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For-Profit Medicine is Deadly
What we need is less regulation, which will encourage more competition, and better products. The fact that there is a list of vaccines you have to take to attend government school should be all we need to know about the current system.
It's HIGHLY ILLEGAL but my vet could have done the same for me, at 1/10th the cost.
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It's HIGHLY ILLEGAL but my vet could have done the same for me, at 1/10th the cost.
Why is it illegal? Is it illegal for the vet to give you one or for you to ask him for one? is it illegal to buy an x-ray machine and give yourself an x-ray in the freest country in the world?
When Doctors Go On Strike Less People Die
The same cannot be said about Nurses.
The title of this article might read like clickbait or perhaps an exaggeration, however, it is a fact that multiple studies completed in different parts of the world have found that when doctors go on strike less people die. Other studies have found that doctors going on strike makes no difference to death rates. And no studies have found that death rates increase when doctors are on strike.
These studies go as far back as 1973 and the most recent study was in 2020. They also include a diverse range of countries - Columbia, the USA, Israel, Spain, Croatia, and Kenya.
The earliest study in 1973 was in Israel when doctors went on strike for one month and patient deaths dropped by 50 percent.
In 1976 in Bogota, Columbia, when medical doctors went on strike for 52 days, providing only emergency care for patients, the death rate dropped by 35 percent.
These studies go as far back as 1973 and the most recent study was in 2020. They also include a diverse range of countries - Columbia, the USA, Israel, Spain, Croatia, and Kenya.
The earliest study in 1973 was in Israel when doctors went on strike for one month and patient deaths dropped by 50 percent.
In 1976 in Bogota, Columbia, when medical doctors went on strike for 52 days, providing only emergency care for patients, the death rate dropped by 35 percent.
Who in their right mind thinks it's a good idea for novices in a life-or-death profession who mostly did academic study for the past 7-8 years to work 5 12-hour shifts a week, often rotating night and day?
Who in their right mind thinks it's a good idea for novices in a life-or-death profession who mostly did academic study for the past 7-8 years to work 5 12-hour shifts a week, often rotating night and day?
We regulate the hours of truckers more than ER doctors
The point is to make new doctors suffer so that they themselves later insist on maintaining the large gap between themselves and others like nurses who could easily do their work for far less money.
The level of expertise between nurses and doctors is huge.
A neonatal nurse in Great Britain is on trial in a case that has shaken the nation to its core. Lucy Letby, 32, stands accused of a series of attacks in 2015 and 2016 that led to the deaths of seven babies and near deaths of 15 more at Countess of Chester Hospital, near Liverpool.
Jurors heard for the first time on Tuesday that one of the victim’s mothers interrupted Letby’s attack on her newborn son only to be convinced that the distressed baby was in the best possible hands.
“Trust me, I’m a nurse,” Letby allegedly told the distraught mother as blood poured from her premature child’s mouth, bleeding which she said came from a nasogastric tube irritating his throat. Alone again with her three-pound victim, Letby murdered the infant boy at her leisure. The following day, she unsuccessfully attempted to kill his twin.
Prosecutors claim Lethby killed the infants either by injecting them with fatal doses of insulin or air. In some cases, it took multiple attempts to finish off her victims, who were first saved by other doctors and nurses who initially didn’t suspect a psychopathic killer was lying in their midst.
Giving birth hurts. A lot. Like any other major physical feat, it’s risky, but it’s not the inherently dangerous medical event some have come to believe. Plenty of women know this. Many are skeptical of the need to give birth in a hospital. But some are taking things further, deciding to forgo medical care entirely and give birth at home totally unassisted.
https://spectatorworld.com/topic/the-radical-alternative-to-a-hospital-birth/
Giving birth hurts. A lot. Like any other major physical feat, it’s risky, but it’s not the inherently dangerous medical event some have come to believe. Plenty of women know this. Many are skeptical of the need to give birth in a hospital. But some are taking things further, deciding to forgo medical care entirely and give birth at home totally unassisted.
Iatrogenesis is the fifth leading cause of death in the world. There are about 5%–8% of deaths due to ADRs (Adverse Drug Reactions) worldwide[12]. In many countries, ADRs are a leading cause of death.[13] About 1.4 million patients are affected by the infections at any given time due to the healthcare system. In the developed countries, the toll is 5%–10% of patients while in developing countries “as many as a quarter of all patients may be affected by a healthcare-associated infection.”[14] A study conducted in 2005 established communication problem as the major cause of 70% of sentinel events in a hospital-like setting.[14]
The unsafe injection practice (unsterilized syringes and needles) worldwide accounts for 40% of infections. In some of the countries, the unsafe injection practice is as high as 70%. “Unsafe injection practices cause an estimated 1.3 million deaths each year worldwide, a loss of 26 million years of life and an annual burden of US$ 535 million in direct medical costs.”[15] Unsafe blood transfusions contribute about 5%–15% of HIV infections. A study indicates that the donated blood was not at all screened for the infections such as HIV and Hepatitis in almost 60 countries worldwide.[15]
A study conducted by the WHO concluded that per capita medication usage was highest in the USA which exceeded Latin America and even Europe[16]. The report, compiled by (Life Extension Magazine) LEF estimates that every year in the USA, 2.2 million people experience ADRs and the death due to ADRs is 783,936. Although the USA spends 14% of its gross national product on healthcare yet, it is ironical that the American Medical System contributes to most of the deaths. The government-sanctioned medicine in the USA alone is responsible for 700,000 deaths every year.[17]
The doctors and scientists responsible for the development and administration of these drugs are both trained and constrained by the corrupt system that now controls them. Western medicine as we now know it exists in orbit around the pharmaceutical industry. Medical schools teach doctors how to match symptoms with prescriptions, hospitals negotiate with insurance companies based on the cost of drugs, and the race is ongoing to create the latest and greatest drug that will cure what ails ya.
