other than possibly PT (when I injure my joints).
Next year, I probably disconnect from the system completely. Then I'll just pay for the blood work.
When I was in my 30's ...over 20 years ago...the dr's nurse would ask me multiple times if I was on any meds. How many times did I have to say no? She was shocked because everyone was on meds. No thank you!
Still trolling? Or are you stalking me? Your lack of understanding about the effects of electro-magnetic radiation is proof enough that you are incapable of thinking beyond your formal indoctrination. Maybe your IQ is incapable of that. What a pitiable state you are.
Absolutely true. And why I got out of my field 10 years ago. It's a business. Doctors go to school like everybody else; it's a series of classrooms and exams taught by the AMA. Any three letter agency is drenched in globalism.
Why do we think they hate chiropractors and holistic medicine? 🤔😡
The easiest way to maintain a marketshare is by having an enforced monopoly. It takes much more work to win in the marketplace solely based off of merit.
The more expensive medical education gets, the less it attracts people who do - or can afford to - think outside the box. I mean, I don't expect every doctor to be Albert Schweitzer but I get the sneaking suspicion that the field more and more attracts the mercenary type who is mainly in it for the money.
The medical schools try to weed those people out during the selection process, but the problem is the people who are like that are very good at impersonating people who are. A lot of people who go into medicine for the money end up being miserable, but other people end up being sellouts and making a lot of money.
Yes, I think you've said you work in a more rural area. It's better there, I'm sure. I'm in a large metro and I should really move out of here for more reasons than one. What's that Michael J. Fox movie from the 90s? "Doc Hollywood" I think. Doctor moves from L.A. to a small town and finds life much more agreeable even if less profitable.
My doctor cousin just retired from practice in a clinic and hospital in a very small town because he was increasingly pressured to spend less time with patients and more reporting. The corporate cancer has spread even to small towns.
The medical blindness is definitely deliberately fostered. The Indian physician Jacob Puliyel, who just won the case in the Supreme Court of India against compulsory vaccination, has been exposing one of the subtle but key aspects of this blindness:
"The World Health Organisation (WHO) has recently revised how adverse events after immunization (AEFI) are classified. Only reactions that have previously been acknowledged in epidemiological studies to be caused by the vaccine are classified as a vaccine-product–related-reaction. Deaths observed during post-marketing surveillance are not considered as ‘consistent with causal association with vaccine’, if there was no statistically significant increase in deaths recorded during the small Phase 3 trials that preceded it."
The poisoners therefore have a huge incentive to scrub severe adverse events (like Maddie de Garay and no doubt many others) from the phase-3 trials. For in countries following this WHO classification, it'll be almost impossible to label any adverse event as vaccine related.
I don't know whether the US medical profession adopts these WHO guidelines automatically. The WHO seems more to be a body for wrecking medicine and health the third world (though it's now metastasizing worldwide). But US medicine has already been carefully corrupted, so it may not matter.
A friend in the US got Covid-jabbed under duress ("get jabbed or get fired" but was still fired, for not being enthusiastically compliant). She then ogt a whole-body rash for a month. She told her PCP (GP) of her jab reaction, who immediately said, "Oh, that'll be hard to prove," and dropped the subject. And of course, no doctor in the area will write her a medical exemption for the booster now being mandated.
I feel immense rage at the medical profession.
Sure, some holistic doctors are brilliant and fantastic. In my own direct experience, they have included Robert Cathcart MD, rightly famous for vitamin-C therapy but also much other environmental therapies; and Helen and Leonard McEwen in England (who developed the excellent EPD allergy treatment).
But the good that these doctors do is far outweighed by the harm from the rest of the profession. Mostly, as was said about most good laws being repeals of earlier bad laws, the good doctors are just finding ways to solve problems created by the rest of the profession. For example, my extensive allergies were partly due to injury from the smallpox vaccine as a small child.
Thus, if the choice is between the current medical system and no medical system at all, the world would be wise to choose 'none'.
Thank you for this. I am a nurse that has worked on a med-surg floor for 15 years. I have witnessed the many problems you address. I remember being shocked as a baby nurse at how many prescriptions people take. I have commented on it ever since. I find very few other nurses who agree with me. Many of the same problems you address also exists in nursing. The last 10 years has had the aggressive push of “evidence based” practice. All the critical thinking that was drilled into us in nursing school has been replaced by policies, protocols, and “standards of practice.” Taking care of patients is not easy. I appreciate that it is difficult to asses pharmaceutical harm, stress, narcotic seeking etc, but it is rarely considered that the pharmaceuticals could be the problem. Even worse, patients themselves rarely consider it, in the hospital setting anyway. Most people would rather take a pill than change their lifestyle. We are taught that vaccines and medications and surgeries are modern miracles. We get defensive when questioned. I am guilty of that. Then I ask myself why? People should ask more questions. We are taught to educate patients, then we are irritated when they actually ask questions, especially ones we can’t answer. Nurses also get really irritated and put patients down for refusing treatment or asking questions. It really doesn’t make sense. It really is a vicious awful cycle. My eyes have opened over the years, especially during Covid and I am trying to change the way I see things. Changing the current system is not going to be easy. I don’t know where to start, except with myself. And I have been questioning every for a long time.
No, you put into words what I have been seeing and feeling uneasy about for years, but it was difficult to see through. The feeling that something isn’t right but it is hard to pinpoint what is wrong. People are difficult in many ways. Whether it is figuring out what is wrong or sorting through a whole medical history of co-morbidities and meds and also psychological and spiritual problems, it is a challenge. All of that and it is easy to understand why most providers easily look for the policy and steps to put everyone in a one size fits all approach to treatment. That doesn’t even touch on the corruption of medicine and big pharma. So now we have a big mess. The costs are rising while the quality of care is decreasing. People are restless and conflicted. They know something isn’t right. They feel like they are just another number, but they are taught to believe the “experts.” They don’t understand what to look for or how to find answers and they really want to trust healthcare providers. But they are starting to have doubts. I don’t know where this all leads. I am hoping it leads to weeding out corruption and making actual changes that are useful and helpful in treating people. Thank you to you and your colleagues who are working hard to treat people in spite of the challenges you face.
When you keep people in a state of knowing something is wrong and feeling restless about it, that's maintained by holding them in a state of ignorance where they don't know of other possible options. What I'm trying to do is make those other paths available.
I’m 73 years old. Approximately 1.5 years ago I changed my diet to eliminate carbs and sugars (keto) for weight loss, … and a strange thing happened. Not only did I EASILY lose considerable weight (39 pounds) but my high blood pressure dropped below normal while on blood pressure meds. So I stopped the BP meds and my blood pressure now consistently stays in the normal range around 120/80. And my bpm are lower by about 15 beats per minute.
Oh and this is amazing - I was having severe hypoglycemic episodes (low blood sugar drops) about 3 times a week. My blood sugar would register in the upper 40’s to lower 50’s which is dangerous and I would gobble food to raise it. My whole body would tremble and I would be very weak. After eliminating carbs and sugars from my diet, all that STOPPED IMMEDIATELY. I never had another drop in blood sugar again!!!
I then decided to try ending my years long dependency on antidepressants. I was on Prozac for over 30 years and switched to Duloxetine (Cymbalta) as the Fluoxetine (Prozac) seem to help my depression less and less. After stopping the Duloxetine and continuing my keto diet I discovered I felt NO different with or without this drug. I think if it wasn’t for the current political and medical drama we are subjected to daily that I would be in even better shape mentally/emotionally.
I was also on Livalo (a statin). It was quite expensive and I had to fight my insurance company to help pay for it, as the other statins caused much more muscular pain. I believe Livalo is produced in Japan which probably accounts for some of the added expense. Even the Livalo caused some muscular pain, but to a lesser extent. I decided to stop it as well. My last blood work showed no increase in blood cholesterol than I had when taking any statin. I was hoping for a drop, but I’ll settle for no change.
I think a lot of our problems are caused by the American diet. I feel better, have more energy, and definitely have less medical problems since going keto.
Since the pandemic and all that seems hidden and/or deceptive about the virus and the vax injuries I have lost faith in the medical profession. I am unvaxed btw. I don’t plan to visit a physician or hospital again unless it is along the lines of setting a broken bone or stitching up a wound. And I certainly plan to avoid medication. Now isn’t that a shame so many of us have come to distrust the medical profession, especially the government agencies like the CDC, FDA, NIH, and Big Pharma.
PS: I was on Vioxx years ago and suffered what they called a Silent Heart Attack. It showed up on an EKG after I went in with complaints of sweats, nausea, vomiting, and general weakness. I was shocked when they asked me “When did you have a heart attack?” It was only a few months later that Vioxx was pulled from the market for causing heart attacks. I was lucky as no one related my Silent Heart Attack to Vioxx until it was publicly disclosed, and I got off this med before more damage was done.
Very well stated. I’m a midwestern CRNA and practice independently in a small rural town. I see so many cases of poly pharmacy that are nonsensical, patients loaded down with medication lists 2 pages long. It’s amazing. And no mention to them about basic exercise or nutrition. Most of the cases I do are elective, so deciphering their health problems is a huge part of my practice. And what I’m seeing post Covid era is nothing but bizarre. I shake my head every day.
