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"What exactly did you see happen in the medical industry back then that you are still concerned about today? " Dr. Whitaker: "I think the medical industry has become far worse at doing what is profitable for the pharmaceutical industry than it was back in the 70's. Today, we have single drugs garnering almost as much money as the entire industry did back then." "How about other areas of the medical industry? Have they gotten worse as well? " Dr. Whitaker: "Yes, of course. The profits and business incentives of not only pharmaceuticals but also of diagnostics have gotten much worse." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"Blaming the abuser is not inappropriate; blaming only the abuser is fallacious, as is not blaming the pharmaceutical industry and the medical industry. The neat distinction between "medical" and "nonmedical" is nothing more or less that an attempt to blame the victim—and only the victim—for his or her addiction. No doubt: synthetic narcotics are a threat—a growing threat at that—to the public health. Unfortunately SAMHA's analysis lead us away from facing the problem, let alone finding a solution. TRENDS We need to throw out some numbers." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"As already mentioned, it is not in the best interest of the medical industry, including the pharmaceutical companies, to find a real cure for cancer or for any other chronic illnesses, for this would make the treatment of disease symptoms obsolete. Removing the cause(s) of an illness almost never requires a separate approach that deals with the symptoms of the illness, for these would disappear on their own once the underlying causes are addressed." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.) "Removing the symptoms actually suppresses the body's (and the mind's) attempt to deal with the real problem. The medical industry has brainwashed the masses to believe that their symptoms are actually diseases, and by suppressing or removing the symptoms, the diseases will vanish along with them. If we cannot turn to medical doctors for true assistance and enlightenment in our quest for health and healing, could perhaps medical researchers bring us the answers we seek? This is just as unlikely." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.) "In other words, the human population became an effective garbage dumpster for the food industry while making the medical industry increasingly profitable as a result of treating the many soy-caused illnesses. This is not unlike the pouring of the poison fluoride—a hazardous waste product from aluminum plants—into the municipal water to "save" children from developing bad teeth. To dispose of fluoride in any other way would be extremely costly." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.) "Their agents seek out anyone who makes such claims using different methods than are being propagated by the medical industry and the drug cartels. Accordingly, anyone who says that a natural and harmless herb or food does the same or even better, violates the law and risks prosecution. That prescription drugs like Vioxx have killed and injured hundreds of thousands of people does not seem to encourage these agencies to go out and warn the masses to think twice about taking prescription drugs." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"We've been conditioned over the years to leave our health in our doctor's hands and made to believe that our medical industry is making great discoveries in the field of cancer and other diseases. If you're waiting for the medical industry to work a miracle, it could cost you your life. There are primary and secondary causes of disease. Cancer, above all other diseases, has countless secondary causes. The prime cause of cancer is the replacement of the respiration of oxygen by the fermentation of sugar. This means, all normal body cells meet their energy needs by respiration of oxygen." - Gregory, A. Gore, Defeat Cancer (Get the book.)

"However, they have been duped into marching arm-in-arm with the pharmaceutical industry, the hospital industry, and components of the medical industry. Is Plan D of Medicare an advance in health care or in Type II Medical Malpractice? Analysis of Medicare data documents that excess spending and excessive care transfers considerable wealth but does nothing for the well-being or satisfaction of the elderly. All they gain is the hazards of iatrogenicity. Beware of medical schemes that are offered to prolong your life." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.)

