One reason why I have little faith, or extreme skepticism, when it comes to medical professionals.
http://www.drugintel.com/pharma/iatroge ... _death.htmThe number of deaths each year due to non-error adverse reactions to medications adverse reactions is greater than the number of deaths of American military personnel in the entire Viet Nam war.
Deaths/Yr and Cause
7,000 Medication Errors in Hospitals
12,000 Unnecessary Surgery
20,000 Medical Errors in Hospitals (excluding Medication Errors)
106,000 Non-error, Adverse Reactions to Medications aka Drug Adverse Events
Total: 145,000
I would bet money that many of those people would still be alive and would have benefited from a dietary and/or lifestyle change and possibly some herbs and/or supplements.
48 Times more people killed ANNUALLY than were killed on 911, and these mad scientists are still heralded as heroes. Puey. They have been trained in a flawed system- crisis medicine. They do the best they can... but when you are constantly at WAR with nature (vs working with nature) there will always be casualties. The sad thing is that they have a monopoly. The majority of people don't know there are options and many who do are terrorized by fear mongering such as you have provided Tim.
Where are the stats on deaths due to people treating themselves with alternatives?
Many are treated... few are healed:
http://www.drugintel.com/pharma/many_are_treated.htmAllen Roses, worldwide vice-president of genetics at GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), said fewer than half of the patients prescribed some of the most expensive drugs actually derived any benefit from them.
http://www.garynull.com/documents/iatro ... icine2.htmThe number of people having in-hospital, adverse drug reactions (ADR) to prescribed medicine is 2.2 million.1 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.2, 2a The number of unnecessary medical and surgical procedures performed annually is 7.5 million.3 The number of people exposed to unnecessary hospitalization annually is 8.9 million.4 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, 553,251.5
More:
http://www.google.com/search?q=iatrogen ... &hl=en&lr=Pay attention to this one fact:
"Tens of millions of unecessary antibiotics"
What are the consequences of that??? Super bugs that are resistant to drugs. Do you know about these lovely critters? Psuedomonas. Echo 11. Parvo. CMV. To name a few. Doctors and drug companies are killing us. Literally.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=pseudomonashttp://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=& ... 1%22+virushttp://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=& ... 1%22+virushttp://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=cmv+virusOne's best (only) defense is a good offense... a healthy immune system. Doctors don't have a clue as to how to go about achieving that.
Medical professionals are not knights in shining armour by any stretch of the imagination.
My advice to friends is get a dx. Explore the alternatives. Try alternatives if your condition is not life-threatening. Seek a doctors assistance when all else fails... for crises... what they are trained for... when it doesn't matter if the treatment is as deadly as the disease/illness.