The Real History of Modern Medicine
Origins of Medical Industry Corruption
The modern day mainstream medical industry has a dubious history, deeply rooted by a drive for profit through the subversion and suppression of non-profitable and non-patentable therapies and treatments.
To this day mainstream allopathic doctors and practitioners are heavily indoctrinated into a system that protects ever increasing industry profits while fiercely defending orthodox therapies. The network of allopathic medical institutions and education strictly denies medical freedom and outlaws any treatments that cannot generate market share profits for their monopolized industry.
IF YOU WANT TO KNOW what is really going on with BIG PHARMA and the standard monopoly medical establishment, falsely revered as some sort of white coat stethoscope wearing smart people, and if not gods; this one video source will tell you as much as you need to know; or at least to get started with.
What really SCARES Big Pharma? People who know how to CURE their own DISEASE! The Health Ranger Mike Adams
* What is Big Pharma terrified of?
* They are terrified of natural medicine because it's safer, more affordable and works better than pharmaceuticals!
* Big Pharma pays off journalists, bribes doctors and funds online mercenaries to attack proponents of natural medicine.
* They even attack anti-cancer foods and nutrition!
* They attack acupuncture, chiropractic, meditation, breastfeeding and much more.
* The real reason the medical establishment despises natural medicine is because it doesn't cause SIDE EFFECTS that bring huge revenues to doctors, hospitals and drug companies! (They feed off the repeat cycle of disease and sickness caused by the medical system itself!)
* We are living in an era where knowledge is monopolized by a power structure that wants the people to remain illiterate and ignorant about natural medicine.
* Big Pharma feeds off ignorance and disease. This is their profit model. So they try to censor books, films, websites and knowledge.
* More people are waking up and realizing Big Pharma is a criminal cartel, created to HARVEST profits off your body.
* Big Pharma is engaged in abuses of human rights, medical experimentation on children, medical ethics violations.
* "If you're in the business of selling drugs to sick people, the only way you keep making money is to keep people sick."
* Drug companies would NEVER develop pills that actually worked to halt disease... it would put them out of business!
* "There is no corporate entity that will deliberately commit financial suicide."
* Drug companies created the massive, global "superbug" epidemic.
* The drug companies have financially infiltrated government, medical schools, academia and the mainstream media.
* BY DESIGN, drugs never solve health problems. Otherwise, there would be no repeat sales.
* The treatments of one disease cause another disease, when then requires MORE treatment.
* People on multiple pharmaceuticals are the LEAST healthy people in society. They almost never get better!
* Big Pharma FAKES the clinical trial data to produce whatever "scientific" results they want.
* All people who promote disease prevention are TARGETED by Big Pharma to be slandered, censored and destroyed.
* The only person who has a vested interest in YOUR health is YOU!
* The pharmaceutical cartels don't want you to have a CHOICE in your own health outcome.
* I promote knowledge, wisdom and empowerment. Freedom of choice. Disease prevention. The use of food as medicine to PREVENT disease.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8L56XPho8M8
Origins of Medical Industry Corruption
The modern day mainstream medical industry has a dubious history, deeply rooted by a drive for profit through the subversion and suppression of non-profitable and non-patentable therapies and treatments.
To this day mainstream allopathic doctors and practitioners are heavily indoctrinated into a system that protects ever increasing industry profits while fiercely defending orthodox therapies. The network of allopathic medical institutions and education strictly denies medical freedom and outlaws any treatments that cannot generate market share profits for their monopolized industry.
IF YOU WANT TO KNOW what is really going on with BIG PHARMA and the standard monopoly medical establishment, falsely revered as some sort of white coat stethoscope wearing smart people, and if not gods; this one video source will tell you as much as you need to know; or at least to get started with.
What really SCARES Big Pharma? People who know how to CURE their own DISEASE! The Health Ranger Mike Adams
* What is Big Pharma terrified of?
* They are terrified of natural medicine because it's safer, more affordable and works better than pharmaceuticals!
* Big Pharma pays off journalists, bribes doctors and funds online mercenaries to attack proponents of natural medicine.
* They even attack anti-cancer foods and nutrition!
* They attack acupuncture, chiropractic, meditation, breastfeeding and much more.
* The real reason the medical establishment despises natural medicine is because it doesn't cause SIDE EFFECTS that bring huge revenues to doctors, hospitals and drug companies! (They feed off the repeat cycle of disease and sickness caused by the medical system itself!)
* We are living in an era where knowledge is monopolized by a power structure that wants the people to remain illiterate and ignorant about natural medicine.
* Big Pharma feeds off ignorance and disease. This is their profit model. So they try to censor books, films, websites and knowledge.
* More people are waking up and realizing Big Pharma is a criminal cartel, created to HARVEST profits off your body.
* Big Pharma is engaged in abuses of human rights, medical experimentation on children, medical ethics violations.
* "If you're in the business of selling drugs to sick people, the only way you keep making money is to keep people sick."
* Drug companies would NEVER develop pills that actually worked to halt disease... it would put them out of business!
* "There is no corporate entity that will deliberately commit financial suicide."
* Drug companies created the massive, global "superbug" epidemic.
* The drug companies have financially infiltrated government, medical schools, academia and the mainstream media.
* BY DESIGN, drugs never solve health problems. Otherwise, there would be no repeat sales.
* The treatments of one disease cause another disease, when then requires MORE treatment.
* People on multiple pharmaceuticals are the LEAST healthy people in society. They almost never get better!
* Big Pharma FAKES the clinical trial data to produce whatever "scientific" results they want.
* All people who promote disease prevention are TARGETED by Big Pharma to be slandered, censored and destroyed.
* The only person who has a vested interest in YOUR health is YOU!
* The pharmaceutical cartels don't want you to have a CHOICE in your own health outcome.
* I promote knowledge, wisdom and empowerment. Freedom of choice. Disease prevention. The use of food as medicine to PREVENT disease.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8L56XPho8M8
This is a powerful documentary that exposes the ties between the FDA and Big Pharma, Big Food and Big Agra called War on Health: The FDA’s Cult of Tyranny. The documentary is the latest film project from acclaimed natural health expert, author and radio show host, Gary Null. It features interviews with my good friend, health freedom attorney, Jim Turner, as well as Ronnie Cummins of the Organic Consumers Association, Gretchen DuBeau of the Alliance for Natural Health, Mike Adams of NaturalNews.com, Dr. Jonathan Wright, Dr. Julian Whitaker, Will Faloon of the Life Extension Foundation and many other health freedom advocates.
Some of the evidence and footage presented in this film is downright shocking. It seems the FDA will do whatever it takes to make us dependent on conventional medicine while preventing us from using safe, natural, non-pharmaceutical means to heal and prevent disease. This means using militaristic tactics to make small, independent food producers and supplement companies do their bidding.
A Gary Null Production
WAR ON HEALTH: The FDA's Cult of Tyranny
Introduced by the director (from his speech at the world premiere in New York City, June 15, 2012)
In the near future, American medical practice may change dramatically for the worse. No longer will maximal dose natural supplements—vitamins, natural compounds, and scientifically proven medicinal herbs—be available over the counter in local health and grocery stores. Holistic practice, which relies upon non-prescription natural treatments instead of Big Pharma drugs prescribed life-long, will diminish. American healthcare will be imprisoned, patients will be forced to abide by a single medical paradigm defined by corporate drug and food executives and dictated by a government enforcement agency, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). This is the bleak scenario if the FDA succeeds in limiting Americans' options to prevent and treat diseases.
'War on Health' is the first documentary detailing and challenging the FDA agenda and its allegiance with the international Codex Alimentarius, which hopes to establish a monolithic food and health regime. Betraying its founding mandate to assure drug, food and chemical safety in the interests of public health, the FDA today is a repressive bureaucracy serving pharmaceutical and agricultural greed and profits. Vaccines, medical devices, prescription drugs are fast tracked at alarming rates through the FDA at the expense of scientific oversight to assure their efficacy and safety. The
result is hundreds of thousands premature deaths annually from pharmaceutical drugs, vaccines and medical devices and an epidemic of medical incompetence and fraud sanctioned by federal health officials.
Featuring many pioneering American and European attorneys, physicians, medical researchers and advocates of health freedom, War on Health lifts the veil on FDA's militaristic operations against organic food providers and alternative physicians. The film's conclusion is perfectly clear: the FDA is a tyrannical cult founded upon the denial of sound medical science with little intention to improve the nation's health and prevent disease.
Written and Directed by Gary Null
http://garynull.tv/video/487/war-on-health-the-fdas-cult-of
http://garynullfilms.com/waronhealth/
War on Health: The FDA's Cult of Tyranny
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2012/08/18/war-on-health.aspx
The War Against Cancer: Endless by Design?
http://hplive.org/webinar_archives/the_war_against_cancer_endless_by_design_with_sayer_ji_-_01176.html
You Can’t Find the Truth About Vaccines by Burying Your Head in (the Vested Interests in Vaccines) Peer-Reviewed Studies
http://freedom-articles.toolsforfreedom.com/truth-about-vaccines-beyond-peer-review/
NEJM editor: “No longer possible to believe much of clinical research published”
Harvard Medical School’s Dr. Marcia Angell is the author of The Truth About the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What to Do About It. But more to the point, she’s also the former Editor-in-Chief at the New England Journal of Medicine, arguably one of the most respected medical journals on earth. But after reading her article in the New York Review of Books called Drug Companies & Doctors: A Story of Corruption, one wonders if any medical journal on earth is worth anybody’s respect anymore.
