Natural alternatives: Does your doctor know best?

By Alexandra Romlewski
Sometimes it feels like I am drifting through life, just accepting what anyone says and not bothering to question why. For example, when you catch a virus and go to the clinic, the doctor prescribes you a drug to take. Do you ask about the drug, or do you blindly trust that this stranger knows what is best for you? Have you ever tried asking a doctor about alternative cures – not just traditional drugs, but natural solutions? I have. They get this dumbstruck look on their face and then reply that they simply don't know of any natural cures for your ailment.

It makes me wonder if the drug companies have bought all of our doctors, or brainwashed them, and have proceeded to brainwash us to accept the mindset of a “miracle drug” for every type of sickness, even if it doesn't work. How many people with cancer have benefited from radiation therapy? And at what cost? Do they have any life left in them after the treatment? Their hair is gone and their faces are pale. This is supposed to make the cancer go away – if you can survive the treatment. What about all the recalls on drugs like Vioxx that cause heart problems to an extent that the company would lose millions of dollars and their credibility to recall the drug. It makes me wonder what they put in that stuff.

Why is it in science that we aren’t cautious about things that seem too good to be true? In relationships, if things are going too well, our instincts take over and we wait and prepare for some sort of disaster. But if a scientist has made it and the FDA approves, then it has to be safe. They would never do something for their own benefit that could harm the public. It might not affect you now but maybe in a few years when those headaches won’t go away. Alas the cycle will continue. You go to the doctor and get a prescription for the miracle drug that you have now become dependent on.

If you have read this far I suspect you might be thinking, “It can't possibly be that bad.” or even worse, “There are other people working on problems like these.” Prove me wrong. Next time you visit your doctor, ask questions. Perform an all out interrogation if you want. You have the right to.

Technically you are paying a small portion of his salary (supplemented by perks from the drug companies). Ask for alternate cures, vitamins, and daily habits you need to change. Remember that they are your advisor, not your boss. Also, next time you go grocery shopping, look up what junk is on the ingredients list. You may be surprised at how many of those ingredients you can't even pronounce, let alone explain.

It’s time to stop letting people make decisions for us and start taking responsibility for ourselves and our own well-being. Do not be afraid to question things. Don’t just accept everything you hear to be true. Not everyone out there is on your side. Most just want to make an extra buck or don’t have a clue as to what they are talking about. If everyone started doing this don’t you think there would be some drastic changes? Change for the better starts with just one person. Now let me ask, is that person going to be you?

In Part I I describe how from the moment they enter medical school, our future doctors are systematically ‘educated’ by the pharmaceutical industry in coercive and often unethical ways.  In Part II I will discuss how after medical school this pattern of ‘uni-polar’ information with no objective watchdog takes the corruption of the medical profession even further.  Without a doubt, doctors today have become little more than highly paid drug salesmen for the major pharmaceutical industry.

Once a medical student has finished his externship and enters private practice the real ‘brainwashing’ begins by the pharmaceutical companies.  To begin with, they quickly learn as young doctors that they must attend several conventions each year in order to take continuing education classes necessary to keep their license in good standing.  These conventions are sponsored and paid for in large part by pharmaceutical companies.

Often the travel and hotel and food expenses are all paid for by the pharmaceutical companies.  Once the doctors are there the companies have a captive audience to systematically ‘educate’ about their new drugs and how they are the latest and greatest things to hit the medical establishment.  Staff ‘doctors’ on the payroll of the pharmaceutical companies lecture on the benefits of the drugs and no word is ever mentioned about non-drug treatment options.  All around the hotel colorful signs promoting the new drugs are hung.  Toys, gifts, knick knacks, pens, calendars, calculators…you name it and the pharma companies give them out.

Lavish buffets and meals are provided to the doctors as they are presented with the latest and greatest treatments for numerous ailments running the gamut from minor to the life threatening.  All the while, not a word is mentioned anywhere about alternative or non-drug treatments for any of the conditions.  Is it no wonder most doctors don’t mention to their patients that often times the best approach is just to eat healthy, exercise or some other ‘common sense’ treatment?  But wait, it doesn’t end at the convention.

Once back at the office, an army of attractive pharmaceutical reps descend on doctor’s offices in a coordinated attack to further convince the doctors to prescribe their drugs to the patients.  The first ones are always free.  Huge boxes of samples are given, but once on the drugs many people can’t get off because of the addictive or bad withdrawal symptoms of the drugs.  The pharmaceutical reps come bearing free lunches and lavish food trays.  They are trained to memorize ‘scripts’ that can answer any and all possible questions that the doctors might have about the drugs that are being ‘pushed’.

Of course none of these pharmaceutical reps have any medical training.  Many were cosmetologists, waitresses and secretaries only weeks or months before their intensive ‘training’ to become pharmaceutical reps.  Meanwhile, the doctors eat it up.  They know that if they give out the drugs then the free meals will continue to come and the free trips and conventions to exotic resorts in the Bahamas, Las Vegas or the Poconos will continue.

