AN IATROGENIC SCANDAL
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MEDICAL MURDER
Our ongoing research will continue to quantify the iatrogenic (caused by the Medical Profession)morbidity, mortality, and financial loss in outpatient clinics,transitional care, long-term care, rehabilitative care, home care, private practitioners offices, as well as hospitals, due to:
X-ray exposures: mammography, fluoroscopy, CT scans.
Overuse of antibiotics in all conditions.
Drugs that are carcinogenic: hormone replacement therapy (*seebelow), immunosuppressive drugs, prescription drugs.
Cancer chemotherapy: If it doesn¹t extend life, is it shortening life?
Surgery and surgical procedures.
Unnecessary surgery: Cesarean section, radical mastectomy, preventive mastectomy, radical hysterectomy, prostatectomy, cholecystectomies, cosmetic surgery, arthroscopy, etc.
Medical procedures and therapies.
Discredited, unnecessary, and unproven medical procedures and therapies.
Doctors themselves: when doctors go on strike, it appears the mortality rate goes down.
Missed diagnoses.
*Part of our ongoing research will be to quantify the mortality and morbidity caused by hormone replacement therapy (HRT) since the mid-1940's. In December 2000, a government scientific advisory panel recommended that synthetic estrogen be added to the nation's list of cancer-causing agents. HRT, either synthetic estrogen alone or combined with synthetic progesterone, is used by an estimated 13.5 to 16 million women in the U.S. The aborted Women's Health Initiative Study (WHI) of 2002 showed that women taking synthetic estrogen combined with synthetic progesterone have a higher incidence of ovarian cancer, breast cancer, stroke, and heart disease and little evidence of osteoporosis reduction or prevention of dementia. WHI researchers, who usually never give recommendations, other than demanding more studies, are advising doctors to be very cautious about prescribing HRT to their patients.
Results of the "Million Women Study" on HRT and breast cancer in the U.K were published in the Lancet, August, 2003. Lead author, Professor Valerie Beral, Director of the Cancer Research UK Epidemiology Unit, is very open about the damage HRT has caused. She said, "We estimate that over the past decade, use of HRT by UK women aged 50-64 has resulted in an extra 20,000 breast cancers, oestrogen-progestagen (combination) therapy accounting for 15,000 of these."
However, we were not able to find the statistics on breast cancer, stroke, uterine cancer, or heart disease due to HRT used by American women. The population of America is roughly six times that of the U.K. Therefore, it is possible that 120,000 cases of breast cancer have been caused by HRT in the past decade.
CONCLUSION
When the number one killer in a society is the healthcare system, then, that system has no excuse except to address its own urgent shortcomings. It's a failed system in need of immediate attention. What we have outlined in this paper are insupportable aspects of our contemporary medical system that need to be changed - beginning at its very foundations.
Informant: hermeticscience
MEDICAL MURDER
Our ongoing research will continue to quantify the iatrogenic (caused by the Medical Profession)morbidity, mortality, and financial loss in outpatient clinics,transitional care, long-term care, rehabilitative care, home care, private practitioners offices, as well as hospitals, due to:
X-ray exposures: mammography, fluoroscopy, CT scans.
Overuse of antibiotics in all conditions.
Drugs that are carcinogenic: hormone replacement therapy (*seebelow), immunosuppressive drugs, prescription drugs.
Cancer chemotherapy: If it doesn¹t extend life, is it shortening life?
Surgery and surgical procedures.
Unnecessary surgery: Cesarean section, radical mastectomy, preventive mastectomy, radical hysterectomy, prostatectomy, cholecystectomies, cosmetic surgery, arthroscopy, etc.
Medical procedures and therapies.
Discredited, unnecessary, and unproven medical procedures and therapies.
Doctors themselves: when doctors go on strike, it appears the mortality rate goes down.
Missed diagnoses.
*Part of our ongoing research will be to quantify the mortality and morbidity caused by hormone replacement therapy (HRT) since the mid-1940's. In December 2000, a government scientific advisory panel recommended that synthetic estrogen be added to the nation's list of cancer-causing agents. HRT, either synthetic estrogen alone or combined with synthetic progesterone, is used by an estimated 13.5 to 16 million women in the U.S. The aborted Women's Health Initiative Study (WHI) of 2002 showed that women taking synthetic estrogen combined with synthetic progesterone have a higher incidence of ovarian cancer, breast cancer, stroke, and heart disease and little evidence of osteoporosis reduction or prevention of dementia. WHI researchers, who usually never give recommendations, other than demanding more studies, are advising doctors to be very cautious about prescribing HRT to their patients.
Results of the "Million Women Study" on HRT and breast cancer in the U.K were published in the Lancet, August, 2003. Lead author, Professor Valerie Beral, Director of the Cancer Research UK Epidemiology Unit, is very open about the damage HRT has caused. She said, "We estimate that over the past decade, use of HRT by UK women aged 50-64 has resulted in an extra 20,000 breast cancers, oestrogen-progestagen (combination) therapy accounting for 15,000 of these."
However, we were not able to find the statistics on breast cancer, stroke, uterine cancer, or heart disease due to HRT used by American women. The population of America is roughly six times that of the U.K. Therefore, it is possible that 120,000 cases of breast cancer have been caused by HRT in the past decade.
CONCLUSION
When the number one killer in a society is the healthcare system, then, that system has no excuse except to address its own urgent shortcomings. It's a failed system in need of immediate attention. What we have outlined in this paper are insupportable aspects of our contemporary medical system that need to be changed - beginning at its very foundations.
Informant: hermeticscience
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