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"One of the AMA's stated objectives and obligations is to protect the income of its members (medical doctors). The biggest income of AMA members is generated by treating cancer patients. On the average, every cancer patient is worth $50,000. If ever a cancer cure were officially recognized in this country (USA), it would threaten the income and livelihood of AMA members. The bylaws of the AMA practically prohibit the promotion of a cure for cancer." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"Besides being a middle-aged woman, other risk factors for developing FM later in life include lower income, less education, and a prior history of lower back pain. Although there is no information as to whether a relation exists among these three factors, one guess would be that women with lower income and less education might do more physically demanding jobs that could lead to injury. Trauma of some sort is commonly reported at the outset of symptoms. The trauma can be from an injury or even following serious surgery." - Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.)

"Family income was $40,000 to $50,000 per year, situating moderns in the middle to upper income bracket. In the United States, the alternative culture Ray calls "cultural cre-atives" is the most hopeful segment of the population. It is made up of people from the middle to the wealthy classes, numbering nearly twice as many women as men. According to Ray, at the turn of the century the share of this subculture was 23.4 percent of the U.S. adult population, slightly less than the 28 percent found subsequently by the IOOW survey." - Ervin Laszlo, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World (Get the book.) "The "moderns" represent the mainstream culture of Americans. They are stalwart supporters of consumer society; their culture is that of the office towers and factories of big business and of the banks and stock markets. Their values are those taught in the most prestigious schools and colleges of America. In 1999 this was the culture of some 48 percent of the American people: 93 million out of about 193 million adults, more men than women. Family income was $40,000 to $50,000 per year, situating moderns in the middle to upper income bracket." - Ervin Laszlo, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World (Get the book.)

"The biggest income of AMA members is generated by treating cancer patients. On the average, every cancer patient is worth $50,000. If ever a cancer cure were officially recognized in this country (USA), it would threaten the income and livelihood of AMA members. The bylaws of the AMA practically prohibit the promotion of a cure for cancer. After 60 years of intensive research and hundreds of billions spent on treatments for cancer that have killed thousands of patients, we are facing the collective challenge of our own survival." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"The period from January 1966 to January 1992 was one of low returns, confined as it was (with no capital gain) to income from dividends; the average annual real stock market return was only 4.1% per year.28 These are signs consistent with a notion that the market was in some sense "reaching" toward 1,000 in 1966, and that it became relatively overpriced. New Era Thinking during the Bull Market of the 1990s I have already described some of the new era thinking that characterized the 1990s in Chapter 3." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"He was already suffering punishment in the form of a catastrophically severe medication reaction, public humiliation, depression and suicidality psychiatric hospitalization, the loss of his professional status and income, financial collapse, and the suffering of his entire family. Henry was able to negotiate a plea bargain that resulted in a sentence of three to ten years with the possibility of parole after two years. Ordinarily, embezzling one million dollars would have led to a sentence of eight to twenty-five years." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"In 407, the peripatetic Alaric retreated north to what is today Austria, in return for two tons of gold, a sum that Stilicho persuaded the empire to pay with the unassailable argument that four thousand pounds of gold was the annual income of a single Roman senator1' and therefore a modest enough sum to ensure the security of six hundred of his colleagues. A year later, however, Stilicho's gifts of persuasion were unable to save him from execution at the hands of Honorius, who beheaded his general in 408." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.) "Lowest in both status and income were the private practitioners of medicine. Almost as important as a physician's position was his educational credential. What Berytus/Beirut was for lawyers, Alexandria was for physicians. There, a four-year course of study22 was offered by professional teachers of medicine—the iastrophists, who were not merely scholars but indispensable consultants for any complicated case.23 That the same city should be the port of embarkation for both disease and doctor has an element of irony." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.) "One legend has the entire income from Egypt devoted to the construction, though more prudent accounting reveals that the confiscated estates of the rebellious senators beggared after the Nika rebellion was probably sufficient. So while it is certain that far less marble was being quarried in the mid-sixth century than was the case four centuries previously, which probably resulted in a relatively greater expense, the more persuasive reason for placing six relatively slender columns over two massive ones was the architects' desire to give a "greater lightness and openness to the gallery." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.)

