Download or read book Doctors Are More Harmful Than Germs written by Harvey Bigelsen, M.D. and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2011-03-15 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most people would consider a knife wound to the stomach a serious health risk, but a similar scalpel wound in an operating room is often shrugged off. In Doctors Are More Harmful Than Germs, Dr. Harvey Bigelsen explains how today’s medical doctors overprescribe surgery and ignore its long-term health implications. Any invasive medical procedure, he argues—including colonoscopies and root canals—creates inflammation in the body, leading to serious and long-lasting health problems. Inflammation, according to Dr. Bigelsen, is the real cause of all chronic disease (persistent or long-lasting illness). Noting that Western medicine has yet to “cure” a single chronic disease, Bigelsen points to a new paradigm: one that treats each patient as an individual (rather than as a set of symptoms), avoids further damage to the body through surgery, and looks for the root cause of chronic disease in past damage done to the patient’s body—whether caused by a bad fall or a scalpel. Provocatively written and radical in its approach, Doctors Are More Harmful Than Germs challenges readers to rethink everything they believe about illness and how to treat it.
Download or read book Doctors Are Dangerous written by D. M D. and published by Xlibris. This book was released on 2000-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr D is the pseudonym for an experienced physician and health advocate who has just completed a quite short non-fiction book about health. The title of the book is Doctors Are Dangerous: How To Stay Healthy , and it represents the distillation of knowledge, opinion and advice accumulated over thirty years as a medical doctor and psychiatrist. As the baby boomers age and pay more attention to their health there is the growing awareness that medicine, as it's practiced in America, is not meeting their needs. Services are difficult to obtain, the system has become even more impersonal, clearly driven by money, and most telling - the care and treatments given just don't work. People are looking for, and finding alternatives. Various threads run through this book. The first is that doctors, and Organized Medicine present a real danger to your health. Doctors do more harm than good. Medical science is not science. Rather, it is pseudo science foisted on the public by what has been described as a pharmaceutical- medical-industrial complex. Drugs are incredibly dangerous, surgery is expensive, arbitrary and frequently maiming, chemotherapy and radiation therapy are useless and will hasten your death, medical students and professors are brainwashed to believe only research that is financed and supported by drug companies, the FDA acts with complicity as the enforcement arm of Organized Medicine to suppress and destroy alternative safer, cheaper and more effective modalities, legislation is crafted through massive drug company lobbying to create laws that favor pharmaceutical companies and "legally" wipe out opposition...The system is fueled by arrogance and greed and power. If this sounds a bit like a paranoid fantasy, it should be noted that this view of a no-holds barred campaign of suppression of Alternative Medicine by Organized Medicine is well documented in my work as well as in the various sources that are listed as references. This strong indictment of medicine is necessary. Organized Medicine is not only pseudo science, it is a religion, with hospitals serving as temples and doctors the self serving priests. To walk away from such a system, to embrace another, is something that's upsetting, confusing and frightening and must stem from extreme dissatisfaction with one's present situation. Only when the degree of destruction and mayhem that goes on in the name of medicine on a daily basis is appreciated - and on some deep level most of us know this is true - can people find the courage to make the break. But to go where? The second thread that runs through the book, now that the first concept Doctors are Dangerous has been introduced, is How to Stay Healthy. In general, this means moving towards and experimenting with alternative treatments. Alternative or Holistic Medicine is a broad term that encompasses various modalities; techniques such as massage, fasting, herbal and dietary intervention, homeopathy, chelation, acupuncture, meditation, etc. This is a huge and rapidly expanding industry ($30 billion last year), even more impressive since most of this money is paid out of pocket, insurance companies not generally covering these services. Treatment techniques though seemingly disparate, do have in common certain fundamental principles that distinguish Eastern (Alternative) approaches from Western (Organized) Medicine approaches. First and foremost is the belief in the existence of a universal life force, that permeates the world and animates all things. In Eastern, or Chinese medicine, this energy is known as Chi (Ki in Japan), in the ancient Indian tradition of Ayurveda, this energy is known as prana, in ancient Greece as pneuma, in 19th century Europe as elan vital...It is this energy that animates and runs through all living things. It is the blockage or accumulation or dispersion or loss of this energy that creates di
Download or read book Bad Medicine written by David Wootton and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2007-11-22 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just how much good has medicine done over the years? And how much damage does it continue to do? The history of medicine begins with Hippocrates in the fifth century BC. Yet until the invention of antibiotics in the 1930s doctors, in general, did their patients more harm than good. In this fascinating new look at the history of medicine, David Wootton argues that for more than 2300 years doctors have relied on their patients' misplaced faith in their ability to cure. Over and over again major discoveries which could save lives were met with professional resistance. And this is not just a phenomenon of the distant past. The first patient effectively treated with penicillin was in the 1880s; the second not until the 1940s. There was overwhelming evidence that smoking caused lung cancer in the 1950s; but it took thirty years for doctors to accept the claim that smoking was addictive. As Wootton graphically illustrates, throughout history and right up to the present, bad medical practice has often been deeply entrenched and stubbornly resistant to evidence. This is a bold and challenging book - and the first general history of medicine to acknowledge the frequency with which doctors do harm.
