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"One could conclude then that self-reporting errors is not an accurate method. An article, written in August 2003,193 referred to a study by Leape et al by saying "lack of correct patient-specific and lack of correct medication-specific information were the two leading causes of prescribing errors."194 And lack there is! Sounds a lot like Russian roulette with drugs. There is absence of data on medication errors and yet the psychiatrist continues to prescribe. The sorts of errors that can happen are numerous. A wrong drug may be prescribed." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.) "This means that self-reporting misses 244 - 1,000 errors for each error detected by other means.192 One could conclude then that self-reporting errors is not an accurate method. An article, written in August 2003,193 referred to a study by Leape et al by saying "lack of correct patient-specific and lack of correct medication-specific information were the two leading causes of prescribing errors."194 And lack there is! Sounds a lot like Russian roulette with drugs. There is absence of data on medication errors and yet the psychiatrist continues to prescribe." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"The problem is, cells have a limited capacity to fix those errors in DNA replication. In part, vitamin D controls the genes and enzymes that can repair errors. Further, if errors slip past your body's quality-control officers, vitamin D may help to ensure that the bad parts or defective cells are destroyed, as a last-ditch form of quality control. The influence of diet on cancer risk is sometimes confusing." - James Dowd and Diane Stafford, The Vitamin D Cure (Get the book.)

"Some of them, like Walter Willett, strive heroically to repair the faulty data, developing "energy adjustment" factors to correct for the fact that the calories reported on surveys are invariably wrong and complicated "measurement error" algorithms to fix the errors in the twenty-four-hour recall surveys used to fix the errors in the FFQ. I tracked down Gladys Block, the prominent epidemiologist who developed the FFQ on which the Women's Health Initiative based its own questionnaire. We met for coffee in Berkeley, where she is a professor in the School of Public Health." - Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Get the book.)

"He discovered that "errors" in people's thinking caused and perpetuated their emotional disease. errors in thought arise from numerous sources: experiences you had in your family of origin, social milieu, school, personal relationships, and other influences that introduce some level of distortion in your thinking. Beck developed cognitive therapy as a means to discover the "distorted" or "unrealistic" thinking that drives a person's negative feelings and behaviors. Cognitive therapy has evolved a lot over the four decades since Beck's groundbreaking research." - Rick Levy and Lou Aronica, Miraculous Health: How to Heal Your Body by Unleashing the Hidden Power of Your Mind (Get the book.)

"Some of them, like Walter Willett, strive heroically to repair the faulty data, developing "energy adjustment" factors to correct for the fact that the calories reported on surveys are invariably wrong and complicated "measurement error" algorithms to fix the errors in the twenty-four-hour recall surveys used to fix the errors in the FFQ. I tracked down Gladys Block, the prominent epidemiologist who developed the FFQ on which the Women's Health Initiative based its own questionnaire. We met for coffee in Berkeley, where she is a professor in the School of Public Health." - Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Get the book.)

"He discovered that "errors" in people's thinking caused and perpetuated their emotional disease. errors in thought arise from numerous sources: experiences you had in your family of origin, social milieu, school, personal relationships, and other influences that introduce some level of distortion in your thinking. Beck developed cognitive therapy as a means to discover the "distorted" or "unrealistic" thinking that drives a person's negative feelings and behaviors. Cognitive therapy has evolved a lot over the four decades since Beck's groundbreaking research." - Rick Levy and Lou Aronica, Miraculous Health: How to Heal Your Body by Unleashing the Hidden Power of Your Mind (Get the book.)

"Mutations are essentially typographical errors in the genetic code, frequenrly caused by environmental traumas such as radiation. Most mutations, whether they occur in bacteria or humans, are either neutral or injurious, of course; typos rarely add information to any document. But if the document is long enough, one or more of those typos might actually improve an author's work, and even a relatively short wotk with a high percentage of errors may still come up with a few bon mots." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.)

"Most errors involved the inappropriate administration of medication. Several medical experts challenged the study, claiming that the findings were grossly exaggerated. Yet research in 2002 corroborated the estimate, claiming that "fully 34% of all doctors said that either they or members of their family had experienced serious medical errors... with serious health consequences."6 Nor is our list complete. To our consternation we learned about surgeries that should never have been performed. In 1974, the U.S. House of Representatives estimated that there were 2." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"This phase is important to allow cells to repair errors that occur during DNA duplication, preventing the propagation of these errors to daughter cells. In contrast, the Gl phase represents the period of commitment to cell cycle progression that separates M and S phases as cells prepare for DNA duplication upon mitogenic signals. CDKs and CDKls have been recognized as key regulators of cell cycle progression. Alternation and deregulation of CDK activity are pathogenic hallmarks of neoplasia." - Erich Grotewold, The Science of Flavonoids (Get the book.)

