DEATH BY MODERN MEDICINE

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by  Carolyn The Creator

DEATH BY MODERN MEDICINE: Seeking Safe So lu t ions

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DEATH BY MODERN MEDICINE: Seeking Safe So lu t ions

DEATH
BY
MODERN
MEDICINE:

Seeking
Safe
Solutions


Carolyn
Dean
MD
ND


Meet
The
Doctor
of
the
Future:
Dr.
Dean
is
a
medical
doctor,
naturopath,
herbalist

and
acupuncturist.
She’s
authored
and
co‐authored
18
books
including
The
Yeast

Connection
and
Women’s
Health,
IBS
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Dummies,
IBS
Cookbook
for
Dummies,
and

the
Magnesium
Miracle.
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medical
director
of
the
educational
Nutritional

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The
purpose
of
this
book
is
to
educate.
While
every
effort
has
been
made
to
ensure
its
accuracy,
the

book’s
contents
should
not
be
construed
as
medical
advice.
Each
person’s
health
needs
are
unique.
To

obtain
recommendations
appropriate
to
your
particular
situation,
please
consult
a
qualified
health
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CONTENTS

Foreword:
by
Dr.
Abram
Hoffer


Foreword:
by
Dr.
Joseph
Mercola


Foreword:
by
Dr.
Julian
Whitaker


Introduction


Chapter
1:

Death
by
Modern
Medical
Doctors

Chapter
2:

Death
by
Drug
Companies


Chapter
3:

Death
by
Health
Care
Bureaucracy


Chapter
4:


 Death
by
Media

Chapter
5:

Death
by
Propaganda


Chapter
6:

Death
by
Modern
Drugs
and
Procedures


Chapter
7:

Death
by
Modern
Science


Chapter
8:

Death
by
Cancer
Inc.

Chapter
9:

Death
by
Modern
Chemicals


Chapter
10:

Death
by
Sugar


Chapter
11:

Death
by
Addiction


Chapter
12:

Death
by
Denial


Chapter
13:

Death
by
Lifestyle



References:


Appendices:

Appendix
A:
Henry
VIII
Herbalist
Charter


Appendix
B:
Death
by
Medicine—Journal
of
Orthomolecular
Medicine


Appendix
C:
Dr.
Abram
Hoffer:
“Over­the­Counter
Drugs”

Appendix
D:
Dr.
Nancy
Appleton:
136
Sugar
References

Appendix
E:

Helke
Ferrie:
“the
Quackbusters—Busted!”


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INTRODUCTION
TO
THE
SECOND
EDITION


The
first
edition
of
Death
by
Modern
Medicine
was
written
in
2005.
It’s
only
been

three
years
since
the
first
edition
and
much
has
changed;
some
things
for
the
better

and
some
things
have
gotten
worse.
I’m
often
asked
on
radio
shows
to
confirm
that

natural
medicine
is
becoming
more
widely
accepted
and
benefitting
the
general

population.
I
have
to
say
that
I
really
don’t
see
widespread
evidence
of
that

happening.
As
long
as
allopathic
medicine
remains
the
gatekeeper
for
access
to

health
services
and
insurance
reimbursement,
health
providers
with
other
skills
will

not
be
allowed
to
play
in
their
sandbox.
Even
worse,
allopathic
medicine
continues

to
prosecute
doctors
who
offer
health
care
that
is
outside
the
standard
practice
of

medicine,
which
is
limited
to
drugs
and
surgery.
Also,
the
FDA
has
taken
a
renewed

interest
in
“regulating”
dietary
supplements
making
it
increasingly
challenging
for

small
companies
to
stay
in
business.
There
can
be
no
renaissance
in
medicine
with

such
limitations
to
our
freedom
of
choice
and
free
will.


Death
by
Modern
Medicine
won
the
2006
Independent
Publisher
Book
Awards

category
of
Most
Progressive
Health
book.
It
has
been
referenced
by
thousands
of

people
around
the
world.
Most
notable
is
Shirley
MacLaine’s
Sage­ing
While
Age­ing.

Death
by
Modern
Medicine
and
the
paper
that
preceded
it,
“Death
by
Medicine,”

written
in
2003,
struck
a
resounding
cord.
No
longer
able
to
deny
the
negative

impact
of
modern
medicine,
books,
papers,
websites,
and
testimonials
began
to

proclaim
the
reality
that
had
for
so
long
been
denied.
Not
only
the
Emperor
but
he

and
his
whole
entourage
were
bare
naked
for
all
to
see!