I have a teenage daughter that has been enticed by pursuing a career in healthcare. Any programs that you would recommend for your line of work? I believe we need more like you! Thanks for the great work you do!
For about the first ten years of my adult life, I was sucked into the psychiatric medication merry-go-round. It's hard to be a critical thinker when you are under the influence of those things combined with actual emotional problems, but one thing I started doing was ranking the psychiatrist's "placebo voice".
Basically, there comes a time during the psychiatric visit where the doctor introduces you to the new medication and makes a pitch for it (in psychiatry this happens a lot). When this happened, I evaluated how good a job they did and what was their technique i.e. a firm and confident voice designed to show their integrity and belief in the pill, the intellectual approach citing studies, the emotional approach talking about the importance of a healthy life, the peer pressure technique of saying so many people are taking them so there must be something good in it, etc.
I'm convinced they receive some sort of training for doing this. I also think that, especially with psychiatrists, it is unethical. The justification is that because the "placebo effect" is so awesome that these manipulative sales techniques are morally justified.
Evaluating the technique is a good thing to do with any type of doctor - learn to spot when they are doing a pharmaceutical pitch and simply evaluate how good they did. You can still take the drug, but just note the doctor's presentation and method of making the sales pitch.
On an emotional level, this reduces your association of the concerned doctor's face and voice with the pill, and this allows you to better make an independent judgement of it.
I found this comment really insightful, thank you. I somewhat understand how this training occurs in dermatology, but no so much in psychiatry (although I'm sure it happens there since it's one of the main money areas in medicine). In most cases this process is covert as the ideas are seeded in select physicians and then learned by the young doctors they supervise who model them from their supervising doctors.
I periodically see marketing PR seeded into medical journals and physicians subsequently adopting them. I also suspect that many of these phrases are learned at the extravagant hawaii vacations every drug pushing doctor is invited to. However, as I have never been to them, I can't actually say if that happens at these seminars.
The one thing I definitely agree on is that many of the phrases utilized by physicians to suggest beginning medications are identical around the country and often very easy to predict by the time they are mid-sentence. I just do not know the exact means this homogeneity of the sales pitch is actually accomplished (even though I feel like I should).
On a different note, when I was 13, I saw a doctor (who was prestigious and had many awards) for a serious issue I had an he aggressively suggested I start the medication. I explained that it made no sense and asked why he wanted me to take it, he got indignant that a 13 year old like me had no basis to challenge him. When I went home and looked the drug up, I realized he was completely full of it and except for required examinations I never subsequently visited a doctor again (minus holistic experts I knew personally beforehand).
Great insight!! I think the breakdown in mental health treatment and increasing pressure from insurance companies, as well as new "miracle" drugs, starting in the 80s, has a lot to do with lack of checks and balances. At a hospital where I interned in 1982, decisions regarding medication and therapy were made with input from the psychiatrist, all therapies involved, a psychologist and nursing. There was significant discussion about med changes and therapeutic approaches, at in person meetings and a lot of thought went into treatment planning. Input from family members was included in reporting from staff. With information from a variety of sources, a diagnostic picture would emerge that was probably more accurate than any determined by an individual. Clients were not provided prescriptions ongoing without participation in therapy. Though this approach would no doubt be more expensive up front, there would likely be significant savings if at least some issues resolved, and less use of resources later, as well as less suffering and collateral damage to families. Not sure this could be replicated, as staff in many disciplines have been taught to be lazy, to use check lists, to rely on "experts", spend incredible time going to expensive "training", and to emotionally distance themselves from clients to the extent that they are perceived by clients as cold and uncaring, which they are. It will be difficult to change this, as the most lazy have risen to the top, claiming to be "experts", proud, arrogant and unable to collaborate with others for fear of exposure of their ignorance. With the pervasive lack of humility in those guiding our direction in many areas, I believe all we can do is encourage young people with empathy and insight to aspire to higher positions of power and effect the return to truly humane treatment.
My doctor is a box ticker. And although the occasional glimpse of intelligence is shared. She mostly gives very orthodox answers and otherwise just does as I ask. As in. I go in and say something like... "I think I have tonsillitis, I have pustules on my tonsils, a sore throat and mild fever. I feel run down but I also have CFS/M.E so that is expected. Can I please have some antibiotics"
She then fills in the paperwork, has a quick look and sends me on my way with a script.
Am I angry. No. Not really. I got what I wanted and I got it quickly.
But as an army medic I could never do that or get away with that.
I would have to check all vitals. Take a reasonably thorough history. What did you eat recently? Could it be from trauma or fish bone? Could it be another infectious illness like infectious mono?
If there was a glimpse of doubt on the horizon always ask the doctor.
When I first became unwell with CFS/ME around 7 or 8 years ago. This same process was very difficult.
"I am tired and anxious"
Oh yeah, here take these antidepressants.
Next visit.
"I am still tired and anxious, but it comes and goes and the difference between when it is there or not there is significant"
Ok I'll take some bloods.
Next visit
"I am still tired and anxious, it is still coming and going but I think there is a pattern related to what I eat or drink or if I exercise"
Hmmm nothing in your bloods, are you still taking the antidepressants? Maybe you need to rest more. I'll take more bloods.
And so on and so on.
I basically had to figure CFS/M.E out myself. Propose the idea. Test the idea. Debate the idea. And after a few more visits. The idea was eventually accepted.
One only needs to research in depth statins to see how bad the medical/healthcare/pharmaceutical industry including governmental agencies have become. Add in the moving of goalposts by "expert" agencies/organizations, such as the "optimal" ranges for cholesterol, blood pressure, bone density, etc. and you see full-blown deception and fraud. JMHO
A hundred years ago they couldn't even measure any of that stuff. Well, maybe blood pressure. But they didn't have drugs to do anything about it. And people lived just fine. So my philosophy is: if you're generally healthy, don't measure all that crap. Just live your life. Eat well, exercise, and get a good night's sleep.
We all know it’s not easy to find the truth about pharmaceuticals. Can you point me to a few good articles on the truth about statins? I’ve been trying to research for my father.
Read what malcom kendrick has written on this topic. He has books on it and lots of blog articles. At some point I will write on this topic and 90% of what I write will be sourced from him.
Hence, regardless of how you dice it, diagnosing pharmaceutical injuries is a tricky subject. Situations like these are best resolved by large, randomized trials to assess for harms, but since those cost money that can normally only come from drug companies, they never emerge. Thus, when I as a physician attempt to seek out the best available evidence to dictate my practice of medicine, I am often forced to rely upon my own and colleague’s anecdotal observations, something conventionally considered to be the worst form of medical evidence.
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My suggestion is that we the people finance the trials. We are paying them anyway. But better up-front and objectively controlled than misdirected for financial (or other) gain.
I’m a physician (surgeon and SICU)who has become disillusioned by the system. I’ve initiated an early retirement, but I still like helping people. Any advice?
Are you a general surgeon with a SICU fellowship or a specialized surgeon? I will be completely honest and state that I never worked anywhere that was large enough to support a SICU.
General surgeon, that was grandfathered in to do SICU work. I started in family med, but switched to surgery after my intern year (2001). I’m thinking of retraining, or continuing with my retirement
Oh that's a shame, you've only be in for 17 years then. I'm not a surgeon so I can't really comment in detail on this but:
1) I have always really appreciated this verse and thought it was an excellent metaphor for surgery. I think switching from scalpels to electrocautery both makes surgery much more harmful to the body and requires significantly less skill.
With any luck that passage will land home with you. I was able to with Obgyns who did and did not use electrocautery for C-sections and it was very interesting to compare and contrast their experiences.
2) There are a lot of career options you could potentially do outside of your current job.
-I know an amazing orthopedic surgeon who does medical missionary trips all the time. Beyond helping people, he said one of the major upsides to doing this is that he can just treat people and doesn't have to waste his time on all the legal/paperwork BS that takes up your life in the USA.
-I know some surgeons are moving towards having private/physician owned outpatient surgery centers. This allows them to retain a lot of the income they generate and not have to deal with a ton of administrative nightmares.
-I have numerous patients who want surgeons they feel can trust who will do the surgeries they need in the least harmful way possible and not require additional tests and procedures they feel are unnecessary or use safer prosthesis (ie. many people react badly to hernia meshes).
-One project I feel really needs to be done is IRB research showing that if you do ultraviolet radiation prior to surgeries, it dramatically reduces your risk of a post operative infection (much more than antibiotics will). This was demonstrated in Russia. There is a small independent team trying to get a US clinical trial on UVBI, but when they went for using it for COVID they got shut down (if this interests you there is a book to read on it); however I think the surgical application would have a better shot and have a profound impact on quality care in the USA. I also believe that it would be very helpful in the SICU.
Outside of those options, there are a variety of related disciplines you could branch into you might like.
-Some surgeons have said they prefer doing wound care to surgery.
-Some individuals who practice manual therapy (such as Osteopathic Manipulation) find a surgical background that allows them know what the internal organs and other tissues inside the body is really helpful.