“It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines. I take no pleasure in this conclusion, which I reached slowly and reluctantly over my two decades as an editor of The New England Journal of Medicine.”
Read more:
http://ethicalnag.org/2009/11/09/nejm-editor/
ESSIAC®
ESSIAC® Vegicaps are made of the original ESSIAC ® formula. They are more convenient and stay fresh longer than the ESSIAC® Extract and ESSIAC® Powder formulas. The Vegicaps capsules can easily be opened and added to water.
Herbal Products Canada
ESSIAC ® is a world renowned herbal formula developed by Rene M. Caisse, a Canadian nurse. Since 1922, Nurse Caisse used her original herbal formula to help support the immune system.* Rene Caisse is world renowned for making significant contributions to the field of natural medicine.
The herbs used in ESSIAC® are grown without the use of pesticides and are not irradiated. ESSIAC ® is produced to a pharmaceutical grade certification.
http://www.essiacproducts.com/?gclid=CNfrm76Q3LoCFU7ZQgod52kA1g
E-Tea (ESSIAC)
E-Tea® is an easy-to-use, encapsulated form of traditional Essiac Tea. It supports immunity and helps detoxify and purify the blood.
In 1922, Canadian nurse Rene Caisse consulted an elderly Native American of the Ojibwa Indian tribe of Ontario, Canada, about the nutritional concerns of one of her friends. The Native American recommended an herbal tea recipe that, although simple in substance, was time-consuming and difficult to prepare.
Rene's friend began to use and enjoy the formula, and soon others wanted to try it. Its popularity caught on, and eventually thousands were using it. It became known as Essiac tea, Caisse's name spelled backwards.
Due to the complexity of the preparation process, it would take hours for you to make this tea at home. Thanks to Nature's Sunshine, it is possible to provide the same herbal combination in convenient capsule form.
http://www.theherbsplace.com/E_Tea_p_187.html
http://freedom-articles.toolsforfreedom.com/truth-about-vaccines-beyond-peer-review/
NEJM editor: “No longer possible to believe much of clinical research published”
Harvard Medical School’s Dr. Marcia Angell is the author of The Truth About the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What to Do About It. But more to the point, she’s also the former Editor-in-Chief at the New England Journal of Medicine, arguably one of the most respected medical journals on earth. But after reading her article in the New York Review of Books called Drug Companies & Doctors: A Story of Corruption, one wonders if any medical journal on earth is worth anybody’s respect anymore.
“It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines. I take no pleasure in this conclusion, which I reached slowly and reluctantly over my two decades as an editor of The New England Journal of Medicine.”
Read more:
http://ethicalnag.org/2009/11/09/nejm-editor/
ESSIAC®
ESSIAC® Vegicaps are made of the original ESSIAC ® formula. They are more convenient and stay fresh longer than the ESSIAC® Extract and ESSIAC® Powder formulas. The Vegicaps capsules can easily be opened and added to water.
Herbal Products Canada
ESSIAC ® is a world renowned herbal formula developed by Rene M. Caisse, a Canadian nurse. Since 1922, Nurse Caisse used her original herbal formula to help support the immune system.* Rene Caisse is world renowned for making significant contributions to the field of natural medicine.
The herbs used in ESSIAC® are grown without the use of pesticides and are not irradiated. ESSIAC ® is produced to a pharmaceutical grade certification.
http://www.essiacproducts.com/?gclid=CNfrm76Q3LoCFU7ZQgod52kA1g
E-Tea (ESSIAC)
E-Tea® is an easy-to-use, encapsulated form of traditional Essiac Tea. It supports immunity and helps detoxify and purify the blood.
In 1922, Canadian nurse Rene Caisse consulted an elderly Native American of the Ojibwa Indian tribe of Ontario, Canada, about the nutritional concerns of one of her friends. The Native American recommended an herbal tea recipe that, although simple in substance, was time-consuming and difficult to prepare.
Rene's friend began to use and enjoy the formula, and soon others wanted to try it. Its popularity caught on, and eventually thousands were using it. It became known as Essiac tea, Caisse's name spelled backwards.
Due to the complexity of the preparation process, it would take hours for you to make this tea at home. Thanks to Nature's Sunshine, it is possible to provide the same herbal combination in convenient capsule form.
http://www.theherbsplace.com/E_Tea_p_187.html
A Bit of the Historical Time Line
1847
–the AMA, American Medical Assoc., is founded by Nathan Smith Davis
1862
–Homeopaths in the northeastern US control 110 hospitals, 145 dispensaries, 30 nursing homes and 62 orphanages
–John D. Rockefeller buys his first oil refinery
http://jenniferlake.wordpress.com/timeline-1830-1900/
1859 — Pennsylvania gives birth to the Oil Industry, allowing America’s Standard Oil under John D. Rockefeller to become the world’s largest producer of kerosene http://www.priweb.org/ed/pgws/history/pennsylvania/pennsylvania.html
Take a lesson from history: In 1899, the American Medical Association (AMA) was a weak organization with little money and no respect from the general public. The AMA’s competition was reducing member physicians’ incomes. Chiropractic had just been introduced and homeopathy and herbalists were thriving while “regular” doctors were unable to profit from medicinal practices. By 1910, the AMA was broke until the Rockefeller's joined with the Carnegie foundation to bail them out. The resulting schools were required to teach exclusively drug-oriented courses, with no emphasis placed on natural medicine. By 1940, 1500 chiropractors were prosecuted for practicing “quackery.” 22 homeopathic medical schools dwindled to 2. By 1950, all schools teaching homeopathy were closed. Point and case? During the Spanish flu epidemic of 1918, 550,000 people died in the US from flu. Homeopathic physicians treated far more documented flu cases than conventional medicine and had a flu-mortality rate of 0.7% while conventional medicine had a fearsome mortality of 30%. I ask you; which modality would you have rather chosen? ~ Via Craig Stellpflug
http://www.realhealthtalk.com/Medical_Madness_Archives.html
Homeopathy, verses Allopathy in the 1918 Flu Pandemic
http://hpathy.com/homeopathy-papers/homeopathy-allopathy-and-the-1918-influenza-pandemic/
http://www.westonaprice.org/thumbs-up-reviews/the-homeopathic-treatment-of-influenza
The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, est 1901-03
The Rothschild-funded Pasteur Institute, est.1887 in Paris, provided a model for the organization of the RIMR. Baron Edmond de Rothschild invoked the Pasteur and the RIMR both as models meeting his approval for financing the future Weizmann Institute of Science, which in 1914 was yet an issue of contention among Zionists in its proposed form as a Hebrew University: “On January 3, 1914…Weizmann met with Baron Edmund de Rothschild for three quarters of an hour…Rothschild made it clear that he was only interested in a research institute similar to the Pasteur..or a Rockefeller Institute ‘where about 30 to 40 good men would work at scientific research’…the baron wished to have Paul Erhlich’s imprimatur on the research institute…Above all, the baron insisted on discretion and in keeping his name out of the news..[and] the most important demand that the idea of a university be abandoned, for the time being, in favor of a research institute..” –Jehuda Reinharz, Chaim Weizmann; The Making of a Zionist Leader, pp395-396.
The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research followed a similar course; initially devoted to private research advancing in time to become Rockefeller University. “By the 1920s, the Rockefeller Foundation was the largest grant-making foundation on earth and America’s leading sponsor of medical science, medical education, and public health. John D. Rockefeller Sr. had established himself as the greatest lay benefactor of medicine in history. Of the $530 million he gave away during his lifetime, $450 million went directly or indirectly into medicine.” [p570, Titan]
Read more:
http://polioforever.wordpress.com/the-rockefeller-institute/
Rockefeller FOUNDATION, chartered by New York State in 1913:
John D. Rockefeller and John D. Rockefeller Jr.
Henry Pratt Judson – Pres. of University of Chicago
Simon Flexner – Director of RIMR, NYC
Starr Jameson – legal counsel
Charles W. Eliot – Pres. of Harvard
“The list of officers of the Rockefeller Foundation from 1913-63 reveals a great deal about this organization. The four chairmen of the board have been John D. Rockefeller. Jr. 1917,1939, Walter D. Stewart, 1939-50, John Foster Dulles, 1950-52, and John D. Rockefeller 3rd, 1952-63… Examining the dominant members of the Rockefeller Foundation, we find men whose lives have been devoted to war and revolution, chemical warfare, international intrigue, and mass murder; …what we do not find is anyone who has ever engaged in any charitable endeavor.” –Eustace Mullins, The World Order; A study in the Hegemony of Parasitism, Ch7 The Foundations http://www.truthwinds.com//siterun_data/government/new_world_order/news.php?q=1216314837
The Foundation began in 1902 as the General Education Board, a mirror of the Carnegie Foundation. Simon Flexner’s brother Abraham Flexner* became president of both General Education Boards. In 1928, significant breakthroughs in quantum physics appear to have substantiated the consolidation of the International Education Board (founded 1923), which undertook the direct financing of individual physicists who were dedicated to the production of nuclear weapons as well as other select projects of genetics and drug development. Abraham Flexner, under the auspices of Carnegie’s board in 1910, created the “Flexner Report” to reform North American medical education to the ‘German model’ and eliminate ‘non-aligned’ institutions. Grants and publicity were used to leverage universities into cooperation. As the influential president of Carnegie and Rockefeller education boards, Abraham Flexner carried the model to the reformation of all public schooling.
