My sister in law was involved in a head on collision by a drunk driver about 18 months ago. A truck crossed the highway at 5 PM and hit her CRV head on. She was 67 and not in good health at all. She had been a smoker for over 50 years and had chronic COPD, hypertension, obese, and various other conditions. She was rushed to the hospital, it was determined she had a stroke, a heart attack, and shattered legs to list a few. Of course, the drunk driver had a few bruises, this was her 4th DWI.
This was during Covid when the hospitals were struggling with financial impacts. It took 3 days for my brother to be notified about the accident since police don’t do that in California, they have too many other things to do. A nurse answered my sister in law’s phone. My sister in law was not expected home since she was visiting family elsewhere.
The hospital workers gave my brother hope that my sister in law had a chance of recovery continuously. She was vented since she could not breathe on her own. This small hope was reinforced after every procedure (brain, heart, kidney). The last procedure they did was to run rods down each of her legs. When there was nothing else to be done the nurse asked my brother whether he would like them to keep her comfortable and let her go peacefully or place her in a long term care facility where they could maintain her on life support. Again, they told my brother there was a small chance she could recover but it would be a long hard recovery. These messages were always delivered by the Nurses or Nurse Practioners. My brother wanted to give his wife that chance even if it was less than 10%. He decided to move her to the long term care facility.
A kind physician called my brother, he asked my brother what he had been told by the hospital staff. He explained to my brother very gently that my sister in law would never get better. She would never recognize her family; she would never communicate; she would never wake up. The state she was in would be permanent. My brother knew the decision he had to make, and he made sure her family understood the situation. This kind physician gave his number to be shared with her family if they had questions. The family members called this busy physician who tenderly told each of them there was no hope. The family was united in the decision to take her off life support. She died within a day peacefully.
The hospital knew the day she arrived she would not survive, they knew the extent of the injuries, my sister in law’s age, and health – she had no chance of survival. I felt anger with the hospital – each department got their procedure in – she was a cash cow. My brother got her hospital bill – it was over a million dollars. My brother received a $100,000 death benefit from the car insurance company – Medicare took all of it and paid the hospital bill. The institutions are about the money not humanity, but I do see the goodness in this kind physician that ended my sweet sister in law’s capture by the medical institution so the family could bury her and move on as best you can when you lose someone you love. There is always a light in the darkness.
Yes, that was a surprise that Medicare would be able to attach an individual's car insurance death benefit. Fortunately Medicare or US Taxpayers picked up the rest of the bill.
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Thanks for sharing this story, sorry for your family's loss. I have witnessed just the opposite in multiple cases all over the place, where doctors and medical professionals greatly exaggerate the severity/lethality of a patient's illness, profoundly underestimate the chance of a good recovery and overestimate the unpleasantness and duration of the recovery process, severely pressure patients or their families into DNR orders, give them horribly dangerous and negligent care that introduces new ailments and obviously makes them sicker, suffering more, and closer to death, and finally try to strongarm their families to push them into ho$pice care to die under the guise of "humanity", "dignity", etc.
Meanwhile, these doctors purposefully withhold simple treatments that might well have saved the patients' lives (think of...cough, ivermectin, cough)- but this is certainly a longstanding problem even before COVID and in cases that have nothing to do with COVID. And it disproportionately affects the most vulnerable patients whose families lack the ability or inclination to advocate for them. The end result is, those families who "fought the system" and stood up for their loved one, even involving lawyers if necessary or threatening to do so, often prevail and their loved one makes a good recovery despite all the gloom and doom predictions from the "experts". While the families who weren't able or inclined or informed enough to stand up for their loved one, and instead "trusted the experts", tended to end up losing their loved in a death that was premature and often preventable.
Here is an excellent article that very accurately describes the essence of what I have seen in many instances. But "seniors" are not the only victims as the article seems to imply- other vulnerable patients are often victims as well, such as those who are disabled, disadvantaged, critically ill, or otherwise not cost-effective for "the system" to save. https://nypost.com/2015/07/12/end-of-life-counselling-death-panels-are-back/
I am not an organ donor or anyone in my family because your organs are more valuable then you. My Dad had a kidney transplant so I understand the need but I rather my family have the time to make that decision. Good luck if you are a young healthy person who has suffered an overdose or trauma and your license says organ donor. The transplant team has you in their cross hairs.
I've always really wondered about this because I know how much organs are worth, but all the claims I've seen saying you get in the cross hairs for an organ transplant I've never been able to verify. That said, I never worked at a facility that did transplants, and I also have always declined being a donor for that specific reason.
I recently withdrew my consent to be an organ donor for many reasons, but the primary reason is this: why are my unvaccinated organs only available to the vaccinated ? When the unvaccinated became ineligible to receive organs, my organs became unavailable.
Great article. I had a big talk with my MD about COVID jabs. She acknowledged having submitted three VAERS reports for her patients (representing about 1% of her patient load) but when I mentioned 1.3 million total VAERS reports filed, she said they were likely fake reports from “bots”, even though the 1.3 million represented a smaller percentage of vaccinated people than she personally reported in her own practice. Cognitive dissonance runs deep, largely based on the psychological traits outlined in the article.
Thank you for this. I write this with tears in my eyes. My beloved aunt was strong armed into taking the vaccine. She had a history of sarcoidosis but it had been dormant for many years previously. She suffered instant shortness of breath after having it and suffered an instant decrease in her health. She died a few months after. Sudden heart attack with massive clotting and evidence of severe sarcoidosis. She is currently not included on the yellow card (Uk) data.
I am so sorry about your aunt. I have a friend with sarcoidosis in multiple organs who is receiving chemo for it, and he is staying current with vaccines and boosters. I have been very concerned for him. I post information about vaccine problems on FB, but I am sure he just ignores it.
I have dormant sarcoidosis, and had already decided I wasn't going to get the vaccine because of past experiences with (new) "fully tested" drugs/vaccines. A EUA vaccine wasn't even a consideration. So glad I chose against it - as did my immediate family. We all survived COVID. My husband has since had a stroke, a heart attack, and bypass surgery (2 weeks, 8 months, and 9 months after recovering from COVID) but they are most likely primarily from long term lifestyle/health choices - not COVID. And he's doing well.
Excellent examination of the issues. What is perhaps most frightening to me is that the dangerous and deadly "vaccines" are but one more manifestation of an overall "health system" that regularly poisons the American population with toxins in food, water, air, and medications. Many people I think realize that the EPA fails to appropriately regulate toxic chemicals in our environment because it is an government agency captured by corporate interests.
However, fewer people (prior to covid) suspected the same corporate capture and corruption was also true of the FDA, the CDC, the NIAID, and medical regulatory and licensing boards - though their respective "behaviors" during the last several years have clearly proven this to be the case.
Coincidentally, given the wide range of debilitating post-vaccination injuries already apparent - medical professionals of all specializations can expect a robust crop of new patients years into the future to insure their income streams and job security. The source of this vast new pool of patients somehow managing to remain a complete mystery to most physicians.
