Death By Modern Medicine - An Interview
Dr. Carolyn Dean, MD ND, is a well known book author and advocate for drug free medicine. Recently, she published the book “Death By Modern Medicine”, which has gained a wide readership due to its topical content. In this interview with Crusador’s Editor, Greg Ciola, the renown doctor shed light on a host of issues bordering alternative and orthodox medicines, especially how orthodox medicine is killing people. Excerpts
Dr. Carolyn Dean, it’s a pleasure to have the opportunity to interview you. You’ve just written a new book and you’ve been a pioneer in the health freedom movement for quite some time. As a medical doctor you saw what was happening with modern medicine first hand, and it led you to what you’re doing today. What was the impetus for writing your new book, “Death By Modern Medicine?”
Actually, it began when Gary Null asked me to find the statistics on what was really killing Americans. At the time my mother was dying of acute leukemia, which I thought was caused by a cholesterol drug and an antihypertensive drug. I was already looking at the research of death due to drug medications so I just dove into it. In a three-week period I compiled a lot of research for Gary. The figures that I came up with were astounding. About 784,000 people are dying annually due to modern medical interventions[drugs prescribed in hospitals, in outpatient clinics, errors in hospitals (both medical and surgical), bedsores, and malnutrition in nursing homes]. This makes medical interventions the number one killer. Unfortunately, when people die of these medical interventions, it’s called something else, such as heart disease, stroke or cancer and they won’t say what’s really killing them. That’s where my journey began so I just started jotting all the reasons down in this book and I ended up with 13 chapters. Each of them begins with “Death by . . .”
The way you laid the book out is fantastic. You start out Chapter 1 with the title, “Death by Modern Medical Doctors.” Tell us more about that?
A certain mentality exists in medicine where medical doctors believe they should have a monopoly on everything to do with a person’s health. Anybody who does something other than treatments with drugs or surgery becomes the enemy. This mentality existed long before I became a medical doctor. The history of modern medicine began in America with a survey that was done by Abraham Flexner. It was called the Flexner Report. Flexner was an educational reformer who was hired by the Carnegie Foundation to survey North American medical schools. Flexner had fallen in love with the German scientific model of education when he visited Berlin in 1906. He began to see this as the way to set up the North American medical education system. The German model was based on science and lab medicine using drugs, science, and treating very, very ill people. In medical school, doctors are trained in the extremes of medicine (emergency and surgical medicine). But then when they go into practice, 80 percent of the patients have conditions that are lifestyle oriented (aches, pains, fatigue etc…). In medical school, students aren’t trained in the area of diet and lifestyle. Over the past 100 years this mentality has caused medicine to treat normal individuals with abnormal therapies -- drugs and surgeries. To me, that became the basis of the modern medical monopoly and how we have been brainwashed into thinking this is the way it should be and it’s not. I’m a naturopathic doctor as well as a medical doctor. I always held out hope that naturopathic medicine would fill in this gap. We have some principles in naturopathic medicine where we first look to nature by looking for the cause and not just treating symptoms. In naturopathic medicine, patients are encouraged to take personal responsibility for their health by making lifestyle changes. Science-based hospital medicine and prescription drugs have diverted the attention of medical doctors away from truly educating their patients in this area. Unfortunately, naturopathic medicine is following the allopathic mode. When some naturopaths see symptoms, instead of giving a drug, they’ll give a supplement, a vitamin, mineral or herb, but it’s still the same allopathic approach -- treating a symptom with some sort of pill instead of really helping a person change their life.
Do you think that a lot of the medical doctors today are starting to see the errors of their ways and will change the way they treat patients?
Well, I’ll answer that by making this observation. Annually, 20 to 30,000 doctors and physicians attend oncology meetings in the United States.. Alternatively, only a few hundred may attend a meeting for alternative or orthomolecular medicine. So the numbers indicate that we really aren’t making much of a shift toward what I call traditional medicines (diet, supplements, herbs, hydrotherapy, acupuncture, faith, and other effective therapies that have been used for thousands of years).
What do you think about this new approach, called Integrative Medicine, where MDs are starting to incorporate some alternative treatments into what they’re doing?
Well, there are many levels of that. I see that doctors, hospitals, and clinics want to use that title so that they’ll attract people who are fed up with drug medicine and want to have an alternative. Most of the clinics are very expensive…You can read the rest of this interesting interview in the December edition of Alternative Health Newsmagazine. Subscribe by calling the Editor on 07031040178 or email: ebogenius@yahoo.com
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