Emergency & trauma medical care saves lives. As do operations for life threatening accidents and illnesses. However, the treatment of chronic disease by conventional allopathic-based medicine has an appalling record. The official stats speak for themselves (see report below).
Physicians are taught a great deal about the diagnosis and treatment (ie. management) of disease symptoms with drugs, so they have become pharmalogically trained to develop customers for life (ie. ongoing profits for the pharma-medical industrial complex). Unfortunately for their patients they learn virtually nothing about health and healing. This is the shameful irony of our so-called ‘health care’ system. And those who dare question the system, especially those from within the medical profession, and those who offer an alternative, especially natural health providers, feel the full weight of the trillion dollar pharma-medical industry - and their cronies - upon their necks.
However, if we did as a society revert to a healthier diet and lifestyle, including holistic non-toxic forms of treatment for the ever-increasing chronic diseases plaguing the developed world, not only would our general health improve dramatically but also unnecessary deaths from allopathic medical treatments would plummet - right along with pharma-medical industry profits...
Death by Medicine By Gary Null, PhD; Carolyn Dean MD, ND; Martin Feldman, MD; Debora Rasio, MD; and Dorothy Smith, PhD
Something is wrong when regulatory agencies pretend that vitamins and nutritional supplements are dangerous, yet ignore published statistics showing that government-sanctioned medicine is the real hazard.
Until recently, Life Extension could cite only isolated statistics to make its case about the dangers of conventional medicine. No one had ever analyzed and compiled all of the published literature dealing with injuries and deaths caused by government-protected medicine.
A group of researchers meticulously reviewed the statistical evidence and their findings are absolutely shocking.1-4 These researchers have authored the following article titled “Death by Medicine” that presents compelling evidence that today’s health care system frequently causes more harm than good.
This fully referenced report shows the number of people having in-hospital, adverse reactions to prescribed drugs to be 2.2 million annually. The number of unnecessary antibiotics prescribed for viral infections is 20 million per year. The number of unnecessary medical and surgical procedures performed is 7.5 million per year.
The number of people exposed to unnecessary hospitalization is 8.9 million per year.The most stunning statistic, however, is that the total number of deaths caused by conventional medicine is nearly 800,000 per year. It is now evident that the American medical system is the leading cause of death and injury in the US. By contrast, the number of deaths attributable to heart disease in 2001 was 699,697, while the number of deaths attributable to cancer was 553,251.5