*Abraham Flexner co-founded the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, a hub for biological study during/after the Manhattan Project; founded Princeton’s Institute of Advanced Study (with L. Bamberger and Julia Fuld funding); influenced the founding of Vanderbilt Medical School; see Simon Flexner page links
Read more:
http://polioforever.wordpress.com/the-rockefeller-institute/
Simon Flexner (Mar25,1863 – May02, 1946); career director of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research
As a teen growing up in Louisville Kentucky, Simon worked in the pharmacy of his older brother Jacob where he taught himself microbiology. In 1890 he received an appointment to study at the lab of William H. Welch at Johns Hopkins University. The Governor of Maryland requisitioned S.F. to study cerebro-meningitis in 1893, later leading to his most significant contribution to medicine, a meningitis vaccine, tested on the soldiers of Fort Riley Kansas in the winter of 1918 (perhaps this military human-experiment contributed to the ‘Spanish Flu’ which swept the war theater at the end of WWI). It appears that between 1893 and 1895, S.F. was in Europe studying in Prague and Strasburg. In 1895, Skull-and-Bonesman Welch appointed S.F. to teach at the new Johns Hopkins Hospital (until 1898), thereafter S.F. traveled on medical missions; to the Philippines in 1899 and other locations, including a visit to Japan.
Simon Flexner spent the rest of his career as the Director of the RIMR. He hand-picked his staff and ruled with an iron fist, noted for ‘hovering’ over the associates’ work who were admittedly afraid of him. A profile of his character and some of the momentous events in the RIMR are given in the book “The Great Influenza” by John Barry who writes that S.F. was “mean and ruthless”. In 1913, S.F. became president of the Carnegie Institute and an officer in the newly established Rockefeller Foundation. During the Spanish Flu of 1918-1919, the RIMR became the US Army Auxilliary Lab #1, a status that was never revoked. It does not appear in any biographical record, however the distribution of meningitis vaccine in Fort Riley by Rockefeller administrator Frederick Gates is noted in the Simon Flexner Papers collection at the American Philosophical Association http://www.amphilsoc.org/library/mole/f/flexner2.htm.
After WWI, Flexner was apprised of “post-vaccinal” encephalitis caused by the vaccine, but no action is known to have been taken. S.F.’s meningitis vaccine was considered a great success, his enduring legacy, and no one has ever improved on his record of ‘prevention’. Post-vaccinal encephalitis commonly followed injection with vaccines and can be shown by WHO records such as this background of yellow fever http://www.who.int/vaccines-documents/DocsPDF/www9842.pdf
Read more:
http://polioforever.wordpress.com/simon-flexner/
http://citizen2009.wordpress.com/the-flexners/
Pharma Not in Business of Health, Healing, Cures, Wellness
Ex-Pharma Sales Reps Speaks Out - Pharma Not in Business of Health, Healing, Cures, Wellness.
Gwen Olsen spent fifteen years as a pharmaceutical sales rep working for such healthcare giants as Johnson & Johnson, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and Abbott Laboratories. She enjoyed a successful, fast-paced career until several conscious-altering experiences began awakening her to the dangers lurking in every American medicine cabinet. Her most poignant lessons, however, came as both victim and survivor of life-threatening adverse drug reactions. After leaving pharmaceutical sales in 2000, Gwen worked in the natural foods industry first as an Account Manager for Nature's Way, and then as a Regional Sales Manager for Gaia Herbs. She is currently a writer, speaker, and natural health consultant.
The United States health care system is killing Americans at an alarming rate, even though we spend over fifteen percent of the Gross National Product (GNP) on health care. According to the Journal of the American Medical Association, our health care outcomes ranked only fifteenth among twenty-five industrialized nations worldwide. Adverse effects from prescription drugs have become the third-leading killer of Americans. Only heart disease and cancer claim more lives. We trust our doctors to inform us and our government to protect us from medical malfeasance that may put profits ahead of consumer health and safety. But the fine line walked by the FDA between the interests of the pharmaceutical manufacturers and the American public has continually been crossed. The result is the unleashing of an unprecedented number of lethal drugs on the U.S. market!
Gwen Olsen learned firsthand the danger that lurks in every American's medicine cabinet, working in the pharmaceutical industry. But her most poignant education would come as a victim and, ultimately, as a survivor.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AazObF_pHSU
Visit Gwen's Website at
http://www.gwenolsen.com/
“Incurable Diseases” Is it a Business? – The Documentary
“Incurable Diseases; Is it a Business?” is an ambitious 90-minute documentary film, targeted for worldwide distribution, exposing the deceptive practices of the medical industry and pharmaceutical companies thus creating an open mind to alternative and complementary methods of healing to stop the progression of diseases like Cancer.
http://tv.greenmedinfo.com/incurable-diseases-is-it-a-business-the-documentary/
The Business of DisEase is a groundbreaking documentary exploring the vastnessof human potential despite the restrictions of programmed beliefs. For the sheer purpose of profit and control illness is marketed to the minds of the unsuspecting masses. The results? A society programmed for sickness and death.
http://www.thebusinessofdisease.com/
http://youtu.be/hx2EaQ7DZ3g
The Pharmaceutical 'Business With Disease'
The History Behind The ‘Business With Disease’
http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/PHARMACEUTICAL_BUSINESS/
Medicinal Foods vs. Pharmaceutical Drugs
http://dspu.wordpress.com/2012/06/27/medicinal-foods-vs-pharmaceutical-drugs/
The Pharmaceutical "Business with Disease"
http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/PHARMACEUTICAL_BUSINESS/pharmaceutical_industry.htm
The Laws of the Pharmaceutical Industry
The main principles governing the pharmaceutical “business with disease.” It is not in the financial interests of the pharmaceutical industry to prevent common diseases – the maintenance and expansion of diseases is a precondition for the financial growth of this industry.
1. The pharmaceutical industry is an investment industry driven by the profits of its shareholders. Improving human health is not the driving force of this industry.
2. The pharmaceutical investment industry was artificially created and strategically developed over an entire century by the same investment groups that control the global petrochemical and chemical industries.
3. The huge profits of the pharmaceutical industry are based on the patenting of new drugs. These patents essentially allow drug manufacturers to arbitrarily define the profits for their products.
4. The marketplace for the pharmaceutical industry is the human body – but only for as long as the body hosts diseases. Thus, maintaining and expanding diseases is a precondition for the growth of the pharmaceutical industry.
5. A key strategy to accomplish this goal is the development of drugs that merely mask symptoms while avoiding the curing or elimination of diseases. This explains why most prescription drugs marketed today have no proven efficacy and merely target symptoms.
6. To further expand their pharmaceutical market, the drug companies are continuously looking for new applications (indications) for the use of drugs they already market. For example, Bayer’s pain pill Aspirin is now taken by 50 million healthy US citizens under the illusion it will prevent heart attacks.
7. Another key strategy to expand pharmaceutical markets is to cause new diseases with drugs. While merely masking symptoms short term, most of the prescription drugs taken by millions of patients today cause a multitude of new diseases as a result of their known long-term side effects. For example, all cholesterol-lowering drugs currently on the market are known to increase the risk of developing cancer – but only after the patient has been taking the drug for several years.
8. The known deadly side effects of prescription drugs are the fourth leading cause of death in the industrialized world, surpassed only by the number of deaths from heart attacks, cancer and strokes (Journal of the American Medical Association, April 15, 1998). This fact is no surprise either, because drug patents are primarily issued for new synthetic molecules. All synthetic molecules need to be detoxified and eliminated from the body, a system that frequently fails and results in an epidemic of severe and deadly side effects.
Source:
http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/PHARMACEUTICAL_BUSINESS/laws_of_the_pharmaceutical_industry.htm
Published on Jul 16, 2012
This exclusive interview with former GlaxoSmithKline employee and whistleblower Blair Hamrick reveals insider details of GSK's operations, for which the company recently pleaded guilty to felony crimes and paid a $3 billion settlement with the U.S. government.
In this Health Ranger Report video, Blair describes his firsthand knowledge of the "bribery" of physicians, the push for off-label marketing of drugs for unapproved health conditions, the illegal marketing of drugs to children, how 80 percent of physicians were willing to be "on the take," and much more.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=y_RJ9QPG70U
Merck & Co., Inc.
Type: Public Company
Address: One Merck Drive, P.O. Box 100, White House Station, New Jersey 08889-0100, U.S.A.
Merck's beginnings can be traced back to Friedrich Jacob Merck's 1668 purchase of an apothecary in Darmstadt, Germany, called 'At the Sign of the Angel.' Located next to a castle moat, this store remained in the Merck family for generations.