"In part, vitamin D controls the genes and enzymes that can repair errors. Further, if errors slip past your body's quality-control officers, vitamin D may help to ensure that the bad parts or defective cells are destroyed, as a last-ditch form of quality control. The influence of diet on cancer risk is sometimes confusing. In general, you can lower your risk of gastrointestinal cancers if you eat fewer processed foods that are high in salt and saturated fat and low in fiber and if you increase your intake of fresh vegetables (particularly green, leafy vegetables) and fruits." - James Dowd and Diane Stafford, The Vitamin D Cure (Get the book.)

"The disasters we have experienced to date have not alerted us to the underlying errors in our minds, at least not enough of us to make much difference. Louder alarm bells will be necessary if we are to awaken from our slumbers. Indeed, our culture may have to be shaken at its roots before we come to our senses. Millennial Fever Prophecies of disaster are not new. Throughout history, there have been dire warnings of the tragedies that would befall humanity, and even of the end of the world. Various dates have been proposed for these ultimate catastrophes." - Peter Russell, Waking Up In Time: Finding Inner Peace In Times of Accelerating Change (Get the book.)

"DEATH BY HEALTH CARE11 Number of Americans Per Year Who Die From: Medication Errors13 7,400 Unnecessary Surgery'4 12,000 Other Preventable errors in Hospitals" 20,000 Hospital Borne Infections" 80,000 Adverse Drug Effects15 106,000 The last and largest category of deaths in this group are the hospitalized patients who die from the "noxious, unintended and undesired effect of a drug,"15 which occurs at normal doses." - T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Thomas M. Campbell II, The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health (Get the book.)

"One reason for the lack of success in applying epidemic models to the spread of ideas may be that the mutation rate, the rate of transmission errors, is much higher for ideas than for disease or other biological processes. Many of us recall the children's game of telephone, in which the first person selects a simple story and whispers it into the ear of the second person, who then whispers it into the ear of the third, and so on. When the story is finally told to the group by the last person in the chain, the distortion of the original story is often so dramatic as to provoke laughter." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"Each one of these mistakes is reprehensible; each must be understood, and in so doing, effort must be made to avoid further errors. Having said that, we do not and cannot live in a society without error. Heart disease may have an array of presenting symptoms, and therefore a success rate of 98% should not be too quickly criticized. One important cautionary note about the U.S. data for myocardial infarctions. Compared to men, women—particularly those under age 55— were more than twice as likely to be mistakenly diagnosed; African Americans were four times more likely to be misdiagnosed." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"Although the book originally focused directly on current economic events, it was, and is, about how errors of human judgment can infect even the smartest people, thanks to overconfidence, lack of attention to details, and excessive trust in the judgments of others, stemming from a failure to understand that others are not making independent judgments but are themselves following still others—the blind leading the blind." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.) "A few memories still strike me today, years later, about the kind of human errors that I encountered on my tour. I remember appearing on a radio talk show and hearing a woman tell me that she just knew I was wrong: the stock market has a pronounced uptrend; it has to go up generally. The tremor in her voice made me wonder what accounted for her emotions. I also recall seeing a man who came to two of my book talks, each time sitting in the back and looking agitated. Why did he come back a second time, and what was upsetting him so?" - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"If peace of mind is your goal, look for the errors in your beliefs and expectations. Seek to change them, not the world. And be always prepared to be wrong. T) -L/eing able to experience reality as it is, undistorted by our hopes and fears, is often referred to as enlightenment. The light in enlightenment is usually thought of in the sense of illumination. A mind that is enlightened is said to be an illumined mind. It is a mind that has "seen the light," or sees things in a new light. There is, however, another sense of the word enlighten that is equally appropriate." - Peter Russell, Waking Up In Time: Finding Inner Peace In Times of Accelerating Change (Get the book.)

"Her statistics are equally astounding (ALL THESE ARE DEATHS PER YEAR): • 12,000 — unnecessary surgery • 7,000 — medication errors in hospitals • 20,000 — other errors in hospitals • 80,000 — infections in hospitals • 106,000 — non-error, negative effects of drugs A total of 250,000 deaths per year from iatrogenic causes!! The pharmaceutical corporations form the foundation for this collateral damage, and are aided by government. As a juror, you must now consider the culpability of the medical community." - Brent Hoadley, Ph.D., Too Profitable to Cure (Get the book.)