The Upton Sinclair quote comes to mind: ("It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.")
they will be told that this is due to climate change and meat consumption, so they will push carbs and insects, and of course, many more new shots and unnecessary procedures, now enjoying total compliance, because otherwise their patients will be downscored on their social score.
it will make them very happy until AI appears to replace them. and then we will be able to say: “you cooked the meal, now eat it”.
How can toxins be present in drinking water? How would they survive chlorination, ozonation, chlorine dioxide, or whatever? Did you mean toxicants like fluoride, aluminum, lead, arsenic, and trihalomethanes?
Other than possibly Bt (Bacillus thuringiensis toxin) or some hormone mimickers such as genistein, it mentions no toxins. "Herbicides, pesticides, pharmaceuticals" is not a synonym. "Toxin" doesn't mean "contaminant". Is this Dr. Bryan Ardis' site?
There might be any number of heavy metals and agricultural runoff like glyphosate in drinking water. An atomic emission test of hair or evaporation residue could determine whether toxic metals are present and the concentration. Labs may have some way to test for the concentration of glyphosate.
We must not forget the brave pioneer in this battle - Dr. Paul Thomas - Oregon yanked his med license in 2020
"The apparent impetus for the “emergency” meeting, however, was the publication just days prior of a study showing that compared with his vaccinated patients, those patients who received no vaccines have significantly lower incidence of diagnoses and office visits for a broad range of chronic health conditions — including asthma, allergies, eczema, dermatitis, hives, anemia, eye disorders, ear infections, respiratory infections, other infections, breathing issues, behavioral issues, and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
Thomas obtained institutional review board approval to use his de-identified patient data for research and publication of the study, which was co-authored by James Lyons-Weiler, Ph.D.
The study population consisted of all patients born into his practice. Titled “Relative Incidence of Office Visits and Cumulative Rates of Billed Diagnoses Along the Axis of Vaccination,” it was published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health on Nov. 22, 2020."
short documentary on how John D Rockefeller took complete control of the medical system...the hidden truth about how corrupt the entire system is and how it became that way...https://www.corbettreport.com/rockefeller-medicine-video/
Thank you for the link. I hadn't seen that episode. I knew the general story but the additional details were helpful in seeing the full picture of my profession's power structure (black pilled family doctor here BTW).
Again, thank you for this - once again, I realize how rare my husband was, a Cornell-trained radiologist, who refused several medicines (Vioxx was one) prescribed to him and who generally preferred older generation medicines. But he was a "failure" by his own sister's reckoning (also in healthcare as a therapist - she's very proud of her investment expertise). He also used to say the big salaries & expensive toys his colleagues liked were compensation for giving up so many normal pleasures (attending a son's scout trip or daughter's dance recital, taking an afternoon off) to serve in their profession. I am grateful to drs like John Mandrola MD, who post their concerns on statins or unlimited ablations online - I've used his points to argue w my drs in past. Lowered my cholesterol by losing 15 lb.
My father wanted to stay on the blood thinner he had been on for years, but his cardiologist wanted him to go into a new medication. By chance, I overheard two men in a waiting room having a conversation about this topic saying they were staying with the older med. When I approached them about it, they told me, “It may help you to know we are doctors.”
In almost all cases the only reason new drugs come out in areas where other things have been used for a long time is so the manufacturer of the new drug can charge large amounts of money for a problem that was already solved with the old drug.
Yes. As several friends have agreed with me, one has to become one's own advocate nowadays. Sometimes I have postponed a med, telling the doc "I'll think about it," and later be told by a different physician, "I'd never put you on that med based on one diagnostic test!"
Thank you, Doctor. My daughter is in second year medicine and I copy her with your thoughts regularly. I believe they fortify her soul and her feed her determination to be a (future) agent for change. She faced intense pressure from the med school/ medical complex to submit to taking the C19 vaccines, from her first day of med school. Despite that she had provided them (quantified) proof of innate antibodies to C19 from a previous infection, she was told vaccination was 'mandatory'. Prior to studying medicine she was an RN, so the dismissal of her innate immunity was an abrupt and rude awakening into the world of medicine as you describe it. It cast an immediate shadow over her medical school education and she entered her studies a disillusioned but simultaneously enlightened, skeptic. Her core and long held convictions (do no harm, innate immunity is the best immunity, coercion is not consent) were turned upside down, and now not a day goes by where she says she can "unsee" what she now sees with fresh eyes. I know the entire experience will make her a truly ethical and principled physician one day, but in the meantime, your words help her feel less alone, because as you say, she is surrounded by blind followers of the stats quo who lap up every word they are taught by the medico-pharmaceutical complex as the gospel truth.
If she would like to reach out to me for and advice I'd be happy to do that. Also to get through the medical training, you can't be too distrusting of the system, you sort of have to learn that after you finish otherwise it is completely overwhelming to simultaneously hold two realities in your mind (plus a lot of what they teach you is actually very good stuff)
What a wonderful offer, thank you, Doctor! I will definitely pass this on. Is your substack the best way for her to reach you? And yes, my daughter is well aware that she must do her best in medical school and not let the cynicism overtake her learning. Judging by her grades, she is doing very well with balancing it all. What has not killed her, continues to make her stronger, it would seem.
I can't speak for everyone here but I would like to be able to have access to a doctor like the Midwestern doctor. Fortunately I'm in great health, run half marathons, lift, eat well, and have no weight or obesity issues or any health issues that I'm aware of. But people I care about do sometimes need medical care. How could we form a network of medical practitioners who are humble and introspective as well as having the medical expertise and high intellect that the complexity of medicine requires?
Your best work yet. Thank you as it encapsulated for me thirty years of thinking about this issue.
One aspect that you touch upon but don't elaborate upon is the strong desire of clinicians to be helpful. Acknowledging our limited ability to do so is just a bridge too far for most of us. Everything in our being and in our education has misled us as to what it means to be caring.
I felt you touched on this. But maybe since I am a physical therapist, I see a lot of my own psychology and how that affects what I do. And the more I know myself, the more I am aware. It can be a burden to see yourself so
clearly and wanting clarity around that. No one is perfect for sure, more often than not on most days knowing myself is a huge blessing...to me and my patients!
what does it look like to redpill this with medical colleagues? or if that is unlikely (and I think it often is) how might one screen for traits that make this less of an issue when hiring colleagues?
I have been working to do that for a long time. I've tried a lot of different approaches. Honestly, the earlier you got them in their medical training the easier it is because as time goes on people just get a lot of inertia towards the conventional medical ideology. Additionally, there are a lot of people who doubt the system or have specific doubts, but they never have a safe place to bring up their concerns, so a large part of the process is creating a place where there is an openness for them to express what they feel (do you have to make them feel like they can trust you, but also not seem like you're crazy). I have someone over by a sample size, because I interact a lot more with the groups of physicians who tend to be more open minded, whereas with the more hard-core conventional people, I found is kind of a lost cause to change their minds and outside of a few cases where I had a personal relationship with them (e.g. there remember the my extended family) I've never really tried.
