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"The relationship between the medical profession and the health industry (device manufacturers and drug companies) is problematic to say the least. Arthur Kleinman, the famous medical anthropologist from Harvard, has called the corrupted partnership the greatest ethical problem in medicine today. Personally, I find the lapses in ethical behavior in the medical profession distressing. After all, we expect businesses to try to sell their products, and improve their bottom line." - 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.)

"But unfortunately, these visionaries are still rare in the medical profession, and all too often, you're given only one option: drugs. But giving a kid a pill and hoping the problem goes away is just a Band-Aid, not a long-term solution. I've no doubt that these drugs make day-to-day life a little easier in the short term, but they're also suppressing kids and masking the underlying causes of their problems. And very often, we know nothing about the side effects of these medications or how they'll affect kids over the long term. In many cases, they make the problem worse, not better. Dr." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"Although coenzyme Q10 represents one of the greatest breakthroughs for the treatment of cardiovascular disease as well as for other diseases, the resistance of the medical profession to using this essential nutrient represents one of the greatest potential tragedies in medicine," says my friend, board-certified cardiologist, nutritionist, and noted author Stephen Sinatra, M.D. CoQ 10 has been an approved drug in Japan for congestive heart failure since 1974. And several studies have demonstrated a relationship between depleted CoQ 10 levels and heart disease. So What Is CoQ10, Anyway?" - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"I underwent a stunning revision of my beliefs about the medical profession," Franklin later recounted. Before working at Parke-Davis, he had believed a doctor's first duty was to his patients and that no amount of money could change that. But as he went on his rounds of medical offices, he had some doctors ask him what Parke-Davis planned to do for them now that they were writing more prescriptions of Neurontin. "You'd like to think this kind of simple scheme wouldn't work with physicians," Franklin said. "It works remarkably well." - 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.)

"HOOKED ON DRUGS John touched on another important area where the medical profession has lost credibility: its ties with the drug industry. Medical education and drug companies are in bed together, and have been for quite some time. John talked some about the depth of the problem and how the educational system has been corrupted. He said: The problem with doctors starts with our education. The whole system is paid for by the drug industry, from education to research. The drug industry has bought the minds of the medical profession. It starts the day you enter medical school." - 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.)

"Research on colloidal silver shows it to be an effective resource against infections and pathogens, yet very little is known about it by the general public or the medical profession. Prior to 1938 it was in common use by doctors. According to Alexander G. Schauss, PhD, of Johns Hopkins University, considerable scientific evidence has been published regarding the effectiveness of silver as an antiseptic against "several hundred pathogenic organisms." He also points out that silver is not an antibiotic because, by definition, antibiotics are derived from living organisms." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"Recovery from illness is impeded by anxiety, tension, depression and nerves. The medical profession regularly sees the outcome of positive and negative attitudes. People with happy dispositions want to get better. They are up and out of bed in no time. Their healing is faster and their recuperation time is less than those who are unhappy, depressed or despondent. Instead of being infected with disease you can become infected with good health. Wanting to take charge of your asthma by taking steps to improve your health is the reason you are reading this book." - Dr Ron Roberts, Asthma Controlled Naturally: Techniques That Work (Get the book.) "The orthodox medical profession theorises that faith healers simply reinforce the mental attitudes of patients and they feel better, even if their actual condition is not cured. The body's natural defences actively respond to the belief, stress is reduced, health-giving hormones may be produced and antibodies—the cells in the blood that fight infection and disease—are strengthened. Ron's decision to stop smoking was the result of a healing service he attended 20 years ago." - Dr Ron Roberts, Asthma Controlled Naturally: Techniques That Work (Get the book.)

"I believe that we in the medical profession have taken the wrong course. It is as if we were simply standing by, watching millions of people march over a cliff, and then intervening in a desperate, last-minute attempt to save them once they have fallen over the edge. Instead, we should be teaching them how to avoid the chasm entirely, how to walk parallel to the precipice so that they will never fall at all. I believe that coronary artery disease is preventable, and that even after it is under way, its progress can be stopped, its insidious effects reversed." - Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D., Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease (Get the book.) "Over the past one hundred years, the mechanical treatment of disease has increasingly dominated the medical profession in the United States. Surgery is the prototype, and its dramatic progress— light-years removed from the cathartics, bloodletting, and amputations that dominated medicine in previous centuries—is nothing short of breathtaking. But surgery has serious flaws. It is expensive, painful, and frightening, often disabling and disfiguring, and too often merely a temporary stopgap against the disease it is intended to treat. It is a mechanical approach to a biological problem." - Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D., Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease (Get the book.) "The truth is that the medical profession knows better. We have known for a long time that one out of every four persons who have heart attacks has a blood cholesterol level between 180 and 210 mg/ dL,2 and we know that more than a third of those in the Framingham Heart Study who had heart disease showed cholesterol levels between 150 and 200 mg/dL.3 That means that millions of Americans who are doing the best they can to meet the standards set by national health officials are, in spite of their efforts, getting sick." - Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D., Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease (Get the book.)