"His importance to the history of mind-body medicine, however, is less as a real philosopher and more as a symbol of modern errors, a foil against which modern champions of one or another story of mind-body integration express their nostalgia for a fantasized premodern past when we all were whole and integrated, mind and body.5 A theoretical interlude I have been using the word "story" freely in my remarks so far, but what do I mean by this word? "Story" is, of course, part of common speech, where it often has a suspect status, certainly to those people who value their science." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.)

"Other considerations are the genetic damage and chromosomal errors caused by smoking. Cadmium, nicotine, and some of the nicotine metabolites have been identified in the ovaries (and testes) and genital fluids of smokers. Cells within the ovaries are affected by one particular nicotine metabolite, cotinine, which causes oxidative damage and developmental problems of the follicles.13'14 Psychological stressors deserve to be addressed as well since the process of dealing with infertility can be very stressful and emotionally taxing." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"Her statistics are equally astounding (ALL THESE ARE DEATHS PER YEAR): • 12,000 — unnecessary surgery • 7,000 — medication errors in hospitals • 20,000 — other errors in hospitals • 80,000 — infections in hospitals • 106,000 — non-error, negative effects of drugs A total of 250,000 deaths per year from iatrogenic causes!! The pharmaceutical corporations form the foundation for this collateral damage, and are aided by government. As a juror, you must now consider the culpability of the medical community." - Brent Hoadley, Ph.D., Too Profitable to Cure (Get the book.)

"The presence of unfriendly bacteria produces ongoing inflammation, which speeds the colonic cell life cycle, increasing the chances of DNA errors and malignant transformation. This means you're more likely to end up with cancer. People with inflammatory bowel disease, especially ulcerative colitis, have a high risk of developing colon cancer because of the chronic inflammation in the intestine. Similarly, people who are chronically infected with the ulcer-causing bacteria H. pylori are at increased risk for certain types of stomach cancer." - James Dowd and Diane Stafford, The Vitamin D Cure (Get the book.) "Further, if errors slip past your body's quality-control officers, vitamin D may help to ensure that the bad parts or defective cells are destroyed, as a last-ditch form of quality control. The influence of diet on cancer risk is sometimes confusing. In general, you can lower your risk of gastrointestinal cancers if you eat fewer processed foods that are high in salt and saturated fat and low in fiber and if you increase your intake of fresh vegetables (particularly green, leafy vegetables) and fruits." - James Dowd and Diane Stafford, The Vitamin D Cure (Get the book.)

"Thus, in understanding errors that people have made in the past, it is important to consider what it was that they were not paying attention to. One of the mechanisms that the brain has evolved to direct attention properly is a socially based selectivity. We pay attention to many of the same things that others around us are paying attention to." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"Prescription errors (due to ineligible writing) account for millions of deaths every year86 and occur most often due to simple human error.87 • Every year, over 2 million people suffer from adverse drug reactions (ADR's) and other medical errors while in the hospital. Nearly 1 million deaths result from this malpractice annually.88 • Every year, up to 20 million people are unnecessarily prescribed antibiotics.89 • "The American medical system is the leading cause of death and injury at nearly 800,000 in the US." - Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN, Health Begins in the Colon (Get the book.)

"At least 12 different inherited inborn errors of metabolism related to cobalamin are known; low plasma vitamin B12 levels have been shown to be an independent risk factor for neural tube defect in one study.46 Supplementation is recommended and may also help prevent anemia. Food sources are cauliflower and broccoli. Herbal sources are alfalfa, comfrey, miso, seaweed, and catnip. Vitamin B12 (Cobalamin) Recommended dietary intake (RDA): Pregnant: 2.6 meg per day Nursing: 2.8 meg per day Food sources: cauliflower, broccoli Herbal sources: alfalfa, catnip, comfrey, miso, seaweed Vitamin A." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.) "Other genetic errors may occur in multistep fashion involving both the development and the progression of the disease.24 Environmental Factors Information about environmental influences on endometriosis in humans has been gleaned by observing the negative effects of environmental exposures to rhesus monkeys. Radiation exposure and dioxin exposure have lead to higher frequency of developing endometriosis in monkeys." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"Pathologies like this are errors in the relationship between parts throughout the system, rather than an error in any one part,' says Hyland, distinguishing them from illnesses like flu that generate consistent symptoms which can be measured to form the basis of a conventional diagnosis.22 The errors that give rise to network pathologies, he suggests, stem from the body self-organizing in response to some disturbance. The next bit is harder to follow." - Jacky Law, Big Pharma: Exposing the Global Healthcare Agenda (Get the book.)

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