"ER" still gets good ratings -- it's ranked third and averages 21.7 million viewers.
Anyone reading this newsletter, knows that I am passionately opposed to the traditional medical model for most illnesses. However, it clearly has a place and one of the most appropriate ones is for the treatment of acute trauma.
Perhaps that was one of the reasons why I was so attracted to ER, in that it complimented my approach to chronic illness with natural therapies. ER medicine frequently uses appropriate interventions that would dramatically and consistently save people’s lives in ways that natural medicine could not.
For those of you who haven’t watched ER one of the main characters is (was) Mark Greene, who was one of the ER doctors. Last week Mark died from a brain tumor that had been diagnosed 18 months ago. During the past 8 years I had a chance to view Mark's progress from a resident, chief resident, attending and then acting director of the ER.
I disconnected my TV after the Chicago Bulls won their last championship, so I don’t watch broadcast television. But, one of my office managers videotapes the ER episodes for me and I have watched the series from the beginning.
Certainly no show has ever affected me as deeply as this past episode and it is likely no other one will, since I am not planning on watching another series.
The story was so profoundly powerful to me because I identified with Mark in many ways.
I really don’t know if I identified with him as myself, my brother or just as a dear friend.
The first, and most obvious link we share, is that we are both doctors.
The drama also takes place in Chicago, which is where I was born and did all my formal education, from kindergarten to residency training. The ER fictional hospital is County, which is a clear reference to Cook County Hospital. While I didn’t work in the County ER, I spent several months there on an endocrinology rotation.
However, I did spend four months during my residency rotating through the ER in an inner city hospital, so I was quite familiar with many of the realities of emergency medicine portrayed on the show.
I could also identify with the fact that Mark wasn’t perfect, or the fact that we both saved many lives. When John Carter was asking how many people’s lives Mark saved, the guess was a few thousand.
When I ask myself the same question, I know I have helped to save at least a few thousand lives, many though not as dramatically as Mark would save them, and it is likely with the web site, this number will increase by several orders of magnitude.
Mark Greene, like most of us and certainly me, wasn’t perfect. However, he had many great qualities, compassion for one. He was a leader, and many on the series came to him for moral advice. He was rarely judgmental and was always kind. He was confident and gracious, generous, and patient. Oh, how I admired his patience.
I guess I also identified with Mark and losing his hair. We also both endured a painful divorce where our wives left us. Interestingly his wife shared the same name as my wife and were both professionals.
The episode where Mark dies is in Hawaii, which is where I have been vacationing regularly since shortly after the series started. So I completely resonated with Mark being on the water, riding 6 to 10 foot waves and sitting next to the ocean with a warm tropical breeze blowing in and looking out to the horizon as he was preparing to die.
Over the years of the show Mark loses first his mother and then his dad to cancer.
When his dad died the producers played "Somewhere Over The Rainbow" by a Hawaiian group with a ukulele. This reminded me of one of my favorite local Hawaiian groups, Pure Heart.
Two years ago the producers played the song when Mark’s dad died, I cried at the time for several minutes.
When I heard it this time, after watching Mark sing the song as he was dying and seeking to reconcile the relationship of his wayward daughter, I couldn’t stop crying and hyperventilating for over two hours. Even as I write this the following day, I am deeply moved by the episode.
I had no idea it would so profoundly affect me. Intellectually I realize that this is just a television drama and to be so moved doesn’t make any logical sense at all. However, after watching the series for eight years Mark almost seems like a surrogate brother.
This seems to be a far deeper attachment than with any two or three hour movie, there is a sense of history here, almost as if you had lived out the character’s life in real time.
While I disagree with much of the soap opera theater of the ER series, I am really fond of how frequently the show points out how precious and brief life really is and how we need to fully cherish each and every moment we have.
So folks what is the lesson for me?
Well, one of my great mentors is Napoleon Hill and he is quite fond of encouraging one to transmute a negative emotion into a positive one.