Thanks, This is in accord with my observations as well. Wouldn't it be wonderful if our profession would embrace the need to shake ourselves up out of our stupor periodically and liberate our minds.
To give doctors credit, the majority seem to have fallen under their own spell - the overwhelming majority apparently have taken the vaccines. I think it would be difficult to be a doctor forced or coerced to follow protocols of their employers on the one hand, or fearful of being sued by patients on the other. Perhaps like minded physicians who are aware of the problems can come together and form their own outpatient clinics, urgent cares, or hospitals to escape bad systems.
The Dunning-Kruger effect is interesting. I read somewhere that engineers don't tend to make good jurors for prosecutors. If true, this is presumably because their procedural minds allows them to imagine multiple stories that fit the observations, leading to a much higher standard for "beyond a reasonable doubt" than your average juror.
Yeah. Normally the doctors who push things they won't take are the ones who are clearly corrupt, but they do not represent the majority of the profession.
My own policy is that if possible, I won't recommend something I have not had done to me or tried first.
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Your policy is logical enough. Unfortunately, one must allow for the hopefully very rare case: A doctor who does practice what he preaches (e.g. uses a drug he also prescribes) yet either is unaware that it's harmful or worse, knows it is. On second thought, allow me to amend that: We already know that it is NOT "very rare," at least in the case of the mRNA jabs. I don't have statistics (and I wouldn't give them any credibility if I did) but it's safe to say a large fraction of doctors took the mRNA experimental potions. Of all personnel, those in the medical field should have known early on that these products were at best unknown quantities with dubious credentials, or as the months wore on and evidence (more likely "rumor") arose, they demonstrably were ineffective and probably dangerous. Upon challenge, many would confess "I had to take it, or I would lose my job." Well that was probably true, but really, you would gamble your health and your life on a sketchy product, and now you expect me to trust you with my own health care? I think not! And there's the "true believer," the medic who is sure that all is above board, that Pharma, the FDA and the CDC can do no wrong, that the jabs are next-generation technology, and that any naysayers are clearly deluded anti-vaxxers. I'm not sure which is more dangerous to the patient; the scary thing is it must be the case that a large portion, perhaps the majority, of our health care providers fit one of the above categories.
Even a gross abrogation of ethics that the mRNA "vaccines" have been, they have served some positive purposes, not the least of which is to show in startling relief how corrupt mainstream medicine has been.
A big part of why I'm investing the time I am into the sub stack it was because I am very hopeful that the where Covid was handled pushed too far and there is now a window to bring the general public's attention to a lot of issues that have been ignored in the background since long before I was born.
We appreciate your investment. As writers- we know how much time and thought goes into laying out evidence, conjectures, connections, metaphors and symbols to move the needle towards enlightenment.
Thank you for your clear-thinking and compassionate article. I have read your entire series. Required reading for anyone who cares about healthcare and wants to understand the motivations and mindset of American doctors on pharmaceuticals.
Doc, this is going to come across very simplistic but most doctors are part of a top-down compliance-control-cartel. You have put yourself into this system of coercion and rewards. The only way this spell is going to be broken is for doctors to collectively form a new set of alliances that form around helping patients get healthly using multiple healing approaches. Doctors need to not become part of the medical-pharma-media-complex where there is only one approach otherwise you are deemed a heretic. Sure we would all like to be safe from quackery, doctors and clinics who are irresponsible in their use of medicinals, various techniques or various dangerous technologies, but we dont need a top down "Mt Sinai" regulatory system laying down the "5000 commandments" on docs or patients. We really need a revolution and it starts with both patients and doctors demanding this and saying no those who would control us into a tiny corral.
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Thank you Doctor for everything you do and I should have stated this first before my previous comment! Thank you for speaking out the truth and fight and resisting the evils of this "compliance cartel." God bless you and protect you. Every institution has been or is in the process of being weaponized against human health and thriving.
When my father was 75, he was very fit, walked 3-5 miles per day at a really fast pace, trim and healthy. Did not smoke (he quit when he was in his 40s), did not drink (also quit in his 40’s). His only “issues” were an elevated cholesterol, and mild depression. His MD placed him on statins, and antidepressants. Within the year he developed type 2 diabetes, and cognitive decline. Within 5 years he was moved into a nursing home, as the vascular dementia caused by his diabetes was killing tiny portions of his brain, until he could no longer function. He spent the last 5yrs of his life there. I’m convinced it was a result of his statins.
Fast forward to my health-I eat a wholly organic diet and do not consume processed foods. My cholesterol is slightly elevated. About 25years ago I was bullied by my MD and allowed myself to be talked into taking a statin. The muscle cramps I experienced were awful. If the muscles in my legs could cramp so bad, couldn’t my heart also? After all, it is a muscle that never stops working. My MD dismissed my concerns, wanted me to take another brand of statins. I became “pre diabetic”, with a rising A1C each time my blood was drawn, and my triglycerides sky high, gaining weight in spite of following my MDs advice to eat a low fat diet. I quit my MD, quit the statins, quit sugar, dropped 50lbs as a result, lowered my triglycerides, and feel better than I have in 20 years! I no longer see an allopathic MD. I go to an integrative health DO, but only to have my blood panels run. I haven’t been sick in a very long time- quite a feat since I work in a large hospital (a congregation of germs). I was fortunate to receive an exemption from the Covid vax. I have not caught Covid, despite taking care of many symptomatic patients. I sought the care of a physician with the FLCCC. He prescribed IVM (prophylactically) for both my husband and myself. That, along with other supplements, Vit D, etc has kept me healthy. I’m done with allopathic medicine. I’ve seen so many young people now coming to the hospital with “old people” diseases. I tread lightly in asking their vaccination status. One of my patients recently diagnosed with an aggressive breast cancer told me she would rather have cancer than Covid, after asking me if the vaccine caused her to get cancer. I told her no one knows, as there was no follow up or testing. Crazy times! We must all advocate for our own health and seek a healer that fits. Hard to do these days. Thanks for your articles! I’ve learned so much!
Statins are one of the most harmful and least beneficial drugs that are mass prescribed to the population. Virtually every single holistically minded doctor I have spoken to puts them in the top five. In the future all right on the topic, but everything that you described is pretty much classic for side effects from statins. The really sad thing is that many of those side effects could be avoided by mixing them with CoQ10, but the industry never wanted to do that because that was a result of them having to admit fault for the statins being dangerous.