The pharmacy was transformed by Heinrich Emmanuel Merck into a drug manufactory in 1827. His first products were morphine, codeine, and cocaine. By the time he died in 1855, products made by his company, known as E. Merck AG, were used worldwide. In 1887 E. Merck sent a representative, Theodore Weicker, to the United States to set up a sales office. Weicker (who would go on to own drug powerhouse Bristol-Myers Squibb) was joined by George Merck, the 24-year-old grandson of Heinrich Emmanuel Merck in 1891. In 1899, the younger Merck and Weicker acquired a 150-acre plant site in Rahway, New Jersey, and started production in 1903. Weicker left the firm the following year
Read more: http://www.answers.com/topic/merck-co-inc#ixzz2VXqlsZYI
Merck Timeline
http://citizen2009.wordpress.com/merck/
Irrefutable Evidence Shows Historical Application of Vaccines Had No Health Benefit or Impact on Prevention of Infectious Disease
http://preventdisease.com/news/13/052413_Irrefutable-Evidence-Historical-Application-Vaccines-No-Health-Benefit-Impact-on-Prevention-Infectious-Disease.shtml
Monsanto
http://citizen2009.wordpress.com/monsanto/
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Doctors Change Names of Diseases When Vaccines Do Not Work
http://vactruth.com/2012/04/25/change-names-of-diseases/
17 Examples of Admitted Vaccine Failure
http://vactruth.com/2013/02/23/17-examples-of-vaccine-failure/
K.P. Sethunath – Deccan Chronicle Rise in Paralysis Cases After Polio Vaccine
http://www.deccanchronicle.com/channels/cities/thiruvananthapuram/rise-paralysis-cases-after-polio-vaccine-234
Polio Perspectives
Edda West
http://www.whale.to/v/vran2.html
Greg Beatie Hiding Polio
http://www.whale.to/vaccine/polio1.html
Hiding Smallpox
http://www.whale.to/vaccine/smallpox1.html
Susan Humphries: The Secret History of Polio Vaccines
http://tv.greenmedinfo.com/susan-humphries-speaking-on-polio/
Doctors Change Names of Diseases When Vaccines Do Not Work
http://vactruth.com/2012/04/25/change-names-of-diseases/
17 Examples of Admitted Vaccine Failure
http://vactruth.com/2013/02/23/17-examples-of-vaccine-failure/
K.P. Sethunath – Deccan Chronicle Rise in Paralysis Cases After Polio Vaccine
http://www.deccanchronicle.com/channels/cities/thiruvananthapuram/rise-paralysis-cases-after-polio-vaccine-234
Polio Perspectives
Edda West
http://www.whale.to/v/vran2.html
Greg Beatie Hiding Polio
http://www.whale.to/vaccine/polio1.html
Hiding Smallpox
http://www.whale.to/vaccine/smallpox1.html
Susan Humphries: The Secret History of Polio Vaccines
http://tv.greenmedinfo.com/susan-humphries-speaking-on-polio/
Jennifer Lake's Blog
http://jenniferlake.wordpress.com/category/vaccines/
Media Citizen's Blog
http://citizen2009.wordpress.com/merck/
Polioforever's Blog
http://polioforever.wordpress.com/the-rockefeller-institute/
Department of Justice Office of Public Affairs
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEMonday, July 2, 2012
GlaxoSmithKline to Plead Guilty and Pay $3 Billion to Resolve Fraud Allegations and Failure to Report Safety Data
http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2012/July/12-civ-842.html
A Government Bribe by Any Other Name?
Let’s say you have a business that sells something to the government – something unbelievably profitable. Let’s say you get caught doing something wrong, but the government will allow you to keep your business running if you provide them with a cut of your profits. Let’s say you get caught time and time again doing more illegal things, and each time, you just give the government a cut of your profits and your legal problems just go away. Doesn’t this sound a lot like how a bribe works?
Read More:
http://www.liveinthenow.com/article/a-government-bribe-by-any-other-name
Big Pharma Pays Yet Another Government Bribe
I recently wrote an article about all the bribes that drug companies pay out to the government in order to maintain their illegal business practices. Well, they’re not really bribes, but that’s what I’ve started calling the silly “fines” that they are forced to pay. Day after day, the nation’s pharmaceutical companies knowingly engage in illegal activities that endanger our lives and take money out of our wallets. I assert that they essentially pay bribes to make the government agencies get out of their way, and then continue to conduct the same illegal business practices time and time again.
In some cases, pharmaceutical companies have been found guilty of knowingly (and dangerously) marketing drugs for purposes other than that for which they were approved by the FDA. In other cases, they have been fined for overcharging for their drugs or failing to give the government required rebates that would ultimately bring down the costs of these drugs for consumers. Over the years, they have been found guilty of countless other deceptive and fraudulent business practices, from deliberately hiding research that shows drugs are dangerous to disseminating misleading information to doctors.
Read more:
http://www.liveinthenow.com/article/big-pharma-pays-yet-another-government-bribe
Too Big to Prosecute: Big Pharma Executives Are Apparently “Above the Law”
By now you’ve probably heard that the pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline has been slapped with a $3 billion dollar fine, the largest healthcare fraud settlement in US history. The list of wrongdoings they have committed is quite simply shocking. In fact, in a previous article, I explained why these companies are simply evil – after all, some of their violations include drugging children and robbing poor people.
I’m glad the government levied such a large fine on GlaxoSmithKline, though when compared to their annual profits, this is more like a speed bump that slows them down temporarily rather than something so painful that it will likely change their corporate culture.
Read more:
http://www.liveinthenow.com/article/too-big-to-prosecute-big-pharma-executives-are-apparently-above-the-law
GlaxoSmithKline whistleblower speaks out about bribery of doctors, off-label marketing of drugs
This exclusive interview with former GlaxoSmithKline employee and whistleblower Blair Hamrick reveals insider details of GSK's operations, for which the company recently pleaded guilty to felony crimes and paid a $3 billion settlement with the U.S. government.
In this Health Ranger Report video, Blair describes his firsthand knowledge of the "bribery" of physicians, the push for off-label marketing of drugs for unapproved health conditions, the illegal marketing of drugs to children, how 80 percent of physicians were willing to be "on the take," and much more.
Read more:
http://www.liveinthenow.com/article/glaxosmithkline-whistleblower-speaks-out-about-big-pharmas-deplorable-acts
GlaxoSmithKline whistleblower speaks out about bribery of doctors, off-label marketing of drugs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=y_RJ9QPG70U
Irrefutable Evidence Shows Historical Application of Vaccines Had No Health Benefit or Impact on Prevention of Infectious Disease
http://preventdisease.com/news/13/052413_Irrefutable-Evidence-Historical-Application-Vaccines-No-Health-Benefit-Impact-on-Prevention-Infectious-Disease.shtml
Progressive Radio Network presents
A Gary Null Production
WAR ON HEALTH: The FDA's Cult of Tyranny
Introduced by the director (from his speech at the world premiere in New York City, June 15, 2012)
http://garynull.tv/video/487/war-on-health-the-fdas-cult-of
War on Health: A Must-See Documentary Exposing the FDA (Youtube version)
Excerpts:
A powerful documentary that exposes the ties between the FDA and Big Pharma, Big Food and Big Agra called War on Health: The FDA’s Cult of Tyranny. The documentary is the latest film project from acclaimed natural health expert, author and radio show host, Gary Null. It features interviews with my good friend, health freedom attorney, Jim Turner, as well as Ronnie Cummins of the Organic Consumers Association, Gretchen DuBeau of the Alliance for Natural Health, Mike Adams of NaturalNews.com, Dr. Jonathan Wright, Dr. Julian Whitaker, Will Faloon of the Life Extension Foundation and many other health freedom advocates.
You can watch the entire film free online:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=VibVIRsHnI0
Some of the evidence and footage presented in this film is downright shocking. It seems the FDA will do whatever it takes to make us dependent on conventional medicine while preventing us from using safe, natural, non-pharmaceutical means to heal and prevent disease. This means using militaristic tactics to make small, independent food producers and supplement companies do their bidding.
Guess What Kills One Person Every 19 Minutes?
At the same time, statistics are showing that deaths from pharmaceutical drugs are rising at an alarming rate. But don’t take my word for it. Just google the term “pharmaceutical drugs kill” and you’ll see headlines from major news organizations such as Fox and CNN that read:
“Prescription drugs 62,000 times more likely to kill …
“Prescription drugs kill 6200% more Americans …”
“Prescription Drugs Kill 300 Percent More Americans than Illegal Drugs…”
“Prescription drugs are now killing more people than traffic accidents…”
“Prescription Drug Deaths Skyrocket…”
“Prescription drugs kill one person every 19 minutes…”
“Prescription Drugs Now Kill More People Than Heroin And Cocaine Combined…”
Sadly, most people don’t know that properly prescribed prescription drugs kill over 100,000 Americans each year. (This excludes prescription drug abuse, which causes this number to skyrocket even higher). This is more than or equal to the number of people who die from accidents, Alzheimer’s, influenza and diabetes!
One reason that most people are in the dark about the dangers of pharmaceutical drugs is due to a fundamental misunderstanding of how these drugs get tested and approved. Too many people believe that the FDA has some kind of rigorous testing and evaluation system. Sadly, this is far from the truth.
The current system puts almost the entire burden to test the safety of a new pharmaceutical drug on the developer of that drug. And since developing a new drug costs billions of dollars, you can imagine the immense pressure on the entire organization to make sure that drug gets to market. Making things worse are the fees that the pharmaceutical companies pay the FDA, which amount to about 20% of its total budget. Now, I’m no expert on organizational structure, but it doesn’t take a genius to figure out that this system is inherently flawed and corrupt.