"At times there was no income. I had to weave straw hats to make money on the side." She pantomimed pushing a needle through thick straw to make a tight weave. I noticed that the repetition had permanently bent her right index finger at a 45-degree angle. Her husband eventually returned and they raised their children to adulthood. Two moved away but two still lived on the same street in rural Motobu. Her husband died ten years ago, at age 96. The secret to surviving 75 years of marriage'1 sweet potatoes «T i j i_ ? 1 learned to be patient, she said." - Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest (Get the book.) "Later I learned that their only annual cash income came from the couple hundred pounds of sugar the village press produced each year. "We don't need much," Aida interjected, heading off an implication of poverty. "We're satisfied. . . ." Here Aida's answer trailed off and she fell silent for a moment. "You have to keep busy," she resumed, now answering a question I did not pose. "When people have too much time they get involved with vices. Here we have enough to do. We stay busy enough to keep the Devil away, but not so much that we get stressed. It's a clean, pure life." - Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest (Get the book.)

"Thus, the growing problem of obesity lies with the "growing disparities in income and wealth, [and the] declining value of the minimum wage" Evidence is emerging "that obesity in America is largely an economic issue.30 Recall our discussion from chapter 5 of statins, the drug of choice in preventing heart attacks. According to one meta-analysis that we reviewed, statins reduced heart attacks and strokes by 1.4% compared with the control. In other words, about 71 patients would need to be treated for 3 to 5 years to prevent one such event." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.) "In 2004, specialists earned almost twice the income as did primary care physicians.3 "It's obvious," commented Fran, "that when it comes to money, your family is right! We are not real doctors!" At the turn of the millennium in the United States, there were approximately 824 million visits to all physician offices, which is about three visits per person. About half were for primary care. One quarter of all visits were to general and family practice physicians, which, by definition, would involve primary care." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.) "In another study of women with breast cancer, widowed patients were less likely to survive than married ones, even given similar case histories and income levels.40 A NEW BIO-CULTURAL MEDICAL MODEL In accordance with the medical model, which is the dominant ideology of medicine, the first six chapters of this book have focused almost entirely on the body. This ideology has its roots in the Cartesian division between mind and body. In this thinking, disease is a somatic problem, resulting from injury, breakdown, infection, or inheritance." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.) "In one online self-report survey in 2002, cardiologists claimed the largest annual income of all surgeons, $475,000 (a nonsurgical specialty, radiology, was next at $415,000).3 Once again, Fran and I are reminded of who the real doctors are! and are not! Estimating the numbers and types of surgical procedures is complex. Data for inpatient and outpatient (termed "ambulatory") surgeries are collected separately. The very definition of "surgery" is not always intuitive—especially the newer, less invasive techniques." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"His annual income was well into six figures. As a result of hard work and providing a needed service, he was gradually becoming wealthy. At the age of thirty-nine, Sam developed a physical disorder that remained undiagnosed for many months. It would turn out to be cystitis—inflammation of the bladder—an uncommon disorder in men that was easily cured with appropriate antibiotics. His internist mistakenly thought the disorder might be psychological and referred him to a psychiatrist." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"Studies have investigated the relationship between television viewing in midlife and the development of Alzheimer's disease, finding that, after controlling for age, birth, gender, income, and education, those subjects who developed AD watched an average of thirty minutes a day more television than control subjects, who spent nearly thirty minutes more a day engaged in intellectual and social activities.60 The key is to watch programs that actively engage your thinking and imagination rather than promote passive entertainment or vegetative habits." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.)

"Over the intervening 37 years, the material standard of living had improved considerably: Per capita income and consumption had both doubled, average house size had doubled, the number of cars per family had nearly tripled, the number of TV stations had increased by a factor of twenty or more (and the picture had gone from black-and-white to color). Yet the number of people who were happy with their lot was exactly the same: 30%. Two conclusions can be drawn from this. First, material well-being is not equivalent to inner well-being." - Peter Russell, Waking Up In Time: Finding Inner Peace In Times of Accelerating Change (Get the book.)

"Those policies that increase income inequalities are also likely to create health inequalities.32 We are no longer so clearly operating inside the narrative space created by "healing ties," but whether we are actually witnessing here the birth of a new mind-body medicine narrative—one that we could title perhaps "health and hierarchy" or "the Robin Hood effect"—is not yet wholly clear. Community versus intimacy; or what's love got to do with it?" - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.)