I have such little respect for MDs now. Stay in healthcare long enough and one realizes the word “healthcare” is an oxymoron- you gain neither and get put on a hamster wheel just trying to survive! I wish I had learned sooner what I know now. When I went on a keto diet, a cardiologist said, “make sure you stay away from animal fats”. And pushed seed oils (horrible for health). Another told me he wished statins were in the drinking water like fluoride. Don’t get me started! The cholesterol myth; wheat pushed by an oligarch (Kellogg). Even sunlight vilified! I always wondered why my melanoma patients would have lesions where the sun never shined (vagina, etc). The benefits of sunlight are HUGE! cellular production of melatonin, vitamin D production, Blood pressure lowered, blood sugar lowered, and many more.Dermatologists would have you take pharmaceuticals to rectify the above, rather than spend time outdoors with the very sun we humans evolved with! MDs seem to purposely DEFY the very habits we humans evolved with. Patients want the easy fix of taking more and more drugs to fix problems that, in most cases, food selection would fix. MDs so complicit in doling out the horrible drugs, they are like the pod people from Invasion of the Body Snatchers. I got a lot of gruff and condescension from the MDs who surround me. In the midst of the Covid crazies, when Delta was the most prevalent strain, one told me that in a few months I’d either catch Covid or die because I refused the vaccine. He’s caught Covid twice already. It’s so sad to witness the health outcomes from these pharmaceuticals doled out to the masses. It’s not easy to find the information, it’s hidden. But never dismissing the questions that nag me from my own observations of thousand of patients who crossed my path, helped me embark on the right path. I subscribe to many substacks, and sometimes get behind in reading them, but I ALWAYS read your postings right when they drop in my in box. I wish I could find a physician with your skills and compassion. I’m jealous of your patients. 😊
Yes, fluoroquinolones! They're given out like candy in the U.S., at least on the East Coast.
After being given them in Boston, I had such a bad reaction that I landed in the hospital again for a week, this time in Germany, where I live. They told me that the fluoroquinolones, especially the Cipro I'd been given, are actually banned in Germany except if everything else has been tried first, emergency basis. They also said the Advil I'd also been given, because I wouldn't take opioids, is known to exacerbate the condition I had (diverticulitis). Thanks very much, right?
Three years later I'm still trying to recover from the fluoroquinolones.
Oh, Doctor. Please suggest what I should do. I had the widow-maker 14 years-ago. I have been taking statins and all the other meds one is told to take after a M.I. Is there anything I can do to help since I have a damaged heart and doctors tell me if I don't take the statins and other drugs I will have another M.I.? Please suggest. Consuelo
Also in reference to the changes in health you are noticing (I also gradually mastered the art of how to innocuously find out if people were vaccinated after they presented with a likely vaccine injury), were you ever able to read this one? https://amidwesterndoctor.substack.com/p/the-story-behind-sudden-death-syndromes
This was another great read for me, thanks to your humble assessment of what has been going on in your profession. I would like to know why nutrition is overlooked. How many people have difficulties due to a lack of vitamins and minerals? How many diseases and disorders are directly related to a lack of a nutrient? Perhaps this is why people are so religious about vaccines because what is the alternative for them? It takes discipline and knowledge to eat well and most do not know or care about what they eat except for the taste and aroma of a particular fast food product, some bag of snack chips, or sugar-ladened baked goods topped off with a soda. Our food industry is just as corrupt as the rest of the corporations that run our health care system today.
Pharmaceutical focuses research stigmatizes this approach since it threatens the industry. For this reason, people have a general dislike of and tendancy to ridicule these approaches.
Additionally the processed food industry wants tho whole topic buried too.
People also like easy quick fixes, and you can get that with a pill whereas changing a diet to be healthy is a lot wore work.
Layman's perspective: The answer is actually quite simple, and doesn't necessarily even involve a profit motive. Common sense suggests that if a person would eat a healthy diet (and yes, probably take vitamin and mineral supplements), get regular exercise, avoid known bad habits (smoking, excess alcohol, illegal drugs) and get regular check-ups, that would go far in assuring optimal health for the average person. The inescapable problem is that all of those are ongoing requirements, requiring the patient to adopt those particular activities into his life. Beyond a doctor giving standard advice at visits, how else could such desirable behavior be encouraged? It would require full time coaches, advisors or other interventions. There is no practical way that could be offered. And even if it were available, a major problem is patient stubbornness: "I don't wanna" would stymie the best health advice.
Given these real world limitations, can we really blame the physician for his almost total lack of power to change his patient's bad behaviors and poor choices? No. The best he can offer is to provide remedial care when possible, trying as best he can to minimize the damage that the patient brings upon himself.
The same analysis applies to the food companies. For example, it's easy to demonize fast food outlets for selling unhealthy foods. But the awful truth is that is what customers want. Change the menu too much (or even reduce salt or sugar below certain levels) and demand drops off. It's (usually) possible to eat healthy, but it requires wisdom and effort by the individual. But to blame business rings hollow, sort of like an alcoholic blaming the distillery for his affliction.
Perhaps I'm belaboring the obvious, but here it is again: For the average person, the things that have the best chance of giving you optimal health over you life, do not cost very much. But they are not available from your doctor or anyone else. They are, indeed things that you must learn and do for yourself on a daily basis. You can seek outside help (advice, trainer, and so on) but it is YOU who must do the actual work. Even the richest man in the world, Elon Musk perhaps, cannot hire someone else to urinate or defecate for him 🙂 Like it or not, there are simply some things you must take the initiative and do yourself if you expect to reap any reward.
Note: None of the foregoing is to excuse big business from all misconduct. Clearly they are sometimes guilty of greed, deception or other questionable behaviors. What I'm hoping to show is that in many cases what we denounce as "corruption" is merely business responding to market forces. It's human nature to blame others, but the hard truth is that most of our troubles are of our own making.
My sister in law was involved in a head on collision by a drunk driver about 18 months ago. A truck crossed the highway at 5 PM and hit her CRV head on. She was 67 and not in good health at all. She had been a smoker for over 50 years and had chronic COPD, hypertension, obese, and various other conditions. She was rushed to the hospital, it was determined she had a stroke, a heart attack, and shattered legs to list a few. Of course, the drunk driver had a few bruises, this was her 4th DWI.
This was during Covid when the hospitals were struggling with financial impacts. It took 3 days for my brother to be notified about the accident since police don’t do that in California, they have too many other things to do. A nurse answered my sister in law’s phone. My sister in law was not expected home since she was visiting family elsewhere.
The hospital workers gave my brother hope that my sister in law had a chance of recovery continuously. She was vented since she could not breathe on her own. This small hope was reinforced after every procedure (brain, heart, kidney). The last procedure they did was to run rods down each of her legs. When there was nothing else to be done the nurse asked my brother whether he would like them to keep her comfortable and let her go peacefully or place her in a long term care facility where they could maintain her on life support. Again, they told my brother there was a small chance she could recover but it would be a long hard recovery. These messages were always delivered by the Nurses or Nurse Practioners. My brother wanted to give his wife that chance even if it was less than 10%. He decided to move her to the long term care facility.
A kind physician called my brother, he asked my brother what he had been told by the hospital staff. He explained to my brother very gently that my sister in law would never get better. She would never recognize her family; she would never communicate; she would never wake up. The state she was in would be permanent. My brother knew the decision he had to make, and he made sure her family understood the situation. This kind physician gave his number to be shared with her family if they had questions. The family members called this busy physician who tenderly told each of them there was no hope. The family was united in the decision to take her off life support. She died within a day peacefully.