The healers of today are no longer the heroes of old. The healers of today are trained, funded, and accountable to the pharmaceutical industry. That corruption is largely enabled by a system of governmental oversight that is nothing more than an instrument used by the medical industrial complex to approve and sell their products while limiting their liability.
Worse, these governmental puppets are now using the private tech and media industries to ensure that only the official narrative is put forth; those with dissenting opinions or contradicting data are silenced, censored, and calumniated.
This was once considered to be a conspiracy theory. To insinuate that these institutions could be involved in a global conspiracy that has cost tens of millions of lives and undermined the very foundations of our democracy was tantamount to blasphemy.
Until now…
Multiple studies show a strong correlation between lack of employment, economic distress and overdose fatalities. Indeed, a 2021 study by the National Academy of Sciences concluded most of the decline in life expectancy beginning in the mid-1990s among working-age men and women was attributable to drug poisonings of people with a high school education or less.
Standing in sharp relief to portraits of its primary victims are its perpetrators. Those most responsible for this epidemic are part of America’s best educated and economically privileged classes. This was an epidemic caused in large measure by scientists, physicians, drug distributors, pharmaceutical company executives and regulators.
They reaped enormous economic benefits but, even after a deluge of lawsuits, they paid little for the havoc they wreaked.
There would have been no spike in drug overdoses had handsomely compensated executives at a handful of global pharmaceutical companies not decided in the mid-1990s to flood America with prescription opioids. Nor would there have been an epidemic if the US Food and Drug Administration, among the most elite healthcare regulators in the world, had not given their approval to a half dozen or more prescription opioids that fueled addiction in the United States. ...
From the start, this was a healthcare policy where the economic incentives were powerfully misaligned. It was sure to generate windfall profits for drug companies, distributors and other healthcare providers while exposing patients to unprecedented risks.
Oxford Study: Less than 6% of “Approved” Medical Drugs Are Backed by “High-Quality Evidence” to Support Their Benefits – “Harms” are Significantly Underreported Across the Board
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That's why it is advisable to invest in health care stocks or funds like the Vanguard Healthcare fund. Seems as safe a bet as aerospace / defense stocks.
Look at how well Vanguard Healthcare fund has fared over the last 10 to 30 years.
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You ask if pharma would harm you? Well, diethylstilbestrol (DES) is a synthetic form of the female hormone estrogen prescribed to pregnant women between 1940 and 1971 to prevent miscarriage & premature labor, and related complications of pregnancy; studies in the 1950s showed that it was not effective in preventing these problems but actually was causing cancer in offspring ...
‘Females exposed to DES in utero, commonly called DES daughters, are at increased risk of several specific cancers, including:
Clear cell adenocarcinoma. DES daughters have about 40 times the risk of developing clear cell adenocarcinoma of the lower genital tract as unexposed women (women who were not exposed to DES prenatally). However, this type of cancer is still rare; approximately 1 in 1,000 DES daughters developed it. The first DES daughters with clear cell adenocarcinoma were very young at the time of their diagnoses. Subsequent research has shown that the risk of developing this disease remained elevated as these individuals aged into their 40s and 50s, but it continued to be rare.
Breast cancer. DES daughters may have a slightly increased risk of breast cancer after age 40. A 2006 study from the United States suggested that breast cancer risk is not increased in DES daughters overall but that after age 40, DES daughters have approximately twice the risk of breast cancer as unexposed women of the same age and with similar risk factors. A 2011 study also found that a large cohort of DES daughters had nearly twice the risk of developing breast cancer at 40 years or older as unexposed women, but a 2019 follow-up study showed that their breast cancer risk has lessened over time. It is therefore possible that risk was increased for a limited time at middle age. However, a 2010 study from Europe found no difference in breast cancer risk between DES daughters and women not exposed to DES in utero.
Pancreatic cancer. A 2021 study found that DES daughters had about two times the risk of pancreatic cancer as women in the general population. Research is ongoing to determine if the increased risk persists as these individuals get older.
Cervical precancers. Studies show that DES daughters were about 2 times more likely to have high-grade cell changes in the cervix than females not exposed to DES in utero. Approximately 4% of DES daughters developed these conditions because of their exposure.
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