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For-Profit Medicine is Deadly


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2022 Aug 15, 1:07pm   5,067 views  48 comments

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https://popularrationalism.substack.com/p/it-is-crystal-clear-that-for-profit


It is Crystal Clear that For-Profit Allopathic Medicine is Deadly. What Will the US Do About That?
Prior to COVID-19, medical errors were the THIRD LEADING CAUSE OF DEATH in the US. That's STUNNING: No one in their right mind should entrust their lives to for-profit medicine.

James Lyons-Weiler
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Most Americans won’t remember this, but prior to the 1980’s, the very thought of a medical practice turning massive profits was considered highly unethical. All of that changed, and the beast we now see sitting on our economic backs sucks the bloodlife out of the US economy on a daily basis.

Prior to COVID-19, medical errors were the THIRD LEADING CAUSE OF DEATH in the US. That's STUNNING. As Dr. Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH and others have worked tirelessly to educate the public, and politicians about the perils of the denial of the science behind the efficacy of early COVID-19 treatments, with COVID-19 treatment denial and substitution of effective treatments with treatments more profitable for Pharma, patients fighting for their lives against COVID-19 have had to also fight against physicians blinding by protocols. If we generously call the refusal to treat COVID-19 a mass delusional psychotic error, then medical errors became the first leading cause of death in 2022.

This means no one in their right mind should entrust their lives to for-profit medicine. The entire idea that biased medicine would be tolerated due to white-coat-and-stethoscope authority has proven false; the implosion of allopathic medicine has involved mass resignations of nurses and doctors who would not tolerate the clear violations of ethics required of them to “do their jobs”. This #WalkAway movement has been euphemized as a “Health Care Worker Shortage”.

There is nothing ethical left now that public health owns allopathic medicine. When I say “public health” of course, I’m referencing the medicolegalindustrio cabal who seized control of our country starting in January of 2020.


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21   WookieMan   2022 Oct 6, 6:24am  

gabbar says

The level of expertise between nurses and doctors is huge.

The level of expertise between other nurses is huge. An urgent care nurse is not going to be working a surgery. A legit 4 year nurse, maybe with other paper from a school is as good as a doctor. But a degreed 4 year nurse is as good as a doctor really is what I'm getting at. I'm not talking your 2 year CC degree nurse.

I suppose if you're talking heart transplants and other organs that's a different animal. That's super specialized. Nurses can handle 90% of ailments including some minor surgery if they've had the training. Like I said, I know a surgical nurse. She's done operations while the doctor sits there. This is not hyperbole. Nurses run the show. Doctors almost exclusively analyze and nurses treat. This is fact if you've had any procedure or even a basic annual check up.

I've had two kids via c-section (well my wife). Was in the room. The nurses did everything. The doc is basically a manager. Leading up, nurses did everything, doc would walk in at checkups and just say the baby is looking good.

Basically I don't think a lot of people understand the training legit nurses go through. They see all the same shit a doc would in residency. They're damn near as qualified. I'd honestly trust a 30 year old nurse over a 55 year old doctor. Plus the nurses aren't getting blow jobs to sell big pharma drugs that ultimately just kill people or injure their organs.
22   Patrick   2022 Oct 12, 5:38pm  

https://americanliberty.news/crime/nurse-accused-of-murdering-babies-in-year-long-killing-spree-finally-goes-on-trial/phouck/2022/10/


A neonatal nurse in Great Britain is on trial in a case that has shaken the nation to its core. Lucy Letby, 32, stands accused of a series of attacks in 2015 and 2016 that led to the deaths of seven babies and near deaths of 15 more at Countess of Chester Hospital, near Liverpool.

Jurors heard for the first time on Tuesday that one of the victim’s mothers interrupted Letby’s attack on her newborn son only to be convinced that the distressed baby was in the best possible hands.

“Trust me, I’m a nurse,” Letby allegedly told the distraught mother as blood poured from her premature child’s mouth, bleeding which she said came from a nasogastric tube irritating his throat. Alone again with her three-pound victim, Letby murdered the infant boy at her leisure. The following day, she unsuccessfully attempted to kill his twin.