Download or read book Can Some Doctors Do More Harm Than Good written by Sidney W. Dietz and published by . This book was released on 2004-02 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Why Doctors Do More Harm Than Good written by Vernon Coleman and published by . This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Good Germs Bad Germs written by Jessica Snyder Sachs and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2008-09-30 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making Peace with Microbes Public sanitation and antibiotic drugs have brought about historic increases in the human life span; they have also unintentionally produced new health crises by disrupting the intimate, age-old balance between humans and the microorganisms that inhabit our bodies and our environment. As a result, antibiotic resistance now ranks among the gravest medical problems of modern times. Good Germs, Bad Germs addresses not only this issue but also what has become known as the "hygiene hypothesis"— an argument that links the over-sanitation of modern life to now-epidemic increases in immune and other disorders. In telling the story of what went terribly wrong in our war on germs, Jessica Snyder Sachs explores our emerging understanding of the symbiotic relationship between the human body and its resident microbes—which outnumber its human cells by a factor of nine to one! The book also offers a hopeful look into a future in which antibiotics will be designed and used more wisely, and beyond that, to a day when we may replace antibacterial drugs and cleansers with bacterial ones—each custom-designed for maximum health benefits.
Download or read book The Secret Life of Germs written by Philip M. Tierno and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2004-01-06 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the history of germs, discussing how germs have been viewed and treated throughout time and explains why germs now pose an even greater risk to mankind than ever before.
Download or read book The End of Illness written by David B. Agus and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-01-17 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From one of the world's foremost physicians and researchers comes a monumental work that radically redefines conventional conceptions of health and illness to offer new methods for living a long, healthy life.
Download or read book The DMSO Handbook for Doctors written by Archie H. Scott and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2013-07 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DMSO A True Wonder Drug DMSO is a natural chemical compound derived from trees as a by-product from paper manufacturing. DMSO has been called a new medical principle and a true wonder drug. It has proven effective, either by itself or in combination with other products in the treatment of nearly every ailment known. There has been much controversy about DMSO over the last 50 years. It is one of the most studied medical products ever. Thousands of scientific articles have been written about DMSO. When used properly it is one of the safest products know. It is also very cheap to produce. This book provides the documentation needed to show that DMSO is probably the most important product ever for the relief of human suffering. ****** Archie is quite clearly a leading authorithy on DMSO. He has extensive knowledge and experience regarding the clinical benefits of DMSO treatment. For decades, Archie has studied and worked with DMSO. He understands the safety, utility and efficaciousness of DMSO. I highly recommend this book for anyone interested in health, especially for those who want to learn more about non toxic medical therapies. For individuals with certain health ailments, DMSO could prove quite benefical. -Daniel Junck, MD
Download or read book More Harm Than Good written by Alan ZELICOFF and published by AMACOM/American Management Association. This book was released on 2008-04-30 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is the treatment we're getting really what we need?
