Is
Modern Medicine Going Out of Business?
by Chris Lewis, MH, CMT
Hospitals and clinics closing...
Doctors cutting back on high risk cases... Doctors going out of business...
Small towns left without a single physician due to 9/11 policy complications... such
is the recent news
from all over the US!
This news makes many people feel
uneasy. The prospect of not being able to see their doctor is frightening, but
should it be? Do we really need medical "care" for everything in life?
Let's look at the facts, shall we...
*Approximately 2.4 million operations
performed each year are unnecessary and cost about 12,000 lives.
*In six New York Hospitals, 43% of performed hysterectomies reviewed were found
to be unjustified.
*Historically, when doctors have gone on strike, the mortality rate has dropped.
*Home births are far safer than hospital births with a lower mortality rate for
both mother and child, less occurrence of infections and other complications,
faster labor, much lower c-section rates, less occurrence of fetal trauma, etc.,
etc.
*Many people lose every penny they have and more in the futile attempt to pay
off medical bills after their insurance company drops them. Many of them even
lose their homes!
*A recent survey by the World Health Organization shows that, while the United
States spends more per capita than any other nation on "health care,"
it ranks as number 37 for quality and effectiveness. Even Singapore, Omen, and
Andorra are healthier than the US!
*Since President Kennedy declared war on cancer, promising to see it eliminated
within the decade, the cancer rate has gone from one in every five people to one
in every two, that's half of the entire population getting cancer some time in
their lives. The cancer death rate has also markedly increased.
*Only 5% of the budget for the National Cancer Institute is spent on prevention.
*Vaccines cause about 12,000 reports of adverse reactions and hundreds of deaths
yearly, most of them children; and most of them have yet to be proven to prevent
any disease at all! Among adverse reactions are: genetic mutations, cancer,
AIDS, Developmental disabilities, immune system disorders, hepatitis,
post-vaccinal encephalitis, autism, ADD/ADHD, SIDS (Sudden Infant Death
Syndrome), infection by the very disease they were intended to prevent,
increased susceptibility to drug abuse and violent crime later in life...
*According to the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)
prescription drugs kill about 144,000 Americans every year and injure millions
more.
*20-30% of Americans receive contra-indicated treatments (those that are known
to be harmful or fatal in their particular condition).
*7,000 deaths each year from medication errors in hospitals.
*80,000 death a year from nosocomial infections (infections caught while in the
hospital).
*Medical mistakes kill about 98,000 people a year (in America). That's more than
motor vehicle accidents, breast cancer, or AIDS!!
*Dr. Barbara Starfield, in the July 26, 2000 issue of JAMA, states, "An
estimate of adverse effects in outpatient care and including adverse effects
other than death concluded that between 4 and 18 percent of consecutive patients
experience adverse effects in outpatient settings, resulting in 116 million
extra physician visits, 77 million extra prescriptions, 17 million emergency
department visits, 8 million hospitalizations, 3 million long term admissions,
199,000 additional deaths, and $77 billion in extra costs."
*Total deaths from modern medicine in general are estimated to be between
700,000 and 1,000,000+ annually (just in the USA), putting "modern
medicine" above heart disease as the number one leading cause of death in
the United States!
*Modern Medicine kills more Americans every year than did the American
Revolution, The American Civil War, World War I, World War II, the Korean War,
The Vietnam War, and Desert Storm combined! It has killed more people in the
past 20 years than all wars throughout all recorded history combined!
*Every hospital is run, not by doctors, but by business administrators (just
like every other business) who probably know even less about health than their
secretaries! In other words, decisions about your medical "care" are
far more likely to reflect the financial needs of the hospital than your needs
as an individual, and even if your doctor is the nicest, most honest, caring,
sincere individual in the world, there is very little he can do if his opinion
differs from that of the administrator, who has no medical background
whatsoever.
*The most accurate medical laboratories in the nation are only 80% accurate.
That means that of every 100 diagnoses they make, 20 of them are wrong! And most
labs aren't that accurate. They range from 50-70% accurate. And some are even
less accurate than that, at an astonishing 30%, in other words, you world have
more accurate test results by flipping a coin. And most doctors rely on these
tests almost exclusively in making their diagnoses. They tend to trust the lab
tests even more than their own eyes! This leads to many false negatives and
false positives.
