Don’t Let Doctors Play God With Your Cancer Treatment!!

Written by Paul Sanford


We all know someone that either has cancer now or has died from it. Cancer isrepparttar Bubonic Plague of our times and despite billions of dollars in research, chemotherapy remains one ofrepparttar 134990 most popular forms of treatment withinrepparttar 134991 established medical community.

With all of their shiny new buildings and fancy equipment, doctors still resort to this “shotgun” approach and others that are equally ineffective. This is probably why an astounding 96% of cancer patients die of complications relating to treatment---not evenrepparttar 134992 cancer itself!

What is wrong with this picture? What is it about their nice clean lab coats that makes us believe that doctors hold all ofrepparttar 134993 answers when it comes to our own bodies? Don’t believe for a second that they are unaware ofrepparttar 134994 odds of a successful chemotherapy treatment regimen! What use is it to killrepparttar 134995 cancer when they also destroy all ofrepparttar 134996 surrounding tissues?

Is it at least possible that when they are advising patients of their treatment options they first tookrepparttar 134997 time to investigaterepparttar 134998 insurance plan first because how could they ever recommend such costly and painful procedures when they know—know thatrepparttar 134999 odds of success are 4%?

Why Our Healthcare System Isn't Healthy

Written by Deb Bromley


Most people are well aware that an estimated 45 million Americans currently do not have healthcare, but isrepparttar crisis simplyrepparttar 134977 lack of health insurance or evenrepparttar 134978 cost of health insurance? Is there a bigger underlying problem atrepparttar 134979 root of our healthcare system? Althoughrepparttar 134980 U.S. claims to haverepparttar 134981 most advanced medicine inrepparttar 134982 world, government health statistics and peer-reviewed journals demonstrate that allopathic medicine often causes more harm than good.

People in general have always felt they could trust doctors andrepparttar 134983 medical profession, but according torepparttar 134984 Journal ofrepparttar 134985 American Medical Association in July 2000, iatrogenic death, also known as death from physician error or death from medical treatment, wasrepparttar 134986 third leading cause of death in America and rising, responsible for at least 250,000 deaths per year. Those statistics are considered conservative by many, asrepparttar 134987 reported numbers only include in-hospital deaths, not injury or disability, and do not include external iatrogenic deaths such as those resulting from nursing home and other private facility treatments, and adverse effects of prescriptions. One recent study estimatedrepparttar 134988 total unnecessary deaths from iatrogenic causes at approximately 800,000 per year at a cost of $282 billion per year, which would make death from American medicinerepparttar 134989 leading cause of death in our country. Currently, at least 2 out of 3 Americans use medications, 32 million Americans are taking three or more medications daily, and commercials and advertisements for pharmaceutical drugs have saturatedrepparttar 134990 marketplace. Although our population is aging, exorbitantly expensive drugs are being marketed and dispensed to younger and younger patients, including many children who years ago would never have been given or needed medication, for everything from ADHD to asthma to bipolar disease and diabetes. Clearly,repparttar 134991 state of health in this country is not improving even though there are an increasing number of medications and treatments. Between 2003 and 2010,repparttar 134992 number of prescriptions are expected to increase substantially by 47%. In recent years, numerous drugs previously deemed safe byrepparttar 134993 FDA have been recalled because of their toxicity, afterrepparttar 134994 original drug approvals were actually funded byrepparttar 134995 invested pharmaceutical companies themselves.

According torepparttar 134996 media, thanks to advances in U.S. drugs and medical procedures, Americans are living longer statistically, but they are living longer sicker, with a lower quality of life, and often dependent on multiple expensive synthetic medications that do not cure or addressrepparttar 134997 underlying causes, but only suppress symptoms, often with a plethora of dangerous side effects torepparttar 134998 tune of billions of dollars forrepparttar 134999 drug industry. Considering thatrepparttar 135000 U.S. is supposed to haverepparttar 135001 most advanced technology inrepparttar 135002 world andrepparttar 135003 best health care system, it is at odds that we spendrepparttar 135004 most on healthcare, yet arerepparttar 135005 most obese and most afflicted with illness outside ofrepparttar 135006 AIDS epidemic in some third world countries.

Unless you have an acute emergency that requires emergency room care, being admitted to a hospital environment may be more dangerous to your health than staying out. In 2003, epidemiologists reported inrepparttar 135007 New England Journal of Medicine that hospital-acquired infections have risen steadily in recent decades, with blood and tissue infections known as sepsis almost tripling from 1979 to 2000. Nearly two million patients inrepparttar 135008 U.S. get an infection while inrepparttar 135009 hospital each year, and of those patients over 90,000 die per year, up dramatically from just 13,300 in 1992. Statistics show that approximately 56% ofrepparttar 135010 population has been unnecessarily treated, or mistreated, byrepparttar 135011 medical industry.

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