[CitizensTruth] Confessions of a Medical Heretic

[Robin Migalla]

Hi Everyone,

I've recently read "Confessions of a Medical Heretic" by Robert Mendelsohn. 
 I liked some of it so much, I scanned parts of it to post.  I find it 
particularly interesting in the light of today's push for health care 
reform.  Here's a link to the PDF file of the excerpts...

http://westonaprice-elgin.org/Learn/ConfessionsofaMedicalHeretic.pdf

Here are a few quotes to whet your appetite...

"Hospitalization degrades you. In my twenty-five years of practicing and 
witnessing the practice of medicine, I've never seen a degrading experience 
that did anybody's health any good."

"Hospital costs are the biggest single element in the country's total bill 
for medical "care." That bill is rapidly overtaking defense, the Number One 
item on the country's total bill for everything. When medicine exceeds 
defense, the Inquisition will really be  unstoppable. No one seriously 
challenges whatever institution is the first item on the budget. Whatever 
costs more than anything else gathers bureaucratic inertia of such immense 
proportions that it controls the destiny of the country."

"We've already seen what a disaster curative medicine has become, but 
so-called preventive medicine is just as dangerous. In fact, the juggernaut 
of Modern Medicine's drive for power over our lives is preventive medicine. 
It's no secret what mayhem power-hungry institutions - including 
governments - can get away with hiding behind the intention of "preventing" 
trouble. Modern Medicine gets away with even more. For example, the Defense 
Department explains the billions it spends by forwarding the old "we're 
protecting you from camels" routine. Though a great portion of those 
billions is no doubt wasted money, at least the Defense Department can 
point to the virtual absence of camels as evidence that some of the money 
is spent on worthwhile activities."

My favorite part of the book, though, was the Epilogue.  Here are the first 
two paragraphs...

"Health neither begins nor ends with the doctor. The doctor's role is 
somewhere in the middle. And still crucial. If doctors weren't important, 
the Church of Modern Medicine could never have gained the power it has.

This simultaneous process of destroying Medicine and rebuilding Medicine 
is, by nature, a political process. At all levels, the Medical Revolution 
involves the participant in politics: If you keep your children out of 
public school to avoid immunizing them, that is a political act. If you 
have your baby at home when state laws discourage it or health insurance 
refuses to pay for it, that's a political act. If you decide to have 
another baby, that's a political act. While we turn our backs on the 
Inquisition, we turn towards and embrace the New Medicine as we need to in 
order to survive and prosper. That is going to require action which is 
explicitly political, too."

Here's another link that might be interesting for you, too:

www.metzelf.info

Cheers,
Robin
www.healthforlifecoloncare.com
www.westonaprice-elgin.org
"Let thy food be thy medicine and thy medicine be thy food."
                                     --Hippocrates  (460-377 B.C.)
            Just be careful how you define food ;-)