Prosecutors claim Lethby killed the infants either by injecting them with fatal doses of insulin or air. In some cases, it took multiple attempts to finish off her victims, who were first saved by other doctors and nurses who initially didn’t suspect a psychopathic killer was lying in their midst.
24   Patrick   2022 Oct 29, 10:08am  

https://spectatorworld.com/topic/the-radical-alternative-to-a-hospital-birth/


Giving birth hurts. A lot. Like any other major physical feat, it’s risky, but it’s not the inherently dangerous medical event some have come to believe. Plenty of women know this. Many are skeptical of the need to give birth in a hospital. But some are taking things further, deciding to forgo medical care entirely and give birth at home totally unassisted.
25   mell   2022 Oct 29, 11:34am  

Patrick says


https://spectatorworld.com/topic/the-radical-alternative-to-a-hospital-birth/


Giving birth hurts. A lot. Like any other major physical feat, it’s risky, but it’s not the inherently dangerous medical event some have come to believe. Plenty of women know this. Many are skeptical of the need to give birth in a hospital. But some are taking things further, deciding to forgo medical care entirely and give birth at home totally unassisted.



This is one area where I'm in favor of the hospital when in doubt. Sure if you're a < 25 year old womynz with fit abs, hips and buttocks so you can push like a rockstar you will likely be fine. Otherwise I have no doubt that hospitals have a better chance of delivering healthy children and moms. Sure they do c sections often unnecessarily to shorten the birth (and sometimes the risk) and maximize profits, but if the womyn is vocal and insists on vag birth they usually give you a fair and long enough chance. The doula/midwife usually is not trained with forceps or suction devices to help deliver the baby and thus does not have them. Often the womynz will end up in the hospital anyways and by then it's usually straight to c section. People go unnecessarily to the hospital way too often, giving birth is not one of those times imo.
27   Patrick   2022 Nov 3, 10:22am  

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6060929/


Iatrogenesis is the fifth leading cause of death in the world. There are about 5%–8% of deaths due to ADRs (Adverse Drug Reactions) worldwide[12]. In many countries, ADRs are a leading cause of death.[13] About 1.4 million patients are affected by the infections at any given time due to the healthcare system. In the developed countries, the toll is 5%–10% of patients while in developing countries “as many as a quarter of all patients may be affected by a healthcare-associated infection.”[14] A study conducted in 2005 established communication problem as the major cause of 70% of sentinel events in a hospital-like setting.[14]

The unsafe injection practice (unsterilized syringes and needles) worldwide accounts for 40% of infections. In some of the countries, the unsafe injection practice is as high as 70%. “Unsafe injection practices cause an estimated 1.3 million deaths each year worldwide, a loss of 26 million years of life and an annual burden of US$ 535 million in direct medical costs.”[15] Unsafe blood transfusions contribute about 5%–15% of HIV infections. A study indicates that the donated blood was not at all screened for the infections such as HIV and Hepatitis in almost 60 countries worldwide.[15]

A study conducted by the WHO concluded that per capita medication usage was highest in the USA which exceeded Latin America and even Europe[16]. The report, compiled by (Life Extension Magazine) LEF estimates that every year in the USA, 2.2 million people experience ADRs and the death due to ADRs is 783,936. Although the USA spends 14% of its gross national product on healthcare yet, it is ironical that the American Medical System contributes to most of the deaths. The government-sanctioned medicine in the USA alone is responsible for 700,000 deaths every year.[17]
28   Patrick   2022 Nov 5, 6:56pm  

https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/propaganda-exposed-uncensored


The doctors and scientists responsible for the development and administration of these drugs are both trained and constrained by the corrupt system that now controls them. Western medicine as we now know it exists in orbit around the pharmaceutical industry. Medical schools teach doctors how to match symptoms with prescriptions, hospitals negotiate with insurance companies based on the cost of drugs, and the race is ongoing to create the latest and greatest drug that will cure what ails ya.

The healers of today are no longer the heroes of old. The healers of today are trained, funded, and accountable to the pharmaceutical industry. That corruption is largely enabled by a system of governmental oversight that is nothing more than an instrument used by the medical industrial complex to approve and sell their products while limiting their liability.

Worse, these governmental puppets are now using the private tech and media industries to ensure that only the official narrative is put forth; those with dissenting opinions or contradicting data are silenced, censored, and calumniated.

This was once considered to be a conspiracy theory. To insinuate that these institutions could be involved in a global conspiracy that has cost tens of millions of lives and undermined the very foundations of our democracy was tantamount to blasphemy.

Until now…
29   Patrick   2022 Nov 14, 9:21am  

https://spectatorworld.com/topic/will-pill-pushers-pay-for-misdeeds-opioid-crisis/


Multiple studies show a strong correlation between lack of employment, economic distress and overdose fatalities. Indeed, a 2021 study by the National Academy of Sciences concluded most of the decline in life expectancy beginning in the mid-1990s among working-age men and women was attributable to drug poisonings of people with a high school education or less.