"Most important, perhaps, he offered a now-receptive medical profession an opportunity to do the same kind of thing that Charcot, eighty years earlier, had proposed should happen: to claim for itself the world of religious healing and faith that otherwise kept tempting patients away from sensible medical care; and to do so by subjecting the claims made by faith to the sober light of scientific investigation." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.) "Because they did not understand what they were really doing, however, their results had been inconsistent, and the medical profession had failed to take any of their claims seriously. Braid believed his discoveries provided an entirely new basis for serious investigation: I have now entirely separated Hypnotism from Animal Magnetism. I consider it to be merely a simple, speedy, and certain mode of throwing the nervous system into a new condition, which may be rendered eminently available in the cure of certain disorders." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.) "If the scene portrayed by Mackay even approximated the actual mood of intrigue surrounding Mesmer's work in Paris, then it is hardly surprising that some people, in the medical profession and elsewhere, should have begun to clamor for him to be investigated. In the spring of 1784, King Louis XVI authorized two royal commissions made up respectively of members of the Royal Society of Medicine and of the Royal Academy of Sciences to carry out the job.27 The work of the first, strictly medical, commission was largely forgotten soon after its report." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.)

"This practically makes the medical profession, together with hospitals, the leading cause of death. Besides killing patients, pharmaceutical drugs can cause permanent damage to the immune system, liver, kidneys, heart, brain and other organs. Taking prescription drugs can also send you to the emergency room. A Vancouver, Canada study has documented that 12% of emergency room (ER) visits were the direct result of problems with a pharmaceutical drug. In additon, the length of stay for those admitted to the hospital was significantly longer." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"Drug companies often conceal from the FDA, the medical profession, and the public the harmful psychological or emotional psychiatric reactions caused by their products. Misled by the FDA and the drug companies, most physicians who prescribe psychiatric drugs vastly underestimate the frequency and severity of medication-induced suicide as well as other potentially life-destroying adverse effects such as violence, mania, and psychosis caused especially by antidepressants, stimulants, and tranquilizers." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"The benefit of this tea cannot be underestimated even though the medical profession will not acknowledge its use." Breast Cancer Herbs such as burdock root and Indian rhubarb contain high concentrations of flavones, anthraquinones, tannins, and certain polysaccharides, which have been variously reported to have antioxidant, immunomodulatory, antimutagenic, and cytostatic effects, according to Dr. Elizabeth Kaegi, former director of Medical Affairs and Cancer Control of the National Cancer Institute of Canada and the Canadian Cancer Society." - Freedom Press, Natural Cancer Cures: The Definitive Guide to Using Dietary Supplements to Fight and Prevent Cancer (Get the book.)

"In words that should have shaken the medical profession to its core, the statement told of "dracon-ian" terms being imposed on medical researchers by corporate sponsors. And it warned that the "precious objectivity" of the clinical studies that were being published in their journals was being threatened by the transformation of clinical research into a commercial activity. The editors said that the use of commercially sponsored clinical trials "primarily for marketing .. . makes a mockery of clinical investigation and is a misuse of a powerful tool." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.) "DICTATING DOCTORS' ORDERS Recognizing that no doctor can keep up with the deluge of medical research about all of the different clinical conditions, the medical profession regularly develops clinical practice guidelines to establish the standards that define good medical care." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"However, I do not applaud the behavior of the members of the medical profession who are "thought leaders" with manifest conflicts of interest. For example, the American College of Rheumatology convened a "subcommittee" to "update" the "recommendations for the medical management of osteoarthritis of the hip and knee." In 1998 the college's recommendation leaned toward acetaminophen. It's not that acetaminophen is impressively effective. It's just that it is as effective as any nsaid without the risk of gastrointestinal toxicity." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.)

