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 "Nonetheless, publication in respected medical journals still anoints research findings as the scientific evidence upon which good doctors confidently base their clinical decisions. It is not simply due to the "play of chance" that the odds are five times greater that new products will be supported by commercially sponsored studies than by studies with noncommercial sponsorship. The bias is, at best, difficult and often impossible for even the most careful readers to spot, let alone unravel. And simply knowing that it exists is not enough to protect readers from being misled."- John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.) |
 "Then we would
not have the suffering class as the largest and most miserable group of Americans among us today. What good doctors and personnel we would then have!
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We will see that the ten energy robbers are the true culprits in virtually all disease and that health by healthful living is the most effective means of reversing disease and creating health."- Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.) "Therefore, we speak here in deference to the good doctors and their personnel and commend them for their good works. We only wish there were more of them! If only the medical students were to turn their studies to health while in school and away from naming diseases and what drugs to prescribe for the diseases! If only the doctors were to teach the suffering people how to enhance their health through energy-conserving lifestyle practices rather than prescribing drugs and surgeries and other enervating "therapies" and "treatments"!" - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.) "Please do understand that this book is not discounting that the good doctors and their personnel do good." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.) "In Deference to the good doctors and Their Personnel The following statement has been written by Victoria BidWell and endorsed by these four women: Victoria BidWell, Dr. Vetrano, Dr. Tosca Haag and Susan Schenck: As pitifully outdated and absolutely wrong as "The Medical Mentality at Its Very Worst" (see page 542) is and the people who perpetuate it are, the collective group of individuals who have supported it and do continue certain of its practices in the traditional, allopathic paradigm have contributed much good to society." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.) |
 "And the final paradox: While managed care was a colossal failure in so many respects—it has driven good doctors like Gordon Peabody out of medicine, destroyed the trust between doctor and patient, and led to spiraling health care costs—in one way, it may be the best thing to happen to American medicine. It's a little like the joke about how many psychiatrists it takes to change a lightbulb: just one, but the lightbulb has to want to change. Managed care has made many Americans realize that they want a change too."- Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.) "It's tempting to lay all medical error at the feet of bad doctors, but that can't be the whole story, as Harvard surgeon Atul Gawande points out, for the simple reason that good doctors make mistakes too. Studies of specific types of medical error suggest that it is not just a small subset of doctors who commit them, a rotten few who are responsible for all the problems. Rather, every physician is destined to make at least one horrible mistake in the course of a career—and most will carry the memory and shame of it for the rest of their lives. It isn't just doctors who err." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.) |
 "Find yourself a good doctor
In contrast to all this, you may wonder, "What do good doctors do for patients?" Because, there are many good doctors out there, including many MDs. In fact, some of the best thinkers in disease prevention and conventional medicine are MDs. Some of the best authors I recommend are MDs. What they do is use their authority in a different way. Instead of dominating patients and taking away patients' responsibility, they use authority to motivate patients to take responsibility for their own health."- Mike Adams, Spam Filters for Your Brain (Get the book.) |
 "Indeed, good doctors existed before any modern therapeutic instruments did, in the centuries when the only prescriptions were the philters deriving their potency from metaphoric allusion to the healer's own person. The extraordinary results of the lab tests and procedures, the mastery they provided over the wily enemy of disease, proved seductive. Western medicine embraced the effective machines and ceded its historic soul."9 Establishing a relationship, and setting a human pace for the healing encounter, reclaims this historic soul."- Dawson Church, The Genie in Your Genes: Epigenetic Medicine and the New Biology of Intention (Get the book.) |
| "They do that often through education and encouragement to learn more about how to be healthy. good doctors, in a sense, give patients choices, and when they have those choices, they can take their health power back into their own hands, and they can shape their health outcome in whatever way they see fit.
So, authority, like many tools, can be used correctly, or it can be abused. It just depends on the maturity and egos of the people who are wielding authority. If they are infantile in their thinking ?they have sky-high egos and visions of control, dominance or financial profits ?" - Mike Adams, Spam Filters for Your Brain (Get the book.) |
 "It's tempting to lay all medical error at the feet of bad doctors, but that can't be the whole story, as Harvard surgeon Atul Gawande points out, for the simple reason that good doctors make mistakes too. Studies of specific types of medical error suggest that it is not just a small subset of doctors who commit them, a rotten few who are responsible for all the problems. Rather, every physician is destined to make at least one horrible mistake in the course of a career—and most will carry the memory and shame of it for the rest of their lives.
