Health

Men in medicine are keen to tell us how to run our lives and be safe. Then it turns out that their foul ups leave a trail of death behind them. Physician heal thyself and keep thy mouth shut.

Better Than Penicillin
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After breaking his foot five years ago, Toronto bass player Alfred Gertler got an infection that antibiotics couldn’t cure. Doctors told him he might have to have his foot amputated. But then he read about a radically different way to treat infections. The treatment was in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia, at the Eliava Institute in Tbilisi..........

What Eliava did have was treatment that worked. They poured an ointment in the wound and within three days, the infection was gone..... The treatment used something called bacteriophage – or “phage” as some call it. Researchers at Eliava are convinced that phages are a fine, natural alternative to antibiotics......

No one thinks phages will replace antibiotics completely, but they may be part of the answer when antibiotics don’t work. “I think we’re absolutely crazy if we don’t learn to use them and to use them well and efficiently and effectively,” says Kutter.
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Intralytix are working on the product in America but they will not be selling it so cheap as the Georgians.

 

Cannabis Versus Asprin
An eminent medical man takes a position.

 

Care in the community 'kills 40 a year'
The NHS releases lunatics into the community. Aforesaid lunatics murder 40 people a year. It saves the NHS millions. Does Her Majesty's Government care? No, not really. They want the money to waste on other things.

 

Circumcision
Is it a medical issue or a sociological issue? Jews do it which makes it religious peculiarity. Does that make it desirable? Not a chance.

 

Doctors Can Damage Your Health
Doctors can kill. Doctors do kill. Usually it is by accident - but not always.

 

Chemtrails
These are the trails left by aircraft spraying us with nasty chemicals for nefarious purposes. That is the theory. Then there is the evidence which is another matter.

 

Drugs
Have been made illegal which distorts the market place and stimulated demand. They have created a multigigabuck industry which pays policing agencies, free traders and the American CIA

 

Guns are Dangerous
Doctors want to take our guns. They kill more than guns. Governments want to take our guns. They kill far more than guns or doctors.

 

Health Care And The Guilds
Is a proposal for a better system of medicine that owes something to Pope Leo and Rerum Novarum

 

Homeopathy And Bad Science
Homeopaths have been suing someone [ Singh? ] who says they are a bunch of chancers. The Graun puts a view.

 

Hospital superbug claims 49 lives [ 1 October 2006 ]
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Leading hospital trust admits that a 'hypervirulent' infection claimed the lives of at least 49 patients - and possibly as many as 78 people - in the space of nine months.
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Medics are keen to tell us how to run our lives. They manage to kill thousands. Hygiene failures are a major cause.
PS 49 kills are the minimum. It could be 78.

 

Medics kill lots of Americans
Americans pay their medics well. They should get good treatment. They may well get some of the world's best. It is certainly not the worst. Things still go wrong. Then they sue for megabucks.

 

The NHS
Or National Health Service is a government boondoggle with all that implies; corruption, idleness and de facto fraud included.

 

NHS kills 34,000 every year  [ 3 November 2005 ]
Shipman got 215 all by himself. That was for the fun of it. The NHS tends to kill by incompetence. They killed Tosher among the rest. They do like being sanctimonious about people doing what they want to do like drinking and smoking. Foul ups happen in civilized countries too.

 

NHS is not Wonderful - Say so and Get Sacked [ 22 October 2005 ]
Blair throws money at the NHS. Clerks get hired. The service gets worse. Say so and get sacked. The truth is not an option under New Labour.

 

Second Hand Smoking Risks Are Grossly Over Stated
The health industry uses propaganda. Propagandists use health and fear to control us. This is just another example.

 

Smoking, Cancer And Propaganda [ 24 December 2007 ]
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For many decades the public health authorities, the media and politicians have propagated dire warnings about the harmfulness of smoking tobacco products for the individual smoker. When these dire warnings failed to persuade all smokers to stop, the public health authorities began propagating dire warnings about the effects of passive inhalation of tobacco smoke by non-smokers......
If the “official” truth that smoking tobacco is a horrifying health hazard is true, then international statistics on the rate of tobacco use in different countries should show a consistent relationship to the number of people who die from cancer and from heart disease in these countries.................

A rational person ought to conclude that the correlation between smoking tobacco products daily and horrible health consequences is quite weak.
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If you expect governments to tell the truth you are naive or not paying attention. They are run by special interests. Health fanatics are only one such.

 

Strokes and Identifying Them
Get the victim to hospital and the right treatment in three hours and they become curable it seems. Read on.

 

Swine Flu
The real issue is health scares and manipulating people rather than health per se.

 

Two-Thirds Of Medical Research Is Wrong Or Fraudulent [ 6 July 2010 ]
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Have you been left confused by expert health advice? Even people like me, with years of experience in science and medical journalism, are left scratching our heads when research is contradicted by other studies or turns out to be wrong. In early 2008, new guidelines for life-saving emergency heart attack treatment said you should no longer bother with the 'mouth-to-mouth' part of CPR (­cardiopulmonary resuscitation). Instead, you should pump the chest non-stop. Having got my Red Cross certificate some years ago, I wanted to know more - but discovered that while this change was endorsed by the European Resuscitation Council, the Red Cross still trains people to give mouth-to-mouth..........

John Ioannidis, a doctor specialising in infectious diseases who is also a medical research analyst, has looked at hundreds of studies and discovered that two in every three conclusions published in medical journals are later found to be wrong. The problem is that those are the sorts of conclusion your doctor reads when deciding if it makes sense to prescribe an antibiotic for your child's ear infection, or if the benefits outweigh the risks in suggesting that middle-aged men take a small daily dose of aspirin. The two-out-of-three wrongness rate Professor Ioannidis found could be worse: he examined only the less than one- tenth of 1 per cent of research that makes it to prestigious journals. So, what is going on?
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Some of the reasons for mistakes are creditable. When drug companies are paying the motive is clear and it really does make a difference.

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Updated  on Friday, 13 August 2010 08:45:31