"Although the medical profession often resists the tragic facts, there can be no doubt that patients taking antipsychotic drugs for many years not only tend to develop tardive dyskinesia, they also lose some of their cognitive abilities. Many develop frank dementia—a generalized loss of intellectual ability accompanied by mood instability—called tardive dementia.9 By the time I evaluated Mrs. Dignity after her years of antipsychotic drug exposure, she thought and spoke with the innocent simplicity of a child." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"The medical profession complained; the local authorities complained; and in 1774, by order of Prince Max Joseph of Bavaria, a commission was set up to investigate all these goings-on. One of the experts invited to assist in the investigation was a young physician named Franz Anton Mesmer. Mesmer was asked to assist because he seemed to have a perspective on Gassner's performance that would be very useful for the skeptics and others who wanted to rein in Gassner." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.)

"In effect, instead of approving Prozac for the treatment of depression, the FDA approved Prozac in combination with addictive tranquilizers, without ever informing the medical profession or the public about this ruse.1 Especially when the newer antidepressants are combined with Xanax, the risk of disinhibition and even mania is increased. Sam eventually sued his doctor and a dispute developed over Sam's condition at the time he went to the psychiatrist. Sam explained to me that he was upset about his physical problems and that he had no prior history of anxiety and depression." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"It's important to understand this climate so that you can fully appreciate what we're up against when trying to inform the public about treatments and interventions that don't have the "official" medical profession seal of approval. It's an uphill battle, but not an unfamiliar one. Those of us who argued against the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) food pyramid and against the officially sanctioned high-carbohydrate, high-sugar diet have experienced this kind of resistance before. It's pretty hard to get a fair hearing for a low-carbohydrate diet when a good portion of the U.S." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"This particular telling of the story begins in the early 1960s, when the medical profession hailed estrogens as the fountain of youth and beauty, and as the elixir of femininity and sexuality. Prominent gynecologists "discovered" that menopause was a deficiency disease, just like diabetes. And just like diabetes, it had a cure. A bold promise was made that so-called estrogen replacement therapy (ERT) would let women avoid menopause entirely and keep them "feminine forever," the title of a popular and widely quoted book by gynecologist Robert Wilson." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"The screening methods used by the medical profession are as follows: 1. A fecal occult blood test simply checks a stool sample for blood. If blood is present other factors need to be ruled out such as hemorrhoids, polyps or other conditions. 2. A sigmoidoscopy is a diagnostic tool that looks at the last two feet of the colon. It is a flexible lighted tube. 3. A colonoscopy is the test of choice for most doctors. It is more accurate at detecting polyps than other tests. The colonoscope is a long tube that has a video camera attached to it, for your doctor to see inside the intestinal tract." - Heather Caruso, Your Drug-Free Guide to Digestive Health (Get the book.)

"Throughout the twentieth century, Ayurvedic practitioners and enthusiasts took every opportunity to present Ayurveda's case before the medical profession. Thus in 1917, for example, the US medical periodical Medical Times carried a lengthy transcript of a paper on Ayurvedic medicine presented by Dr Sarat Chandra Ghose to the 1916 Eight Annual Meeting of the American Association of Clinical Research. The paper lauded Ayurveda's glorious past?Hindu medicine attained a very high level of perfection when the rest of the world was almost in its infancy..." - Roberta Bivins, Alternative Medicine?: A History (Get the book.) "And Jacksonian American, culturally and politically marked by a rejection of elitism and professional claims to exclusive knowledge, was already shrugging off early attempts by its nascent medical profession to regulate the practice of medicine, and make it a preserve of the 'regularly trained'. The chronology of medical regulation in America during this period demonstrates both the surging but often thwarted ambitions of medical practitioners, and the close relationship between culture, politics, and medical pluralism." - Roberta Bivins, Alternative Medicine?: A History (Get the book.) "On the other, the nascent educational institutions and regulatory systems that were intended to justify the privileges and authority claims of the medical profession were often themselves manifesdy corrupt. Medical deregulation swiftly followed. Between 1830 and 1850, all but two states repealed their laws restricting medical practice to regularly qualified practitioners." - Roberta Bivins, Alternative Medicine?: A History (Get the book.)

"The symptoms that go with environmental illness are numerous and have to be taken seriously by the medical profession. It is not all in our heads. —Betty The Political and Social Dimensions of Nutrition and Mental Health With so much expertise available and so many proven solutions, you have to wonder why Americans still suffer as much as they do. You also have to wonder why the number of people afflicted with mental trouble across the spectrum?from mild depression and lack of concentration to schizophrenia and other forms of dementia—continues to increase." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

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