It isn't just doctors who err."- Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.) |
 "Weakening the opposition
The placebo effect is directly related to trust. good doctors, who have the complete confidence of their patients, exert a placebo effect in how they listen and their general ability to convince patients they are being taken seriously. If patients believe a medicine will work, so the placebo effect of that drug is enhanced. The US writer Norman Cousins, who famously recovered from an incurable disease himself and wrote the delightful book, Anatomy of an Illness as Perceived by the Patient as a result, cites an experiment into the role of doctors. "- Jacky Law, Big Pharma: Exposing the Global Healthcare Agenda (Get the book.) |
 "But there are so many good doctors out there; maybe I don't have to occupy all of my time and energy laboring to do what so many already do exceptionally well.
I look at this issue from the perspective of music—my first love. You would not expect James Taylor to play or sound like Jimi Hendrix. They are two unique identities who interpreted music through their own hearts and awareness."- Richard Bartlett, Matrix Energetics: The Science and Art of Transformation (Get the book.) |
 "Thus, the phrase "right to die" is emblematic not only of our skittishness about suicide and our longing for good doctors to kill us at just the right time and in just the right way but, more fundamentally, of our repudiation of bodily self-ownership and the responsibilities that go with it. It remains to be seen how many Americans prefer legalizing doctors to kill them to legalizing themselves to own drugs, and shouldering the responsibilities that the ownership of such a valuable property entails."- Thomas Szasz, The Medicalization of Everyday Life: Selected Essays (Get the book.) |
| "And the final paradox: While managed care was a colossal failure in so many respects—it has driven good doctors like Gordon Peabody out of medicine, destroyed the trust between doctor and patient, and led to spiraling health care costs—in one way, it may be the best thing to happen to American medicine. It's a little like the joke about how many psychiatrists it takes to change a lightbulb: just one, but the lightbulb has to want to change. Managed care has made many Americans realize that they want a change too." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.) |
| "Only good medicine can undo the damage of bad medicine, and there are some amazingly good doctors out there working to renovate their profession.
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 "Doctors who make mistake after mistake are seldom sanctioned, driving up the malpractice insurance premiums of all the good doctors. Hospitals charge the highest prices to those least able to pay.
Not surprisingly, in a system so complicated and unwieldy, involving so much money, health care is riddled with fraud and abuse. Nursing homes bill Medicare for "therapy sessions" that consist of seating patients in front of a TV. When hospitals feed patients, they charge it off as "social skills group therapy sessions."- Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele, Critical Condition: How Health Care in America Became Big Business (Get the book.) |
| "The zeal with which North American medical regulators prosecute good doctors has inspired Canadian and US lawyers to specialize in protecting them. In Texas, a whole law firm is dedicated to this field: Brown & Fortunate works throughout the US. Its Health Care Group chairman recently told me that some of their lawyers are especiady wed qualified because they hold degrees in law as well as in those offered now by universities in legal medicine focused exclusively protecting medical innovation against medical regulators." - Helke Ferrie, Dispatches From the War Zone of Environmental Health (Get the book.) |
 "But take hope, because there are good doctors out there.
Functional Medicine. I have discovered that the best doctors for diagnosing and treating complex chronic conditions are those who practice "functional medicine." Sidney MacDonald Baker, MD, who is considered one of the founders of functional medicine, wrote the best health book written by a doctor that I have ever read, Detoxification & Healing: The Key to Optimal Health.
In this book, Dr. Baker describes chronic health issues in a very interesting way."- Pat Sullivan, Wellness Piece by Piece: How a Successful Entrepreneur Discovered the Pieces to His Chronic Health Puzzle (Get the book.) "Granted, making an interview appointment can be somewhat difficult as most good doctors barely have enough time for their current patients. However, there are some doctors who offer a free consultation so you can come in and get to know them. You just have to ask and see what happens. If that doesn't work, you can usually learn a great deal by talking with one of the nurses who works with the doctor. It's best if you can find a single doctor to treat you. However, don't discount using multiple specialists if that happens to be what you find is necessary." - Pat Sullivan, Wellness Piece by Piece: How a Successful Entrepreneur Discovered the Pieces to His Chronic Health Puzzle (Get the book.) |
 "Indeed, it can greatly refresh even the ill and cheer them up with fresh spirits____The good doctors can judge how the usefulness of this noble fruit and its true heart can be made use of in oil, water, and other things suitable for medicine, but this is a little different than the Indians [= Asian Indians/Indonesians] believe that it is good to use."- Christian Ratsch, The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants: Ethnopharmacology and Its Applications (Get the book.) |
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