You're not sick, you're a capitalist

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This CNN piece just confirms what many of us already know. Over-medication is a serious health issue. Unscrupulous drug manufacturers (also known as "Big Pharma")[1] are making up diseases and then using slick marketing techniques to compel you to buy the drugs they have concocted to "treat" the bogus disease,[2] which only leads to more ill-health. 

Another variation of over-medication is what I call "dumping." Dumping consists of exploiting vulnerable people, say elders on Medicaid. The doctor or several doctors (Medicaid patients often get bounced around to different doctors) will simply prescribe far more drugs than a patient needs.

I have experienced "dumping" first hand. Several years ago I discovered that an elder neighbor had accumulated something like 36 bottles of drugs--17 different prescriptions. The details are fuzzy now but I am pretty sure he was taking all or most of the prescriptions. If I recall correctly, I was able to get the doctor to reduce the meds to 8, (4 for blood pressure). But all of this is just scratching the surface--just a few of the many examples of how capitalism-run-amok is killing us. 

Oh, and a missing piece to the CNN story is the collusion of medical doctors. [3][4] GI

How to brand a disease -- and sell a cure - CNN.com

Quoting from CNN:

Just as Bernays sold pianos by selling the music room, pharmaceutical marketers now sell drugs by selling the diseases that they treat. The buzzword is "disease branding."

read essay @ How to brand a disease -- and sell a cure - CNN.com


[1] The Fear of Sicko (Democracy Now featuring Michael Moore)
[2] The Disease Mongering Machine
[3] Harvard Medical School in Ethics Quandary
[4] Brooklyn Arrests Are Part of "Largest Medicare Fraud Bust Ever"


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Elijah Muhammad vrs. The Pig

Has the pig gotten a bad rap from the Honorable Elijah Muhammad? You decide.

Elijah Muhammad

"The pig is a mass of worms. Each mouthful you eat is not a nutritious food but a mass of small worms the naked eye cannot detect. Worms thrive in the hog. When these worms are digested into your system, they cause a high birth rate to hundreds of new worms called larvae which travels the blood stream of your system and lodge in your muscles. These worms even enter you brain, lungs or your spinal fluid. They cause muscular aches, fever and many other symptoms of sickness. The worm has an amazing ability to go undetected in your system for many years."

The Pig

"I was facing a terrible choice," the patient remembers, between going with the doctor's treatment idea, which he really didn't want to do, and looking outside the United States for worm eggs to ingest. He contacted researchers in various developing countries to ask if they could help him get his hands on some eggs. The researcher in Thailand was particularly helpful, and he got on a plane to visit with her. After he arrived, the doctor in Thailand extracted roundworm eggs from the stool of an 11-year-old infected girl. She gave the trichuris trichiura eggs to the patient, but he now faced another hurdle. The eggs needed to be cleaned in case the girl had hepatitis or some other infectious disease, and the eggs needed to mature for them to be helpful. It was up to him to clean the eggs and grow them in a process called "embryonation."

Read entire story @ Man finds extreme healing eating parasitic worms - CNN.com

Swine

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