"But as government support for medical research started to decline, scientists and universities were forced to look for alternative sources of support for their research. The medical industry was more than willing to step in and lend a helping hand. Universities had no choice, and researchers' attitudes about commercial funding changed. Government funding continued to decline so that by 1990 almost two-thirds of requests for research funds from the NIH were not granted." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.) "The cholesterol guidelines' cavalier extrapolation to women of the benefit of lowering cholesterol in men, especially after the recent surprise provided by the results of the "Heart and Estrogen/Progesterone Replacement Study" (HERS study),* demonstrates the medical industry's unrepentant opportunism in its attempt once again to impose scientifically unsubstantiated medical treatment on women." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.) "This issue highlights the question of whether our society ought to or needs to tolerate medical care that serves the interests of the drug companies and medical industry before it serves the health of the American people. The 2001 cholesterol guidelines provide one important example of just how far the pendulum has swung toward the interests of the drug companies. The obvious question is this: Who will benefit from expanding the number of Americans on statins from 13 million to 36 million?" - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"I also want to expose to you the hidden truths behind the medical industry, such as how Dr. Edward F. Group III, dc, nd, dacbn modern medicine treats just the symptoms of disease and not the root causes. The great and dark secret of the medical industry is that it's designed to keep you from becoming well. Think about it—how can they stay in business making billions of dollars each year if they actually cured diseases and ended health-related suffering? They know as well as I do—all disease begins by the accumulation of toxins in the body and living in a toxic environment." - Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN, Health Begins in the Colon (Get the book.)

"Most of the information available to you (and your doctor) about the diagnosis and treatment of common medical problems comes from the drug and other medical companies themselves. The medical industry has finely honed its ability to mold public knowledge about the best medical care—slanting our beliefs in favor of the most profitable medical therapies. Its most obvious technique involves the nearly ubiquitous drug ads that pepper our television shows, newspapers, and magazines." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"This kind of unscientific "research" is the problem that keeps the medical industry (not to mention our economy) connected to practices that clearly don't promote health and well-being. If thimerosal is as safe as studies like this attempt to suggest, why was it removed from use after fifty years from most childhood and adult vaccines in 2001 (except, of course, the ones we export to the third world)? You can find out which vaccines contain mercury by going to www.fda.gov/cber/ vaccine/thimerosal.htm. Mercury isn't safe." - Mark Hyman MD, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First (Get the book.)

"According to the Merck Manual (the medical industry's standard text for the diagnosis and treatment of disease), the incidence of diverticulosis has increased dramatically over the last 40 years. It has gone from 10% of the adult population over the age of 45 who had this disease (according to an early 1950s edition) to an astounding, "every person has many" in the 1992 edition. In other words, virtually 100% of all American adults will eventually have diverticulosis of the large intestine if they live long enough. Why?" - Jon Barron, Lessons from The Miracle Doctors: A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimum Health and Relief from Catastrophic Illness (Get the book.)

"There's no denying that shrinking our health care system will cause dislocation among workers and lower profits for some sectors of the medical industry. But America's industries are undergoing constant change, and in any other arena of our economy we would never tolerate the degree of waste and inefficiency and lack of accountability that's rife in health care. As we move toward a more efficient, effective system, patients will be the biggest winners of all." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"We in the medical industry call these "off-label uses." For example, the drug may be approved only for use in schizophrenia (as in the examples of antipsychotics above). But doctors can prescribe it for anyone they like—from someone who is overly anxious to someone with obsessive-compulsive disorder to a child whose behavior is out of control. Once the drug is approved, there is no official tracking of its risks or benefits to the millions who are prescribed the drug. It's left up to patients or doctors to self-report problems. This leaves the public very vulnerable." - Mark Hyman MD, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First (Get the book.)

"How about other areas of the medical industry? Have they gotten worse as well? " Dr. Whitaker: "Yes, of course. The profits and business incentives of not only pharmaceuticals but also of diagnostics have gotten much worse. The increased use of diagnostics such as CT scans and mammograms and surgical procedures—a million or so heart surgeries are performed every year - is far worse than it was back then. I consider physicians to be more dangerous to patients now than they were 30 years ago." "How about the health care system in the United States? How would you say it ranks? " Dr." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"There's a moral imperative that the medical industry's marketers be stopped before many more lives are lost. This is what must be done: Listen to the dead. They have stories to tell. No one knows how many Americans are buried without their families knowing they were killed by prescription drugs. By the best estimates, however, there appear to be scores of these cases every day in the United States." - 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.) "This secrecy is systemic, and it works to protect bad doctors and bad drugs, just as today's medical industry has shown it prefers. But there is one system, woefully underfunded and weak, that collects deaths and injuries from prescription drugs. The system, called Med-Watch, runs on a voluntary basis. The government encourages doctors to file a MedWatch report whenever a patient is harmed by a drug, but there is no law requiring them to do so. The FDA, which operates the system, has no way of knowing how many of the injuries caused by drugs actually get recorded." - 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.)