Download or read book National Geographic Kids Why Not written by Crispin Boyer and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2018 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shares the answers to over one thousand questions on such topics as animals, natural resources, technology, and history.
Download or read book Infectious Madness written by Harriet A. Washington and published by Little, Brown Spark. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking look at the connection between germs and mental illness, and how we can protect ourselves. Is it possible to catch autism or OCD the same way we catch the flu? Can a child's contact with cat litter lead to schizophrenia? In her eye-opening new book, National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author Harriet Washington reveals that we can in fact "catch" mental illness. In Infectious Madness, Washington presents the new germ theory, which posits not only that many instances of Alzheimer's, OCD, and schizophrenia are caused by viruses, prions, and bacteria, but also that with antibiotics, vaccinations, and other strategies, these cases can be easily prevented or treated. Packed with cutting-edge research and tantalizing mysteries, Infectious Madness is rich in science, characters, and practical advice on how to protect yourself and your children from exposure to infectious threats that could sabotage your mental and physical health.
Download or read book Kiplinger s Personal Finance written by and published by . This book was released on 1954-07 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most trustworthy source of information available today on savings and investments, taxes, money management, home ownership and many other personal finance topics.
Download or read book Never Be Sick Again written by Raymond Francis and published by Health Communications, Inc.. This book was released on 2002-09 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a practical theory of health and disease that aims to revolutionize the way we look at illness. This book provides readers a holistic approach to living that will empower them to get well - and stay well.
Download or read book Stealth Germs in Your Body written by Erno Daniel and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Would you have suspected that your stomach ulcer was due to bacteria, or that a viral infection causes cervical cancer? Faced with mounting evidence that "stealth germs"--smoldering chronic infections in the body (some treatable or even preventable)--are at the root of numerous health problems, Dr. Erno Daniel provides the first-ever medical reference book on the subject for the general public. Organized by type of germ and where in the body each manifests itself, this invaluable guide will help patients overcome their lack of medical awareness; understand the variable ways individuals react to such infections; and navigate the complexities of physician-patient communication about multiple symptoms.
Download or read book More Harm than Good written by Edzard Ernst and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-01-11 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reveals the numerous ways in which moral, ethical and legal principles are being violated by those who provide, recommend or sell ‘complementary and alternative medicine’ (CAM). The book analyses both academic literature and internet sources that promote CAM. Additionally the book presents a number of brief scenarios, both hypothetical and real-life, about individuals who use CAM or who fall prey to ethically dubious CAM practitioners. The events and conundrums described in these scenarios could happen to almost anyone. Professor emeritus of complementary medicine Edzard Ernst together with bioethicist Kevin Smith provide a thorough and authoritative ethical analysis of a range of CAM modalities, including acupuncture, chiropractic, herbalism, and homeopathy. This book could and should interest all medical professionals who have contact to complementary medicine and will be an invaluable reference for patients deliberating which course of treatment to adopt.
Download or read book The Blood and Its Third Element written by Antoine Bechamp and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-12-23 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last work by Antoine B�champ, a man who should be regarded today as one of the founders of modern medicine and biology.During his long career as an academic and researcher in nineteenth century France, B�champ was widely known and respected as both a teacher and a researcher. As a leading academic, his work was well documented in scientific circles.Few made as much use of this fact as Louis Pasteur, who based much of his career on plagiarising and distorting B�champ's research. In doing so, Pasteur secured for himself an undeserved place in the history of medical science.The Blood and its Third Element is B�champ's explanation of his position, and his defense of it against Pasteur's mischief.This final major work of B�champ's embodies the culmination of his life's research. This book contains, in detail, the elements of the microzymian theory of the organization of living organisms and organic materials. It has immediate and far reaching relevance to the fields of immunology, bacteriology, and cellular biology; and it shows that more than 100 years ago, the germ, or microbian, theory of disease was demonstrated by B�champ to be without foundation.There is no single cause of disease. The ancients thought this, and B�champ proved it and was written out of history for his trouble. The relevance of his work to modern science remains as yet unrealized.