What’s the final product of this cozy relationship between Big Pharma and the FDA? It’s simple – dangerous drugs being put on the market, leaving us hapless consumers as real world guinea pigs. Simply put, the big drug companies profit and we die.
One of the most infamous examples of this is what happened with the painkiller Vioxx. It’s widely known that Merck engaged in several illegal and dubious strategies to influence the research backing the safety of Vioxx. Sadly, this easily tricked the FDA who approved the drug, only to remove it from the shelves after it killed approximately 60,000 people – more than the number of brave soldiers who died in Vietnam. Will we be building a memorial for the Vioxx victims?
The latest example of the flaws in the process for getting pharmaceutical drugs approved by the FDA is the diabetes drug Avandia. A Senate Finance Committee investigation showed that GlaxoSmithKline intentionally hid reliable scientific data clearly showing that Avandia significantly increases the risk of heart attack. Naturally this came to light after the FDA approved the drug, and it didn’t take long before it was linked to 83,000 heart attacks and deaths, according to the FDA’s own scientists.
If you think Vioxx and Avandia are flukes, think again. There are dozens, and perhaps hundreds, of drugs killing people every day, because their makers provided flawed, biased and corrupt data to the FDA. And since the FDA is unequipped, incapable or unwilling to change the system, more and more people are going to die.
If you believe your doctor provides the final line of defense for you, think again. Despite good intentions, guess who trained your doctor on all of the “benefits” of the drug they are prescribing to you? You guessed it – the company that stands to make billions of dollars from its sale. Your doctor got duped (and probably got a free golf trip in Hawaii). Meanwhile, you got a potentially harmful drug that may put your health in jeopardy.
The bottom line – don’t trust that pharmaceutical drugs are safe. Big Pharma has a long, sad track record of lies, corruption and deceit, all in the name of profits. And the FDA’s system to approve drugs is as flawed as perhaps any function of government.
My advice: If your doctor prescribes you a drug, take your health into your own hands! Consider lifestyle changes, look for natural alternatives, get second opinions and do your own research. Only take the drug after you are 100% certain it is safe and in your best interests. After all – your life may depend on it!
Read more:
http://www.secretsofthefed.com/guess-what-kills-one-person-every-19-minutes/
Drugmakers go furthest to sway Congress
USA TODAY
Posted 4/25/2005
This is an outdated article, (2005), but really gets to the reality of power of pharma to control and get anything it wants through contributions to political campaigns and congressional lobbying. And its all apparently legal. Is it any wonder the state of US health care is in the horrid state and situation that it is in.
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/money/industries/health/drugs/2005-04-25-drug-lobby-cover_x.htm
The History of the "Business With Disease"
"Compared to the reality of the drug industry, my book reads like a vacation post card"
John Le Carre, Author
The most powerful German economic corporate emporium in the first half of this century was the Interessengemeinschaft Farben or IG Farben, for short. Interessengemeinschaft stands for "Association of Common Interests" and was nothing more than a powerful cartel of BASF, Bayer, Hoechst, and other German chemical and pharmaceutical companies. IG Farben was the single largest donor to the election campaign of Adolph Hitler. One year before Hitler seized power, IG Farben donated 400,000 marks to Hitler and his Nazi party. Accordingly, after Hitler's seizure of power, IG Farben was the single largest profiteer of the German conquest of the world, the Second World War.
Read About:
The Birth of I.G. Farben and the Support for Hitler
I.G. Farben and the Auschwitz Concentration Camp
Medical Experiments in Auschwitz Conducted by I.G. Farben
The Nuremberg War Tribunal
The Disgraced Managers of I.G. Farben
From "Arbeit macht frei" to "Codex Alimentarius"
Literature
Source- read more
http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/PHARMACEUTICAL_BUSINESS/history_of_the_pharmaceutical_industry.htm
“Incurable Diseases” Is it a Business? – The Documentary
“Incurable Diseases; Is it a Business?” is an ambitious 90-minute documentary film, targeted for worldwide distribution, exposing the deceptive practices of the medical industry and pharmaceutical companies thus creating an open mind to alternative and complementary methods of healing to stop the progression of diseases like Cancer.
http://tv.greenmedinfo.com/incurable-diseases-is-it-a-business-the-documentary/
Health Means Education
For more than a decade, Dr. Rath has been a voice of conscience exposing the global scheme of the pharmaceutical drug Cartel and its unscrupulous “business with disease”. Not surprisingly, he has been attacked by the drug Cartel media the world over.
For their civil courage Dr. Rath and his Foundation received the prestigious ‘Relay of Life’ Award from survivors of Auschwitz and other Nazi concentration camps.
The Dr. Rath Research Institute in Santa Clara, California is a world leader in science-based natural approaches to cardiovascular disease and cancer.
All activities of the Dr. Rath group belong to a non-profit parent organization. By taking this decision, he is deliberately paving the way for a new health care system that can finally focus on the prevention of diseases – and is no longer doomed to feed the insatiable greed of the pharmaceutical investment business thriving on the continuation of diseases.
Economic growth, reducing national debt, creating new jobs and controlling health costs are leading topics in the Presidential election campaign. Despite much debate about these topics the key factor affecting all of these problems at the same time has remained obscure. This is even more surprising since this factor can be analyzed and identified with nearly mathematical precision:
http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/open_letters/open_letter_2012_11_04.html
The Investment 'Business With Disease' - A Brief History of the Development of the Pharmaceutical Industry - The Money Men - Key Players
In the early part of the 20th century, a number of powerful and wealthy individuals who owned or managed a significant proportion of the corporate wealth of the United States, wealth that had been earned during the industrial revolution of the latter part of the 19th century, recognized that the ‘industrialization’ of health care would offer them further opportunities to control even more wealth and power.
By ‘rationalizing’ (as they described it) the provision of public health care and incorporating into this process the technological developments taking place in chemistry in the early 20th century, these men developed health care as a business – a business that would eventually lead to the patent based pharmaceutical industry of today.
The vast wealth of these men made it possible for them to set up and refine institutions and later companies that would guarantee them total control of the machinery of public health provision.
Learn more:
http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/The_Hague/bwdcritical.htm
America's Healthcare Crisis--Part I "The Whole System is Broken"
http://www.ahrp.org/cms/content/view/870/9/
Medicine Hijacked: Books That Document the Real Health Care Crisis
http://www.ahrp.org/cms/content/view/855/149/
[PDF] Death by Medicine By Gary Null, PhD; Carolyn Dean ...
www.webdc.com/pdfs/deathbymedicine.pdf
http://www.lef.org/magazine/mag2004/mar2004_awsi_death_01.htm
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2003/11/26/death-by-medicine-part-one.aspx
Death By Doctor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JF7TcPsmvI
Is US Health Really the Best in the World? (Originally published in the AMA Journal)
Barbara Starfield, MD, MPH
http://www.ahrp.org/cms/images/stories/articles/starfield_2000_jama.pdf
This entry contains the average number of years to be lived by a group of people born in the same year, if mortality at each age remains constant in the future. The entry includes total population as well as the male and female components. Life expectancy at birth is also a measure of overall quality of life in a country and summarizes the mortality at all ages. It can also be thought of as indicating the potential return on investment in human capital and is necessary for the calculation of various actuarial measures. World fact Book.
Rated 51 United States
78.49 - 2012 est.
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2102rank.html
Revealed: how drug firms 'hoodwink' medical journals
Pharmaceutical giants hire ghostwriters to produce articles - then put doctors' names on them
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2003/dec/07/health.businessofresearch
Graph of the day: The United States has a really high infant mortality rate
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/01/09/graph-of-the-day-the-united-states-has-a-really-high-infant-mortality-rate/
Commercially Corrupted Medicine Leading Cause of Death in USA – Washington Post
http://childhealthsafety.wordpress.com/2013/01/07/commercially-corrupted-medicine-washington-post/
Patients Rarely Told of Medication Errors in the Hospital
http://www.doctorsaputo.com/a/patients-rarely-told-of-medication-errors-in-the-hospital
Can Medical Research be Trusted?
“Unfortunately, the entire evidence base has been perverted,” said Joseph Ross, a professor at Yale Medical School who has studied the issue.
“You could say these marketing tactics are merely concerning. But I think of them as satanic. What the data are telling us is that these drugs are ruining people’s lives,” said Phillip Prior, MD
http://www.ahrp.org/cms/content/view/897/9/
The Origin of the 42-Year Stonewall of Vitamin C, (and now is over 60 years)
http://www.seanet.com/~alexs/ascorbate/199x/landwehr-r-j_orthomol_med-1991-v6-n2-p99.htm
BIG PHARMA CRIMINALITY NO LONGER A CONSPIRACY THEORY: BRIBERY, FRAUD, PRICE FIXING NOW A MATTER OF PUBLIC RECORD
http://worldtruth.tv/big-pharma-criminality-no-longer-a-conspiracy-theory-bribery-fraud-price-fixing-now-a-matter-of-public-record/
POISONED FOR PROFIT
How Toxins Are Making Our Children Chronically Ill
http://www.poisonedforprofit.net/
The Cancer Industry: Why Cancer Can't Be Cured
“Everyone should know that the ‘war on cancer’ is largely a fraud, and that the National Cancer Institute [NCI] and the American Cancer Society [ACS] are derelict in their duties to the people who support them.”