In
my
general
medicine
practice
I
always
kept
a
drug
compendium
for
people
to

look
up
the
side
effects
of
the
drugs
they
were
taking.
Such
reference
texts
are
also

kept
in
libraries
and
pharmacies
but
it’s
easier
these
days
to
google
drugs
on
the

internet
and
be
aware
of
their
potential
for
harm.
If
you
visit
a
drug
company

website,
the
side
effects
will
be
downplayed,
evenso,
you
might
just
be
that
one‐in‐a‐
million
patient
that
develops
a
strange
side
effect,
so
it’s
important
to
know
as
much

as
you
can
about
the
drugs
you
are
taking.




As
I
write
this
section,
I’m
thinking
about
a
telephone
consult
with
a
new
client
who

has
had
intolerable
skin
itching
for
over
a
year.
In
the
history
she
sent
me
it,
every

drug
she
is
taking
causes
skin
itching.
The
following
websites
will
help
you
learn

more
about
drugs
and
their
side
effects.
Remember,
you
cannot
assume
that
the

drugs
your
doctor
gives
you
are
harmless.
And
when
you
tell
your
doctor
you
are

having
side
effects,
he
or
she
may
not
“believe”
you.
They
are
not
trained
to
identify

drug
side
effects
and
try
to
ignore
them
as
much
as
possible.


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DRUG
WATCH
WEBSITES


1.
Worst
Pills:
http://www.worstpills.org

2.
Prescription
Drug
Watch:
http://drugs.healthdiaries.com/

3.
Drug
Injury
Watch:
http://www.drug‐injury.com/

4.
Side
Effects
Made
Simple:
Shopper's
Guide
to
22
Worthless
Drugs:

http://www.bonkersinstitute.org/simpleside.html


FDA
Adverse
Drug
Reactions

Even
with
so
much
attention
on
the
dangers
of
modern
medicine,
the
following

inventory
compiled
by
the
FDA's
Adverse
Event
Reporting
System
for
the
years

1998‐2005
shows
that
it’s
just
getting
worse.
Be
aware
that
this
reporting
system
is

voluntary,
not
mandatory
and
research
shows
that
only
about
one
out
of
ten

1
adverse
events
are
ever
reported
to
the
FDA.


Adverse
Events
Comparison
1998­2005


1.
Serious
adverse
drug
events
increased
by
260%.

2.
Fatal
drug
events
increased
by
270%.

3.
Drugs
withdrawn
from
the
market
due
to
serious
adverse
events
up
26%.

4.
For
13
new
biotechnology
drugs,
serious
events
grew
by
1,580%.

5.
Out
of
1,489
drugs
related
to
serious
adverse
events,
20%
caused
97%
of
all
of

these
events.


I
began
writing
Death
by
Modern
Medicine
(2005)
at
a
Codex
meeting
in
Bonn,

Germany
in
October
2004
as
I
wrestled
with
the
incongruity
of
a
system
that

claimed
to
promote
safe
food
and
dietary
supplement
trading
across
borders
but

made
no
reference
to
the
health
of
the
people
that
would
ingest
these
foods
and

supplements.
As
you
will
read
in
Chapter
3,
Codex
Alimentarius
is
not
concerned

with
food
for
its
vital
health‐giving
properties
but
only
as
a
commodity.
I
observed
a

duel
agenda
in
the
Codex
proceedings
that
appears
to
encourage
the
maximum

levels
of
toxicity
in
the
food
supply
and
the
lowest
amount
of
nutrients
in
synthetic

supplements.



Codex
was
initiated
in
1962
under
the
auspices
of
The
World
Health
Organization,

which
defines
traditional
or
natural
medicine
as:
“Health
practices,
approaches,

knowledge,
and
beliefs
incorporating
plant,
animal,
and
mineral
based
medicines,

spiritual
therapies,
manual
techniques,
and
exercises,
applied
singularly
or
in

2
combination
to
treat,
diagnose,
and
prevent
illnesses
or
maintain
well‐being.”

In

1995,
the
World
Trade
Organization
diverted
Codex
away
from
safeguarding
food

for
humans
to
commercializing
food
for
corporations.


1
Moore TJ, et al. Serious Adverse Drug Events Reported to the Food and Drug Administration, 1998-2005.
Arch Intern Med. 2007;167(16):1752-1759.

2
Dean C, Null G. “Death by Medicine.” Nutrition Institute of America, November 2003. www.lef.org and
search Death by Medicine.