Most doctors are hopelessly naïve how all this pandering by the drug companies influences their ability to practice medicine impartially.  The result are patients being all too often told that the treatment for whatever ails them is to take a pill to treat the symptom and they are not being taught to fix the source of the problem which quite often will not end up giving $$$ to the drug companies.  That’s no accident.  That’s by design.  The result of our Doctors being brainwashed.  To see more great information and to catch Part I of this article visit www.sedatednation.com.

Cancer profiteering? New chemo drug costs $30,000 a month

(NaturalNews) Big Pharma's pill pushers and natural remedy skeptics are always trying to drill one idea into your brain: "Natural remedies are a ripoff!" they say. "And they aren't even proven to work!"

In response to those skeptics, allow me to introduce a new cancer treatment drug called Folotyn, made by a small drug company named Allos Therapeutics. It costs $30,000 a month. That's a thousand dollars a day, mathematically speaking.

But here's the best part: Folotyn has never been proven to save lives. That's the complaint about natural remedies from conventional medicine pushers, and it reveals the contradiction in their criticism: When natural remedies aren't proven to work, they call them "quackery." But when their $30,000-a-month medicines aren't proven to work, they don't have any problem with that. Take your medicine and stop asking questions! Who needs scientific proof when they're already so sure they're right?

Folotyn has been proven, by the way, to shrink tumors by 27%. Of course, you can accomplish the same thing with vitamin D, spirulina, green tee, medicinal mushrooms and other anti-cancer nutritional therapies. Even if you went all-out and bought a huge collection of anti-cancer supplements and started taking them aggressively, you'd be hard pressed to consume more than $2,000 worth of product in a single month. That's a $28,000 savings over Folotyn, and the best part is that all those supplements would boost your brain health, heart health, liver health, kidney health and immune health at the same time.

Or, you could just exercise outdoors, getting both vitamin D and exercise for free, saving you $30,000 a month while healing your own cancer. (It also helps to give up all the cancer-causing chemicals in your foods, personal care products, home cleaning products and medicines.)

I don't know about you, but I'd much rather save the $30,000 and just heal the cancer myself. That might be good advice for you and me, but it would spell financial disaster for the cancer industry.

A thousand dollars a day to poison yourself
Reading this news about this $1,000-a-day cancer drug makes me laugh, because lots of people still complain about the cost of a $19 book on cancer cures, or a $20 bottle of superfoods that contains anti-cancer medicine. Somehow, any amount of money seems justifiable for conventional medicine, but even the smallest investments in personal nutrition or wellbeing are met with a lot of resistance.

I remember talking with a couple at an acupuncture clinic a few years back. They were complaining about the price of the $75 acupuncture treatments for infertility. When I asked them what they had tried before, they told me they had spent something like $20,000 on an infertility clinic, with no success. Wow! And $75 is expensive?

Now, if a legitimate cancer cure really was offered by conventional medicine (and it never will be, because such a cure would destroy their business model), it might be worth $30,000 or more. Heck, a one-time cure might be worth a million dollars, but don't hold your breath on that one... no chemical cure is forthcoming.

Not from the world of conventional medicine, anyway. The only cures that exist today are from the realm of natural medicine, where cancer is routinely cured by patients who heal themselves with the help of natural cancer clinics all around the world. And at those cancer clinics, the entire treatment is usually far less than $30,000.

Of course, if you really want to poison yourself while paying somebody $1,000 a day, this high-priced chemotherapy agent might be just what you're looking for. But you can chug wheatgrass shots for less than ten bucks a day and probably get just as much tumor shrinkage -- at 1/100th the cost!

Draining you bank account before you die
Conventional cancer treatments are a ripoff. They cost you a fortune and they don't even work. No one has ever been cured by cancer from chemotherapy. Not a single person... ever! There isn't a single documented case anywhere in the medical literature claiming that a person was cured of cancer from chemotherapy. So why do people still fall for the chemo scam?

The answer: Because they're desperate. They're dying, and they're willing to pay anything for hope, even if it's a false hope thrust upon them by their oncologist. It is in this context that these cancer drug companies charge $10,000 a month, $20,000 a month or even now $30,000 a month to treat you with their "breakthrough" cancer drugs.

The purpose of all this isn't to cure your cancer: It's to drain your bank account before you die, extracting every last dollar of your savings and retirement money before you expire. No one out-quacks the cancer industry in terms of exploiting the fears of dying elderly patients.

If this were done in the financial industry, it would be called a swindle. If an investment con man targeted sick, elderly people, promising some miraculous result if they just paid him $30,000 a month, he'd be arrested and locked up as a purveyor of financial fraud. But when the cancer industry perpetrates the same fraud on our nation's elderly, they get away with it! No one questions the fraud. No one realizes the industry is based on fraudulent marketing and fraudulent science combined with a huge financial con that convinces sick, elderly patients to part with their life's savings in exchange for some high-tech quackery that will never save them.

Part of the reason this con continues, I think, is because the victims of it don't live very long. Dead men don't talk, and dead cancer patients don't file complaints with the Better Business Bureau.