-- Linus Pauling, Ph.D., two-time Nobel Laureate
http://www.ebook-browser.com/why-cancer-cant-be-cured.htm
Cancer Doesn't Kill, Traditional Treatments Do!
http://tv.naturalnews.com/v.asp?v=a0c6f9c53d724b9693aea364763f9e9a
Rockefeller Medicine Men : Medicine and Capitalism in America
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/rockefeller-medicine-men-medicine-and-capitalism-in-america-e-richard-brown/1101492376
http://www.amazon.com/Rockefeller-medicine-men-capitalism-America/dp/1245560263
http://www.sears.com/nabu-press-rockefeller-medicine-men-medicine-and-capitalism-in-america/p-SPM6144786203P
http://www.lulu.com/us/en/shop/richard-e-brown/rockefeller-medicine-men-medicine-and-capitalism-in-america/paperback/product-20335826.html
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Rockefeller-Medicine-Men-Medicine-and-Capitalism-America-Very-Good-Books-/310528493348?pt=US_Nonfiction_Book&hash=item484cf0c724
Rockefeller Medicine Men : Medicine and Capitalism in America- (E-Book)
http://www.scribd.com/doc/50079786/E-Richard-Brown-Rockefeller-Medicine-Men-Medicine-and-Capitalism-in-America-and-the-World-1979
http://www.ebooksread.com/authors-eng/e-richard-brown/rockefeller-medicine-men--medicine-and-capitalism-in-america-hci/1-rockefeller-medicine-men--medicine-and-capitalism-in-america-hci.shtml
PDF - Rockefeller Medicine Men : Medicine and Capitalism in America
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=rockefeller%20medicine%20men%20-%20medicine%20%26%20capitalism%20in%20america&source=web&cd=21&cad=rja&ved=0CC8QFjAAOBQ&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthehealingproject.net.au%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2009%2F10%2FE.R.-BROWN-_1979_-Rockefeller-Medicine-Men.-Medicine-and-C%25E2%2580%25A6.pdf&ei=_jgHUcSZOavYyAH3qYHgBg&usg=AFQjCNG2udtAIr3QmxS3Z8OYhGpxO-oHVQ
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=rockefeller%20medicine%20men%20-%20medicine%20%26%20capitalism%20in%20america&source=web&cd=7&ved=0CF0QFjAG&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.revalvaatio.org%2Fwp%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2Fbrown-rockefeller_medicine_men_medicine-and-capitalism-in-america.pdf&ei=XzYHUZfVD8XRyQHx-oGYCg&usg=AFQjCNGSOabbVB6l3aK1fpyzK38GZonOaA
Rockefeller Medicine Men - Medicine and Capitalism in America
http://www.whale.to/b/brown_b.html
The Drug Story
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/empire.htm
T h e D R U G S T O R Y
A Factological History of AMERICA'S $10,000,000,000 DRUG CARTEL — ITS METHODS, OPERATIONS, HIDDEN OWNER-SHIP, PROFITS AND TERRIFIC IMPACT ON THE HEALTH OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.
http://www.nccn.net/~wwithin/TheDrugStoryBeale.htm
Lies and Fallacies of the Encyclopedia Britannica by Joseph McCabe.
Joseph McCabe discovered that the Encyclopedia Britannica was CASTRATED!!
Rockefeller bought the Encyclopedia Britannica
Around the year 1900, the Rockefeller owned University of Chicago bought the Encyclopedia Britannica. The university editors went to work removing all the true history of the Papacy as well as articles exposing the deadly practice of vaccination.
http://www.reformation.org/lies-of-encyclopeida-britannica.html
Rockefeller Buys Encyclopedia Britannica!!
http://www.reformation.org/britannica.html
The Rockefeller Family Fortunes
—A Trail of Conspiracy, Bloodshed, and Evil
Rome, Rockefeller, the U.S. and Standard Oil The Monarchy of Money!!!
http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/False%20Religions/Illuminati/rockefeller_fortunes.htm
Three Centuries of Rockefeller Family Philanthropy
rockpa.org/document.doc?id=19
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=one%20in%20spirit%20rockefellers&source=web&cd=6&ved=0CEwQFjAF&url=http%3A%2F%2Frockpa.org%2Fdocument.doc%3Fid%3D19&ei=1UoHUbTOMM6J2AXU64CgAg&usg=AFQjCNFq1mr3LiRGV0-EJR8XzfHZWrEZzg
Rockefeller's Luciferian NYC Temples
http://www.henrymakow.com/temples_of_the_illumined_ones.html
The Rockefeller Bloodline
http://www.theforbiddenknowledge.com/hardtruth/the_rockefeller_bloodline.htm
Rockefeller & Global Mind Control - Chronology
http://www.crossroad.to/Quotes/brainwashing/rockefeller-mind-control.htm
The Rockefellers, Morgans and the Global Media Censors
http://www.crossroad.to/Quotes/globalism/rockefeller.htm
The House of Rothschild: The Money’s Prophets
http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/house-rothschild-money-prophets/
The house of Rothschild - the Money's prophets - full 56min
http://youtu.be/Y_wkVJcH65s
The History Of The House Of Rothschild
http://rense.com/general88/hist.htm
Rothschild Family
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rothschild_family
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_House_of_Rothschild
House Of Rothschild Hoarding Gold In Face Of Coming Collapse?
http://www.infowars.com/house-of-rothschild-hoarding-gold-in-face-of-coming-collapse/
House Of Rothschild: No One Can Understand What Has Happened To The Planet Without Reading This
http://www.secretsofthefed.com/qwefqwr/
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This is where so called modern medicine was taken over, and all of alternative medicine and its protocols were branded as quackery. The only left standing was the pharmaceutical chemical approach, which in actuality had been previously the most failing method of the day. Thus to day we have the statement by the FDA that, “only a drug can cure or prevent disease”. Any other statements and claims made on anything other than an existing patented for profit drug, cause that substance to become a drug, and therefore must be regulated by the FDA in the same way as a chemical drug is and would be.
Medical Education in the United States and Canada: A Report to the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching [Paperback]
http://www.amazon.com/Medical-Education-United-States-Canada/dp/1146363036/ref=pd_rhf_dp_s_cp_2_0JSA
Medical Education in the United States and Canada Bulletin Number Four (The Flexner Report)
Publication Author: Abraham Flexner. The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
Abstract:
Medical Education in the United States and Canada is a comprehensive report to the foundation, by Abraham Flexner, on medical education in the United States and Canada, with regard to the course of study, financial aspects, medical sects, state boards, post-graduate schools, and other special forms of medical education; with descriptive and tabular accounts of all of the medical schools throughout the United States and Canada; and a general plan for reconstruction, with an introduction by the president of the foundation. The Flexner Report was reproduced by photo-offset in 1950.
Carnegie Bulletin
http://www.carnegiefoundation.org/publications/medical-education-united-states-and-canada-bulletin-number-four-flexner-report-0
The Flexner Report
The Flexner Report [1] is a book-length study of medical education in the United States and Canada, written by the professional educator Abraham Flexner and published in 1910 under the aegis of the Carnegie Foundation. Many aspects of the present-day American medical profession stem from the Flexner Report and its aftermath.
The Report (also called Carnegie Foundation Bulletin Number Four) called on American medical schools to enact higher admission and graduation standards, and to adhere strictly to the protocols of mainstream science in their teaching and research. Many American medical schools fell short of the standard advocated in the Report, and subsequent to its publication, nearly half of such schools merged or were closed outright. The Report also concluded that there were too many medical schools in the USA, and that too many doctors were being trained. A repercussion of the Flexner Report, resulting from the closure or consolidation of university training, was reversion of American universities to male-only admittance programs to accommodate a smaller admission pool. Universities had begun opening and expanding female admissions as part of women's and co-educational facilities only in the mid-to-latter part of the 19th century with the founding of co-educational Oberlin College in 1833 and private colleges such as Vassar College and Pembroke College.
Contents
1 History
2 Recommended changes
3 Consequences of the report
3.1 Closure of many medical schools
3.2 Impact on alternative medicine
3.3 Impact on osteopathic medicine
4 See also
5 References
5.1 Additional references
6 Further reading
7 External links
History
In 1904 the AMA created the Council on Medical Education (CME) whose objective was to restructure American medical education. At its first annual meeting, the CME adopted two standards: one laid down the minimum prior education required for admission to a medical school, the other defined a medical education as consisting of two years training in human anatomy and physiology followed by two years of clinical work in a teaching hospital. In 1908, the CME asked the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching to survey American medical education, so as to promote the CME's reformist agenda and hasten the elimination of medical schools that failed to meet the CME's standards. The president of the Carnegie Foundation, Henry Pritchett, a staunch advocate of medical school reform, chose Flexner to conduct the survey. Flexner was not a physician, scientist, or a medical educator, although he held a bachelor of arts degree and operated a for-profit school in Louisville, Kentucky.[2]
Read more:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexner_Report
Andrew Carnegie, Steel King of America, Philanthropist:
http://pittsburgh.about.com/cs/famous/p/andrew_carnegie.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Carnegie
Top 10: Richest Men (of All Time)
http://www.instash.com/top-10-richest-men-of-all-time
Special Report
The World's Billionaires
http://www.forbes.com/lists/2010/10/billionaires-2010_The-Worlds-Billionaires_Rank.html
CBO: 7 million Americans to lose employer insurance under Obamacare
http://washingtonexaminer.com/cbo-7-million-americans-to-lose-employer-insurance-under-obamacare/article/2520622?custom_click=rss
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pharmakeia (aka sorceries) of Babylon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0L-qSVqg37E&list=PLB3VkL0_ujawf_SRKVj4R8WB1m2HZepr_#t=260
The American Health Care System in Crisis
The broken promises of the dominant healthcare system in America
A terribly flawed healthcare system:
The FDA v. the First Amendment: A bureaucracy's assault on your health.
