The Fall of the Pharmaceutical Machine
The Pharmaceutical Industry
Practice two things in your dealings with disease: either help or do not harm the patient"
Thomas Inman
In 400 BC the originator of natural medicine Hippocrates summed up the pathway of healing and medicine by stating “let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food”. This meant that our first and foremost source of medicine or panacea was within our natural food and also to say that our medicine (herbal medicine) should be consumed as food in regularity within our diet. Since the advent of the industrial revolution and technological age we have completely lost touch with these original tenets of health and have adopted a short cut model of “health care” which deals in synthetic drugs, radioactive chemical therapies, invasive surgical procedures, animal testing(vivisection), unproven injectable toxin based therapies (vaccines), etc as the modern model of medicine. In other words, we have left behind our natural roots of medicine and exchanged it for the cut, burn, poison model of medicine which has produced horrendously poor results and yet has stood as the hollow ivory towers of what we have called the health care system.
It was required in Hippocrates times, just as it is now, that a newly initiated physician was required to recite and agree to uphold these ethics as a moral compass for practicing ethical and safe medicine. When I began reading the modern adaptation of the Hippocratic oath put together by Louis Lasagna in 1964 I can’t fail to see the sobering irony and contradictory nature of how modern medicine is practiced yet this is the oath of ethics that physicians are encouraged but entirely required to uphold. When I carefully read each line of this oath I discover that common practices in the medical field are exactly contradictory to what should take place and therefore this might as well be called the hippocrtic oath instead of the Hippocratic oath. In a year 2,000 survey only 62 of 122 modern medical schools used the Hippocratic oath or a modified version of it which could also explain much of the bifurcation of responsible medical practices and irresponsible practices that are common place.
I swear to fulfill, to the best of my ability and judgment, this covenant:
I will respect the hard-won scientific gains of those physicians in whose steps I walk, and gladly share such knowledge as is mine with those who are to follow.
I will apply, for the benefit of the sick, all measures [that] are required, avoiding those twin traps of overtreatment and therapeutic nihilism.
I will remember that there is art to medicine as well as science, and that warmth, sympathy, and understanding may outweigh the surgeon's knife or the chemist's drug.
I will not be ashamed to say "I know not," nor will I fail to call in my colleagues when the skills of another are needed for a patient's recovery.
I will respect the privacy of my patients, for their problems are not disclosed to me that the world may know. Most especially must I tread with care in matters of life and death. If it is given me to save a life, all thanks. But it may also be within my power to take a life; this awesome responsibility must be faced with great humbleness and awareness of my own frailty. Above all, I must not play at God.
I will remember that I do not treat a fever chart, a cancerous growth, but a sick human being, whose illness may affect the person's family and economic stability. My responsibility includes these related problems, if I am to care adequately for the sick.
I will prevent disease whenever I can, for prevention is preferable to cure.
I will remember that I remain a member of society, with special obligations to all my fellow human beings, those sound of mind and body as well as the infirm.
If I do not violate this oath, may I enjoy life and art, respected while I live and remembered with affection thereafter. May I always act so as to preserve the finest traditions of my calling and may I long experience the joy of healing those who seek my help.
- Modern Day Hippocratic oath
So much of the pharmaceutical industry can be described as companies that prescribe pills for made up conditions that do not natural occur or simply do not even exist. For example, restless leg syndrome is not an actual condition, say like cancer, diabetes, auto-immunity, etc., yet there is a pill or set of pills specifically for that claimed condition. Like so many of our health conditions restlessness of the legs or any other extremities can be logically traced to the fact that the modern human has been condition to sit down in an unnatural posture on a wooden or metal chair for 8+ hours a day and the body concentrates tension leading to the physical experience of restlessness. So in reality the Americanized health care industry is more like a disease care and disease management industry than it has anything to do with health or healing. The pharmaceutical companies are not designed to treat, cure, or prevent illnesses or even to authentically help people. They are designed with one sole purpose and that is to maximize bottom line profits and helping/healing people does not factor into their business model because if it did they would forfeit their over 440 billion US profits per year. The FDA is claimed by many experts to have indirectly have killed more Americans than all of the wars in our countries history combined. In Gary Nulls documentary Death by Medicine it was projected by Mike Adams that at least 700,00 people per year were killed due to the medical system.
In the medical field there is a term called iatrogenesis or an iatrogenic condition. This is not in actuality a condition in of itself but is more accurately a term used to describe a set of conditions or responses due to medical malpractice. There are numerous proposed definitions of an iatrogenic condition and ultimately it all boils down to a physician, pharmaceutical drug, or medical malpractice induced condition. Iatrogenesis represents the third leading culprits of all major mortality causes in the western world where in which heart disease is number one and cancers of all kinds combined represents number 2. Since heart disease, in of itself, is a dietary and lifestyle induced disease and medical malpractice (outside of cholesterol blocking medication) is not a common causation for heart disease mortality cardiovascular disease stands as the biggest killer. However, it is not without reason to consider that iatrogenic conditions can easily include a vast majority of cancerous mortalities simply due to the fact that a high percentage of those who have died of cancer were later correlated to have gotten worse due to the cancer therapies (chemotherapy, radiation, surgery) and not entirely due to the cancer itself. I suspect that iatrogenic conditions or physician/drug induced deaths are closer to the 2nd leading cause of mortality in the developed world and represent the ultimate irony and contradiction that the medical industry as a whole has built itself from.
I want to be absolutely clear that my critical and unapologetic perspectives about the aliphatic medical model of pharmaceutical medicine is not entirely one sided. There is a use and efficacy for a small degree of pharmaceutical medications yet it is a very outdated, incomplete approach that often creates chemical dependency instead of alleviating chronic pain and is designed to suppress or mask disease symptoms which prolongs the condition at hand. Surgical procedures and western diagnostic tools however have profound application and efficacy in acute treatment care or to diagnose an issue but have an extremely poor efficacy rate for helping a patient go from disease or injury to healed and rehabilitated.
The entire pharmaceutical medication field is derived from the pharmacopeia of natural plants, herbs, and remedies found in nature that are easily patentable and can be marketed to the masses. Due to the fact that medical drugs are chemically synthesized isolates they do not have a harmonious or balanced effect on the bodies biology or neurochemistry. In todays world psychiatric medications have become the number 1 pharmaceutical drug sold in America which was previously antibiotics. Western society has become maladapted to deep psychological distress, emotional overwhelm, and mental disorders that the psychiatric institutions, which are basically psychotropic drug dealers today, prescribe a pill for any ill. America makes up 5% of the worlds population but consumes 80% of it’s opiodes. 99% of hydrocodone, otherwise known as vicadine, is consumed in America. 40 deaths per day are associated with the excess of opiode use in the US and over 100,000 death per year due to prescription drugs in general. Hydrocodone was claimed to be less dangerous than marijuanna but has recorded in the upwards of 100,000 emergency room visits per year.