*Doctors are NEVER taught anything about any form of alternative therapy in
medical school! So asking your doctor about taking an herbal product or changing
your diet, or doing anything natural at all is just like asking your plumber to
elaborate on the finer points of general relativity or quantum mechanics,
there's a small chance he may have studied it on his own time because of
personal interest, but he has received absolutely NO formal training in it
whatsoever. So please don't do something as foolish and silly as asking your
doctor about a natural therapy! Instead see an herbalist, midwife, chiropractor,
naturopath, massage therapist or someone else who actually knows something about
natural healing.
*Medicine NEVER addresses the root cause of illness, striving instead to merely
control symptoms, and in the process, allowing the cause of the disease to
continue progressing and getting worse until it manifests as a much more serious
condition.
*And most importantly of all, mankind got along just fine without "Modern
Medicine" for thousands of years, so why do we now need to ask their
permission for everything from diets and exercise programs (which they know
nothing about, by the way), to traveling, riding amusement park rides, having
children, and even getting married?!
It sounds to me like we have a chronic excess of medical "care," not a
shortage of it. And in light of all these facts, doesn't it seem pretty silly to be so dependent on
our doctors. Now, I'm not saying that they don't have their place, they
certainly do, in emergency trauma where immediate intervention is needed to save
a life. That is where they shine. But they have forgotten their proper place in
healing. Proverbs 27:8 says, "As a bird that wandereth from
her nest, so [is] a man that wandereth from his place." Medicine is like a
fire which, if kept under control, can provide life-saving warmth in emergencies, but if it
gets out of control, it kills, destroys, and causes immeasurable suffering.
Doctors are trained to deal
with emergencies, but not to recognize people who aren't having emergencies. So
when you go to a doctor, they will see you as an emergency whether you are one
or not! This leads to a lot of unnecessary testing, treatment, side effects, and
death.
Why put ourselves through this
needless torture, especially when there are safer, more effective, less painful,
faster, and less expensive (or even free) alternatives available to us in the
form of natural healing methods? I now issue a challenge and an exhortation to
all of you reading this article... Find out about natural healing so you can
take care of yourself and your family and your friends, and not have to be
dependent on doctors, because they won't always be there when you need them, and
besides, you can do a much better job of caring for yourself than they can. It's
simple, it's easy, it's far less painful, it's very inexpensive, the results are
better, and the harmful side-effects non-existent (that is, if you take a moment
to find out about what you're doing before you do it). Many millions of Americans
have made the decision to start catching up with the rest of the world by
discovering natural ways of healing, and you can join them! So, start uncovering
these secrets, either from me or from another herbalist or natural practitioner or
teacher, so you can care for yourself the way God intended. Start anywhere you
want, but start. You'll never get anywhere until you decide to make the journey.
If you're wondering where the best place is to start, my recommendation would be
RIGHT HERE.
Modern Medicine is a system whose
days are numbered, because it doesn't fulfill people's real needs, and more and
more people are realizing that and turning to the system created by God
specifically to meet those needs naturally. I think that this decrease in medical
availability is a wonderful blessing and answer to prayer. We have become far
too dependent on doctors for virtually everything in life and it's time for that
to change. Instead of fighting for better coverage or more drugs, let's fight for educating
people to take care of themselves without poisonous drugs and dangerous
surgeries. It doesn't take years or even months in school to discover how to get
well, all it takes is a willingness to take your health into your own hands and a few afternoons
(at most) of hearing from a person who knows about how to give the body what it needs to heal itself.
I am only one of many who are working to reveal the secrets of natural healing. You can
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planet.
So, in answer to the title question,
I think medicine will continue to be with us for some time, but I look forward
to the day (and I hope everyone else does too) when doctors of all kinds will be
unnecessary because people will be using simple, safe, natural methods to take
care of themselves and will no longer need the services of a doctor. It is my
goal to help this day come as quickly as possible and I hope you will join me by
discovering all you can about taking care of yourself on your own, and by passing
this knowledge on to all the other people in your life. This wonderful day can
come for you right now! You don't have to wait. Together, we can help
our families, friends, and neighbors, not by trying to get more medicine in our lives, but
by helping each other to become independent from it.
-- Chris Lewis, MH
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