-Two modalities I am a big fan of Neural Therapy and Prolotherapy. Neural therapy is often highly applicable to surgery as you will periodically encounter people who have permanent complications from a surgery due to the scar that formed following healing (especially with electrocautery) and being able to fix this is often life changing for them.
Prolotherapy often makes it possible to treat some surgical conditions non-surgically (one of my frequent challenges is to see if I can treat a hernia without a surgical referral).
I use both of these (and have mentors who are much better than me) because my goal is to see how many surgeries there is an effective non-surgical alternative for. If you come at all of that from a surgeon's background, you are going to be really talented at it.
Off the top of my head that was what I could think of. Let me know if any of that was helpful. There are also a ton of other ways you could diversify, but they are less specific (ie. becoming an author or speaker on medicine) and apply to most specialities.
Thanks for the thoughtful reply! I’ve also studied Taoism since the early ‘90’s and that story of the respect for the technique with the blade has stuck with me as well. It has a lot of broad reaching implications (like so much of Tao)
I maybe didn’t ask you the right question- I’m having a dilemma of disbelief in the entire medical system.
I’m in a place where I don’t really need to work financially. I’ve always lived and practiced according to my values and the ethical promises made earlier in life- and I’ve had a lot of negative fall out with corrupt systems as a result. However, my surgical outcomes were excellent and so my criticisms were tolerated and sometimes even acted on - for patient and system improvement.
The past ~3 years I’ve noticed us plummeting off the ledge of becoming unscientific and not patient based, even within the surgical community. Then this became obscene with COVID.
The community I was working in almost entirely refused to see unvaccinated patients for anything So I started a free clinic through my church (I’ve been an employed physician at a big hospital for past 8 years) so didn’t have my own practice I could use. That clinic got intense, but we had overall pretty good results.
As I had to educate myself on infectious disease and primary care again, it was a good opportunity to rethink what we are really doing with western medicine…. and I’m mostly left with just opting out and becoming a farmer. But I’m trying to be open minded that there’s still some good to be done with medicine. Overall, I’m sad about the current way we are doing things.
I’ve read a good number of your sub stack posts and find you to be wise and insightful.
When I was in private practice (it was in a smaller community, 180 bed hospital)I actually did a lot with scar releases, neurolysis, and soft tissue work for patients who had chronic pain after surgery (mostly other surgeons were the primary 😉).
But if you still believe we can actually help people improve their lives through the application of medical knowledge and expertise, that encourages me. I’ve stopped seeing it in my spheres, it seems that we’re adding to suffering while cheapening the value of peoples lives instead.
I’ve looked into retraining as a psychiatrist and started reading one of the standard texts… but I’m just not sure
The country, the WORLD, needs a parallel economy separated from the "system". YOU are rejecting the system and could be an important part of this new, parallel system. It seems private practice like you have started already for free with your church makes a lot of sense. But, you need a partner who is a GP or similar to feed you patients. Is there someone out there who feels like you and wants the same result with no insurance system? Do Naturopaths, for example, use insurance systems less so and normal GP providers? and perhaps more likely to partner up with you? Downside, not a "lucrative" career because your fees would have to be more reasonable than what was charged in the past to pay all the middle-men. On the other hand, most of that smaller fee would find its way to. . . you, instead! Good luck.
By the way, I need a subvaceous cyst removed on my back that keeps coming back! Perfect job for you.
I would subscribe to that. Unfortunately here in Australia the government controls who can practice. So even if I found a surgeon and anaesthetist who were willing to work ‘outside the system’, they would not be allowed to purchase the relevant medications etc. And whilst those who have not had a Covid injection are finally allowed to leave this country, we aren’t yet allowed to visit yours.
Have you thought of practicing acupuncture? I absolutely adore mine and would have been prescribed dozens of meds for what she can easily treat in a 60min session. She has opened my eyes to plant based supplements to ease ailments. I'm work in medicine too and can absolutely understand your wanting to walk away. Science has always been a passion and fascination for me but as a career it's getting incredibly frustrating and disheartening. The fact that we have to submit to any vaccine at all to stay employed is demoralizing. We are adults. We can all choose to take care of our own bodies - especially us that study them for a living. Best of luck and I hope you find happiness.
I am a survivor of psychiatry. It is primarily pill pushing, has been since early 90's. Dr. Peter Breggin has managed to run his career without prescribing, or minimal prescribing - but 99.5% of practitioners are an algorithm, based on the DSM, that says, "if this symptom, then that diagnonsense, and these drugs apply." No effort is made to even acknowledge the traumas, the environments, the stressors, much less apply some sort of care or method into releasing them, like TRE (for example, there are others). So many survivors want the entire profession abolished, as per Thomas Szasz. I doubt you will find psychiatry fulfilling, if you are disgusted with the medical system - it is the pinnacle of the systemic hubris.
Learn how to effectively care for thyroid patients. Few medical professionals know to look beyond TSH & prescribe T4. We really need more! We need T3. It won't kill us and we won't thrive without it. No T2= no life.
I sorted myself out by reading Stop the Thyroid Madness, thyroidpatients.ca, and Paul Robinson's Thyroid Blog. Getting a genetic test that shows I have a DI02 enzyme polymorphism explained why I was making RT3 from T4. Changed my life!
We need doctors who understand the nuances of thyroid care. It's not rocket science but it sometimes takes experimentation.
What about Tylenol/Paracetamol? It has been on the market for 72 years, but only since the recent pandemic people become aware that the use of this OTC drug depletes glutathione, increasing the risk of severe illness. I know my mother in law took a lot of it when she caught the covid. She ended up in the ICU where she was put on high-flow oxygen and got close to liver failure and death.
"[Gluthatione] also plays an important role in cancer development (Ballatori et al., 2009), and melanoma outcomes appear to be influenced by paracetamol intake (Køstner et al., 2015)."
I am of the belief suppressing fevers (until they get really high) is problematic and this used to be a well known concept in medicine (for example it was one of the key factors that determined who lived and died from the 1918 influenza).
There are two reasons why this suppression is bad:
One is that it prevents a successful immune response from fighting off the disease (and in some cases cancer).
The other is that it causes whatever pathology the body is trying to excrete to instead move internally and give way to chronic disease. This is a very common issue.
During COVID, I observed most of the people I knew who got very ill or nearly died all took tylenol (or ibuprofen) once they started developing a fever and getting ill. I had to tell at family members who wanted to do this because they could not bear the discomfort they were experiencing, and I was working against a massive belief system that has taught everyone "it's not acceptable" to feel discomfort.
When I got COVID while traveling (I have treated a lot of people) I realized I had none of the tools I used to treat it or anyone to help me, and I essentially did three things:
1: I water fasted.
2: I made an effort to maximally minimize my energy expenditure.
3: I tried to heat my body up as much as possible.
End result was I was ill for 2 days, whole thing passed through me, and I felt much better after the disease than I did at the start.
People who did not listen to me and took fever suppressing medications had very different experiences.
Second, Tylenol often causes liver damage and is actually one of the drugs most responsible for killing people each year due to the frequent cases of liver failure it causes (via depletion of gluathione and toxic metabolites in the liver). Despite this being a very common issue, it is rare for patients to receive appropriate advice on how to avoid overdosing Tylenol.
Third (this relates to moving things inwards) when you read the disease histories of children who develop injuries such as autism after vaccination, the children initially develop high uncomfortable fevers, after which they are instructed to take Tylenol, and frequently, the severe injuries actually occur following the Tylenol administration.
That all said, NSAIDS like ibuprofen collectively kill way more people than Tylenol.
Why I like Vioxx, but only for very short term use (absolutely no more than 2 weeks - a friend had a non-fatal heart attack after taking it for knee pain for 3 months). It relieves muscle aches, but is not antipyretic. Since it's banned (because of the abuse), one must make do with things like angelate/tiglate, and of course amantadine (didn't noticeably help covid). I don't recall any muscle aches when I had covid, but influenza had earlier given me meningitis and encephalitis as a relapse of Dhori disease until I learned to avoid antipyretics like ibuprofen. (Paracetamol is also not an antipyretic for me.)
In general I just don't believe in using NSAIDS. Of the commonly used drugs for those issues, I think paracetamol is the safest (provided its used appropriately and in moderation), but I believe other over the counter holistic therapies are much more effective.
Thanks, glad you were only sick for two days. You confirmed my thoughts regarding fever. I had covid a few weeks ago with fever going up and down for two days and also refrained from taking tylenol/ibuprofen. I did take one or two aspirin per day, ivermectin, NAC and some supplements but it did take a while longer to get my energy back.
Aspirin also suppresses fevers and a good case exists that much of the 1918 influenza deaths came from Aspirin being released to the market and near toxic doses given to patients. That said it has some value after COVID to prevent blood clots.
Perhaps some COVID clotting is due to platelets, but I suspect that a lot involves antibodies. I don't see aspirin helping reduce immune-based clotting.
Paracetamol also has no analgesic effect (for me, anyhow), and ruins livers. I suspect opiates are commonly compounded with it so people following Dr. House' example (pops 12 Vicodin tablets at once) will go away.