The real crisis in the American health care system
http://www.health-essentials.info/issuesAlerts/crisis.html
The Missing Link: The Role of Therapeutic-Grade Essential Oils in Healthcare
http://www.health-essentials.info/science/aromatherapy/missing-link.html
History of SSRI's Prozac LSD PCP and the effects - Ann Blake-Tracy
http://youtu.be/7uC1ef86Lek?list=UUo-6uMPDOtwaPe1ec3Rhr3A
Ann Blake Tracy SSRI FDA Testimony 1991, (FDA didn't want to hear it)
http://www.drugawareness.org/ann-blake-tracy-ssri-fda-testimony-1991/
Ann Blake Tracy SSRI FDA Testimony 2-2-04, (and STILL, little has changed)
http://www.drugawareness.org/ann-blake-tracy-ssri-fda-testimony-2-2-04/
International Coalition For Drug Awareness
http://www.drugawareness.org/
The untold dangers of SSRI antidepressants
How Prozac, Paxil, Zoloft and similar medications can destroy your life
http://www.health-essentials.info/science/health-issues/ssri01.html
Making a Killing - THE UNTOLD STORY OF PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGGING
http://www.cchr.org/videos/making-a-killing.html
The Marketing of Madness: Are We All Insane?
http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/marketing-of-madness-are-we-all-insane/
SSRI Stories
Antidepressant Nightmares
http://www.ssristories.org/
Ann Blake Tracy SSRI FDA Testimony 2-2-04 (youtube version)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1p4DWTj2Bw#t=174
How to Get Off Psychoactive Drugs Safely, is available for FREE on this site.
http://www.theroadback.org/Default.aspx
These are the real numbers. Who would want to be part of that, when there is obviously a much better way.
Death by Medicine
http://www.wnho.net/deathbymedicine.htm
http://www.webdc.com/pdfs/deathbymedicine.pdf
http://www.amazon.com/Death-Medicine-Gary-Null/dp/1607660067
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2003/11/26/death-by-medicine-part-one.aspx
http://medicinekillsmillions.com/
New Documentary “Bought” Exposes the Hidden Story Behind Vaccines, Pharma, and Food
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2014/11/08/bought-documentary-vaccine-food-healthcare.aspx
http://boughtmovie.com/our-assigment/
http://boughtmovie.com/
Vaccine Did Not Eradicate Poliomyelitis
http://www.laleva.org/eng/2010/11/vaccine_did_not_eradicate_poliomyelitis-print.html
Failure Of The Continued Polio Vaccine Campaign
http://www.vacfacts.info/failure-of-the-continued-polio-vaccine-campaign.html
Undeniable Proof of Vaccines Historical Ineffectiveness: Mortality Rates vs Vaccination Introduction Graphs
http://www.lookfromabove.com/vaccines/solid-proof-vaccine-historical-ineffectivity-mortality-rates-vaccination-introduction-graphs
The Current Failure of Pertussis and Measles Vaccine
http://www.vacfacts.info/the-current-failure-of-pertussis-and-measles-vaccine.html
How evidence-based medicine is failing due to biased trials and selective publication - http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jep.12147/pdf
You Can’t Find the Truth About Vaccines by Burying Your Head in (Vested Interests in Vaccines) Peer-Reviewed Studies
http://freedom-articles.toolsforfreedom.com/truth-about-vaccines-beyond-peer-review/
NEJM editor: “No longer possible to believe much of clinical research published”
Harvard Medical School’s Dr. Marcia Angell is the author of The Truth About the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What to Do About It. But more to the point, she’s also the former Editor-in-Chief at the New England Journal of Medicine, arguably one of the most respected medical journals on earth. But after reading her article in the New York Review of Books called Drug Companies & Doctors: A Story of Corruption, one wonders if any medical journal on earth is worth anybody’s respect anymore.
“It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines. I take no pleasure in this conclusion, which I reached slowly and reluctantly over my two decades as an editor of The New England Journal of Medicine.”
Read more:
http://ethicalnag.org/2009/11/09/nejm-editor/
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Scientific Evidence for Homeopathic Medicine
https://www.homeopathic.com/Articles/Homeopathic_research/Scientific_Evidence_for_Homeopathic_Medicine.html
Research demonstrates that homeopathy can be effective as an alternative to antibiotics
https://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140602160152-198073377-research-demonstrates-that-homeopathy-can-be-effective-as-an-alternative-to-antibiotics
Homoeoprophylaxis – a Proven Alternative to Vaccination
http://nourishedmagazine.com.au/blog/articles/homoeoprophylaxis-%E2%80%93-a-proven-alternative-to-vaccination
What is Homeopathy?
http://www.healingwithhomeopathy.net/introduc.htm
http://www.abc.net.au/health/features/stories/2014/05/23/4010063.htm
Where homeopathy has been proven effective
http://clasonhomeopathy.com/Effective.html
“Studies Show Homeopathy to be Effective in the Treatment of Breast Cancer”
http://www.aznaturalhealth.com/news-and-press/studies-show-homeopathy-to-be-effective-in-the-treatment-of-cancer/
The Minimum Dose
http://www.classichomeopathy.com/discovery/minimum.html
The growth of a lie and the end of “conventional” medicine
Summary
Throughout its over 200-year history, homeopathy has been proven effective in treating diseases for which conventional medicine has little to offer. However, given its low cost, homeopathy has always represented a serious challenge and a constant threat to the profi ts of drug companies. Moreover, since drug companies represent the most relevant source of funding for biomedical research worldwide, they are in a privileged position to finance detractive campaigns against homeopathy by manipulating the media as well as academic institutions and the medical establishment.
WHO: End the suffering of the Ebola crisis. Test and distribute homeopathy as quickly as possible to contain the outbreaks.
Fran Sheffield
Australia
Homeopathy has a proven track record of treating and preventing serious epidemic diseases.
It’s used by governments for dengue fever, leptospirosis, epidemic fever, malaria, and Japanese encephalitis epidemics, and, historically, for other serious contagious diseases.
The appropriate homeopathic medicine (remedy) is likely to be just as effective against the Ebola virus.
Homeopathic remedies are quick to produce in large quantities, inexpensive, easily distributed, and have an excellent safety profile.
They are ideally suited to the difficulties and constraints of Ebola-affected countries, as identified by WHO.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Read more: https://www.change.org/p/dr-daniel-kertesz-who-end-the-suffering-of-the-ebola-crisis-test-and-distribute-homeopathy-as-quickly-as-possible-to-contain-the-outbreaks
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Take a look at this for a single example among many. They can not even get this much right, the fact that vitamin C is an effective antiviral that has been used throughout the same history that they allopathic chemicalized has comparatively failed miserably, in this area.
The Origin of the 42-Year Stonewall of Vitamin C, (and now is over 60 years)
http://www.seanet.com/~alexs/ascorbate/199x/landwehr-r-j_orthomol_med-1991-v6-n2-p99.htm
LIPOSOMAL ENCAPSULATED VITAMIN C
http://www.vacfacts.info/anti-viral---liposomal-encapsulated-vitamin-c.html
The Danger and Ineffectiveness of Flu Vaccines
http://www.vacfacts.info/danger-and-ineffectiveness-of-flu-vaccines.html
Tamiflu Deception - Learn The Real Truth
http://www.vacfacts.info/tamiflu-deception---learn-the-real-truth.html
Journal of Applied Nutrition Vol. 23, No's 3 & 4, Winter 1971
Observations On the Dose and Administration of Ascorbic Acid When Employed Beyond the Range Of A Vitamin In Human Pathology
Frederick R. Klenner, M.D., F.C.C.P.
http://www.orthomed.com/klenner.htm
Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, March 15, 2006
VITAMIN C HAS BEEN KNOWN TO FIGHT 30 MAJOR DISEASES ... FOR OVER 50 YEARS
http://orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/v02n02.shtml
http://foodmatters.tv/articles-1/did-you-know-that-vitamin-c-can-treat-over-30-major-diseases
High-Dose Intravenous Vitamin C: A Tribute to Fred Klenner
http://www.mcdonaghmed.com/the-happy-apple/high-dose-intravenous-vitam.html
Vitamin C Cures by Dr. Fred Klenner
http://holistic-personal-development.com/2007/03/05/vitamin-c-cures-by-dr-fred-klenner/
HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT: The Pioneering Work of FREDERICK ROBERT KLENNER, M.D.
http://www.doctoryourself.com/klennerbio.html
Frederick R. Klenner, M.D., F.C.C.P
http://www.whale.to/m/klenner.html
Quotes:
http://www.whale.to/v/klenner3.html
Vitamin C - Nutritional Medicine
http://www.whale.to/w/vitamin_c.html
Doctors and Healers using or promoting Diet & Nutrients
http://www.whale.to/a/doctors_nutr.html
Fredrick Klenner
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_R._Klenner
Dr Archie Kalokerinos MBBS PhD FAPM. (another well known vitamin C pioneer)
http://www.whale.to/vaccines/kalokerinos.html
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John Tilden MD, (1851-1940)
Toxemia Explained: The True Interpretation of the Cause of Disease [Paperback]
Dr. John H. Tilden (Author)
Dr. Tilden provides an elegant theory of what Antoine Bechamp, Royal Rife, Gaston Neassens, and even Florence Nightinggale proved with their observations - it is the medium. The elegance stems from its simplicity, the logic is difficult to refute. If you've questioned mainstream medical thought concerning disease (not broken bones, gunshot wounds, blunt trauma, etc) and found it lacking, take this book for a spin, but beware, there's no turning back.