The hospital knew the day she arrived she would not survive, they knew the extent of the injuries, my sister in law’s age, and health – she had no chance of survival. I felt anger with the hospital – each department got their procedure in – she was a cash cow. My brother got her hospital bill – it was over a million dollars. My brother received a $100,000 death benefit from the car insurance company – Medicare took all of it and paid the hospital bill. The institutions are about the money not humanity, but I do see the goodness in this kind physician that ended my sweet sister in law’s capture by the medical institution so the family could bury her and move on as best you can when you lose someone you love. There is always a light in the darkness.
I did not know they would be able to get the insurance payment.
It is very sad how the medical industry views a lot of people like livestock to harvest as many billable procedures from as possible.
Yes, that was a surprise that Medicare would be able to attach an individual's car insurance death benefit. Fortunately Medicare or US Taxpayers picked up the rest of the bill.
Thanks for sharing this story, sorry for your family's loss. I have witnessed just the opposite in multiple cases all over the place, where doctors and medical professionals greatly exaggerate the severity/lethality of a patient's illness, profoundly underestimate the chance of a good recovery and overestimate the unpleasantness and duration of the recovery process, severely pressure patients or their families into DNR orders, give them horribly dangerous and negligent care that introduces new ailments and obviously makes them sicker, suffering more, and closer to death, and finally try to strongarm their families to push them into ho$pice care to die under the guise of "humanity", "dignity", etc.
Meanwhile, these doctors purposefully withhold simple treatments that might well have saved the patients' lives (think of...cough, ivermectin, cough)- but this is certainly a longstanding problem even before COVID and in cases that have nothing to do with COVID. And it disproportionately affects the most vulnerable patients whose families lack the ability or inclination to advocate for them. The end result is, those families who "fought the system" and stood up for their loved one, even involving lawyers if necessary or threatening to do so, often prevail and their loved one makes a good recovery despite all the gloom and doom predictions from the "experts". While the families who weren't able or inclined or informed enough to stand up for their loved one, and instead "trusted the experts", tended to end up losing their loved in a death that was premature and often preventable.
Here is an excellent article that very accurately describes the essence of what I have seen in many instances. But "seniors" are not the only victims as the article seems to imply- other vulnerable patients are often victims as well, such as those who are disabled, disadvantaged, critically ill, or otherwise not cost-effective for "the system" to save. https://nypost.com/2015/07/12/end-of-life-counselling-death-panels-are-back/
I am not an organ donor or anyone in my family because your organs are more valuable then you. My Dad had a kidney transplant so I understand the need but I rather my family have the time to make that decision. Good luck if you are a young healthy person who has suffered an overdose or trauma and your license says organ donor. The transplant team has you in their cross hairs.
I've always really wondered about this because I know how much organs are worth, but all the claims I've seen saying you get in the cross hairs for an organ transplant I've never been able to verify. That said, I never worked at a facility that did transplants, and I also have always declined being a donor for that specific reason.
I recently withdrew my consent to be an organ donor for many reasons, but the primary reason is this: why are my unvaccinated organs only available to the vaccinated ? When the unvaccinated became ineligible to receive organs, my organs became unavailable.
I just changed this on my DL. Now that I know.
Great article. I had a big talk with my MD about COVID jabs. She acknowledged having submitted three VAERS reports for her patients (representing about 1% of her patient load) but when I mentioned 1.3 million total VAERS reports filed, she said they were likely fake reports from “bots”, even though the 1.3 million represented a smaller percentage of vaccinated people than she personally reported in her own practice. Cognitive dissonance runs deep, largely based on the psychological traits outlined in the article.
That is an amazing rationalization process
Also shows she has not calculated or thought about the injury rates after filing 3 VAERS reports. Intellectually lazy and so incompetent.
That is so odd, right? She sees it but doesn't see it enough to validate the possibility. Wow. Wow. Wow.
Denial, subconsciously protecting her world view
Even consciously denying ha ha ha
Cogdis or basic math and logical thinking difficulties. Both are equally bad for a MD. Dump her.
Thank you for this. I write this with tears in my eyes. My beloved aunt was strong armed into taking the vaccine. She had a history of sarcoidosis but it had been dormant for many years previously. She suffered instant shortness of breath after having it and suffered an instant decrease in her health. She died a few months after. Sudden heart attack with massive clotting and evidence of severe sarcoidosis. She is currently not included on the yellow card (Uk) data.
Thank you for sharing; I will link to your comment.
Pa my aunt was 68 - just a year younger than the other case you mention
As an update, my Uncle (brother to my deceased aunt) now has possible sarcoidosis. Never had it before.
So very sorry. Heavy heart.
Sending many heartfelt wishes.
What is sarcoidosis? Thank you.
I am so sorry about your aunt. I have a friend with sarcoidosis in multiple organs who is receiving chemo for it, and he is staying current with vaccines and boosters. I have been very concerned for him. I post information about vaccine problems on FB, but I am sure he just ignores it.
I have dormant sarcoidosis, and had already decided I wasn't going to get the vaccine because of past experiences with (new) "fully tested" drugs/vaccines. A EUA vaccine wasn't even a consideration. So glad I chose against it - as did my immediate family. We all survived COVID. My husband has since had a stroke, a heart attack, and bypass surgery (2 weeks, 8 months, and 9 months after recovering from COVID) but they are most likely primarily from long term lifestyle/health choices - not COVID. And he's doing well.
Thank you for your kind words. I’m so sorry for your, and your husbands, health problems. Well done for managing to stand firm.
Excellent examination of the issues. What is perhaps most frightening to me is that the dangerous and deadly "vaccines" are but one more manifestation of an overall "health system" that regularly poisons the American population with toxins in food, water, air, and medications. Many people I think realize that the EPA fails to appropriately regulate toxic chemicals in our environment because it is an government agency captured by corporate interests.
However, fewer people (prior to covid) suspected the same corporate capture and corruption was also true of the FDA, the CDC, the NIAID, and medical regulatory and licensing boards - though their respective "behaviors" during the last several years have clearly proven this to be the case.
Coincidentally, given the wide range of debilitating post-vaccination injuries already apparent - medical professionals of all specializations can expect a robust crop of new patients years into the future to insure their income streams and job security. The source of this vast new pool of patients somehow managing to remain a complete mystery to most physicians.
The Upton Sinclair quote comes to mind: ("It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.")
I touched upon that issue here: https://amidwesterndoctor.substack.com/p/the-story-behind-sudden-death-syndromes
they will be told that this is due to climate change and meat consumption, so they will push carbs and insects, and of course, many more new shots and unnecessary procedures, now enjoying total compliance, because otherwise their patients will be downscored on their social score.
it will make them very happy until AI appears to replace them. and then we will be able to say: “you cooked the meal, now eat it”.
bitterly.
How can toxins be present in drinking water? How would they survive chlorination, ozonation, chlorine dioxide, or whatever? Did you mean toxicants like fluoride, aluminum, lead, arsenic, and trihalomethanes?
Chronic vs acute toxicity
https://easywater.com/residential/water-problems/toxins/
Other than possibly Bt (Bacillus thuringiensis toxin) or some hormone mimickers such as genistein, it mentions no toxins. "Herbicides, pesticides, pharmaceuticals" is not a synonym. "Toxin" doesn't mean "contaminant". Is this Dr. Bryan Ardis' site?