Standing in sharp relief to portraits of its primary victims are its perpetrators. Those most responsible for this epidemic are part of America’s best educated and economically privileged classes. This was an epidemic caused in large measure by scientists, physicians, drug distributors, pharmaceutical company executives and regulators.

They reaped enormous economic benefits but, even after a deluge of lawsuits, they paid little for the havoc they wreaked.

There would have been no spike in drug overdoses had handsomely compensated executives at a handful of global pharmaceutical companies not decided in the mid-1990s to flood America with prescription opioids. Nor would there have been an epidemic if the US Food and Drug Administration, among the most elite healthcare regulators in the world, had not given their approval to a half dozen or more prescription opioids that fueled addiction in the United States. ...

From the start, this was a healthcare policy where the economic incentives were powerfully misaligned. It was sure to generate windfall profits for drug companies, distributors and other healthcare providers while exposing patients to unprecedented risks.


So essentially the same as the toxxine.

The FDA cannot ever be trusted again.
30   Ceffer   2022 Nov 14, 9:26am  

Medicine has been run as Rockefeller 'criminal enterprise light' which is graduating into 'criminal enterprise obvious majeur', especially since the money laundering, human trafficking, arms sales, and heroin/meth sales have been drying up for them.
They have to milk the medical system for even more revenues. Crippling people with vaccines is a great way to make them Pharma profit centers until they succumb.
31   Patrick   2022 Nov 15, 10:11pm  

https://worldfreedomalliance.org/au/news/oxford-study-less-than-6-of-approved-medical-drugs-are-backed-by-high-quality-evidence-to-support-their-benefits-harms-are-significantl/


Oxford Study: Less than 6% of “Approved” Medical Drugs Are Backed by “High-Quality Evidence” to Support Their Benefits – “Harms” are Significantly Underreported Across the Board
34   AD   2022 Nov 15, 10:15pm  

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That's why it is advisable to invest in health care stocks or funds like the Vanguard Healthcare fund. Seems as safe a bet as aerospace / defense stocks.

Look at how well Vanguard Healthcare fund has fared over the last 10 to 30 years.
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35   Patrick   2023 Feb 11, 5:48pm  




I think death by medical "mistake" may actually be the top cause of death.
36   FortwayeAsFuckJoeBiden   2023 Feb 11, 5:51pm  

ad says

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That's why it is advisable to invest in health care stocks or funds like the Vanguard Healthcare fund. Seems as safe a bet as aerospace / defense stocks.

Look at how well Vanguard Healthcare fund has fared over the last 10 to 30 years.
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thats like investing in satan because satan is winning. my man sometimes we have to have a conscience.
40   clambo   2023 Mar 15, 10:08am  

Herewith a few anecdotes you might enjoy.
1. An anesthesiologist was bragging about his $1.5 million income; he's working 100 hour weeks however.
I bet you want to be his case after working 99 hours.
2. A surgeon showed how fast he could complete a procedure (I forget which; hip, etc)
He timed it to brag how fast he was.
3. I had LENSAR cataract surgery; the office was extremely busy, and had installed more lens implants than any other practice.
During a follow up appointment a nurse gave me a hint that all were afraid of his mistakes.
A couple of years later at a dermatologist I mentioned to the nurse that I was seeking an ophthalmologist and thought I would go to another doctor.
"I previously worked for an ophthalmologist/surgery. I would not go back to him either. Sometimes we fixed his mistakes."
Billing for more procedures or more hours=more money.
Like many people, they sometimes don't manage their finances so well and they must try to maintain the high pace, which may lead to an error.
41   Patrick   2023 Mar 27, 9:22pm  

https://palexander.substack.com/p/you-ask-if-pharma-would-harm-you


You ask if pharma would harm you? Well, diethylstilbestrol (DES) is a synthetic form of the female hormone estrogen prescribed to pregnant women between 1940 and 1971 to prevent miscarriage & premature labor, and related complications of pregnancy; studies in the 1950s showed that it was not effective in preventing these problems but actually was causing cancer in offspring ...