Explains why MD's will forever be chasing their tails....
http://www.amazon.com/Toxemia-Explained-Interpretation-Cause-Disease/dp/1162565829
John Tilden MD
http://www.whale.to/vaccines/tilden.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Henry_Tilden
Natural Healers
http://www.whale.to/a/nat4.html
(Also view pages)
The False Foundations of Modern Medicine
http://www.vacfacts.info/the-false-foundations-of-modern-medicine.html
Death By Medicine
http://www.vacfacts.info/death-by-medicine.html
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Profits, Not Science, Motivate Vaccine Mandates
http://www.wellbeingjournal.com/profits-not-science-motivate-vaccine-mandates/
Why is the CDC Ignoring Explosion of Recorded HPV Vaccine Injuries, as Other Countries Move to Take Protective Action?
http://healthimpactnews.com/2014/why-is-the-cdc-ignoring-explosion-of-recorded-hpv-vaccine-injuries-as-other-countries-move-to-take-protective-action/
Vaccines are only chosen by ignorant people
http://canadiansforhealthfreedom.wordpress.com/2010/11/05/vaccination-rates-fall-among-better-educated-families-even-while-cdc-keeps-pushing-vaccine-quackery/
DOCTORED - THE MOVIE (THE MONOPOLIZATION OF OUR MEDICAL SYSTEM)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iR9Y0C9eJA0
Bought Movie Trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lhfD6MbL_8
Doctored - The Movie
http://www.doctoredthemovie.com
Doctored: The Film the AMA Does Not Want You to See (2013)
http://www.amazon.com/Doctored-The-Film-Does-Want/dp/B00BOZQ54K
The Canadian Adverse Events Study: the incidence of adverse events among hospital patients in Canada
Interpretation: The overall incidence rate of AEs of 7.5% in our study suggests that, of the almost 2.5 million annual hospital admissions in Canada similar to the type studied, about 185,000 are associated with an AE and close to 70 000 of these are potentially preventable
http://www.cmaj.ca/content/170/11/1678.full
J Patient Saf. 2013 Sep;9(3):122-8. doi: 10.1097/PTS.0b013e3182948a69.
A new, evidence-based estimate of patient harms associated with hospital care.
James JT.
Abstract
OBJECTIVES:
Based on 1984 data developed from reviews of medical records of patients treated in New York hospitals, the Institute of Medicine estimated that up to 98,000 Americans die each year from medical errors. The basis of this estimate is nearly 3 decades old; herein, an updated estimate is developed from modern studies published from 2008 to 2011.
METHODS:
A literature review identified 4 limited studies that used primarily the Global Trigger Tool to flag specific evidence in medical records, such as medication stop orders or abnormal laboratory results, which point to an adverse event that may have harmed a patient. Ultimately, a physician must concur on the findings of an adverse event and then classify the severity of patient harm.
RESULTS:
Using a weighted average of the 4 studies, a lower limit of 210,000 deaths per year was associated with preventable harm in hospitals. Given limitations in the search capability of the Global Trigger Tool and the incompleteness of medical records on which the Tool depends, the true number of premature deaths associated with preventable harm to patients was estimated at more than 400,000 per year. Serious harm seems to be 10- to 20-fold more common than lethal harm.
CONCLUSIONS:
The epidemic of patient harm in hospitals must be taken more seriously if it is to be curtailed. Fully engaging patients and their advocates during hospital care, systematically seeking the patients' voice in identifying harms, transparent accountability for harm, and intentional correction of root causes of harm will be necessary to accomplish this goal.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23860193
HOSPITAL INCIDENT REPORTING SYSTEMS DO NOT CAPTURE MOST PATIENT HARM
https://oig.hhs.gov/oei/reports/oei-06-09-00091.pdf
Patients' and Physicians' Attitudes Regarding the Disclosure of Medical Errors
The limited available data, however, suggest that full disclosure of errors to patients may be uncommon. In a 1991 study, 76% of house officers said they had not disclosed a serious error to a patient.24 Multiple factors may inhibit physicians from disclosing errors, such as fear that informing the patient of an error could lead to a malpractice suit, damage the physician's reputation, and be awkward and uncomfortable.15,25- 31 Some institutions are developing new policies requiring or strongly encouraging disclosure of some errors to patients.7,32- 37 It is not known whether these policies are increasing error disclosure. In a recent national survey, only 30% of respondents who experienced a medical error said that the involved health care professional had informed them of the error.12 Failure to tell patients about medical errors could impair patient trust and satisfaction and increase the chances of a malpractice suit.13- 15,26,38- 43
http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=196045&link=xref
TO ERR IS HUMAN: BUILDING A SAFER HEALTH SYSTEM
Health care in the United States is not as safe as it should be--and can be. At least 44,000 people, and perhaps as many as 98,000 people, die in hospitals each year as a result of medical errors that could have been prevented, according to estimates from two major studies. Even using the lower estimate, preventable medical errors in hospitals exceed attributable deaths to such feared threats as motor-vehicle wrecks, breast cancer, and AIDS.
Medical errors can be defined as the failure of a planned action to be completed as intended or the use of a wrong plan to achieve an aim. Among the problems that commonly occur during the course of providing health care are adverse drug events and improper transfusions, surgical injuries and wrong-site surgery, suicides, restraint-related injuries or death, falls, burns, pressure ulcers, and mistaken patient identities. High error rates with serious consequences are most likely to occur in intensive care units, operating rooms, and emergency departments. Beyond their cost in human lives, preventable medical errors exact other significant tolls. They have been estimated to result in total costs (in cluding the expense of additional care necessitated by the errors, lost income
and household productivity, and disability) of between $17 billion and $29 billion per year in hospitals nationwide. Errors also are costly in terms of loss of trust in the health care system by patients and diminished satisfaction by both patients and health professionals. Patients who experience a long hospital stay or disability as a result of errors pay with physical and psychological discomfort. Health professionals pay with loss of morale and frustration at not being able to provide the best care possible. Society bears the cost of errors as well, in terms of lost worker productivity, reduced school attendance by children, and lower levels of population health status.
READ more:
http://www.iom.edu/~/media/Files/Report%20Files/1999/To-Err-is-Human/To%20Err%20is%20Human%201999%20%20report%20brief.pdf
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Medical error disclosure: improving patient safety through better communication
To err is human…
In 1999 the Institute of Medicine issued a landmark report entitled To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System which estimated that up to 100,000 Americans die each year as a result of preventable medical errors.
Here at home, the 2004 Canadian Adverse Events Study reported that medical errors occur during 185,000 or 7.5% of hospitalizations across the country, and almost 37% of these errors are preventable.
A more recent estimate, published earlier this year in the Journal of Patient Safety is that as many as 440,000 Americans die each year from preventable medical errors. This would make medical error the third leading cause of death in the United States.
This groundbreaking research has raised global awareness about patient safety, leading to the launch of several initiatives aimed at reducing medical error including the Institute for Health Improvement’s 100,000 Lives Campaign and the Canadian Patient Safety Institute’s flagship Safer Healthcare Now! program.
…To disclose is not
Despite this focus on error prevention, much less attention has been paid to the process of medical error disclosure.
“Twelve years ago there was nothing in the literature,” reflects Dr. Wendy Levinson, the Sir John and Lady Eaton Professor and Chair of the Department of Medicine at the University of Toronto.
“The Institute of Medicine had done To Err is Human, but no one was talking about physicians disclosing errors; 10 years ago nobody talked about this topic,” Levinson notes. “There was a lot of the counter messaging and a culture of secrecy because people were worried about getting sued—I don’t think there was disclosure of errors to patients.”
In 2003, Levinson published a seminal study exploring patients’ and physicians’ attitudes about medical error disclosure. Levinson’s work revealed a disconnect between patients’ wishes and physicians’ actions.
Patients wanted disclosure of all harmful errors as well as an apology and detailed information about what happened, why the error occurred, how the error’s consequences will be mitigated, and how recurrences will be prevented. By contrast, physicians often avoided stating that an error occurred, why the error happened, or how recurrences would be prevented.
Levinsons’ 2003 study also reported that physicians’ reluctance to fully disclose medical error and apologize was often driven by a fear of litigation and concern about fracturing trust in the doctor-patient relationship. However, patients wanted an explanation, not to assign blame, but to understand what happened and to ensure that actions were being taking to prevent future events. In fact, earlier research reported that patients commonly filed malpractice suits as a result of insensitive handling and poor communication following medical error, because they wanted to ensure that similar errors were not repeated.
READ more:
http://healthydebate.ca/2013/12/topic/quality/disclosing-medical-errors