I have concluded and determined to be reenergized and remotivated to invest my energies to helping save more people’s lives.
I realize the episode was merely a drama, but this drama is played out every day with real families, perhaps that is the reason why I was and am so deeply moved.
That appears to be one of the reasons that the ER series has captured so many of our interests. Although the stories are fictional they portray medical reality with surgical precision that makes it seem real.
Mark, and others like him, don’t have to die prematurely from cancer.
He simply didn’t have to die. If he had applied the nutritional principles on this site and taken care of his emotional traumas he would have beat that cancer.
This is not fantasy, this is reality, and I am privileged to regularly witness this and facilitate this process in motivated people.
Cancer doesn’t strike you in the middle of the night unexpectedly. It hits because you are out of biochemical balance combined with some unresolved emotional trauma.
The emotional trauma is every bit as deadly as the physical trauma that Mark would so frequently battle in the ER. Our current technology just makes it far more difficult to readily diagnose and treat it. EFT is one of the ways I currently use to restore balance to this system.
Most people just don’t have to die from cancer.
If these things are addressed nearly all cancers, if caught early enough, can be reversed.
Somewhat similar to Candy Lightner who started Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) in 1980 after her daughter was killed by a drunk driver. She transformed a tragedy into a remarkable effort to educate, inform and change society.
I am convicted to transmute the sadness and grief of Mark’s death to something positive.
John Belushi was one of my all time favorite comedians. He, of course, died in real life. But, when he filmed the Blues Brothers, he was fond of saying he was on a mission from God.
Well, like the Blues Brothers, I am on a mission from God.
What is the mission?
Helping facilitate the transformation of the American medical paradigm so people will have a choice and they don’t have to die prematurely from cancer and other degenerative illnesses, like Mark did.
So What Is My First Step In This Mission?
It is to warn you about tomorrow’s episode. The producers have once again decided to betray the trust they have established over the past 8 years and feed us more lies and misinformation about vaccines.
As you may know, last February they had a story about a family who chose not to vaccinate their children, and one of the children contracts measles and dies from complications while the doctors on the show lash out at the mother and categorically deny any risks posed by the vaccine.
The show even had the audacity to run a commercial for the vaccine immediately after the scene. You can read all about that show on the links below.
I have only seen the previews for tomorrow’s show, but I want to warn you that they will use fear to motivate the public to get the smallpox vaccine.
They can do this because very few people are educated about smallpox. Most adults believe that infection with smallpox is a fatal. Not true. While it is highly virulent, only 30% of those infected die.
The status and function of one’s immune system has far more to do with dying from the illness. If you haven’t yet read Dr. Hawden’s 80 year-old paper on smallpox, please do so.
The article clearly describes how the smallpox vaccination program actually contributed to many epidemics and caused many tens of thousands of deaths. If we don’t learn from our history, we are doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past.
The Source Of All Smallpox "Outbreaks"
One fact stands out preeminently in every part of time world where smallpox has appeared -- namely, it has been invariably associated with unsanitary and unhygienic conditions. From time immemorial it has been called in Austria "The Beggar's Disease."
It has followed in the wake of:
The writing is on wall, rest assured folks that the smallpox vaccine will be massively promoted and most likely even mandated in the coming months. By the end of this year there will be over 200 million doses available.
Don’t be fooled. Warn your friends. Smallpox vaccine is not something you want to impose on your friends or family.
Just remember, Mark Greene didn’t have to die so young. If he only knew the truth about health he would still be alive.
It’s not to late for your friends and family.
Do it for Mark, save a life, just like he did.
Warn your family. Tell the truth. Get them eating healthy before it is to late.
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Smallpox Vaccine Production on Target
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Smallpox Bioterrorism
Additional Responses To ER Vaccine Episode
Educated Parents Respond to "ER"
Boycott NBC's "ER" for Vaccine Misrepresentation