‘Females exposed to DES in utero, commonly called DES daughters, are at increased risk of several specific cancers, including:

Clear cell adenocarcinoma. DES daughters have about 40 times the risk of developing clear cell adenocarcinoma of the lower genital tract as unexposed women (women who were not exposed to DES prenatally). However, this type of cancer is still rare; approximately 1 in 1,000 DES daughters developed it. The first DES daughters with clear cell adenocarcinoma were very young at the time of their diagnoses. Subsequent research has shown that the risk of developing this disease remained elevated as these individuals aged into their 40s and 50s, but it continued to be rare.

Breast cancer. DES daughters may have a slightly increased risk of breast cancer after age 40. A 2006 study from the United States suggested that breast cancer risk is not increased in DES daughters overall but that after age 40, DES daughters have approximately twice the risk of breast cancer as unexposed women of the same age and with similar risk factors. A 2011 study also found that a large cohort of DES daughters had nearly twice the risk of developing breast cancer at 40 years or older as unexposed women, but a 2019 follow-up study showed that their breast cancer risk has lessened over time. It is therefore possible that risk was increased for a limited time at middle age. However, a 2010 study from Europe found no difference in breast cancer risk between DES daughters and women not exposed to DES in utero.

Pancreatic cancer. A 2021 study found that DES daughters had about two times the risk of pancreatic cancer as women in the general population. Research is ongoing to determine if the increased risk persists as these individuals get older.

Cervical precancers. Studies show that DES daughters were about 2 times more likely to have high-grade cell changes in the cervix than females not exposed to DES in utero. Approximately 4% of DES daughters developed these conditions because of their exposure.
42   Patrick   2023 Apr 20, 8:07pm  




Not sure the quote is real, but it seems true to me anyway.
44   Patrick   2023 May 9, 7:28pm  

https://tolma.substack.com/p/no-culture-without-physical-culture


From what we can gather, the free men of Greece had for a long time some sort of disdain for the doctor. He was not worshipped like the men in white robes are worshipped today. Instead, men worshipped the teacher of gymnastics. If something was wrong with you, before you visit the actual doctor who can work all sorts of magic on your body, just go to the gym and ask the coach there to ask you what to do. He might just say that you are a disgusting fat pig and that you should exercise more. And there you go, you just saved yourself from spending piles of money and suffering side effects. The gymnast makes and keeps men healthy, the doctor is the one who prevents sick men from dying. This is how it was. And so it is perhaps a clear sign of decline when we gladly spend our livelihoods on social security for pill-popping slave-doctors, while we think ourselves too good to spend a fraction of the money on a gym membership, quality food, and guidance from those wiser than us.

A number of writings remain to us from Ancient Greece, and we often see descriptions for how to live one’s life in order to stay healthy. One of these by 4th century physician Diocles of Carystus, seemingly written for the average man (read, not a professional athlete), recommends vigorous exercise twice a day, with many walks interspersed throughout the day. This was average, this was normal. Tell someone today that you exercise more than three times a week and, unless you’re a professional athlete, they will think you are mad or using exercise to hide some deep insecurities. What was once normal and considered a minimum for a healthy life is considered pathological today. Of course, we are talking about free men here. And we can ask; if one does not have time to exercise two times a day, can one really be considered free?
47   Misc   2023 Oct 15, 9:10pm  

If you think "For-Profit Medicine" is bad, you should hear the horrors of the VA.
48   Patrick   2023 Dec 20, 1:43pm  

https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/the-smug-botoxed-face-of-everything


The smug, Botoxed face of everything wrong with medicine in America (PART 1)

His name is Brent Saunders. He's a lawyer who made a fortune running drug companies while saying he didn't even want to try to discover drugs. Now he's lecturing Elon Musk on social responsibility.

American medicine is sick.

The evidence is everywhere, from punishing insurance copays for crucial drugs to shortages of physicians for basic care to soaring maternal death rates.

The national numbers match our personal experiences. America spends twice as much per-person on healthcare as other rich countries, an extra $2 trillion a year - an unthinkably large number. Yet our lives are almost six years shorter on average than those other advanced nations. The gap has risen even as our spending has spiraled.

It’s almost as if the money has made matters worse.

But not for everyone.

(Meet Brent Saunders… and his (second) wife.)




Health-care executives have learned to profit from our broken system. They reap - in a phrase Tom Wolfe made famous in The Bonfire of the Vanities, his 1987 novel about the fall of a bond trader - its “golden crumbs.” ...

American physicians do very well. They earn far more than doctors in other rich countries and accumulate far more wealth (in other words, the higher salaries do not mostly go to repay medical school loans, despite what doctors sometimes say).