You remember me of my father. He was a wonderful doctor, he end up practicing in the poorest area possible because “at least here they will not bother that I really take care of my patients “. He was a brilliant neuro-psychiatrist (immediately after II world war it was not divided into two). But working inside a mental hospital, he started to make his own research on the toxicity of the medicines, the use of electroshock and so on.
They made his life a hell until he gave up and become a “medico condotto” in the poorest countryside.
When I came to know about the takeover of the western medicine by the Rockefellers I understood easily why it is so against changing and recognizing mistakes and so on.
It has been a easy game for the Rockefellers.
You bribe the big boys. And they will fix the situation in an unshakable way. They will go against any genuine change in behalf of the patients.
And generations after generations this misbehavior will become normal and more and more powerful.
The “protocols” are quite useful for dehumanizing the whole thing.
It’s the protocol, not the patients.
My father fought against it so hard, especially in the 70s. He lost of course. And he started to worry about me, what will happen when “I will not be there for you and this new generations of doctors will not be able to take care of you”.
Thank you for being a real doctor, fighting for a human medicine 🙏🙏🙏
A lot of what I am able to do now is because people like your father gave a lot to fight for it when it was a much harder time to do things like that. I mean this from the bottom of my heart
A thought provoking view into the world of being a physician.
Lots to see here:
Just a few minutes to diagnose a problem.
A menu of available choices, based on a decision tree of personal experience, the medical literature, and the political climate, and the local and national regulators and licencing boards.
Pressure to provide a solution, easy to pick from those provided by the pharma companies, including the "free" samples. "Here, try this, let me know if it works for you..."
All, more or less ok, until covid arrives, and early treatment is suppressed.
That was a wakeup.
The side effects of the vaccine have compounded and re emphasized the systemic problems.
Thanks for posting this, it provides some insight.
I think the ultimate issue is that we have unrealistic expectations of physicians, and the reason those expectations are being pushed is to transition everything to an electronic/AI form of medicine.
AI can be a helpful tool. Lots of memory, organization and logical decision tree. But does not IMHO substitute for long personal experience and empathy. Also, an AI would tend to comply, and sometimes you are complying with something that is wrong or incorrect.
Whenever powerful tools get made, they are always abused. Our species has not graduated to the level of consciousness where these things can be helpful.
I moved home in 2013 and registered with a new doctor here in the UK. I was 61 years old at the time. My new doc called me in for a "geriatric assessment" which was such an offensive phrase that I laughed. The doc became somewhat aghast when we completed his examination.
"You are the only person over 60 on my list who takes no medication!" he exclaimed.
I think I was more shocked than he was!
I am now 70. I still do not use pharmaceuticals and, given the recent 2 years, I am unlikely to ever start.
I am firmly convinced that most doctors are ill equipped to deal with our present health issues because none of them are trained to recognise the effects of electro-magnetic radiation.
The atmosphere is saturated with non-ionising radiation since the invention of mobile phones but doctors do not know what effect this has been having and how damaging it is in accumulation.
This, in spite of multiple studies and campaigns, is now the most taboo subject online.
Just mentioning it is enough to give social media platforms the excuse to exclude or cancel us.
I despair that medicine will never catch up with real world problems.
I'm of the opinion the thing that really causes the health issues for doctors (especially the ones who work overnight shifts in hospitals) are all the fluorescent lights. Wifi etc does matter too but it doesn't seem to have as overt a correlation with physiologic disruption as the fluorescent lights.
I agree with you about the lights. When I was quite ill with expanding food and environmental allergies, I was more of a canary. I noticed that stepping into a room with fluorescent lights would quickly lower my body temperature by a whole (Fahrenheight) degree, indicating thyroid problems, and I would feel tired and often sad.
One of my colleagues knows a physician who will become paralyzed if fluorescent lights are turned on and has to wear a necklace explaining this for when it ends up happening.
that's fascinating. any information as to probable mode of action?
no idea why it happens
The overnight shifts are a major health risk in itself
That is true.
have extreme curiosity about environment impacts on biologic organisms of our increasing (cumulative damages)..,
summary of medical evidence linking c-19 to emf exposure:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8580522/
I feel emfs but am not disabled by them. There's a ton of research showing they have negative effects. Devra Davis's disconnect and Arthur Fristenberg's Invisible Rainbow are the best books on the topic (although I disagree with his opinion radio caused the 1918 pandemic)
Doc, you FEEL emf's? Can you explain? in your body .. . brain? what is the sensation? details? It is hard to understand and believe as this does not seem to correspond with our five main senses. How can you "know" it is an emf you "feel" and not something else? Typical example? thanks.
No way to do it concisely because that would be a book to write out. I feel and sometimes hear them. I find stronger ones a bit irritating. Most people who feel EMFs tend to be partially disabled by them. There's a controversial medical condition called ectromagnetic hypersensitivity (EHS). I know a lot of people who have this. I just personally feel better when I live in places with reduced EMFs so I try to live in cell phone dead zones, don't have wifi at my house, use a low EMF phone etc.
I primarily feel them in my head and I mostly notice things in the microwave spectrum.
hmmm. This phenomenon is unknown to me. Amazing, I'm 71 and never experienced or heard of anyone with first hand experience. One would think it necessary to have metal of some sort to be capable of interacting with fields.
I have an idea / suggestion. I am a hunter. Search for HECS. It is basically a camo FARADAY cage! It would really be interesting if you wore this around a known source of emf's that would effect your senses. An interesting experiment. they make thin versions and you could wear it under other clothing. . .
For goodness sake!
It is not all about YOU.
thanks for the homework 🐱
I am not talking about doctor's health issues! I am talking about everyone! Schools, hospitals and many municipal buildings are bristling with antennae and wifi is everywhere. Doctors refuse to look at the evidence against electro-magnetic radiation. Looks like you won't either!
I am EMF sensitive; I do not believe the intended meaning of my response was effectively conveyed here.
It looked like you changed the subject.... correction. You DID change the subject.
Frances, you are exhibiting a pattern of aggression against people who don't sufficiently wholeheartedly support your point of view. You poke people even if they do not necessarily disagree, but just don't treat it as the same high priority as you do. You are being confrontational on your own Substack, as well as the Substacks of other people. You end up being disliked and blocked, and then you argue this is further evidence that people are corrupt and the world is against you.
There is merit to your claims about the harms of EMF. But this is hard for people to investigate right now, when we're still fighting the idea that INJECTING POISON causes anything other than positive, healthful effects, and that vaccines and Remdesivir should be forced on babies.
There is a way to be constructive, and there is a way to be destructive while believing you are doing good. If you were indeed a lama in a previous incarnation, then it seems to me that in your present being, you are not exhibiting the wisdom that should come with this.
What you choose to view as aggression I see as assertion and urgency.
We would not need to fight the vaccines if we can show that the root cause of Covid19 is not a virus.
The whole house of horrors hangs on that deception.
I am not here to be liked or admired. I do not believe the "world is against me" - it never crosses my mind to think that way!!
At least you have proven with your final paragraph that you have thoroughly checked out my work.
Let me advise you of something essential in life:
EACH OF US HAS OUR OWN PATH.
Return to that post about my previous lives...... read it again. Since being a Lama many many lives ago, I was a warrior, dying in battle, for many, many lives - do not assume that my soul is pure. It is not. It is honed. It is fierce and it does not suffer fools gladly.
https://francesleader.substack.com/p/the-mission?s=w
I couldn’t agree more !
What's your opinion about LEDs vs fluorescent? Better?
LEDs are better than fluorescents but are often problematic too.
AMD your a brave soul! Some people…keep writing, because I can’t. My tolerance went away at 60.
Best thing my 85 yr old grandmother said she ever did was flush her 12 medications down the toilet and never go back. She lived a full life until 101.
There is a famous quote (I could not dig up the exact one) that essentially said:
"If all the drugs were flushed down the toilet everyone would be better off except for the fish." (wish I could find the exact quote, it's much better worded).
My own more nuanced view is that around 80-90% of drugs in use either cause more harm than benefit, or just have minimal benefit. At the same time, there is a solid 10-20% that are quite useful and many cases life saving, so it's difficult to take an absolute position on anything. In general however, I feel the chronic disease management prescriptions are more likely to harm than benefit the patient.
“I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica, as now used, could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be better for mankind and all the worse for the fishes”.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
Ah that's why I couldn't it. It was materia medica not drugs. Thank you!
Amen
The crocodiles in the sewers are always overlooked.
here (LA) our sewage water is actually recycled and it retains some of the pharma toxins... distilled water is best
This is a bit of a pandora's box to open, but there are a lot of issues with pharmaceuticals in the water supply that do not get cleaned out. I think the biggest issue arises from birth control pills being recycled back into humans.
Incinerate them with lime (calcium oxide) to avoid emitting hydrogen fluoride. However, I agree with the author here, a few drugs are actually useful, and some of those are fluorinated.
Fine, so long as you don't have flu or other pyretic infection at the time.
This exact experience happened to my mother in the US. Her doctor retired. She went to a new one. Doctor's first statement is: "you aren't on any medications!!?!" Second thing she did was to spend five minutes berating my mother for not taking the covid injections. After my mom's test results came back she wanted to put her on a statin even though her previous doctor had said her blood pressure was fine. My mom isn't going back.