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I
began
to
seek
solutions
to
the
crises
of
modern
medicine
after
participating
in
two

Codex
meetings
in
Europe.
Primarily,
I
wanted
to
accentuate
positive
ways
that
can

benefit
our
health.
After
writing
Death
by
Modern
Medicine
I
didn’t
want
to
spend

my
time
discussing
the
negative
aspects
of
our
health
care
system.
After
all,
it’s
not

just
medicine
that
is
in
crisis;
there
is
a
breakdown
at
all
levels
of
society.
You
can

read
my
thoughts
on
this
in
Chapter
4;
simply
recognizing
the
need
for
a
system‐
wide
transformation
may
make
it
easier
for
us
to
“accept”
that
medicine
is
no
longer

serving
us.


At
Codex,
where
they
have
set
a
very
low
limit
on
the
potency
of
supplements,
I

began
searching
for
high‐quality,
low‐potency
supplements
would
be
considered

“safe
enough”
to
pass
the
Codex
regulations.
I
was
also
looking
for
low
potency

vitamins
and
minerals
manufactured
by
privately
owned
companies—not
publicly

traded
companies
whose
‘bottom
line’
is
stockholder
profit
and
not
product
quality.


At
Codex,
I
watched
as
higher
levels
of
mercury
and
pesticides
were
being
allowed

in
commercial
foods.
I
became
aware
that
farming
in
America
was
being

discouraged
and
importation
of
all
our
food
products
from
developing
nations
was

being
encouraged.
I
knew
I
needed
to
be
in
a
clean
and
safe
environment
where

organic
food
can
be
grown
year
round,
where
the
air
is
clean,
and
the
water
is

unpolluted.
Rather
than
trying
to
fight
against,
what
appears
to
be,
the
inevitable

decline
of
food
and
supplements
in
America,
I
sought
out
supplement
companies

that
would
fit
the
Codex
criteria
of
low
potency.
I
realized
that
food‐based
organic

products
are
well
absorbed
and
low
potency
as
are
angstrom‐sized
cellular

absorbed
minerals.



My
favorite
course
of
study,
presently,
is
Recall
Healing
a
scientific
system
that
helps

discover
the
stressful
conflicts
in
the
mind
that
are
systematically
downloaded
into

the
body
as
a
disease
in
order
to
“keep
the
body
alive
for
another
day”.
CT
scans
of

the
brain
can
identify
focal
points
that
correspond
to
the
affected
body
part.
A

thousand
disease
conditions
and
their
conflicts
have
been
identified.
It
is

breakthrough
medicine
that
informs
my
work
with
clients
and
can
offer
miraculous

benefits.



INTRODUCTION
TO
THE
FIRST
EDITION


In
the
fall
of
2003,
I
spent
an
intense
3
weeks
working
on
a
paper
about
medical

iatrogenisis
for
The
Nutrition
Institute
of
America
published
in
Life
Extension

Magazine.
Throughout
the
book
are
excerpts
from
this
paper
called
“Death
by

Medicine.”
I
also
edited
a
version
of
the
paper
for
the
Journal
of
Orthomolecular

Medicine,
which
is
included
in
Appendix
B.



NOTE:
(dbm)
throughout
the
text
is
a
notation
for
references
you
will
find
in
the

Journal
of
Orthomolecular
Medicine
article
and
a
wider
discussion
of
the
topic.


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NOTE:
In
Death
by
Modern
Medicine
I
use
the
terms
natural
medicine,
natural

healing
arts,
and
similar
words
to
describe
the
kind
of
medicine
I
support
and

envision.
Allopathic
medicine
and
modern
medicine
will
be
used
interchangeably
to

describe
drug‐based
medicine
that
seeks
to
monopolize
medical
care.


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CHAPTER
1

DEATH
BY
MODERN
MEDICAL
DOCTORS


I
have
endeavored
to
show
that
there
is
no
real
service
of
humanity


in
the
profession
(of
medicine)
and
that
it
is
injurious
to
mankind.

Mahatma
Gandhi


What
did
Gandhi
know
that
we
choose
to
ignore?
Let’s
explore
why
he
would
make

such
an
‘extreme’
statement
as
the
above
“there
is
no
real
service
of
humanity
in
the

profession
(of
medicine)
and
that
it
is
injurious
to
mankind.”



Medical
doctors
are
licensed
and
regulated
by
their
own
medical
boards.

Increasingly,
these
boards
are
populated
with
representatives
of
the
drug
industry,

health
insurance
industry,
and
doctors
who
are
paid
“advisors"
for
pharmaceutical

companies.
Drug
and
insurance
affiliations
represent
a
conflict
of
interest
or
at
the

very
least
a
vested
interest
in
promoting
allopathic
medicine.