There might be any number of heavy metals and agricultural runoff like glyphosate in drinking water. An atomic emission test of hair or evaporation residue could determine whether toxic metals are present and the concentration. Labs may have some way to test for the concentration of glyphosate.
Thank you. Please don't call anything not biologically-secreted a "toxin", however.
Science says otherwise.
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-7643-8340-4_6
Sir MidWest Doctor - You set a wonderful example.
What happens when all these medical' Professionals' become sick, incapacitated or dead themselves after taking these injections? Will it all collaspe?
We must not forget the brave pioneer in this battle - Dr. Paul Thomas - Oregon yanked his med license in 2020
"The apparent impetus for the “emergency” meeting, however, was the publication just days prior of a study showing that compared with his vaccinated patients, those patients who received no vaccines have significantly lower incidence of diagnoses and office visits for a broad range of chronic health conditions — including asthma, allergies, eczema, dermatitis, hives, anemia, eye disorders, ear infections, respiratory infections, other infections, breathing issues, behavioral issues, and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
Thomas obtained institutional review board approval to use his de-identified patient data for research and publication of the study, which was co-authored by James Lyons-Weiler, Ph.D.
The study population consisted of all patients born into his practice. Titled “Relative Incidence of Office Visits and Cumulative Rates of Billed Diagnoses Along the Axis of Vaccination,” it was published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health on Nov. 22, 2020."
https://truthcomestolight.com/how-a-respected-pediatrician-lost-his-medical-license-because-he-supported-informed-consent/
Paul Thomas he did something very important. We like to cite him as an example of why no studies on vaccines ever get done.
short documentary on how John D Rockefeller took complete control of the medical system...the hidden truth about how corrupt the entire system is and how it became that way...https://www.corbettreport.com/rockefeller-medicine-video/
Thank you for the link. I hadn't seen that episode. I knew the general story but the additional details were helpful in seeing the full picture of my profession's power structure (black pilled family doctor here BTW).
Thank you for this link!
Again, thank you for this - once again, I realize how rare my husband was, a Cornell-trained radiologist, who refused several medicines (Vioxx was one) prescribed to him and who generally preferred older generation medicines. But he was a "failure" by his own sister's reckoning (also in healthcare as a therapist - she's very proud of her investment expertise). He also used to say the big salaries & expensive toys his colleagues liked were compensation for giving up so many normal pleasures (attending a son's scout trip or daughter's dance recital, taking an afternoon off) to serve in their profession. I am grateful to drs like John Mandrola MD, who post their concerns on statins or unlimited ablations online - I've used his points to argue w my drs in past. Lowered my cholesterol by losing 15 lb.
•The second you start becoming entitled to something your whole core or morality will become severely distorted.
•In most cases I only trust drugs that have been on the market for at least 7 years.
My father wanted to stay on the blood thinner he had been on for years, but his cardiologist wanted him to go into a new medication. By chance, I overheard two men in a waiting room having a conversation about this topic saying they were staying with the older med. When I approached them about it, they told me, “It may help you to know we are doctors.”
In almost all cases the only reason new drugs come out in areas where other things have been used for a long time is so the manufacturer of the new drug can charge large amounts of money for a problem that was already solved with the old drug.
Yes. As several friends have agreed with me, one has to become one's own advocate nowadays. Sometimes I have postponed a med, telling the doc "I'll think about it," and later be told by a different physician, "I'd never put you on that med based on one diagnostic test!"
That is a good example of how medicine hides behind the veneer of scientific objectivity even though it is actually highly subjective.
its a bioweapon-depopulation agenda of the New World Order Globalists
Thank you, Doctor. My daughter is in second year medicine and I copy her with your thoughts regularly. I believe they fortify her soul and her feed her determination to be a (future) agent for change. She faced intense pressure from the med school/ medical complex to submit to taking the C19 vaccines, from her first day of med school. Despite that she had provided them (quantified) proof of innate antibodies to C19 from a previous infection, she was told vaccination was 'mandatory'. Prior to studying medicine she was an RN, so the dismissal of her innate immunity was an abrupt and rude awakening into the world of medicine as you describe it. It cast an immediate shadow over her medical school education and she entered her studies a disillusioned but simultaneously enlightened, skeptic. Her core and long held convictions (do no harm, innate immunity is the best immunity, coercion is not consent) were turned upside down, and now not a day goes by where she says she can "unsee" what she now sees with fresh eyes. I know the entire experience will make her a truly ethical and principled physician one day, but in the meantime, your words help her feel less alone, because as you say, she is surrounded by blind followers of the stats quo who lap up every word they are taught by the medico-pharmaceutical complex as the gospel truth.
If she would like to reach out to me for and advice I'd be happy to do that. Also to get through the medical training, you can't be too distrusting of the system, you sort of have to learn that after you finish otherwise it is completely overwhelming to simultaneously hold two realities in your mind (plus a lot of what they teach you is actually very good stuff)
What a wonderful offer, thank you, Doctor! I will definitely pass this on. Is your substack the best way for her to reach you? And yes, my daughter is well aware that she must do her best in medical school and not let the cynicism overtake her learning. Judging by her grades, she is doing very well with balancing it all. What has not killed her, continues to make her stronger, it would seem.
That would probably be the easiest way to do it. I can also email you.
I can't speak for everyone here but I would like to be able to have access to a doctor like the Midwestern doctor. Fortunately I'm in great health, run half marathons, lift, eat well, and have no weight or obesity issues or any health issues that I'm aware of. But people I care about do sometimes need medical care. How could we form a network of medical practitioners who are humble and introspective as well as having the medical expertise and high intellect that the complexity of medicine requires?
That is something I've been working on for a while!
Your best work yet. Thank you as it encapsulated for me thirty years of thinking about this issue.
One aspect that you touch upon but don't elaborate upon is the strong desire of clinicians to be helpful. Acknowledging our limited ability to do so is just a bridge too far for most of us. Everything in our being and in our education has misled us as to what it means to be caring.
Thank you; have to be concise, so I tried to touch on the key points so people could think about them without going too deeply into it.
I felt you touched on this. But maybe since I am a physical therapist, I see a lot of my own psychology and how that affects what I do. And the more I know myself, the more I am aware. It can be a burden to see yourself so
clearly and wanting clarity around that. No one is perfect for sure, more often than not on most days knowing myself is a huge blessing...to me and my patients!
question:
what does it look like to redpill this with medical colleagues? or if that is unlikely (and I think it often is) how might one screen for traits that make this less of an issue when hiring colleagues?
I have been working to do that for a long time. I've tried a lot of different approaches. Honestly, the earlier you got them in their medical training the easier it is because as time goes on people just get a lot of inertia towards the conventional medical ideology. Additionally, there are a lot of people who doubt the system or have specific doubts, but they never have a safe place to bring up their concerns, so a large part of the process is creating a place where there is an openness for them to express what they feel (do you have to make them feel like they can trust you, but also not seem like you're crazy). I have someone over by a sample size, because I interact a lot more with the groups of physicians who tend to be more open minded, whereas with the more hard-core conventional people, I found is kind of a lost cause to change their minds and outside of a few cases where I had a personal relationship with them (e.g. there remember the my extended family) I've never really tried.
