An Important Letter About Trust

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HealingMindN — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:37:17 GMT

I know of an internalist and an endocrinologist who think completely in the other direction. I showed them the Rosedale Diet book several times with the instructions that are successful in removing the fat and adding the health to my obese mother. The endocrinologist told me, "oh yes, those supplements are safe for your mother." My question wasn't about the safety of giving amino acids to my mother. I only wanted to show him what was doing the job.

Then the drug oriented primary physician who almost overdosed my mother on diovan told me, "oh, I looked at that book and I got bored with it..." Are you kidding me? This is the book with the instructions that are getting my mother healthy again, but this woman says she's bored with it.

This is a young doctor from Russia who said this. I couldn't help but think, "OMG, what a horrendous brain wash number that her big pharma education did on her." I even have an audio of a arguement that I had with this crazy woman when we're talking about the Rosedale's take on drugs.

The only reason that these "doctors" get away with ridiculous behavior is that we invite them. We go to their "house," so we are expected to live by their rules, no matter how evil.

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sandycostigan — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 02:40:47 GMT

A while back we were told that Dr.Mercola was working on a list of alternative therapy/interactive doctors, so sorely needed.

When is it expected to be ready? thanks....

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Julia Owens — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 17:43:07 GMT

More doctors should break free from what I call the "meat mills" - those big, souless, conglomerate clinics that have countless locations in your area. You know the ones - where you're a number (specifically your insurance group #), their billing is located in a separate office so if there is an issue you are "handled" by a faceless voice, and the word "uninsured" in anathema.

At our local "meat mill" I recently discovered that if you are uninsured and paying cash, you must pay a $75 DOWNPAYMENT, meaning your visit IS going to cost more than $75. Out of curiosity I asked the receptionist how much a visit would be. Her hesitant answer was "It depends on what you're being seen for." So I made it pretty incocuous - "A bad cold or flu." The answer was $95. I get to pay $95 of my own money to be kept waiting for 10-20 minutes before someone takes my temp and bloodpressure and asks me to wait another, usually, 10 minutes before doctor comes in, looks at me for 5 minutes and tells me whether or not I need antibiotics. Believe me, after 20 years of enduring such treatment, I was ripe for something better. When my uninsured hairdresser told me about her family doctors private practice I thought I was dreaming. Better yet, he only charges $60 a visit. It gets even better. My hairdresser had an infected blackhead on the side of her face that turned into a boil. Her doctor lanced it in his office at NO EXTRA charge and he did a beautiful job. This saved her $500 (that she probably couldn't afford) it would have cost to be referred to a dermatologist. Me and my family now see this doctor. He has a wonderful bedside manner and is a very competant professional. I am so glad he is part of our communtiy and took the risk of going into business for himself. I also have a great ND and so have ideal integrative medical care. PLEASE, MDs! Start your own practices! There are people hungering for an alternative!

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indigo-angel — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 10:43:20 GMT

As a Registered Midwife and Maternal & Child Health Nurse (MCHN) I can fully understand where this doctor is coming from. A similar incident occured to me about 3 years ago whilst working as a MCHN. A parent complained to management because after they questioned me about soy formula for their baby, and of course I honestly gave them information on the dangers of soy products as I have learnt and read on the Mercola site. The parent was obviously not happy with that information, probably because it was her medical doctor who recommended the soy formula for her baby in the first place and I was essentially going against mainstream information on soy which was available at the time by her uninformed medical doctor. Now, because of this incident I find that I practice in a similar manner to the doctor who wrote this initial letter about trust. I now find myself filtering information (so as not to get into trouble again) and tell parents what they expect to hear rather than what the actual truth is about their particular concern or question. I am finding this increasingly difficult with regards to homeopathic immunisations (particularly as after doing my own reading and research, I homepathically immunise my own children). I have a handful of parents who either homeopathically immunise their infants or simply don't immunise at all. To this query of immunisations, I now offer the mainstream advice but if I have a parent who questions it or wishes to immunise as I do, I certainly don't try to change their minds as I know some of my collegues would. I secretly believe that they are firstly doing the right thing by questioning mainstream medicine with regards to immunisations, and secondly I believe that to even ask me those questions in the first place, it shows that they are taking responsibility for their own and their children's health, rather than following the herd majority. I am now so fed up with 'preaching' what I don't believe that I intend to give away nursing altogether after 13 years and study homeopathy next year.

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prune unit — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 00:00:56 GMT

This is only somewhat related, but still reminds me of a time when I still thought there was some good to be found through psychiatry, but at the fence -- ready to hop it.