Lots of doctors are like that. I think if insurance did not cover medical care and there was not a monopoly on the treatment, they would not be able to get away with practicing medicine like this.
Speaking of electromagnetic radiation and their correlation with viruses, this professor has a few words to say on the subject:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/LY6dTOr8PW7s/
Goodness me! That video was from years ago! Dr Tom Cowan has made many videos since then.
Some of the content I post here was material Cowan asked me to review.
Why do you say years ago? He is talking about Wuhan and 5G.
It was over 2 years ago when 5G was switched on in Wuhan. As I said, Dr Tom Cowan has produced a great deal more since then.
Yes but Dr Tom Cowan has moved on considerably since then.
I believe Rudolph Steiner was very perceptive and made some very important observations that have benefitted my medical knowledge; however I never became an ardent adherenet of his theories.
I have not seen anything about that so I cannot comment. Sorry.
I had my new to me doc note that, too. First physical with him, at 56. He stared at the tablet, exhaled, then shook his head. "Your record is incomplete. I can't find ANY prescs."
"Nothing missing. Haven't had anything more than Amoxicillin in 25+ years."
"Interesting."
I asked him about vitamins, bioavailability of different forms, and how to use food as medicine. He didn't even understand what I was referring to.
The next one, he confirmed still no drugs and said, "Well you are very healthy." He then gave me some pamphlets about vitamins in foods. OK, he at least learned a little from the first year.
However, he would not consider prescribing Ivermectin. "People are getting sued for that."
"True. But many hundreds times more are dying because doctors won't prescribe it."
He looked down and away.
Wonder what he'll say next month.
If you're healthy, why are you going to doctors so much? 😀 There's nothing they can do for you, really.
Free blood work.
I understand your point and agree 95%. But I feel like they *can* be better at detecting changes and at least telling me things I observe that are nothing to worry about. I suspect some things their diagnosis is helpful, but I am unlikely to take any action they prescribe other than possibly PT (when I injure my joints).
Next year, I probably disconnect from the system completely. Then I'll just pay for the blood work.
My grandfather lived to 101 with no medicine. He was born in 1873 in New York.
When I was in my 30's ...over 20 years ago...the dr's nurse would ask me multiple times if I was on any meds. How many times did I have to say no? She was shocked because everyone was on meds. No thank you!
"The atmosphere is saturated with non-ionising radiation since the invention of mobile phones"
Better stay indoors if you want to avoid non-ionizing radiation.
I tell you, the level of basic physics education is abominable.
About the only way to avoid that radiation is to move to a place in W VA or to several small islands. We are bathing in radiation of various levels.
I was seriously considering setting up a healing center in the spot you are talking about.
I’m considering moving and would definitely seek you out especially if you opened a healing center. Guess I’ll have to search for this place in W. Va😉
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_National_Radio_Quiet_Zone
You still will be exposed to L-band (GHz) GPS satellite signals and some Ku band (10 GHz) radiation. Not much Ka (20 Ghz+). See https://www.esa.int/Applications/Telecommunications_Integrated_Applications/Satellite_frequency_bands. The power levels are quite low.
Wow! Thank you. I had no idea this existed.
That wiki page lists the "Cone of Silence" under "see also" tab.
+1 for the Wiki writers!
I would start avoiding ionizing radiation apart from a tiny ozone generator :)
Studies around 2005 showed that people had recurring old trauma under the influence of emf. In my book it is called karma, better worded as that what
I want to learn about.
I tell you, the level of sneering trolls is abominable.
I'll bet you never darkened any physics classroom.
Your snobbery is showing. So is your assumption that you know it all.
Your lack of education is showing. But up with ignoramuses! They rock!
Still trolling? Or are you stalking me? Your lack of understanding about the effects of electro-magnetic radiation is proof enough that you are incapable of thinking beyond your formal indoctrination. Maybe your IQ is incapable of that. What a pitiable state you are.
🐱💕🎯💕🐱
Absolutely true. And why I got out of my field 10 years ago. It's a business. Doctors go to school like everybody else; it's a series of classrooms and exams taught by the AMA. Any three letter agency is drenched in globalism.
Why do we think they hate chiropractors and holistic medicine? 🤔😡
The easiest way to maintain a marketshare is by having an enforced monopoly. It takes much more work to win in the marketplace solely based off of merit.
Yep. People are beginning to develop medical care communities for "the rest of us", and I'm all in.
The more expensive medical education gets, the less it attracts people who do - or can afford to - think outside the box. I mean, I don't expect every doctor to be Albert Schweitzer but I get the sneaking suspicion that the field more and more attracts the mercenary type who is mainly in it for the money.
The medical schools try to weed those people out during the selection process, but the problem is the people who are like that are very good at impersonating people who are. A lot of people who go into medicine for the money end up being miserable, but other people end up being sellouts and making a lot of money.
Yes, I think you've said you work in a more rural area. It's better there, I'm sure. I'm in a large metro and I should really move out of here for more reasons than one. What's that Michael J. Fox movie from the 90s? "Doc Hollywood" I think. Doctor moves from L.A. to a small town and finds life much more agreeable even if less profitable.
My doctor cousin just retired from practice in a clinic and hospital in a very small town because he was increasingly pressured to spend less time with patients and more reporting. The corporate cancer has spread even to small towns.
In many ways it's analogous to how Walmart has invaded small town and closed independent retail.
i was literally just thinking of that film :)
I look at it from this perspective:
every medical school graduates a Frank Burns.
The Medical Mafia in Action - Offering Isotropic Humanicide Services Worldwide
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AHA = Assisted Humanicide Association
AMA = American Murder Association
CDC = Center for Death and Corruption
DIC = Drugs Industrial Complex
DHS = Defense for Humanicide Services
FDA = Fraud and Death Association
HHS = Holistic Humanicide Services
MD = Most Deplored
NIAID = Novel Inquisition for Allergic and Infectious Dogmas
NIH = Nihilism In Healthcare
NSFW = Not Safe For Work
WEF = World Enslavement Foundation
WHO = William Henry (III)'s Omnipotence
Dr. Red Pill Fact Checker:
Glendale Adventist Hospital
https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/vax-injured-person-gets-appalling?s=r
These people deserve the credit for the deaths of nearly a million Americans
https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/these-people-deserve-the-credit-for?s=r
An open letter to Christi Grimm, Inspector General of the HHS
https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/an-open-letter-to-the-inspector-general?s=r
70% of Americans are on at least one prescription drug.
The sicker America is, the richer the Drugs Industrial Complex (DIC)
No curing is allowed, ever. Treating symptoms assures recurring revenues.
Natural healing methods are relegated to Quackery.
An empire of Lies, Corruption, Degeneracy, and Death run by a Covidian Cult.
The Federal Government Finally Admitted Corruption Crafted the COVID-19 Response
https://amidwesterndoctor.substack.com/p/the-federal-government-finally-admitted?s=r
The New Rules of Medicine
https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/the-new-rules-of-medicine-bf7?s=r
The medical blindness is definitely deliberately fostered. The Indian physician Jacob Puliyel, who just won the case in the Supreme Court of India against compulsory vaccination, has been exposing one of the subtle but key aspects of this blindness:
"The World Health Organisation (WHO) has recently revised how adverse events after immunization (AEFI) are classified. Only reactions that have previously been acknowledged in epidemiological studies to be caused by the vaccine are classified as a vaccine-product–related-reaction. Deaths observed during post-marketing surveillance are not considered as ‘consistent with causal association with vaccine’, if there was no statistically significant increase in deaths recorded during the small Phase 3 trials that preceded it."
[Source: https://jacob.puliyel.com/paper.php?id=418 ; see also his presentation to NVIC: https://jacob.puliyel.com/paper.php?id=460 ]
The poisoners therefore have a huge incentive to scrub severe adverse events (like Maddie de Garay and no doubt many others) from the phase-3 trials. For in countries following this WHO classification, it'll be almost impossible to label any adverse event as vaccine related.
I don't know whether the US medical profession adopts these WHO guidelines automatically. The WHO seems more to be a body for wrecking medicine and health the third world (though it's now metastasizing worldwide). But US medicine has already been carefully corrupted, so it may not matter.
A friend in the US got Covid-jabbed under duress ("get jabbed or get fired" but was still fired, for not being enthusiastically compliant). She then ogt a whole-body rash for a month. She told her PCP (GP) of her jab reaction, who immediately said, "Oh, that'll be hard to prove," and dropped the subject. And of course, no doctor in the area will write her a medical exemption for the booster now being mandated.
I feel immense rage at the medical profession.
Sure, some holistic doctors are brilliant and fantastic. In my own direct experience, they have included Robert Cathcart MD, rightly famous for vitamin-C therapy but also much other environmental therapies; and Helen and Leonard McEwen in England (who developed the excellent EPD allergy treatment).
But the good that these doctors do is far outweighed by the harm from the rest of the profession. Mostly, as was said about most good laws being repeals of earlier bad laws, the good doctors are just finding ways to solve problems created by the rest of the profession. For example, my extensive allergies were partly due to injury from the smallpox vaccine as a small child.
