[CitizensTruth] Confessions of a Medical Heretic

[Kris Knight]

Thanks, Robin.  Just as I think veterans have a powerful right/ 
entitlement to give us their opinions to be weighed heavily re.  
occupation, war behaviors, their effects of the soldiers and all those  
around them, I think people who have worked within the medical system  
have the greatest right to weigh in on the follies and the foibles of  
same.  I am one of those people, and there are many, many defectors of  
that system who have been exiled in one way or another, who, if our  
ideas were pooled in the quest for true movement toward health care  
for all, and not sickeness perpetuation and co-dependence, would  
revolutionize this nation.

On May 2, 2009, at 11:00 PM, Robin Migalla wrote:


> 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 ;-)

>

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Kris Knight of WellAware Life Enhancement Center
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