Thanks, This is in accord with my observations as well. Wouldn't it be wonderful if our profession would embrace the need to shake ourselves up out of our stupor periodically and liberate our minds.
>>>Doctors have strong psychological motivations to dismiss the possibility of a medical injury occurring
I believe this accounts for much more than financial incentives, because it operates at a deeper emotional level.
I covered this in significantly more detail in the article I linked to in this piece called why do doctors close their eyes to medical injuries.
To give doctors credit, the majority seem to have fallen under their own spell - the overwhelming majority apparently have taken the vaccines. I think it would be difficult to be a doctor forced or coerced to follow protocols of their employers on the one hand, or fearful of being sued by patients on the other. Perhaps like minded physicians who are aware of the problems can come together and form their own outpatient clinics, urgent cares, or hospitals to escape bad systems.
The Dunning-Kruger effect is interesting. I read somewhere that engineers don't tend to make good jurors for prosecutors. If true, this is presumably because their procedural minds allows them to imagine multiple stories that fit the observations, leading to a much higher standard for "beyond a reasonable doubt" than your average juror.
Yeah. Normally the doctors who push things they won't take are the ones who are clearly corrupt, but they do not represent the majority of the profession.
My own policy is that if possible, I won't recommend something I have not had done to me or tried first.
Your policy is logical enough. Unfortunately, one must allow for the hopefully very rare case: A doctor who does practice what he preaches (e.g. uses a drug he also prescribes) yet either is unaware that it's harmful or worse, knows it is. On second thought, allow me to amend that: We already know that it is NOT "very rare," at least in the case of the mRNA jabs. I don't have statistics (and I wouldn't give them any credibility if I did) but it's safe to say a large fraction of doctors took the mRNA experimental potions. Of all personnel, those in the medical field should have known early on that these products were at best unknown quantities with dubious credentials, or as the months wore on and evidence (more likely "rumor") arose, they demonstrably were ineffective and probably dangerous. Upon challenge, many would confess "I had to take it, or I would lose my job." Well that was probably true, but really, you would gamble your health and your life on a sketchy product, and now you expect me to trust you with my own health care? I think not! And there's the "true believer," the medic who is sure that all is above board, that Pharma, the FDA and the CDC can do no wrong, that the jabs are next-generation technology, and that any naysayers are clearly deluded anti-vaxxers. I'm not sure which is more dangerous to the patient; the scary thing is it must be the case that a large portion, perhaps the majority, of our health care providers fit one of the above categories.
Even a gross abrogation of ethics that the mRNA "vaccines" have been, they have served some positive purposes, not the least of which is to show in startling relief how corrupt mainstream medicine has been.
A big part of why I'm investing the time I am into the sub stack it was because I am very hopeful that the where Covid was handled pushed too far and there is now a window to bring the general public's attention to a lot of issues that have been ignored in the background since long before I was born.
We appreciate your investment. As writers- we know how much time and thought goes into laying out evidence, conjectures, connections, metaphors and symbols to move the needle towards enlightenment.
Thank you for your clear-thinking and compassionate article. I have read your entire series. Required reading for anyone who cares about healthcare and wants to understand the motivations and mindset of American doctors on pharmaceuticals.
Thank you.
Doc, this is going to come across very simplistic but most doctors are part of a top-down compliance-control-cartel. You have put yourself into this system of coercion and rewards. The only way this spell is going to be broken is for doctors to collectively form a new set of alliances that form around helping patients get healthly using multiple healing approaches. Doctors need to not become part of the medical-pharma-media-complex where there is only one approach otherwise you are deemed a heretic. Sure we would all like to be safe from quackery, doctors and clinics who are irresponsible in their use of medicinals, various techniques or various dangerous technologies, but we dont need a top down "Mt Sinai" regulatory system laying down the "5000 commandments" on docs or patients. We really need a revolution and it starts with both patients and doctors demanding this and saying no those who would control us into a tiny corral.
The whole economic system is designed for the purpose of creating compliance.
Thank you Doctor for everything you do and I should have stated this first before my previous comment! Thank you for speaking out the truth and fight and resisting the evils of this "compliance cartel." God bless you and protect you. Every institution has been or is in the process of being weaponized against human health and thriving.
When my father was 75, he was very fit, walked 3-5 miles per day at a really fast pace, trim and healthy. Did not smoke (he quit when he was in his 40s), did not drink (also quit in his 40’s). His only “issues” were an elevated cholesterol, and mild depression. His MD placed him on statins, and antidepressants. Within the year he developed type 2 diabetes, and cognitive decline. Within 5 years he was moved into a nursing home, as the vascular dementia caused by his diabetes was killing tiny portions of his brain, until he could no longer function. He spent the last 5yrs of his life there. I’m convinced it was a result of his statins.
Fast forward to my health-I eat a wholly organic diet and do not consume processed foods. My cholesterol is slightly elevated. About 25years ago I was bullied by my MD and allowed myself to be talked into taking a statin. The muscle cramps I experienced were awful. If the muscles in my legs could cramp so bad, couldn’t my heart also? After all, it is a muscle that never stops working. My MD dismissed my concerns, wanted me to take another brand of statins. I became “pre diabetic”, with a rising A1C each time my blood was drawn, and my triglycerides sky high, gaining weight in spite of following my MDs advice to eat a low fat diet. I quit my MD, quit the statins, quit sugar, dropped 50lbs as a result, lowered my triglycerides, and feel better than I have in 20 years! I no longer see an allopathic MD. I go to an integrative health DO, but only to have my blood panels run. I haven’t been sick in a very long time- quite a feat since I work in a large hospital (a congregation of germs). I was fortunate to receive an exemption from the Covid vax. I have not caught Covid, despite taking care of many symptomatic patients. I sought the care of a physician with the FLCCC. He prescribed IVM (prophylactically) for both my husband and myself. That, along with other supplements, Vit D, etc has kept me healthy. I’m done with allopathic medicine. I’ve seen so many young people now coming to the hospital with “old people” diseases. I tread lightly in asking their vaccination status. One of my patients recently diagnosed with an aggressive breast cancer told me she would rather have cancer than Covid, after asking me if the vaccine caused her to get cancer. I told her no one knows, as there was no follow up or testing. Crazy times! We must all advocate for our own health and seek a healer that fits. Hard to do these days. Thanks for your articles! I’ve learned so much!
Statins are one of the most harmful and least beneficial drugs that are mass prescribed to the population. Virtually every single holistically minded doctor I have spoken to puts them in the top five. In the future all right on the topic, but everything that you described is pretty much classic for side effects from statins. The really sad thing is that many of those side effects could be avoided by mixing them with CoQ10, but the industry never wanted to do that because that was a result of them having to admit fault for the statins being dangerous.