Thus, if the choice is between the current medical system and no medical system at all, the world would be wise to choose 'none'.
That's a good point, I forgot to mention the legal ramifications of the trials excluding the adverse event data.
That might explain it. I had 3 smallpox inoculations.
Thank you for this. I am a nurse that has worked on a med-surg floor for 15 years. I have witnessed the many problems you address. I remember being shocked as a baby nurse at how many prescriptions people take. I have commented on it ever since. I find very few other nurses who agree with me. Many of the same problems you address also exists in nursing. The last 10 years has had the aggressive push of “evidence based” practice. All the critical thinking that was drilled into us in nursing school has been replaced by policies, protocols, and “standards of practice.” Taking care of patients is not easy. I appreciate that it is difficult to asses pharmaceutical harm, stress, narcotic seeking etc, but it is rarely considered that the pharmaceuticals could be the problem. Even worse, patients themselves rarely consider it, in the hospital setting anyway. Most people would rather take a pill than change their lifestyle. We are taught that vaccines and medications and surgeries are modern miracles. We get defensive when questioned. I am guilty of that. Then I ask myself why? People should ask more questions. We are taught to educate patients, then we are irritated when they actually ask questions, especially ones we can’t answer. Nurses also get really irritated and put patients down for refusing treatment or asking questions. It really doesn’t make sense. It really is a vicious awful cycle. My eyes have opened over the years, especially during Covid and I am trying to change the way I see things. Changing the current system is not going to be easy. I don’t know where to start, except with myself. And I have been questioning every for a long time.
Thank you too. Agree with everything you said. Wish I had more to add.
No, you put into words what I have been seeing and feeling uneasy about for years, but it was difficult to see through. The feeling that something isn’t right but it is hard to pinpoint what is wrong. People are difficult in many ways. Whether it is figuring out what is wrong or sorting through a whole medical history of co-morbidities and meds and also psychological and spiritual problems, it is a challenge. All of that and it is easy to understand why most providers easily look for the policy and steps to put everyone in a one size fits all approach to treatment. That doesn’t even touch on the corruption of medicine and big pharma. So now we have a big mess. The costs are rising while the quality of care is decreasing. People are restless and conflicted. They know something isn’t right. They feel like they are just another number, but they are taught to believe the “experts.” They don’t understand what to look for or how to find answers and they really want to trust healthcare providers. But they are starting to have doubts. I don’t know where this all leads. I am hoping it leads to weeding out corruption and making actual changes that are useful and helpful in treating people. Thank you to you and your colleagues who are working hard to treat people in spite of the challenges you face.
When you keep people in a state of knowing something is wrong and feeling restless about it, that's maintained by holding them in a state of ignorance where they don't know of other possible options. What I'm trying to do is make those other paths available.
I hope there are more doctors out there trying to do the same.
Ditto that.
I’m 73 years old. Approximately 1.5 years ago I changed my diet to eliminate carbs and sugars (keto) for weight loss, … and a strange thing happened. Not only did I EASILY lose considerable weight (39 pounds) but my high blood pressure dropped below normal while on blood pressure meds. So I stopped the BP meds and my blood pressure now consistently stays in the normal range around 120/80. And my bpm are lower by about 15 beats per minute.
Oh and this is amazing - I was having severe hypoglycemic episodes (low blood sugar drops) about 3 times a week. My blood sugar would register in the upper 40’s to lower 50’s which is dangerous and I would gobble food to raise it. My whole body would tremble and I would be very weak. After eliminating carbs and sugars from my diet, all that STOPPED IMMEDIATELY. I never had another drop in blood sugar again!!!
I then decided to try ending my years long dependency on antidepressants. I was on Prozac for over 30 years and switched to Duloxetine (Cymbalta) as the Fluoxetine (Prozac) seem to help my depression less and less. After stopping the Duloxetine and continuing my keto diet I discovered I felt NO different with or without this drug. I think if it wasn’t for the current political and medical drama we are subjected to daily that I would be in even better shape mentally/emotionally.
I was also on Livalo (a statin). It was quite expensive and I had to fight my insurance company to help pay for it, as the other statins caused much more muscular pain. I believe Livalo is produced in Japan which probably accounts for some of the added expense. Even the Livalo caused some muscular pain, but to a lesser extent. I decided to stop it as well. My last blood work showed no increase in blood cholesterol than I had when taking any statin. I was hoping for a drop, but I’ll settle for no change.
I think a lot of our problems are caused by the American diet. I feel better, have more energy, and definitely have less medical problems since going keto.
Since the pandemic and all that seems hidden and/or deceptive about the virus and the vax injuries I have lost faith in the medical profession. I am unvaxed btw. I don’t plan to visit a physician or hospital again unless it is along the lines of setting a broken bone or stitching up a wound. And I certainly plan to avoid medication. Now isn’t that a shame so many of us have come to distrust the medical profession, especially the government agencies like the CDC, FDA, NIH, and Big Pharma.
PS: I was on Vioxx years ago and suffered what they called a Silent Heart Attack. It showed up on an EKG after I went in with complaints of sweats, nausea, vomiting, and general weakness. I was shocked when they asked me “When did you have a heart attack?” It was only a few months later that Vioxx was pulled from the market for causing heart attacks. I was lucky as no one related my Silent Heart Attack to Vioxx until it was publicly disclosed, and I got off this med before more damage was done.
Very well stated. I’m a midwestern CRNA and practice independently in a small rural town. I see so many cases of poly pharmacy that are nonsensical, patients loaded down with medication lists 2 pages long. It’s amazing. And no mention to them about basic exercise or nutrition. Most of the cases I do are elective, so deciphering their health problems is a huge part of my practice. And what I’m seeing post Covid era is nothing but bizarre. I shake my head every day.
I have a teenage daughter that has been enticed by pursuing a career in healthcare. Any programs that you would recommend for your line of work? I believe we need more like you! Thanks for the great work you do!
For about the first ten years of my adult life, I was sucked into the psychiatric medication merry-go-round. It's hard to be a critical thinker when you are under the influence of those things combined with actual emotional problems, but one thing I started doing was ranking the psychiatrist's "placebo voice".
Basically, there comes a time during the psychiatric visit where the doctor introduces you to the new medication and makes a pitch for it (in psychiatry this happens a lot). When this happened, I evaluated how good a job they did and what was their technique i.e. a firm and confident voice designed to show their integrity and belief in the pill, the intellectual approach citing studies, the emotional approach talking about the importance of a healthy life, the peer pressure technique of saying so many people are taking them so there must be something good in it, etc.
I'm convinced they receive some sort of training for doing this. I also think that, especially with psychiatrists, it is unethical. The justification is that because the "placebo effect" is so awesome that these manipulative sales techniques are morally justified.
Evaluating the technique is a good thing to do with any type of doctor - learn to spot when they are doing a pharmaceutical pitch and simply evaluate how good they did. You can still take the drug, but just note the doctor's presentation and method of making the sales pitch.
On an emotional level, this reduces your association of the concerned doctor's face and voice with the pill, and this allows you to better make an independent judgement of it.
I found this comment really insightful, thank you. I somewhat understand how this training occurs in dermatology, but no so much in psychiatry (although I'm sure it happens there since it's one of the main money areas in medicine). In most cases this process is covert as the ideas are seeded in select physicians and then learned by the young doctors they supervise who model them from their supervising doctors.
I periodically see marketing PR seeded into medical journals and physicians subsequently adopting them. I also suspect that many of these phrases are learned at the extravagant hawaii vacations every drug pushing doctor is invited to. However, as I have never been to them, I can't actually say if that happens at these seminars.
The one thing I definitely agree on is that many of the phrases utilized by physicians to suggest beginning medications are identical around the country and often very easy to predict by the time they are mid-sentence. I just do not know the exact means this homogeneity of the sales pitch is actually accomplished (even though I feel like I should).
On a different note, when I was 13, I saw a doctor (who was prestigious and had many awards) for a serious issue I had an he aggressively suggested I start the medication. I explained that it made no sense and asked why he wanted me to take it, he got indignant that a 13 year old like me had no basis to challenge him. When I went home and looked the drug up, I realized he was completely full of it and except for required examinations I never subsequently visited a doctor again (minus holistic experts I knew personally beforehand).
Great insight!! I think the breakdown in mental health treatment and increasing pressure from insurance companies, as well as new "miracle" drugs, starting in the 80s, has a lot to do with lack of checks and balances. At a hospital where I interned in 1982, decisions regarding medication and therapy were made with input from the psychiatrist, all therapies involved, a psychologist and nursing. There was significant discussion about med changes and therapeutic approaches, at in person meetings and a lot of thought went into treatment planning. Input from family members was included in reporting from staff. With information from a variety of sources, a diagnostic picture would emerge that was probably more accurate than any determined by an individual. Clients were not provided prescriptions ongoing without participation in therapy. Though this approach would no doubt be more expensive up front, there would likely be significant savings if at least some issues resolved, and less use of resources later, as well as less suffering and collateral damage to families. Not sure this could be replicated, as staff in many disciplines have been taught to be lazy, to use check lists, to rely on "experts", spend incredible time going to expensive "training", and to emotionally distance themselves from clients to the extent that they are perceived by clients as cold and uncaring, which they are. It will be difficult to change this, as the most lazy have risen to the top, claiming to be "experts", proud, arrogant and unable to collaborate with others for fear of exposure of their ignorance. With the pervasive lack of humility in those guiding our direction in many areas, I believe all we can do is encourage young people with empathy and insight to aspire to higher positions of power and effect the return to truly humane treatment.
