What do you of the contents of this article..doctors are the third leading cause of death in the us?

Question

and its more recent update doctors may be the LEADING cause of death in the us

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2000/07/30/doctors-death-part-one.aspx

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2003/01/15/doctors-drugs-part-two.aspx

please answer as many of the following questions as you can

1. do you think this is true..

2 did you ever know anyopne who died cause of doctrors or medial drugs. I did

3 Do you feel if more people relalized this, they would demand alternative health

4. would they turn to it and change their lifestyles why or why not

5 how can we get change in this country and make the doctor and AMA aware of our dissatisfaction

Answer 1

Mercola is one of the creepiest whackjobs I've ever had the misfortune of reading. He seems to alternative been raving about conspiracies involving conventional medicine and trying to sell his merchandise and harvesting email addresses. God, they guy sells kitchen knives, is this the home shopping network?

Some of the stuff he advocates is rather creepy - no surgery for appendicitis? And the man is responsible for spreading the deceptive information about the Gardasil vaccine released by christian fundamentalist lobby group Judicial Watch - a group with a long history of borderline defamation to advance their agenda. That and the membership in the creepy medical association that wants to advance Objectivist philosophy into the medical field (notice he doesn't mention this in public).

Don't trust a damned word he says. He's a liar, or he's a nutjob. The sort of person you see on TV at 2 AM trying to sell you kitchen appliances, only he's doing it with your health.

Answer 2

Its a dramatization these guys would have died way before they did if the doctor hadn't intervened

Answer 3

Great link CVO!

I've just forwarded to all of my mailing list.

Edit:

AzR, although some of the suggestions he makes are probably quite whacky, he quoted a number of statistics which are extremely worrying.

I keep hearing the Anti-altmed lobby labling altmed as dangerous but quite clearly we have a far lower rate of death and serious injury from accidents / adverse reaction that the medical profession.

I do beleive allopathic medicen has a place but it isn't anything like what it is sold as. People go into this field with the best of intentions trying to help people but the system is geared towards creating a dependency on expensive toxic substances and treatments.

Allopaths behave like it is their God given right to have exclusive access to health care provision and are desperately trying to cling onto the top of the tree.

As time goes on many of their old assertions and arguments are being shown not to hold water and because of the freedom of information act  and better networking it is now easier to keep people better informed when they have been  conned by big pharma.

Do a search on google and look at how Prozac managed to pass through the trials.

Other professions are climbing up that tree. That is what freedom, choice and free markets are about.

Answer 4

*1 Yes   *2 my very good friend in Ct died because of drugs  she was not diagnose properly by her physician *3 absolutely *4 No because  all people want is a quick fix  drugs work fast in the body  alternative is the opposite it may take a little longer but the results are lasting not so with drugs the more a person takes the more a person will need, than the very drug a person is taking for one aliment finds out he/she needs another drug to counteract the one their already on.*5 SIMPLY people  have a choice they must start to believe this  and say  what else is there for me Doc. or find a good D.O. this is  a good way to start, D.O. physicians  have to go to school two years or longer to learn about   alternative  meds. we need more of these guys Lets get the word out  

Answer 5

I have no doubt that doctors are the leading cause of death. They throw pills at patients like they were candy. My mother (whom is still alive thankfully) has had her feet "treated" for arthristis about 5 times now from the same doctor, he has yet to examine them. He presribes some medicine when she comes back saying it didn't do anything, he does another one. He has yet to even have her take off her shoes or run any blood work or anything. She says her meetings with him are about 15 minutes at most, and there is mainly him writing the new presription.

My mother was also on anti-depressants, as doctors love to give those out too, when the real problem was she wasn't getting enough vitamin d. So while some people might think that he is a nutjob, i still think the point is valid. And here is the one line that i heard that made the most sense of all.

Why would business who profits on sickness, ever want to cure someone?

example of that, if you owned all the gas stations in america, would you be funding research to replace gas? why would anyone fund a research to find a way to put yourself out of business.

Answer 6

1.  Yes.  This information is actually originally from a JAMA article written in July of 2000.  Regardless of what you think of Mercola (some of his stuff can be really easily debunked), the original article appeared in a peer-reviewed western medicine journal with a direct affiliation to the AMA.  To discount it would be along the lines of ignoring a really detailed confession.  

2.  Fortunately, no.

3.  They already are, often because of negative experiences with western doctors.  I should mention here that there are some very excellent and dedicated M.D.'s in practice.  It's often the bad apples that stand out.  Much of the problem is with the pharma industry as well (anyone who reads the original article can see why).  

4.  Yes, however this is a double-edged sword for practitioners of alternative systems.  The term "alternative" is used to describe a lot of treatment forms, some of which are considered mainstream in other parts of the world.  Some forms of treatment are better for some people and conditions than others.  Patients who want the best results need to educate themselves.  Health care providers also need to be better educated as to the effective uses of various systems so that referral networks can be more effective.  Priority should be given to safety and efficacy, not to how mainstream or alternative the treatment is considered to be.  At the end of the day, health care practitioners should have the same goals in mind regardless of the system they trained in.  

5.  This question is essay-worthy, but I will give the short answer.  The change is already happening, just slowly.  To speed things along, we need more large-scale research on alternative systems of medicine, as well as more impartiality in western pharmaceutical research.  Also, patients need to be open about what forms of treatment they have tried with their health care providers.  On the other side, M.D.s need at least some survey courses where they can learn about other systems of medicine.  Having every first-year med student read the aforementioned JAMA article might help future doctors learn greater caution as well.    

Answer 7

I like Dr. Mercola very much. Here is a great video regarding this subject: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPI7zdGdq...

to answer your questions:

1. Yes I do think it's true

2. Yes, they killed my father with Vioxx.

3. Absolutely!

4. not sure what you mean

5. Stop buying poisonous foods that cause the symptoms in the first place! GMO, MSG, HFCS and aspartame!! Just say NO to drugs!  

Answer 8

I read dr Mercola regularly and he is usually spot on