But the biggest earners in our system are generally not practicing physicians.

Most do not have MDs at all. Hospitals are huge businesses, whether for-profit or “nonprofit.” Their heads typically earn millions of dollars a year - like Barry Ostrowsky, a lawyer who made $17 million in 2021 as CEO of a nonprofit hospital system in New Jersey. (Glad to see the $178 billion in bonus federal Covid money that hospitals and other healthcare providers got was not wasted!)

Yet even by those standards of medical avarice, of two-handed, open-mouthed, rules-are-for-thee-not-for-me greed and cynicism, Brenton L. Saunders stands out.

Saunders, a lawyer and MBA, now serves as chief executive of the eye-care company Bausch + Lomb. He took the job, along with a $6.5 million sign-on bonus, on Valentine’s Day.

Funnily enough, he had the same job at Bausch from 2010 to 2013, before beginning an odyssey across the pharmaceutical industry that made him over $100 million (give or take) over the next few years.

Along the way Saunders traded companies and jobs in a head-spinning series of swaps. He wound up just shy of the industry’s top tier, the globally known giants like Merck. In 2016, he nearly pulled off a deal that would have put him there, setting him up to run Pfizer. (Yes, that Pfizer, the one - full disclosure - whose chief executive I am suing for his efforts to censor me in 2021.)

Saunders’s rise was particularly impressive because even as he rose through Big Pharma’s ranks, he publicly scorned the idea drug companies might want to, well, discover drugs.

He focused instead on dodging taxes, firing employees, and searching out arcane legal loopholes to extend patents and keep the prices of drugs high. And for a while, it seemed nothing could stop him.

Saunders came to Wall Street’s attention for the turnaround he supposedly engineered during his first run at Bausch + Lomb. At the time, a private equity firm called Warburg Pincus owned the company, which had nearly collapsed in 2006 after Bausch’s contact lens solution was linked to fungal infections and blindness in users.

Under Saunders, Bausch’s sales grew almost 9 percent a year in 2011 and 2012, catching the attention of an aggressive publicly traded Canadian drug company called Valeant. In June 2013, Valeant bought Bausch for $8.7 billion. Warburg Pincus profited hugely, and Saunders gained a reputation as a young, can-do executive who could help modernize the slow-moving pharmaceutical industry.

Three months later, Forest Laboratories, which made the antidepressants Celexa and Lexapro, installed Saunders as its chief executive. Just five months after that, in February 2014, Saunders said he would merge Forest with an Irish drug company called Actavis. The move let the combined company avoid American taxes, even though it would still be run out of the United States.

At about the same time, Saunders made an even more cynical move - one that could have hurt patients if it had worked. Among Forest’s best-selling drugs was a Alzheimer’s drug called Namenda, which generated about $1.5 billion in sales in 2013.

But Forest’s patent on Namenda was set to expire in 2015, meaning that generic drug companies could introduce far cheaper versions that contained the same active chemical ingredient. So Saunders said Forest would introduce a new once-a-day “extended release” version of Namenda called Namenda XR — and stop selling the older version, which patients took twice a day, almost immediately.

The result was that Alzheimer’s patients would quickly have to switch to Forest’s new and more expensive once-a-day Namenda XR, even if they did not want to. No matter that these are vulnerable patients who can suffer from any disruption in their routine. Saunders said openly that forcing them onto the new drug would make it difficult for them to be switched back to the cheaper twice-a-day generic later.

“We believe that by potentially doing a forced switch, we will hold on to a large share of our base users,” Saunders said in a conference call in January 2014. (The New York state attorney general sued, and Saunders was eventually forced to drop the plan and keep selling the older version of Namenda.)

Meanwhile, Saunders had taken over the combined Forest/Actavis, now called Actavis. In November 2014, he used it to make his biggest deal yet, buying Allergan, the maker of Botox. The deal was among the most expensive healthcare acquisitions ever, valuing Allergan at $67 billion.

As with the Forest/Actavis merger, tax avoidance was a - if not the - big reason for the deal. The new Allergan could avoid American taxes, though it would actually be run out of Parsippany, New Jersey. Allergan-Actavis Deal Paves Way for Tax Savings, the Wall Street Journal explained.

By then Saunders had become a Wall Street golden child, and one of the highest-paid drug company executives. He made over $36 million in 2014. He was on track to become a “spokesman for the whole industry,” in the words of a later profile.

And he had even bigger - and more cynical - plans for the future.

(END OF PART 1)

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