I AM DOCTOR--HEAR ME ROAR

 
                                           by liz pavek

Most of us have been taught all our lives to revere our physicians and to take their instructions as gospel. Doctor Who says, "Take two of these and call me in the morning," and we do. Doctor What says, "Let me operate/test/prescribe for that boil on your bum, Mr. Blow," and we do. Doctor When says, "Don't you dare eat that meat or drink that milk, or you'll die! Eat this Wonder bread and drink this soybean milk, instead," and we do.

On the other hand, most of us are becoming increasingly suspicious of our bloated government, and find it encroaching more and more frequently into our private lives. We struggle under the burden of taxes levied by these well-meaning do-gooders. Taxes, boondoggles, and need-to-know are all bad enough. But they still aren't, for the most part, actually life-threatening. When was the last time your Senator prescribed chemotherapy to a terminally-ill person, or took out a gallbladder when it was diet that was at fault?

The more I research, the more I see that we have much more to fear from our doctors than our congressmen. Does your congressman recommend that you take deadly poisons when you are dying? Does your senator tell you that you need to stop eating historically nutritious foods and start eating refined, chemical placebos? Every year, more people die in the United States as a direct result of their doctors' mistakes and ill-informed prescriptions than those who succumb to the practices of their politicians.

Doctors also tend to think of themselves as gods, and this complicates matters. When a patient with a real, working brain attempts to take responsibility for his own health, he is castigated by his physician. Doctors, for some reason, think people are too dumb to look things up on their own, too stupid to do a search on the internet for information, let alone understand what they find--this, from a doctor who is either an emaciated vegan or an obese heart patient, himself. 

Time was when these avenues of research were not available to the average patient, but the internet has changed a lot about what we know and how we know it. Sometimes, patients even know more about their problems than the doctors who claim to be treating them. (So, of course, at this point, the patient is well-advised to stop seeing the physician and find himself someone more interested in his healing than in his wallet.) Most of these patients simply get well by themselves, doing sensible, non-surgical, non-chemical things, like switching back to a nutrient-dense, natural diet of meats, vegetables, and fruits.

But most often, the doctors do their worst work on the ignorant and the helpless, and unfortunately, that includes most of us. Elderly patients don't usually have access to the internet, and they are often more in need of medical assistance than others. How sad that an old person is at the mercy of a professional dabbler who calls what he does "Practicing" and who has more interest in his personal bottom line than the overall health of his trusting patients. 

So the doctors, who will brook absolutely no interference from lesser intellects, scold and threaten their hapless patients for trying to help. These patients know they should be feeling better. They know they should have gotten "well" a long time ago, but still their physicians prescribe, operate, test, and treat. Their doctors browbeat them into taking the prescribed medications, submitting to one expensive test after another, and complying with their directives until the poor patient eventually succumbs to the doctor's good intentions.

Most doctors who have diabetic patients prescribe a high-carbohydrate diet for these patients, supported by frequent injections of insulin. This leads to numerous insulin-induced diseases, any one of which will carry the patient away in a few years. And nobody questions the judgment of the doctor, who possibly doesn't know any better himself, but doesn't want anybody to know that he doesn't know. So, the poor ignorant patient obediently fills up on pancakes and syrup, bread and jam, then diligently injects himself with insulin to control the blood-sugar spikes that result, and waits to die of heart disease, high blood pressure, or other complications of the insulin-induced diseases. Does anybody you know have a Congresscritter who tells them to do something incomprehensible like this?

Why would doctors prescribe deadly poisons to dying cancer patients? Why do they prescribe something like Tamoxifen, a known carcinogen, for breast cancer patients? Last time I looked, my Senator wasn't doing stuff like this. Passing a tax increase, yes. Prescribing deadly poisons to a dying patient, no.

So, the next time someone tells you to fear your government representatives, you'll know that the one you really have to fear is the person who can put the poisons in your body or prescribe the diet that kills.