Mainstream Medicine Fraud

False Claims and Fraud flourish even more near "proven" therapies

(I think it is safe to assume that proven means mainstream and unproven means alternative.)

"Proven" versus "Unproven" Therapies

Isn' t it funny how mainstream medicine and their many mouthpieces predicted doom, gloom and multiple deaths from unsafe and unproven supplements when DSHEA was approved?  And what has transpired since then?  Almost half of us take some form vitamins, minerals and supplements and yet the annual total deaths attributed to natural supplements is only a handful - even including misuse and deliberate abuse.  Mainstream medicine on the other hand has over 100,000 deaths from drug properly used and prescribed medications every year by their own admission.  There's your proven therapies for you!

The above post had nothing to do with the Gerson protocol other than to imply guilt by association.  Only those in mainstream medicine or it's apologists consider Gerson's therapy an unproven one.  No doubt, there have been and will continue to be unscrupulous individuals who will misuse the therapy for fraudulent purposes - but that says nothing about the validity of the actual Gerson protocol itself.

Make no mistake, just like in virtually every form of human endeavor where profit or gain is involved, there will be fraud.  No doubt whatsoever that fraud exists in alternative and natural therapies.  Just not nearly as much exists right under our noses in mainstream medicine.

As Dr. P. J. Baldwin said ""There are more quacks in the orthodox profession than there are outside its ranks."

According to the Coalition Against Insurance Fraud:

• Nearly one of three physicians say it's necessary to game the health care system to provide high quality medical care. Journal of the American Medical Association (2000)
• More than one of three physicians says patients have asked physicians to deceive third-party payers to help the patients obtain coverage for medical services in the last year. Journal of the American Medical Association (2000)
• One of 10 physicians has reported medical signs or symptoms a patient didn't have in order to help the patient secure coverage for needed treatment or services in the last year. Journal of the American Medical Association (2000)

http://www.insurancefraud.org/stats.htm

Here are some other links to mainstream medical fraud.  There are no lack of such links, to put it mildly.

Bribery in medicine: How drug authorities, Big Pharma pushers and other medical racket operators forfeit ethics for power and profits

Mike Espy, Spiro Agnew, the Bolsheviks -- why, even Thomas Edison participated in bribery. African American civil rights activist W.E.B. DuBois exposed the connections between bribery, exploitation and the "new capitalism" of his day; however, bribery was an epidemic even in ancient civilizations, widespread...

Physicians and bribery: a closer look at this common medical industry practice

In 2001, 2.8 billion prescriptions were filled in the United States for an average of 9.9 prescriptions per person. This statistic taken from Ultraprevention, by Drs. Mark Hyman and Mark Liponis, certainly supports their point that "drug industry prescriptions have gotten far out of hand." The...

Massive medical fraud exposed: pharmaceutical company paid doctors to prescribe drugs and run sham clinical trials

Here's a must-read article for anyone interested in learning how the pharmaceutical industry really operates. It's a case of aggressive marketing gone bad, with a mixture of corrupt physicians, underhanded payola and a near-total disregard for patient health. And yet it's business as usual in the pharmaceutical...

Concept-related articles:

pharmaceutical industry:

• The great direct-to-consumer prescription drug advertising con: how patients and doctors alike are easily influenced to demand dangerous drugs
• Hypertension caused by chronic dehydration, says doctor; but pharmaceutical industry prescribes drugs that cause further water loss
• Interview with Dr. Ray Strand, author of Death by Prescription and Releasing Fat
• Big Tobacco and Big Pharma: same tactics, different chemicals

drug companies:

• The great direct-to-consumer prescription drug advertising con: how patients and doctors alike are easily influenced to demand dangerous drugs

the FDA:

• The FDA Exposed: An Interview With Dr. David Graham, the Vioxx Whistleblower

medical racket:

• Unnecessary surgery exposed! Why 60% of all surgeries are medically unjustified and how surgeons exploit patients to generate profits

medical ethics:

• Movie Review: The Island starring Ewan McGregor explores timely theme of corporate exploitation of human beings

doctors:

• The great direct-to-consumer prescription drug advertising con: how patients and doctors alike are easily influenced to demand dangerous drugs

physicians:

• Physicians and bribery: a closer look at this common medical industry practice

corruption:

• Physicians and bribery: a closer look at this common medical industry practice

America:

• The new rules of imperialism: Economic warfare, consumer products and disease exports

pharmaceutical companies:

• The great direct-to-consumer prescription drug advertising con: how patients and doctors alike are easily influenced to demand dangerous drugs

United States:

• 28 Senators vote to maintain Big Pharma monopoly over U.S. consumers; Republicans oppose free trade for medicine

bribes:

• Bribery in medicine: How drug authorities, Big Pharma pushers and other medical racket operators forfeit ethics for power and profits

Big Pharma:

• FDA drug safety bill passes in the U.S. Senate; health freedom advocates outraged at betrayal of American consumers

DQ

"We have no real proof of the boasted effectiveness of any form of anti-toxin or vaccine or serum... If such a vaccinated or immunised person contracts the disease which he is supposed to be protected, it is pretty good evidence that such "protection" is valueless, isn't it? Surely people do contract disease against which they are supposed to be immunised, as we all know.... Well, are you satisfied that WE ARE QUACKS? In the eyes of those who are willing to forgot the present prestige of medicine, such as it is, with all its dignity, its scientific jargon, its pratings of altruism, its great endowment, its well heralded "achievements," we are most assuredly quacks, professing to do things we cannot do, and yes, taking money under this pretence." Dr. Paul M. Koonin, D.D.Sc.

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