"As the evidence mounts, however, we will likely (and hopefully) watch the medical industry evolve. Newly trained doctors will gain experience in identifying and diagnosing illnesses based on the perspective that toxins could be partly or principally to blame. I highly respect and value the expertise of medical doctors, but they are limited in how they can help you evaluate your body burden." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"Unfortunately, few in the medical industry today seem to understand this.The truth is that medical practice is virtually predicated on the myth of diagnosis. I want to help you understand how serious this problem is, because it is the basis of everything I am explaining in this book. It is not trivial because it changes everything about how we think about disease and what to do about it. There is a two-volume book medical professionals use called the ICD-9 (The International Classification of Diseases). It is the bible of medical diagnosis." - Mark Hyman MD, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First (Get the book.)

"She remarks that the medical industry keeps looking for answers in the wrong places because they are stuck in the wrong paradigm. How ironic it is, she points out, that the medical establishment admits that people can prevent cancer with diet and lifestyle but maintains that they cannot recover from cancer with diet and lifestyle! When Dr. William Donald Kelley found an enzymatic cancer cure that had a 93% success rate, including patients whose natural defense mechanisms had been severely compromised by chemotherapy, what was his reward from orthodox medicine? He was jailed!" - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.) "The study puts the blame for these needless deaths on the medical industry. Current medical practice actually exacerbates illness via drugs, excessive surgeries, toxic and invasive diagnostic testing procedures and even counterproductive, harmful dietary advice. The practitioners do this instead of teaching patients to minimize disease-causing factors like improper diet, pollution, inadequate sleep, excess emotional stress and insufficient exercise! The pharmaceutical juggernaut and its pocketbook are holding the health care field hostage." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"The mass media, medical industry and food manufacturers have not taken much notice of this important finding. In the meanwhile, the low-fat hysteria continues to escalate. "Light Fats" and their "Amazing" Effects Take for instance "light-butter" or half-fat butter, which has been heralded as one of the greatest "achievements" of food technology so far. In this high-tech product, at least half of the fat content of butter is replaced with water. It tastes like butter, it spreads like butter and it melts like butter in the mouth, but in reality it is mostly water." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.)

"Why? The medical industry realizes a simple truth—without your appendix, you are destined for illness so doctors can prescribe you more drugs, perform more unnecessary surgeries, or (even worse) treat you with deadly radiation as a "cure" that's definitely worse than the disease. So why is the appendix so important anyway? Here's my theory: The appendix is located at the juncture of the small and large intestines and acts as a body regulator and communicator." - Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN, Health Begins in the Colon (Get the book.)

"This ill-founded belief seems to be deeply engraved in our minds. The medical industry plays a major role in re-enforcing it by offering us almost only symptom-oriented treatments. Of course, our own impatience to get well makes us perfect candidates for these fast-acting remedies. But each time we remove a symptom without attending to its cause, we further distance ourselves from regaining the balance required for continuous health and vitality." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.)

"Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, 1994] Nearly all prostate surgery for cancer should have been ruled needless then, but physicians and the medical industry objected and have since sought to eliminate the government agency that produced the report and hide the results of this long-term study. The five-year data on proton beam treatment for prostate cancer is an example of such misleading information. These men aren't likely to be fully informed that proton beam radiation, as well as conventional external beam x-ray treatment, carries with it an increased risk for bladder cancer." - Bill Sardi, You Don't Have to be Afraid of Cancer Anymore (Get the book.)

"It is the hope of this industry to that the recent media blitz and sponsored cancer awareness campaigns will encourage more people to opt for the now successful medical treatments instead of seeking any of the alternative, less costly, treatment options (which have become a big threat to the medical industry). Almost everyone in the U.S. now knows someone who either had cancer and died or greatly suffered as a result of undergoing the conventional treatments of chemotherapy, radiation and surgery. Relatively few survive these treatments, not because of them but in spite of them." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.)

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