Doctors
may
have
been
drawn
to
study
medicine
for
a
variety
of
reasons:

humanitarian,
financial,
and
prestige.
When
I
was
in
medical
school,
many
of
my

classmates
had
parents
who
were
doctors;
they
were
raised
in
a
medical
world.

Others,
especially
in
the
baby
boomer
age
group,
grew
up
with
the
Marcus
Welby

and
Dr.
Kildare
images
of
caring
doctors
who
were
an
extension
of
the
family,

making
house
calls
and
adding
a
measure
of
common
sense
to
every
prescription.



Young
medical
students
these
days
have
been
brainwashed
by
the
content
of
movies

and
TV
shows
like
‘ER’.
The
drama
of
an
EVAC
helicopter
rescue
of
a
severely

injured
accident
victim,
bleeding
and
comatose,
miraculously
snatched
from
the
grip

of
death,
is
presented
as
the
epitome
of
modern
medicine.
Surgically
reattaching

limbs,
reviving
someone
from
a
near
fatal
heart
attack,
or
saving
the
life
of
a
2

pound
2
ounce
infant
is
modern
medicine
at
its
best.
Technology,
autopsy,
and

forensics
are
played
out
in
film
and
television
dramas
and
gone
are
the
house
calls

and
concern
for
the
patient
who
has
any
form
of
chronic
disease
that
won’t
resolve

within
a
one‐hour
drama.



The
most
popular
medical
drama
in
2006‐2007
was
“House”.
Each
week
their

featured
patients
are
given
the
‘million
dollar’
work
up,
multiple
misdiagnoses
and

a
litany
of
side
effects
by
a
team
of
supposedly
brilliant
doctors.
This
program
does

little
to
make
people
confident
with
modern
medicine.



A
2007
book,
Overtreated:
Why
Too
Much
Medicine
Is
Making
Us
Sicker
and
Poorer

by
Shannon
Brownlee
is
the
subject
of
a
Moss
Report
book
review,
January
13,
2008

at
ralphmoss.com.
Dr.
Moss
says
that
“Increasingly
sophisticated
tests
and
imaging

techniques
have
largely
supplanted
the
traditional
process
of
diagnosis,
and
have,
in

effect,
become
the
new
physical
exam.”
He
quotes
Brownlee
who
is
convinced
that

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"Testing
has
replaced
thinking
on
the
doctor's
part
and
feeling
cared
for
on
the

patient's.
What's
lost
in
the
process...is
the
personal
relationship,
the
trusting

interaction
that
once
formed
the
basis
for
healing.
But
when
the
patient
views
the

doctor
as
a
tool
of
the
insurer,
and
the
doctor
views
the
patient
increasingly
through

the
narrow
lens
of
a
computer
screen,
it's
difficult
for
either
to
see
the
other
as
a

partner
in
the
process
of
healing."


Moss
continues.
“Every
year
in
the
US,
we
undergo
millions
of
tests
‐
MRIs,
CTs,
PET

scans,
blood
tests
‐
that
frequently
lead
doctors
to
diagnose
conditions
that,
if
left

alone,
might
never
have
developed
into
overt,
detectable
disease.
A
very
high

proportion
of
the
normal,
well
population
harbors
what
are
known
in
the
medical

profession
as
'incidentalomas'
‐
lesions
of
little
or
no
clinical
significance
that
are

only
detected
as
a
result
of
a
test
or
scan
for
another
condition
entirely.
But
because

theoretically
any
such
lesion
might
‐
just
might
‐
progress,
further
investigations
are

almost
always
recommended.
These
further
investigations
‐
biopsies,
excisions,

tests
‐
not
only
represent
an
enormous
financial
burden
on
our
health
care
system

but
may
also
lead,
in
their
own
right,
to
illness,
complications
and
even
death
‐
all
in

the
service
of
preventing
or
"curing"
what
are
essentially
pseudo‐diseases.”


Brownlee’s
book
covers
the
problems
encountered
in
hospitals,
the
risk
of
infection,

and
iatrogenic
illness
reported
in
Death
by
Modern
Medicine.
She
then
focuses
on

“the
deliberate
use
of
"disease‐mongering"
by
the
drug
industry
in
order
to
create

lucrative
new
markets…and
the
worried
well”
Her
estimate
of
the
advertising

budget
for
the
drug
industry
is
$29.9
billion
in
2005.
A
new
study
out
of
Canada

3
discussed
in
Chapter
5
places
the
drug
industry
advertising
price
tag
at
$57
billion.