I had an honest, no bs therapist level with me and tell me there probably weren't any psychiatrists in the area she'd trust with anyone in her own family... I saw eye to eye with that statement, already fed up years ago with the drive by 10 minute diagnosis I would get just by being cued to answer a 60 second verbal quiz (despite all the contradictions of the answers/symptoms/history/etc). That was right before the last one was written for me, when it landed in the trashcan on my way out of the office while the doctor got back to the call he was fielding during that ten minutes interviewing me.

I hope that therapist still has her job...

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T_rex — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 21:29:15 GMT

Why would this health-care practitioner continue to work in status-quo medicine while already knowng about its serious flaws ?

Is having a job more important than honesty and ethics ? How can you sleep at night knowing you are harming people with drugs ?

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HansMassage_203 — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 03:20:09 GMT

I wanted to comment under the arthritus heading but I feel a little safer under this one. I subscribe to this news letter because I want to be familiar with alternatives that my clients can use.

I have to be very careful because I am not allowed to prescribe. Like the letter writer I have to constantly be on the wach for the alopathic police.

On the other hand I have been thretend with baning from this list for sggesting a neuromuscular therapy isted of just diet and suplements for arthritus. I was accused of spaming the list for using my customary signiture which mentions my specialty. I will mention again that there is a condition called a counterstrain which causes muscles to pull both directions accross a joint that can be a common cause of Ostio Arthritus. [translation: bone joint iritation] There is a wholisticly minded podiatrist that will prescribe my servic first before long term pain management with drugs.

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poulianna — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 03:15:31 GMT

Corporatism and its well paid militia of lobbyists control the government. They have transformed our Republic to a Fascist state in many key areas of the U.S. infrastructure. Our Freedoms have slowly melted away without notice and then sustained through bribery and sinister advertising designed to mold our opinions of what is good through psychological coercion provided in painless and often pleasurable dosages so not to let on to the realities of being brainwashed against our own "well being". Too many Americans have become whistle blowers but for the wrong side. Having been brainwashed into volunteering to become "unpaid" representatives on behalf of Corporatism they are turning in the good guys. What happened to this doctor happens to teachers as well. I have been turned in by these "good little unpaid soldiers" defenders of Corporatism to Administrators who quickly pounce upon me and threaten my job if I didn't stop telling students the truth about modern medicine. I exposed the students to the toxins in vaccines. I was told if I was going to talk about that I needed to talk about the good vaccines do, or I would not be able to discuss the topic in class and furthermore, I was not to deviate from the TEKS as specified by the Education Agency of Texas, an educational system that promotes and enforces that students be vaccinated in order to attend school. I teach Health Science Tecnology Education. Absurd? you betcha. The only good I could find about vaccines was the propaganda disseminated by CDC, FDA and the pharmaceuticals with no reliable research to back up their claims. We are not "Free" folks; we are in chains; we are slaves to Corporatism. They own our minds because they own our jobs. They have infiltrated our infrastructure. We no longer have the choice afforded to us by our Constitution. We do as we are told or else. How do we get our Freedoms back. How can those of us who have not been replaced by a "pod" (movie BodySnatchers) fight back?

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curious7 — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 02:58:15 GMT

This is why the prospect of Universal Health Care scares the hell out of me. As if the mainstreamers do not have enough power. I mean look at it, a farmer who raises cherries, cannot advertise that cherries are a natural anti inflammatory, then they do their best to muzzle Doctors like Dr. Russell Blaylock, or a Dr. Joseph Mercola. Then on the other hand the blind idiots at the FDA will back any snake oil on the market, that BIG PHARMA presents. They cannot phantom a belief, as Scientists, that there is more than one way to solve most problems. Fear factor? You think?

If you know anything about your own health, then it should be that you trust no one with your most precious gift, your good health. You research, research, research. Soon they will find a means of charging us for sunshine, and air. Already there is this push to have BIG INDUSTRIES own the water in this world. And if you think Monsanto is just one figure head, thaink about the prospects of the very food you eat, being the subject of a patent, and only GMO foods will be available.

So muzzle Doctors, yes. Anything that works, and keeps the powers that be in power. I hate to say this but that young lady may have meant well but the conquences will not be hers to bear personally.

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countryclassic49 — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 02:35:12 GMT

Yesterday morning one of my very good friends died of cancer. She had been doing the mainstream chemo/radiation treatments for a few months. They knocked the hell out of her every time; prevented her body from fighting the good fight. A couple of months ago her daughter, who is an EMT, took her to a well respected alternative health practitioner who gave her a regimen of supplements to follow. My friend went back to her regular MD at one point and he told her to ".. throw all that crap out!" She chose, out of fear and out of belief that her "Doctor knows best" to scrap the naturals.

