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"If these intentions are in play, the number of misdiagnoses and other medical mistakes that takes place would be radically reduced. Intentionality, alone, can make a big difference. Identify an upcoming event that you feel might become tense, difficult, or unpleasant. What intentions can you set to guide you to how you will respond and how you want to feel during this interaction? Make the healthiest choices, remembering that what is most fun and pleasurable for you often generates the best physical response." - Rick Foster, Greg Hicks, M.D., Jen Seda, Choosing Brilliant Health: 9 Choices That Redefine What It Takes to Create Lifelong Vitality and Well-Being (Get the book.)

"It's a widespread problem, and it's one of the reasons why medical mistakes are so common in the United States and around the world. Organized medicine is the No. 1 cause of death According to information gathered in part by Dr. Gary Null, as many as 750,000 people are killed each year by bad medicine. That includes medical mistakes and deaths from prescription drugs. Also, he says that number is conservative; there may be well over a million people killed each year." - Mike Adams, Spam Filters for Your Brain (Get the book.) "By becoming a difficult patient, you're going to train the healthcare workers around you to be more accurate. medical mistakes kill tens of thousands of people every year in the United States alone. People are given the wrong drugs or the wrong doses, and people have the wrong limbs removed during surgical procedures. This happens, even with the best of intentions. However, difficult patients survive better and heal more quickly, because they are insistent on speaking up for their right to know what's happening to them." - Mike Adams, Spam Filters for Your Brain (Get the book.) "That includes medical mistakes and deaths from prescription drugs. Also, he says that number is conservative; there may be well over a million people killed each year. By the way, these are not accidents; these are deliberate actions, deliberate administration of drugs and medical procedures that kill as many as one million Americans each year. That's why I have called modern medicine a chemical holocaust. It is the leading cause of death in this country. Modern medicine kills more people than cancer, heart disease, diabetes, strokes, heart attacks and cigarette smoking." - Mike Adams, Spam Filters for Your Brain (Get the book.) "There are literally hundreds of thousands of medical mistakes that injure, and even kill, patients in America each and every year. To top it all off, hospitals have terrible air circulation and very rarely allow sunlight into the rooms. At the same time, these patients are almost never given nutritional advice. Patients are rarely given supplements containing zinc, which is an essential nutrient for recovering from surgical procedures and boosting immune system function. Clearly, hospitals are places of death and disease, not healing, as they are so often represented." - Mike Adams, Spam Filters for Your Brain (Get the book.)

"The continued use of mercury in the mouths of human beings by dentists will, I believe, someday be viewed as one of the greatest medical mistakes of modern times. Yet the American Dental Association continues to support this practice, and thousands of dentists across the country continue to put this extremely toxic heavy metal directly into the mouths of adults and children alike. It's one of the most insane practices in dentistry, and yet it continues unabated. They are not even called mercury fillings. Dentists refer to them as silver fillings or amalgam fillings." - Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.)

"Health care costs would drop and medical mistakes would wane as premature death plummeted. In essence, our health care system would finally protect and promote our health as it is meant to do. SIMPLE BEGINNINGS As I look back, I often think about life on the farm and how it shaped my thinking in so many ways. My family was immersed in nature every waking moment. In the summer, from sunrise to sunset, we were outdoors planting and harvesting the crops and taking care of the animals." - 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.)

"Laboratory analyses of blood work and tissues are a huge source of medical mistakes. So, too, are diagnostic tests of all kinds, from mammograms to PSA readings for prostate cancer. Sometimes the test results are misread. Sometimes the tests show no evidence, say, of cancer when cancer is actually present. Sometimes they show cancer where there is none. As is the case with hospital mistakes, there is no independent monitoring of laboratory or diagnostic test results. Jennifer Rufer of Spanaway, Washington, learned about false-positive test results in the most painful way imaginable." - Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele, Critical Condition: How Health Care in America Became Big Business (Get the book.) "Not all victims of medical mistakes die. Many survive, but they leave hospitals in far worse shape than when they arrived. Some are paralyzed; some are brain-damaged; some contract virulent infections. Some lose a body part; some lose the wrong part—which is what happened to Willie F. King in 1995 when he was admitted to University Community Hospital in Tampa, Florida, a 430-bed institution that had opened in 1968. The fifty-one-year-old King, a diabetic, entered the hospital to have his right foot amputated. Instead, the surgical staff removed the left one." - Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele, Critical Condition: How Health Care in America Became Big Business (Get the book.) "Given the background of this horrendous case, it's obvious that hospital deaths brought about by medical mistakes are grossly understated. After all, if hospitals refuse to see murders on their wards, why assume they are recording deaths by mistake? Hospitals and doctors usually attribute the deaths of patients to the conditions for which they were admitted. The assumption often leads to erroneous conclusions, especially in the case of older patients, as amply demonstrated by Cullen. But even the deaths of younger patients are misinterpreted and mistakes missed." - Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele, Critical Condition: How Health Care in America Became Big Business (Get the book.) "The result is a chaotic system that has shifted its focus from saving lives to saving dollars, one that discourages preventive medicine and rewards overtesting and overmedicating; a system that allows insurers to reject those most likely to require medical attention and keep only the healthiest; a system where six times as many people die from medical mistakes as from HIV/AIDS; a system that forces doctors to spend as much time negotiating with insurers over referrals and fees as they do treating patients. America's health care system is totally out of whack." - Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele, Critical Condition: How Health Care in America Became Big Business (Get the book.)

"Contained herein are the medical mistakes andinherited genetic errors that predispose one to pain and illness, as well as information about the power of proven scientific evidence of nature enhancing body cellular potential. More can be achieved by Nature, with conscious guidance, than by all the arts of mankind. The first, the oldest, and the best healer, Nature, has withstood the test of time and been used by farmers, workers, and families the world over. Combine your Mind and Body with Spirit, heal thyself, become super-natural." - Joseph E. Mario, Anti-Aging Manual: The Encyclopedia of Natural Health (Get the book.)

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