Another very interesting read.
I wish you were my doctor in all seriousness.
My doctor is a box ticker. And although the occasional glimpse of intelligence is shared. She mostly gives very orthodox answers and otherwise just does as I ask. As in. I go in and say something like... "I think I have tonsillitis, I have pustules on my tonsils, a sore throat and mild fever. I feel run down but I also have CFS/M.E so that is expected. Can I please have some antibiotics"
She then fills in the paperwork, has a quick look and sends me on my way with a script.
Am I angry. No. Not really. I got what I wanted and I got it quickly.
But as an army medic I could never do that or get away with that.
I would have to check all vitals. Take a reasonably thorough history. What did you eat recently? Could it be from trauma or fish bone? Could it be another infectious illness like infectious mono?
If there was a glimpse of doubt on the horizon always ask the doctor.
When I first became unwell with CFS/ME around 7 or 8 years ago. This same process was very difficult.
"I am tired and anxious"
Oh yeah, here take these antidepressants.
Next visit.
"I am still tired and anxious, but it comes and goes and the difference between when it is there or not there is significant"
Ok I'll take some bloods.
Next visit
"I am still tired and anxious, it is still coming and going but I think there is a pattern related to what I eat or drink or if I exercise"
Hmmm nothing in your bloods, are you still taking the antidepressants? Maybe you need to rest more. I'll take more bloods.
And so on and so on.
I basically had to figure CFS/M.E out myself. Propose the idea. Test the idea. Debate the idea. And after a few more visits. The idea was eventually accepted.
Well once you understand the model people are typically trained in, that thought process makes a lot more sense.
One only needs to research in depth statins to see how bad the medical/healthcare/pharmaceutical industry including governmental agencies have become. Add in the moving of goalposts by "expert" agencies/organizations, such as the "optimal" ranges for cholesterol, blood pressure, bone density, etc. and you see full-blown deception and fraud. JMHO
A hundred years ago they couldn't even measure any of that stuff. Well, maybe blood pressure. But they didn't have drugs to do anything about it. And people lived just fine. So my philosophy is: if you're generally healthy, don't measure all that crap. Just live your life. Eat well, exercise, and get a good night's sleep.
Once you can measure something you can monetize it.
My philosophy too. I’ve been robbed of two years.
We all know it’s not easy to find the truth about pharmaceuticals. Can you point me to a few good articles on the truth about statins? I’ve been trying to research for my father.
Read what malcom kendrick has written on this topic. He has books on it and lots of blog articles. At some point I will write on this topic and 90% of what I write will be sourced from him.
That's who I was going to recommend too. Kendrick is definitely trying to untangle what causes heart disease and has written a lot about statins.
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Hence, regardless of how you dice it, diagnosing pharmaceutical injuries is a tricky subject. Situations like these are best resolved by large, randomized trials to assess for harms, but since those cost money that can normally only come from drug companies, they never emerge. Thus, when I as a physician attempt to seek out the best available evidence to dictate my practice of medicine, I am often forced to rely upon my own and colleague’s anecdotal observations, something conventionally considered to be the worst form of medical evidence.
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My suggestion is that we the people finance the trials. We are paying them anyway. But better up-front and objectively controlled than misdirected for financial (or other) gain.
However those are extremely challenging to get IRB approval or funding for.
Where was IRB on the cases of the experimetal gene therapy ? Or other medications that were wrongfully admitted to the 'market' ?
Ethics without proper ethics is a kind of false flag operation on my book (:)
I love your posts. I already believe/feel that your posts have helped me enormously.
Thank you so much : )
Incredible article. Thank you.
I’m a physician (surgeon and SICU)who has become disillusioned by the system. I’ve initiated an early retirement, but I still like helping people. Any advice?
Are you a general surgeon with a SICU fellowship or a specialized surgeon? I will be completely honest and state that I never worked anywhere that was large enough to support a SICU.
General surgeon, that was grandfathered in to do SICU work. I started in family med, but switched to surgery after my intern year (2001). I’m thinking of retraining, or continuing with my retirement
Oh that's a shame, you've only be in for 17 years then. I'm not a surgeon so I can't really comment in detail on this but:
1) I have always really appreciated this verse and thought it was an excellent metaphor for surgery. I think switching from scalpels to electrocautery both makes surgery much more harmful to the body and requires significantly less skill.
https://www.connexions.org/CxArchive/BoPS/gateway/passages/chuang-tzu.htm
With any luck that passage will land home with you. I was able to with Obgyns who did and did not use electrocautery for C-sections and it was very interesting to compare and contrast their experiences.
2) There are a lot of career options you could potentially do outside of your current job.
-I know an amazing orthopedic surgeon who does medical missionary trips all the time. Beyond helping people, he said one of the major upsides to doing this is that he can just treat people and doesn't have to waste his time on all the legal/paperwork BS that takes up your life in the USA.
-I know some surgeons are moving towards having private/physician owned outpatient surgery centers. This allows them to retain a lot of the income they generate and not have to deal with a ton of administrative nightmares.
-I have numerous patients who want surgeons they feel can trust who will do the surgeries they need in the least harmful way possible and not require additional tests and procedures they feel are unnecessary or use safer prosthesis (ie. many people react badly to hernia meshes).
-One project I feel really needs to be done is IRB research showing that if you do ultraviolet radiation prior to surgeries, it dramatically reduces your risk of a post operative infection (much more than antibiotics will). This was demonstrated in Russia. There is a small independent team trying to get a US clinical trial on UVBI, but when they went for using it for COVID they got shut down (if this interests you there is a book to read on it); however I think the surgical application would have a better shot and have a profound impact on quality care in the USA. I also believe that it would be very helpful in the SICU.
Outside of those options, there are a variety of related disciplines you could branch into you might like.
-Some surgeons have said they prefer doing wound care to surgery.
-Some individuals who practice manual therapy (such as Osteopathic Manipulation) find a surgical background that allows them know what the internal organs and other tissues inside the body is really helpful.
-Two modalities I am a big fan of Neural Therapy and Prolotherapy. Neural therapy is often highly applicable to surgery as you will periodically encounter people who have permanent complications from a surgery due to the scar that formed following healing (especially with electrocautery) and being able to fix this is often life changing for them.
Prolotherapy often makes it possible to treat some surgical conditions non-surgically (one of my frequent challenges is to see if I can treat a hernia without a surgical referral).
I use both of these (and have mentors who are much better than me) because my goal is to see how many surgeries there is an effective non-surgical alternative for. If you come at all of that from a surgeon's background, you are going to be really talented at it.
Off the top of my head that was what I could think of. Let me know if any of that was helpful. There are also a ton of other ways you could diversify, but they are less specific (ie. becoming an author or speaker on medicine) and apply to most specialities.
Thanks for the thoughtful reply! I’ve also studied Taoism since the early ‘90’s and that story of the respect for the technique with the blade has stuck with me as well. It has a lot of broad reaching implications (like so much of Tao)
I maybe didn’t ask you the right question- I’m having a dilemma of disbelief in the entire medical system.
I’m in a place where I don’t really need to work financially. I’ve always lived and practiced according to my values and the ethical promises made earlier in life- and I’ve had a lot of negative fall out with corrupt systems as a result. However, my surgical outcomes were excellent and so my criticisms were tolerated and sometimes even acted on - for patient and system improvement.
The past ~3 years I’ve noticed us plummeting off the ledge of becoming unscientific and not patient based, even within the surgical community. Then this became obscene with COVID.
The community I was working in almost entirely refused to see unvaccinated patients for anything So I started a free clinic through my church (I’ve been an employed physician at a big hospital for past 8 years) so didn’t have my own practice I could use. That clinic got intense, but we had overall pretty good results.
As I had to educate myself on infectious disease and primary care again, it was a good opportunity to rethink what we are really doing with western medicine…. and I’m mostly left with just opting out and becoming a farmer. But I’m trying to be open minded that there’s still some good to be done with medicine. Overall, I’m sad about the current way we are doing things.
I’ve read a good number of your sub stack posts and find you to be wise and insightful.
When I was in private practice (it was in a smaller community, 180 bed hospital)I actually did a lot with scar releases, neurolysis, and soft tissue work for patients who had chronic pain after surgery (mostly other surgeons were the primary 😉).
But if you still believe we can actually help people improve their lives through the application of medical knowledge and expertise, that encourages me. I’ve stopped seeing it in my spheres, it seems that we’re adding to suffering while cheapening the value of peoples lives instead.