"Ironically, for those farmers who remain the rising gap between their income and their costs is compensated by subsidies from the federal government. As prices drop, subsidies provided by the Commodity Credit Corporation to farmers increase to compensate for loss of income. Thus, the thirty-five billion dollars in payments to corn farmers during that span of plummeting prices from 1996 to 2005 amounted, at least partially, to a personal subsidy by every American taxpayer to the agricultural biotechnology industry." - Mark Schapiro, Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power (Get the book.)

"It is a matter of inadequate income rather than excessive prices." But Kefauver was not about to let the executives get away with such answers. His staff soon presented a chart showing that Schering and three other drug companies were each selling the steroids prednisone and prednisolone at exactly the same price of $35.80 for a bottle of two hundred tablets. In fact, the price of those two hundred pills had not changed since 1956, when they were introduced. The senator asked Brown why the prices had remained high despite such intense competition." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"In fact, as New Zealand's former chief dental-health officer, Jon Colquhon, a one-time proponent of fluotidation, said, "When any unfluoridated area is compared with a fluoridated area with a similar income level, the percentage of children who are free of dental decay is consistently higher in the unfluoridated area." 4While at the same time, curiously, pushing for a reduction in our daily fluoride intake. Maybe you can explain that to me. 'It's worrh noting that the American Dental Association is on the horns of a dilemma." - Jon Barron, Lessons from The Miracle Doctors: A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimum Health and Relief from Catastrophic Illness (Get the book.)

"Patients with autoimmune disease often deal with the stress of not being able to trust what their bodies might do next, the stress of strained relationships, lost income, and frayed social connections. The normal stressors of life that once seemed so significant—a difficult neighbor or the sick dog or the sales presentation looming next week—become insignificant when faced with problems such as how to meet escalating medical debts or how to get up and down the stairs. Which brings us back to a catch-22 situation." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"Department of Agriculture, as presently configured, the responsibility for issuing such guidelines is much like inviting Al Capone to prepare your income tax returns. But our medical organizations have also waffled when it comes to this subject." - Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D., Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease (Get the book.)

"Peter Breggin, a world-renowned psychiatrist and founder of the International Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology, explains: "The answer lies in maintaining psychiatric power, prestige and income. What mainly distinguishes psychiatrists from other mental health professionals, and of course from nonprofessionals, is their ability to prescribe drugs. To compete against other mental health professionals, psychiatry has wed itself to the medical model, including biological and genetic explanations, and physical treatments. It has no choice: anything else would be professional suicide." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"Maybe they want better physical or mental health, a better marriage, a higher income, more time to travel, or more leisure. For these folks, the purpose of life is to go with the flow and enjoy the simple pleasures, such as love of family and friends. The second group is composed of the adventurers. They love to blow the lid off the status quo. They want to know what comes next and they want to go for it. They're interested in reinventing their story. They don't care much about the cultural stereotypes of the "good life." Why can't you do both?" - Rick Levy and Lou Aronica, Miraculous Health: How to Heal Your Body by Unleashing the Hidden Power of Your Mind (Get the book.)

"He also prescribes costly medicines and makes the town pharmacist his partner in the battle against disease, promising that his income will be tripled. The innkeeper also becomes wealthy as he transforms his hotel into a hospital. By the end of the play, most of the townspeople are getting up at the same time each night to take their rectal temperatures, showing the power that Dr. Knock now has over them. Dr. Knock's underlying maxim: well people are sick people who simply don't know it—yet. To create a disease for Detrol, Pharmacia needed a regiment." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.) "Lawmakers also agreed that families could collect federal disability payments known as supplemental security income (SSI), in cases in which children were impaired by the disorder. Doctors wrote almost five times as many prescriptions for Ritalin and similar drugs in 1996 as they had just six years before. Most of these were written for children. By 2004 2.5 million American children were taking these drugs, including almost 10 percent of all ten-year-old boys." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"These women would then complete a questionnaire that would include health habits, personal and family health history, and other personal characteristics that might have an impact on their health, such as marital status, educational level, and family income. This group of women, called the treatment group, would then be compared with a "control group," also including 100 women, matched as closely as possible on all characteristics—except that they didn't run in the race. This control group of women would then fill out the same questionnaire." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

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