I mourn her now, and I mourn for a medical system so closed minded as to not explore ALL possibilities.

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montie — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 01:44:07 GMT

My husband has been prescribed Statins, NSAIDs, ACE Inhibitors, Aspirin, Blood Thinner (Plavix), and muscle relaxer. I did research on all these drugs and discovered the nutrients that were depleted by them. However, when I explained this to him, he was very defensive of his doctor. I tried to explain why his doctor's professional "standards," prevented him from recommending supplements to replace those nutrients that were being depleted by the drugs. My husband, like most patients, does not understand this "code of silence." He does take COQ10, but only after his doctor said it would be OK (the doctor never suggested that he take it). May we all find doctors who put morality above "standards!"

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rlinchitz — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 22:38:31 GMT

I would like to comment about healthcare costs and also the limits of licensure. I completely agree that the system will "implode". It is unsustainable. We treat symptoms and abnormal values with drugs and expensive procedures, when 95% of our expenditures are on "lifestyle diseases" which are caused by poor diet, lack of exercise, stress, and toxins. Our population is not suffering from a deficiency of pharmaceuticals although we tend to treat illnesses as though we were! Because we are not taught about these issues in medical school is absolutely no excuse for not incorporating these truths into our practice. For our medical societies and boards to seek to prevent this important learning and practice of GOOD medicine (notice I didn't use the term traditional nor alternative...there is only one type of medicine to practice and that is GOOD medicine).

This being said, there are tremendous pressures on physicians today. Insurance companies are lowering fees, forcing doctors to see more and more patients in a shorter period of time. Electronic billing and medical records are being forced on physicians in the name of efficiency only to make the doctor-patient relationship more impersonal. How is a physician supposed to take the time to get to know about a patient's lifestyle let alone discuss extensive changes, when he has only a few minutes to see a patient? How is he supposed to take the time to learn about nutrition when he doesn't even have enough free time to be with his family?

To really address this problem, we have to confront the problems from the ground up:

1) the massive influence of the pharmaceutical companies (on the public, the government through massive lobbying, and even on medical "education"...most of what doctor's read amounts to pharmaceutical propaganda in the form of biased studies).

2) the relentless advertising of the the food industry for the unhealthiest (and the most profitable) garbage called "food".

No room left to write.

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Beccadog — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 19:58:14 GMT

I went for a little walk yesterday without my cane, but with my new 300mm f4L lens and SLR, I knew I could not carry both the tripod, camera, lens and walk with a cane, so I left the cane at home in order to capture new images for my class.

That night, I was a bit sore. But, today, I've been short of a basket case. The walk wasn't far perhaps 3 city blocks around a pond at the park, but I hadn't done that kind of exercise since fracturing my hip due to a bad fall in December, 2005.

The surgeons recommends Advil or something similar for the pain. I know from my daughter's experience, Advil can corrode one's stomach even if taken with meals and with plenty of water.

I would be willing to try Alpha Lipoic Acid for a short time period if it would help. I know the consequences of traditional "medication", which works on the brain, causes lots of side effects, but doesn't help the inflammation subside or the pain go away. Or, if it does, there are serious side effects--really serious ones.

Some remedies work for a short period of time, but not for the long haul. One of those that helped before my surgeries, Glucosamine chondrodone with MSM worked for two years, but then nothing. To my knowledge, there were no side effects.

I'm game. Give me a tried brand that can be purchase in the USA and is not from China, and I'll seriously consider it.

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Solunas — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 19:57:26 GMT

Wow I knew doctors were restricted as to what they could say but this really sheds some light on it. It also gives some good ideas ("what would you personally use to treat yourself." ).

Reverend Alan is right - the biggest block to providing cheap/natural therapies is the disbelief in anything but mainstram medicine.

I also ageree with Julieanne "Many doctors are caring, overworked people who do their best in the system they work in."

Yes this is sad but wonderful that the Dr. and Dr. Mercola made us aware of it. Hey Mercolites: Can we do something about it?

SUGGESTION:

What about a simple waiver that patients could sign (if they choose to) stating something like "I want to know about and be advised on alternative therapies if my practitioner is aware of them. .. I waive my right to sue based on following these alternative and unapproved treatments."

Can any lawyers comment on that as a viability of this?

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LucasBee — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 19:29:40 GMT

I don't think this is your typical doctor though. I think that its rare to find a doc that believes in other approaches to things without using meds.