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Modern Medicine Causes Death, Not Healing 

Thomas Edison, American inventor, scientist and businessman who developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, once said,

"Medicine is played out. Every new discovery of bacteria shows us all the more convincingly that we have been wrong and that the million tons of stuff we have taken was all useless...The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will instruct his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease...Surgery, diet, antiseptics — these three are the vital things of the future in preserving the health of humanity. There were never so many able, active minds at work on the problems of diseases as now, and all their discoveries are tending to the simple truth — that you can't improve on nature."

Has this future arrived yet?  Are today's doctors fulfilling their role as teachers and examples of health and wellness? In a book entitled "Trust Me (I'm a Doctor)" by P & M Hammond, Metro Books, 1999, the author describes the real lives of doctors and nurses in marked contrast to the public's perception of them.  It states that physicians and general practitioners are generally among the most unhealthy professional groups in our society, many of them dependent on the same drugs they prescribe to others.  I wish this were the worst of it, that doctors are not good examples of health and wellness, but it's just the tip of the iceberg.

Dr. Robert Mendelsohn, M.D. is known to millions through his nationally syndicated column as "The People's Doctor", appearing on over 500 television and radio talk shows.  He received his Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Chicago in 1951, was an instructor at Northwest University Medical College for 12 years, and for an additional 12 years served as Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Community Health and Preventive Medicine at the University of Illinois College of Medicine. He was the national medical director of Project Head Start, President of the National Health Federation, and Chairman of the Medical Licensing Comittee of the State of Illinois.  What a gleaming record!  Isn't this the kind of doctor who you would probably trust?

Surprisingly, despite his enviable medical career, he is responsible for exposing much of the fraud and corruption in the medical system and pioneering the movement toward truth in the medical system.  It is probably because of his reputable career coupled with his integrity that he could credibly do this.  In what is probably his most profound book, "Confessions of a Medical Heretic," he gives readers the information needed to help make their own medical decisions. The following are quotes from the opening of this book:

"I do not believe in Modern Medicine.   I am a medical heretic.  My aim in this book is to persuade you to become a heretic, too. "I believe that Modern Medicine's treatments for disease are seldom effective, and that they're often more dangerous than the diseases they're designed to treat.

Why would he use such strong words? Consider just some of the following facts he presents:

• About 2.4 million operations performed every 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.

Some may feel that the title of this article is a bit harsh, for surely Modern Medicine has its place in healing, right? Well, look at it like this...Dr. Mendelsohn writes, "I believe that more than ninety percent of Modern Medicine could disappear from the face of the earth - doctors, hospitals, drugs, and equipment - and the effect on our health would be immediate and beneficial." Now, if something causes harm & death over 90% of the time and health & healing less than 10% of the time, what should it be known for - harm & death or health & healing? Dr. Mendelsohn "explains why Modern Medicine's methods are often more dangerous than the diseases they are designed to diagnose and treat."  He covers topics such as unnecessary surgery and prescribed drugs to preventive medicine, and even home birth (which I'm a big fan of, having homebirthed my 2nd and 3rd children after a terrible hospital birth experience).  His other titles (which I highly recommend) include: "Male Practice: How Doctors Manipulate Women," an important read for women, and "How To Raise a Healthy Child In Spite of Your Doctor" - an absolute requirement for all parents.

Dr. Mendelsohn's "Confessions of a Medical Heretic" book was published in 1979, yet what he has written is all the more true today.  Don't believe me? Surely advances in science and technology have made this statement untrue, right? Let's take a look at some expert testimonies from more recent times.

Dr. Ray D. Strand, M.D., an experienced family doctor and specialist in nutritional and preventive medicine, exposes the shocking truth behind an overmedicated nation in his book "Death By Prescription."  In it he states that "an adverse drug reaction is five times more likely to kill you than an automobile accident or AIDS."

Dr. Starfield, a full professor of public health at the most prestigious hospital in the United States, Johns Hopkins, wrote an article published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) documenting the various causes of deaths that doctors contributed to.  The world-renowned Dr. Joseph Mercola after going through her data, wrote an article entitled, "Doctors are the Third leading Cause of Death."  After contacting her, she disagreed with the title, and felt that doctors are "the number one cause of death because of their failure to inform their patients about the truth of health."  After this Dr. Mercola wrote a follow-up article, now entitled, "Drugs and Doctors May be the Leading Cause of Death in U.S."  In it he writes:

ALL THESE ARE DEATHS PER YEAR:

• 12,000 -- unnecessary surgery
• 7,000 -- medication errors in hospitals
• 20,000 -- other errors in hospitals
• 80,000 -- infections in hospitals
• 106,000 -- non-error, negative effects of drugs

These total to 225,000 deaths per year from iatrogenic causes!! What does the word iatrogenic mean? This term is defined as induced in a patient by a physician's activity, manner, or therapy. Used especially of a complication of treatment. *

The November 26, 2003 abstract of a 2 part article entitled "Death by Medicine," authored by Gary Null PhD, Carolyn Dean MD ND, Martin Feldman MD, Debora Rasio MD, and Dorothy Smith PhD reads:

"A definitive review and close reading of medical peer-review journals, and government health statistics shows that American medicine frequently causes more harm than good. The number of people having in-hospital, adverse drug reactions (ADR) to prescribed medicine is 2.2 million. Dr. Richard Besser, of the CDC, in 1995, said the number of unnecessary antibiotics prescribed annually for viral infections was 20 million. Dr. Besser, in 2003, now refers to tens of millions of unnecessary antibiotics.

"The number of unnecessary medical and surgical procedures performed annually is 7.5 million. The number of people exposed to unnecessary hospitalization annually is 8.9 million. The total number of iatrogenic deaths shown in the following table is 783,936. It is evident that the American medical system is the leading cause of death and injury in the United States. The 2001 heart disease annual death rate is 699,697; the annual cancer death rate, 553,251." *

With these statistics, can one truly believe that Modern Medicine operates under the Heavenly Father's blessing? I believe God heals people despite Modern Medicine, not because of it. Can this possibly be the reason why the word for the main healing tool used by Modern Medicine - "pharmaceuticals" - shares the same root word as the Greek word used in the Bible for sorcery - "pharmakeia"?

Pharmakeia is a Greek word that appears several times in the New Testament, including the Epistle to the Galatians and the Book of Revelation. It is frequently translated as "witchcraft" or "sorcery". *

Another article by one of the most trusted alternative health news source, Natural News, reports:

"The government spends upwards of $30 billion a year on homeland security. Such spending seems important. Since 2001, 2,996 people in the United States have died from terrorism – all as a result of the 9/11 attacks. In that same period of time, 490,000 people have died from prescription drugs, not counting the Vioxx scandal. That means that prescription drugs in this country are at least 16,400 percent deadlier than terrorism. Again, those are the conservative numbers. A more realistic number, which would include deaths from over-the-counter drugs, makes drug consumption 32,000 percent deadlier than terrorism. But the scope of "Death by Medicine" is even wider. Conventional medicine, including unnecessary surgeries, bedsores and medical errors, is 104,700 percent deadlier than terrorism." *

With such a great cloud of witnesses, it becomes all the more evident that the "doctor of the future" as described by Thomas Edison is not to be found in the Modern Medical System. Therefore, my purpose, the purpose of Arukah.com, and the purpose of all true holistic health practitioners, is to do what drugs and doctors have failed, for the most part, to do: to "give no medicine," but instead instruct people "in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease," and "the simple truth — that you can't improve on nature," or, God's healing power, and His natural remedies.

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