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<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Lady J</i>
<br />Carefix - suggesting that doctors in the NHS have a vested interest in making people ill is ridiculous beyond belief.
I think you have a severe problem with paranoia.
LJ
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Hi
Most of what carefix says makes sense. I am a type 1 insulin dependent diabetic and for many years have been mislead by the advice given by “healthcare professionals”. However like Lady J, I am not convinced that the medical profession are knowingly making their patients worse when it comes to diabetes. I have a very good GP who genuinely looks after my interests. I believe that the drug companies actually “brainwash” the medical profession into doing things their way, which obviously increases their grossly obscene profits. Diabetics as far as the drug companies are concerned must be real money-spinners. In this country we cost the NHS a small fortune on essentials like insulin and test strips. The average GP now vary rarely has a hands on approach towards medicine, when we go to see our GP we will invariably leave the surgery with a prescription. For example the medical profession as well as the poor unsuspecting public, have been led to believe, quite wrongly, that just about everyone needs to be on statins as they have got it into their heads that cholesterol is harmful. The pharmaceutical companies of course perpetuate this myth and they blatantly suppress any factual evidence to suggest that statins are positively harmful and that cholesterol and heart disease are not really linked. They convince us that normal child hood illness (which helped generations of children build up their immune system) are now dangerous and that children need to be injected with their very suspect potions even if the vaccines can kill off more children than the disease it is supposed to prevent. The over use of antibiotics is now producing strains of bacteria that have become resistant to antibiotics. They tell us that we need an influenza injection every winter even though the benefits are extremely dubious. In fact it is really impossible to gauge any benefits at all from having the “flue jab”. The real benefit, of course is not to the patient but to their vast profits. A good example of how the system works is the treatment of stomach ulcers. Many years ago ulcers were treated either by surgery or by feeding barbiturates to the patients and keeping them in a near state of coma. It didn’t in any way prove effective but nevertheless that was how they did it and even in the light of this treatment having no benefit whatsover they continued with this treatment. Then came a long Tagamet, which was very effective in treating the symptoms but not the cause of stomach ulcers. I believe that it was in the late 90’s that an Australian doctor, Barry Marrshall discovered that stomach ulcers were caused by the H pylori bacteria and that most cases of stomach ulcers could be treated and indeed cured effectively and cheaply with one course of antibiotics. Until then it had been assumed that no bugs could live in the stomach because of the high concentration of hydrochloric acid. Of course the pharmaceutical companies did every thing the could to discredit this guy as at that time Tagamet was still under licence and was making a lot of money. It was many years before his findings were accepted. I do take a somewhat cynical view of modern medicine but nevertheless have to admit that I possibly would not be here without it. Nothing is all black or all white, I do believe that as an individual I should take the responsibility for looking into every aspect of medical treatments offered to me and then try and make informed decisions.
Regards
John
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<br />Carefix - suggesting that doctors in the NHS have a vested interest in making people ill is ridiculous beyond belief.
I think you have a severe problem with paranoia.
LJ
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Hi
Most of what carefix says makes sense. I am a type 1 insulin dependent diabetic and for many years have been mislead by the advice given by “healthcare professionals”. However like Lady J, I am not convinced that the medical profession are knowingly making their patients worse when it comes to diabetes. I have a very good GP who genuinely looks after my interests. I believe that the drug companies actually “brainwash” the medical profession into doing things their way, which obviously increases their grossly obscene profits. Diabetics as far as the drug companies are concerned must be real money-spinners. In this country we cost the NHS a small fortune on essentials like insulin and test strips. The average GP now vary rarely has a hands on approach towards medicine, when we go to see our GP we will invariably leave the surgery with a prescription. For example the medical profession as well as the poor unsuspecting public, have been led to believe, quite wrongly, that just about everyone needs to be on statins as they have got it into their heads that cholesterol is harmful. The pharmaceutical companies of course perpetuate this myth and they blatantly suppress any factual evidence to suggest that statins are positively harmful and that cholesterol and heart disease are not really linked. They convince us that normal child hood illness (which helped generations of children build up their immune system) are now dangerous and that children need to be injected with their very suspect potions even if the vaccines can kill off more children than the disease it is supposed to prevent. The over use of antibiotics is now producing strains of bacteria that have become resistant to antibiotics. They tell us that we need an influenza injection every winter even though the benefits are extremely dubious. In fact it is really impossible to gauge any benefits at all from having the “flue jab”. The real benefit, of course is not to the patient but to their vast profits. A good example of how the system works is the treatment of stomach ulcers. Many years ago ulcers were treated either by surgery or by feeding barbiturates to the patients and keeping them in a near state of coma. It didn’t in any way prove effective but nevertheless that was how they did it and even in the light of this treatment having no benefit whatsover they continued with this treatment. Then came a long Tagamet, which was very effective in treating the symptoms but not the cause of stomach ulcers. I believe that it was in the late 90’s that an Australian doctor, Barry Marrshall discovered that stomach ulcers were caused by the H pylori bacteria and that most cases of stomach ulcers could be treated and indeed cured effectively and cheaply with one course of antibiotics. Until then it had been assumed that no bugs could live in the stomach because of the high concentration of hydrochloric acid. Of course the pharmaceutical companies did every thing the could to discredit this guy as at that time Tagamet was still under licence and was making a lot of money. It was many years before his findings were accepted. I do take a somewhat cynical view of modern medicine but nevertheless have to admit that I possibly would not be here without it. Nothing is all black or all white, I do believe that as an individual I should take the responsibility for looking into every aspect of medical treatments offered to me and then try and make informed decisions.
Regards
John
JOA