You may think that heart disease, which kills 800,000 people a year, is the greatest killer in America or cancer, which kills 700,000 people a year, but in reality, the number one cause of death in the United States, Killing more than 1 million people a year, Is Iatrogenic disease, which simply means physician-related disease. This includes all of the deaths from some action or drug that is prescribed by a doctor, from going to a hospital, or from surgeries gone bad.
Many Doctors know this is true, and even they are fearful of iatrogenic disease. Time magazine recently asked a sampling of doctors, surgeons, and pediatricians what scares them the most about being doctors. Their unanimous response was: Being the patient! They were saying " I would hate to be you and have to go to a doctor!
The title of a recent article in the Business Week really says it all: "Medical Guesswork: From heart surgery to prostate care, the health industry knows little about which common treatments really work." What does medicine substitute for what works? "Doctors decided whether or not to put a patient in intensive care or to use a combination of drugs based on their best judgement and on rules and traditions handed down over the years, as opposed to real scientific proof. These rules and judgements weren't necessarily right."
The traditional drugs that we take-aspirin, blood pressure pills, heart pills, cholesterol pills- are essentially small doses of toxins, administered to bring relief of symptoms. Think about it: what would happen if you swallowed an entire bottle of aspirin or blood pressure pills? You would die, because the chemicals are poisonous. So if a lot of medication kills you quickly, could it be that small doses over long periods kill you slowly-or at the very least, are not good for you?
Dr. Pellow
www.drcpellow.com
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