“The more scans you do, the more money you make. If I do eight PET scans a day, that’s two million dollars a year, or a 35 percent profit margin… But we don’t use the word ‘profit’ in hospitals; it’s called surplus.” – a doctor, Brownlee (2008) Overtreated The Institute of Medicine (US) estimates that an astonishing $200bn is wasted annually on unnecessary
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Healthcare spending in America fast approaches $4 trillion a year. The dirty
In my last article I mentioned that pharmaceuticals for the main part
Pharmaceutical medications don’t usually cure diseases, they only mitigate symptoms. For the
“The more scans you do, the more money you make. If I do eight PET scans a day, that’s two million dollars a year, or a 35 percent profit margin… But we don’t use the word ‘profit’ in hospitals; it’s called surplus.” –
Healthcare spending in America fast approaches $4 trillion a year. The dirty secret is – most healthcare isn’t actually that expensive to provide. There is a vast difference between what people are charged and what it costs to deliver care. A study
In my last article I mentioned that pharmaceuticals for the main part supress symptoms without treating underlying dysfunction. I am not saying they are never necessary – I am just of the radical belief that they should be used to comfort the
Pharmaceutical medications don’t usually cure diseases, they only mitigate symptoms. For the main part, medications are palliatives designed to comfort the patient rather than cure their condition. Hypertension is not cured by mainstream medications but treated for life. Asthma, peptic ulcers, and
One pathogen; One disease; One therapy. This is the paradigm of infectious disease etiology established in the second half of the nineteenth century by Robert Koch and Louis Pasteur. I refer to Louis Pastuer’s “Germ Theory of Disease” as the Rat Theory
The appearance of antibiotics to treat bacterial infections such as staphylococcal, streptococci, bacilli and pneumonia seemed to arrive as a miracle panacea in the 1950s. Alexander Fleming (1981-1955) – who discovered penicillin, the first broadly effective antibiotic – predicted the rise of
In 2004, The New York Times covered a program called Pursuing Perfection which helped medical practitioners in Bellingham, Washington help patients with diabetes and chronic heart failure mitigate their symptoms, while preventing others from developing them altogether. They employed best practices for counselling patients, nutritionists, nurses,
Cells are the bricks and mortar from which all living tissue and organs are made. To understand degenerative and metabolic disease you must become familiar with the miniature
world of the cell, and how it is able to perform baffling chemical transformations. A
Mainstream Medicine’s fundamental misconception that thousands of different diseases exist, all with varied causes demanding different treatments, has led scientists
down the flawed path of categorizing symptoms as disease when symptoms are the
intelligent warning signals of disease. In this provocative interview, Tunsky
The most highly-regarded cancer institutions have been the biggest obstacles to reducing cancer rates in the USA. A whole book has been written about it in 2011 called National Cancer Institute and American Cancer Society: Criminal Indifference to Cancer Prevention and Conflicts