In
Overtreated,
Shannon
Brownlee
offers
both
a
compelling
investigation
of
the

economic
forces
that
drive
unnecessary
care,
and
a
rational
prescription
for
what

can
‐
and
must
‐be
urgently
done
about
it.
It
is
highly
encouraging
that
various

prominent
members
of
the
medical
profession
have
enthusiastically
received
this

book.
In
a
glowing
review,
Marcia
Angell,
MD,
former
editor‐in‐chief
of
the
New

England
Journal
of
Medicine,
has
written:
"This
book
could
save
your
life.
In
gripping

detail,
Brownlee
explains
how
well‐insured
Americans
get
much
more
high‐tech

medical
care
‐
CT
scans,
angiograms,
and
the
like
‐
than
they
need,
enriching
the

hospitals
and
doctors
who
provide
it,
but
driving
up
the
overall
costs
of
health
care

and
often
endangering
patients'
lives.
Brownlee
clearly
shows
in
this
important

book
that
overtreatment,
like
under‐treatment,
is
very
bad
medicine."



We
can
safely
say
the
high
points
of
modern
medicine
are:

1. Emergency
medicine

2. Surgery

3. Diagnostics


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However,
there
is
a
growing
focus
on
the
technology
of:

4. Genetic
engineering

5. Vaccines


Yet,
we
hear
from
allopathic
medicine
cheerleaders
that
today’s
modern
medicine
is

unsurpassed.
Let’s
look
at
the
report
card
on
a
medical
system
that
relies
on
drugs

and
surgery
as
its
mainstay.
Only
55
percent
of
patients,
in
a
recent
random
sample

of
adults,
received
recommended
care,
with
little
difference
found
between
care

recommended
for
prevention,
to
address
acute
episodes,
or
to
treat
chronic

4
conditions.
According
to
an
Institute
of
Medicine
report,
more
than
50%
of
patients

with
diabetes,
hypertension,
tobacco
addiction,
hyperlipidemia,
congestive
heart

failure,
asthma,
depression,
and
chronic
atrial
fibrillation
are
inadequately

5
managed.
A
well‐known
comment
on
scientific
medicine
is
the
long
lag
time

between
the
discovery
of
a
more
effective
form
of
treatment
and
its
incorporation

into
routine
patient
care.
One
study
says
that
the
waiting
time
for
such

6

incorporation
averages
seventeen
years.

NOT
Leader
of
the
Pack


For
all
the
bravado
and
hype
about
the
high
quality
of
health
care
in
America,

ScienceDaily
(01‐08‐8),
an
online
journal,
reminded
us
exactly
where
we
rank

7
among
other
industrialized
nations
on
the
issue
of
preventable
deaths
‐
LAST.

We’re
not
the
alpha
dog,
we’re
not
even
the
alpha
dog’s
lieutenant,
we’re
so
far

down
the
scale,
we’re
hardly
significant.
The
Commonwealth
Fund,
an
independent

foundation
working
toward
health
policy
reform
and
a
high
performance
health

system,
financed
a
study
called
“Measuring
the
Health
of
Nations”.
In
the
report
the

U.S.
placed
last
among
the
nineteen
countries
studied
when
it
comes
to
preventable

8
deaths.
The
authors
stated
"It
is
notable
that
all
countries
have
improved

substantially
except
the
U.S."
In
the
six
years
from
1997‐2003
the
U.S.
dropped
from

th th
15
to
19
in
rank.


Projected
statistics
by
the
authors
showed
that
if
the
U.S.
matched
the
performance

of
the
top
three
countries,
France,
Japan,
and
Australia,
it
could
have
saved
101,000

American
lives
annually.
The
report
further
stated
that,
“The
fact
that
other

countries
are
reducing
these
preventable
deaths
more
rapidly,
yet
spending
far
less,

indicates
that
policy,
goals,
and
efforts
to
improve
health
systems
make
a

difference."
The
other
countries
included
in
the
study
were
Austria,
Canada,


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5
Institute of Medicine, 2003c; Clark et al., 2000; Joint National Committee on Prevention, 1997; Legorreta et
al., 2000; McBride et al., 1998; Ni et al., 1998; Perez-Stable and Fuentes-Afflick, 1998; Samsa et al., 2000;
Young et al., 2001.
6
Balas EA. “Information systems can prevent errors and improve quality.” J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2001 Jul-
Aug:8(4):398-9.
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http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/01/080108082944.htm
8
http://www.commonwealthfund.org/Content/Publications/In-the-Literature/2008/Jan/Measuring-the-
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