I have such little respect for MDs now. Stay in healthcare long enough and one realizes the word “healthcare” is an oxymoron- you gain neither and get put on a hamster wheel just trying to survive! I wish I had learned sooner what I know now. When I went on a keto diet, a cardiologist said, “make sure you stay away from animal fats”. And pushed seed oils (horrible for health). Another told me he wished statins were in the drinking water like fluoride. Don’t get me started! The cholesterol myth; wheat pushed by an oligarch (Kellogg). Even sunlight vilified! I always wondered why my melanoma patients would have lesions where the sun never shined (vagina, etc). The benefits of sunlight are HUGE! cellular production of melatonin, vitamin D production, Blood pressure lowered, blood sugar lowered, and many more.Dermatologists would have you take pharmaceuticals to rectify the above, rather than spend time outdoors with the very sun we humans evolved with! MDs seem to purposely DEFY the very habits we humans evolved with. Patients want the easy fix of taking more and more drugs to fix problems that, in most cases, food selection would fix. MDs so complicit in doling out the horrible drugs, they are like the pod people from Invasion of the Body Snatchers. I got a lot of gruff and condescension from the MDs who surround me. In the midst of the Covid crazies, when Delta was the most prevalent strain, one told me that in a few months I’d either catch Covid or die because I refused the vaccine. He’s caught Covid twice already. It’s so sad to witness the health outcomes from these pharmaceuticals doled out to the masses. It’s not easy to find the information, it’s hidden. But never dismissing the questions that nag me from my own observations of thousand of patients who crossed my path, helped me embark on the right path. I subscribe to many substacks, and sometimes get behind in reading them, but I ALWAYS read your postings right when they drop in my in box. I wish I could find a physician with your skills and compassion. I’m jealous of your patients. 😊
It has been kind of amazing to watch the direction cardiology has gone in...
What are the other drugs in the top 5?
SSRIs and Statins are on everyone's list.
PPIs, NSAIDS, and Anti-Psychotics often get on them.
I am not sure where I'd put tylenol, because that does cause a lot of injuries or deaths each year, but it's not as toxic as the others.
Also if you expand the definition the vaccines also go in.
Also some people would argue fluoroquinoles go on that list, but they aren't prescribed as commonly.
Yes, fluoroquinolones! They're given out like candy in the U.S., at least on the East Coast.
After being given them in Boston, I had such a bad reaction that I landed in the hospital again for a week, this time in Germany, where I live. They told me that the fluoroquinolones, especially the Cipro I'd been given, are actually banned in Germany except if everything else has been tried first, emergency basis. They also said the Advil I'd also been given, because I wouldn't take opioids, is known to exacerbate the condition I had (diverticulitis). Thanks very much, right?
Three years later I'm still trying to recover from the fluoroquinolones.
Oh, Doctor. Please suggest what I should do. I had the widow-maker 14 years-ago. I have been taking statins and all the other meds one is told to take after a M.I. Is there anything I can do to help since I have a damaged heart and doctors tell me if I don't take the statins and other drugs I will have another M.I.? Please suggest. Consuelo
The statin does not provide any real benefit (read Malcom Kendrick's work).
Exactly what to do beyond that is a bit more complicated, but the one easy thing is doing the best to avoid any exposure to aluminum.
Also in reference to the changes in health you are noticing (I also gradually mastered the art of how to innocuously find out if people were vaccinated after they presented with a likely vaccine injury), were you ever able to read this one? https://amidwesterndoctor.substack.com/p/the-story-behind-sudden-death-syndromes
Wow she'd rather have a life threatening disease than a non-life threatening disease? The hypochondriacs truly rule the world now.
Yes! She got her wish. Imagine being so afraid of Covid, you would rather have cancer with all the debilitating treatments that go along with it!
So much of the attitudes towards disease is the marketing and how it has been branded.
This was another great read for me, thanks to your humble assessment of what has been going on in your profession. I would like to know why nutrition is overlooked. How many people have difficulties due to a lack of vitamins and minerals? How many diseases and disorders are directly related to a lack of a nutrient? Perhaps this is why people are so religious about vaccines because what is the alternative for them? It takes discipline and knowledge to eat well and most do not know or care about what they eat except for the taste and aroma of a particular fast food product, some bag of snack chips, or sugar-ladened baked goods topped off with a soda. Our food industry is just as corrupt as the rest of the corporations that run our health care system today.
Pharmaceutical focuses research stigmatizes this approach since it threatens the industry. For this reason, people have a general dislike of and tendancy to ridicule these approaches.
Additionally the processed food industry wants tho whole topic buried too.
People also like easy quick fixes, and you can get that with a pill whereas changing a diet to be healthy is a lot wore work.
Layman's perspective: The answer is actually quite simple, and doesn't necessarily even involve a profit motive. Common sense suggests that if a person would eat a healthy diet (and yes, probably take vitamin and mineral supplements), get regular exercise, avoid known bad habits (smoking, excess alcohol, illegal drugs) and get regular check-ups, that would go far in assuring optimal health for the average person. The inescapable problem is that all of those are ongoing requirements, requiring the patient to adopt those particular activities into his life. Beyond a doctor giving standard advice at visits, how else could such desirable behavior be encouraged? It would require full time coaches, advisors or other interventions. There is no practical way that could be offered. And even if it were available, a major problem is patient stubbornness: "I don't wanna" would stymie the best health advice.
Given these real world limitations, can we really blame the physician for his almost total lack of power to change his patient's bad behaviors and poor choices? No. The best he can offer is to provide remedial care when possible, trying as best he can to minimize the damage that the patient brings upon himself.
The same analysis applies to the food companies. For example, it's easy to demonize fast food outlets for selling unhealthy foods. But the awful truth is that is what customers want. Change the menu too much (or even reduce salt or sugar below certain levels) and demand drops off. It's (usually) possible to eat healthy, but it requires wisdom and effort by the individual. But to blame business rings hollow, sort of like an alcoholic blaming the distillery for his affliction.
Perhaps I'm belaboring the obvious, but here it is again: For the average person, the things that have the best chance of giving you optimal health over you life, do not cost very much. But they are not available from your doctor or anyone else. They are, indeed things that you must learn and do for yourself on a daily basis. You can seek outside help (advice, trainer, and so on) but it is YOU who must do the actual work. Even the richest man in the world, Elon Musk perhaps, cannot hire someone else to urinate or defecate for him 🙂 Like it or not, there are simply some things you must take the initiative and do yourself if you expect to reap any reward.
Note: None of the foregoing is to excuse big business from all misconduct. Clearly they are sometimes guilty of greed, deception or other questionable behaviors. What I'm hoping to show is that in many cases what we denounce as "corruption" is merely business responding to market forces. It's human nature to blame others, but the hard truth is that most of our troubles are of our own making.
Ivan Illich presciently argued that the two fundamental problems with our culture were:
1) that we had been conditioned to believe we have to be taught to learn and
2) that we need a doctor to be healthy. Your response is an actually example of number 2, and I strongly agree with your persective