I’ve looked into retraining as a psychiatrist and started reading one of the standard texts… but I’m just not sure
Here's an idea:
The country, the WORLD, needs a parallel economy separated from the "system". YOU are rejecting the system and could be an important part of this new, parallel system. It seems private practice like you have started already for free with your church makes a lot of sense. But, you need a partner who is a GP or similar to feed you patients. Is there someone out there who feels like you and wants the same result with no insurance system? Do Naturopaths, for example, use insurance systems less so and normal GP providers? and perhaps more likely to partner up with you? Downside, not a "lucrative" career because your fees would have to be more reasonable than what was charged in the past to pay all the middle-men. On the other hand, most of that smaller fee would find its way to. . . you, instead! Good luck.
By the way, I need a subvaceous cyst removed on my back that keeps coming back! Perfect job for you.
I would subscribe to that. Unfortunately here in Australia the government controls who can practice. So even if I found a surgeon and anaesthetist who were willing to work ‘outside the system’, they would not be allowed to purchase the relevant medications etc. And whilst those who have not had a Covid injection are finally allowed to leave this country, we aren’t yet allowed to visit yours.
Have you thought of practicing acupuncture? I absolutely adore mine and would have been prescribed dozens of meds for what she can easily treat in a 60min session. She has opened my eyes to plant based supplements to ease ailments. I'm work in medicine too and can absolutely understand your wanting to walk away. Science has always been a passion and fascination for me but as a career it's getting incredibly frustrating and disheartening. The fact that we have to submit to any vaccine at all to stay employed is demoralizing. We are adults. We can all choose to take care of our own bodies - especially us that study them for a living. Best of luck and I hope you find happiness.
I’m glad there are people like you around.
I am a survivor of psychiatry. It is primarily pill pushing, has been since early 90's. Dr. Peter Breggin has managed to run his career without prescribing, or minimal prescribing - but 99.5% of practitioners are an algorithm, based on the DSM, that says, "if this symptom, then that diagnonsense, and these drugs apply." No effort is made to even acknowledge the traumas, the environments, the stressors, much less apply some sort of care or method into releasing them, like TRE (for example, there are others). So many survivors want the entire profession abolished, as per Thomas Szasz. I doubt you will find psychiatry fulfilling, if you are disgusted with the medical system - it is the pinnacle of the systemic hubris.
Learn how to effectively care for thyroid patients. Few medical professionals know to look beyond TSH & prescribe T4. We really need more! We need T3. It won't kill us and we won't thrive without it. No T2= no life.
I sorted myself out by reading Stop the Thyroid Madness, thyroidpatients.ca, and Paul Robinson's Thyroid Blog. Getting a genetic test that shows I have a DI02 enzyme polymorphism explained why I was making RT3 from T4. Changed my life!
We need doctors who understand the nuances of thyroid care. It's not rocket science but it sometimes takes experimentation.
Start a Freedom Hospital with likeminded doctors where you take insurance except for Mediscams (and cash, of course).
What about Tylenol/Paracetamol? It has been on the market for 72 years, but only since the recent pandemic people become aware that the use of this OTC drug depletes glutathione, increasing the risk of severe illness. I know my mother in law took a lot of it when she caught the covid. She ended up in the ICU where she was put on high-flow oxygen and got close to liver failure and death.
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphar.2020.579944/full
"[Gluthatione] also plays an important role in cancer development (Ballatori et al., 2009), and melanoma outcomes appear to be influenced by paracetamol intake (Køstner et al., 2015)."
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphar.2020.625295/full
Who knows how many people died from Tylenol, could be millions.
I am of the belief suppressing fevers (until they get really high) is problematic and this used to be a well known concept in medicine (for example it was one of the key factors that determined who lived and died from the 1918 influenza).
There are two reasons why this suppression is bad:
One is that it prevents a successful immune response from fighting off the disease (and in some cases cancer).
The other is that it causes whatever pathology the body is trying to excrete to instead move internally and give way to chronic disease. This is a very common issue.
During COVID, I observed most of the people I knew who got very ill or nearly died all took tylenol (or ibuprofen) once they started developing a fever and getting ill. I had to tell at family members who wanted to do this because they could not bear the discomfort they were experiencing, and I was working against a massive belief system that has taught everyone "it's not acceptable" to feel discomfort.
When I got COVID while traveling (I have treated a lot of people) I realized I had none of the tools I used to treat it or anyone to help me, and I essentially did three things:
1: I water fasted.
2: I made an effort to maximally minimize my energy expenditure.
3: I tried to heat my body up as much as possible.
End result was I was ill for 2 days, whole thing passed through me, and I felt much better after the disease than I did at the start.
People who did not listen to me and took fever suppressing medications had very different experiences.
Second, Tylenol often causes liver damage and is actually one of the drugs most responsible for killing people each year due to the frequent cases of liver failure it causes (via depletion of gluathione and toxic metabolites in the liver). Despite this being a very common issue, it is rare for patients to receive appropriate advice on how to avoid overdosing Tylenol.
Third (this relates to moving things inwards) when you read the disease histories of children who develop injuries such as autism after vaccination, the children initially develop high uncomfortable fevers, after which they are instructed to take Tylenol, and frequently, the severe injuries actually occur following the Tylenol administration.
That all said, NSAIDS like ibuprofen collectively kill way more people than Tylenol.
We used zinc, 1 tsp elderberry concentrate 4x day, 2,000 units vit. D (way too low), and 1,000 units vitamin C. Cleared symptoms in 24 hours.
Why I like Vioxx, but only for very short term use (absolutely no more than 2 weeks - a friend had a non-fatal heart attack after taking it for knee pain for 3 months). It relieves muscle aches, but is not antipyretic. Since it's banned (because of the abuse), one must make do with things like angelate/tiglate, and of course amantadine (didn't noticeably help covid). I don't recall any muscle aches when I had covid, but influenza had earlier given me meningitis and encephalitis as a relapse of Dhori disease until I learned to avoid antipyretics like ibuprofen. (Paracetamol is also not an antipyretic for me.)
In general I just don't believe in using NSAIDS. Of the commonly used drugs for those issues, I think paracetamol is the safest (provided its used appropriately and in moderation), but I believe other over the counter holistic therapies are much more effective.
Thanks, glad you were only sick for two days. You confirmed my thoughts regarding fever. I had covid a few weeks ago with fever going up and down for two days and also refrained from taking tylenol/ibuprofen. I did take one or two aspirin per day, ivermectin, NAC and some supplements but it did take a while longer to get my energy back.
Aspirin also suppresses fevers and a good case exists that much of the 1918 influenza deaths came from Aspirin being released to the market and near toxic doses given to patients. That said it has some value after COVID to prevent blood clots.
Perhaps some COVID clotting is due to platelets, but I suspect that a lot involves antibodies. I don't see aspirin helping reduce immune-based clotting.
From what I've read standard therapies for blood clotting were absolutely not working for "covid" related clotting.
Paracetamol also has no analgesic effect (for me, anyhow), and ruins livers. I suspect opiates are commonly compounded with it so people following Dr. House' example (pops 12 Vicodin tablets at once) will go away.
You remember me of my father. He was a wonderful doctor, he end up practicing in the poorest area possible because “at least here they will not bother that I really take care of my patients “. He was a brilliant neuro-psychiatrist (immediately after II world war it was not divided into two). But working inside a mental hospital, he started to make his own research on the toxicity of the medicines, the use of electroshock and so on.
They made his life a hell until he gave up and become a “medico condotto” in the poorest countryside.
When I came to know about the takeover of the western medicine by the Rockefellers I understood easily why it is so against changing and recognizing mistakes and so on.
It has been a easy game for the Rockefellers.
You bribe the big boys. And they will fix the situation in an unshakable way. They will go against any genuine change in behalf of the patients.
And generations after generations this misbehavior will become normal and more and more powerful.
The “protocols” are quite useful for dehumanizing the whole thing.
It’s the protocol, not the patients.
My father fought against it so hard, especially in the 70s. He lost of course. And he started to worry about me, what will happen when “I will not be there for you and this new generations of doctors will not be able to take care of you”.
Thank you for being a real doctor, fighting for a human medicine 🙏🙏🙏
You make me think of him ❤️
A lot of what I am able to do now is because people like your father gave a lot to fight for it when it was a much harder time to do things like that. I mean this from the bottom of my heart
A thought provoking view into the world of being a physician.
Lots to see here:
Just a few minutes to diagnose a problem.
A menu of available choices, based on a decision tree of personal experience, the medical literature, and the political climate, and the local and national regulators and licencing boards.
Pressure to provide a solution, easy to pick from those provided by the pharma companies, including the "free" samples. "Here, try this, let me know if it works for you..."
All, more or less ok, until covid arrives, and early treatment is suppressed.
That was a wakeup.
The side effects of the vaccine have compounded and re emphasized the systemic problems.
Thanks for posting this, it provides some insight.
I think the ultimate issue is that we have unrealistic expectations of physicians, and the reason those expectations are being pushed is to transition everything to an electronic/AI form of medicine.
AI can be a helpful tool. Lots of memory, organization and logical decision tree. But does not IMHO substitute for long personal experience and empathy. Also, an AI would tend to comply, and sometimes you are complying with something that is wrong or incorrect.
Whenever powerful tools get made, they are always abused. Our species has not graduated to the level of consciousness where these things can be helpful.
So, only a tool.