Given such incredible numbers, questions inevitably arise. How can a system of healing be responsible for such huge numbers of fatalities and serious injuries? Is this simply the 'cost of doing business,' or is there something seriously wrong with modern medicine?
Oliver Wendell Holmes, an American physician and a medical reformer of the 19th century, said, "I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica, as used now could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind and all the worse for the fishes." It seems we've made little progress since Holmes' time.
Join us on this episode of Objective:Health as we discuss the topic of iatrogenesis; when attempts at healing cause harm.
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I even spoke to doctors who told me things like "Every time something goes wrong in an NHS hospital, it's standard procedure to shred the documents and conspire against the patient. The hospital always comes before the patient. If the patient decides to sue, the hospital could go down", and I'd hear the same story from ex-patients night after night which pretty much confirmed what he'd said... "Well, I went in for blah blah blah, and then such and such happened, and then the hospital 'lost' my documents."
I spoke to one doctor who was acting on behalf of an elderly patient who was diabetic. He explained that this guy had gone into hospital, the staff new that he was diabetic, but they stopped giving him insulin so he'd die and free up a bed. "If you're old and you're admitted to an NHS hospital, you are literally fighting for your life", he told me.
I have no idea what happened to all results from all this research. I imagine that lot got shredded too.
Although before considering surgery, one should always seek several opinions... a surgeon only preforms surgical solutions for an issue, it would be a bit of a bummer to undergo the removal of a body part, when all one needed was a change in diet or a change in life altogether.
The last surgery I had was in my dreams, DIY style making an incision to remove a bulbous cancer from my abdomen, ghastly business, although I passed out in my dreams at one stage so I must have forgotten to stitch myself back-up... Hmmm I might fit right in with any public health service. so don't mind me, get several qualified opinions.
That kind of thing is why I didn't go to hospital when I smashed my foot in a car accident earlier this year.
All mended up nicely now due to rigorous adherence to 1950's boxer diet since that time.
Anyway I will shot-up, Glade your foot is better and hope your brother takes an interest in your suggestions and takes action.
I've given that quite a lot of thought. I think people in general, not just vegans, are generally undernourished. When I was a kid, people ate three meals a day. Whatever happened to that?
"Eat like a 1950's boxer" was quite a handy conceptual tool for me, rather than getting into a lot of paleo/carnivore/keto/keto-carnivore-omnivore-isms.
Also key was a common phrase you never hear much these days: "As fit as a butcher's dog".
I think the human digestive system is like an assimilation machine. It tends to assimilate well that which it is close to. It tends to assimilate poorly that which it is far from. That's why a lot of vegans look sort of sickly plant-y. If you look at these YouTube Vegans like Freelee, Earthling Ed, Vegan Gains, etc. Their faces look green. Their skin is like tree-bark. Their vains like hemp-rope.
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