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66					<span style="font:12px Verdana, sans-serif; ">Why do people turn to alternative medicine? One of their reasons is their disappointment with the modern biomedical paradigm. There are some good reasons for their disappointment.</span>

66<span style="font:12px Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; ">&nbsp;<br /></span><span style="font:12px Verdana, sans-serif; font-weight:bold; color:#800000;font-weight:bold; "><br /></span><span style="font:12px Verdana, sans-serif; font-weight:bold; color:#800000;font-weight:bold; ">Conventional BioMedicine: Strengths<br /></span><span style="font:12px Verdana, sans-serif; color:#000000;">An integrated health care model would have to consider the strengths of conventional biomedicine.  Historically there are three areas in which this type of medicine has excelled: treatment of acute infections and disease through antibiotics (Note: reduction of mortality overall and extension of life-span is mainly attributable to improved sewage and nutrition), anesthesia and the management of pain, and advanced diagnostic and surgical techniques.  Because of its reductionistic (rather than holistic focus) it is rapidly losing ground in the area of acute disease with the rise of antibiotic and treatment resistant bacteria and viruses.  For the management of chronic disease this paradigm has largely proven to be palliative at its best and deadly at its worst. </span><span style="font:12px Verdana, sans-serif; "><br /></span><span style="font:12px Verdana, sans-serif; font-weight:bold; color:#800000;font-weight:bold; "><br />Conventional BioMedicine: Documented Problems<br /><br /></span><span style="font:12px Verdana, sans-serif; color:#000000;">Homeopathy and other complementary/alternative medical modalities are often under attack from mainstream media, whose articles or experts are often funded by the large and influential pharmaceutical industry.  There is an English saying that says, &ldquo;People living in glass houses should not throw stones.&rdquo;  What this means is that those who claim to represent &ldquo;modern&rdquo; medicine should not criticize others before putting their own house in order.  Increasingly, this medical paradigm is coming under attack, as has been seen in </span><span style="font:12px Verdana, sans-serif; font-weight:bold; color:#000000;font-weight:bold; "><a href="../resources/Vioxxscandal.pdf" rel="external">the Vioxx scandal</a></span><span style="font:12px Verdana, sans-serif; color:#000000;">, and the inability of peer reviewed medical journals like </span><span style="font:12px Verdana, sans-serif; font-weight:bold; color:#000000;font-weight:bold; "><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1420798/" rel="external">the Lancet to find objective research</a></span><span style="font:12px Verdana, sans-serif; color:#000000;"> that is not funded (and thus, implicitly biased) by pharmaceutical interests and is critiqued as </span><span style="font:12px Verdana, sans-serif; font-weight:bold; color:#000000;font-weight:bold; "><a href="http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1004/S00011.htm" rel="external">"The Peer Review 'Fig Leaf'".</a></span><span style="font:12px Verdana, sans-serif; color:#000000;"><br /><br /></span><span style="font:12px Verdana, sans-serif; ">Frequently alternative medical practitioners are charged with being irresponsible, or incapable of diagnosing or treating serious medical conditions.  The material below shows that the modern medical profession constitutes a much more serious risk to health than any other medical system on the planet, especially when it comes to iatrogenic, or medically induced, disease. (in Egypt we have an example of the largest case of iatrogenically induced disease, i.e. caused by modern medicine, in the world.  In the 1960s 15 million people were infected with Hepatitis C as a result of bilharzia vaccine campaign in which the needles were re-used.) <br /><br />The Hippocratic Oath, which every physician is supposed to take and be bound by, states, among other things: </span><span style="font:12px Verdana, sans-serif; font-weight:bold; font-weight:bold; ">At least, do no harm</span><span style="font:12px Verdana, sans-serif; ">.  The evidence below suggests that medicine as it is being practiced today, is doing the opposite.  An eye-opening documentary about the relationship between the pharmaceutical industry and the medical establishment is </span><span style="font:12px Verdana, sans-serif; font-weight:bold; font-weight:bold; "><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1uARFrI9U4" target="self" rel="external">Big Bucks, Big Pharma</a></span><span style="font:12px Verdana, sans-serif; "><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1uARFrI9U4" target="self" rel="external">.</a></span><span style="font:12px Verdana, sans-serif; "><br /><br /></span><span style="font:12px Verdana, sans-serif; color:#000000;">Patients turn to complementary and alternative medical modalities because they have experienced the downside of this paradigm of treatment.  There are numerous statistics to support their mistrust and I append only a selection in order to give you some idea of the problems associated with modern medicine.  <br /><br /></span><span style="font:12px Verdana, sans-serif; font-weight:bold; color:#000000;font-weight:bold; ">Life Extension Foundation article called </span><span style="font:12px Verdana, sans-serif; font-weight:bold; color:#000000;font-weight:bold; "><a href="../resources/DeathbyMedicine.pdf" target="self" rel="external">Death by Medicine</a></span><span style="font:12px Verdana, sans-serif; font-weight:bold; color:#000000;font-weight:bold; "><br /></span><span style="font:12px Verdana, sans-serif; color:#000000;">A well-researched article that provides some shocking statistics on the mortality and injury associated with the medical system.</span><span style="font:12px Verdana, sans-serif; font-weight:bold; font-weight:bold; "><br /><br /><br /></span><span style="font:12px Verdana, sans-serif; font-weight:bold; font-weight:bold; "><a href="../resources/ModMedicineScience.pdf" target="self" rel="external">Medicine and Science?<br /></a></span><span style="font:12px Verdana, sans-serif; ">Perhaps the most damning critique of modern medicine is of its methodology influenced by agendas other than those of science. (Download the article by clicking on the heading).<br /><br /></span><h1>Science or Journalism?</h1><span style="font:12px Verdana, sans-serif; "><br />Much of current medical news reported in the media is biased and often funded by pharma or other interests.  This kind of medical journalistic ghost writing has even caught the attention of the </span><span style="font:12px Verdana, sans-serif; font-weight:bold; font-weight:bold; "><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3190555/" rel="external">National Institutes of Health</a></span><span style="font:12px Verdana, sans-serif; "> and the Public Library of Science </span><span style="font:12px Verdana, sans-serif; font-weight:bold; font-weight:bold; "><a href="http://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1000156" rel="external">PLOS</a></span><span style="font:12px Verdana, sans-serif; "><a href="http://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1000156" rel="external"> (a non profit published of science articles</a></span><span style="font:12px Verdana, sans-serif; ">).  Professor Gary Schwitzer has an </span><span style="font:12px Verdana, sans-serif; font-weight:bold; font-weight:bold; ">

66<a href="https://www.healthnewsreview.org/2017/06/conflicts-of-interest-in-health-care-journalism-1-of-3/" target="self" rel="external">interesting summary on the quality of medical journalism</a></span><span style="font:12px Verdana, sans-serif; ">.  <br /><br />The following section is a good example of the influence of public relations on the perception of disease.<br /><br /></span><span style="font:12px Verdana, sans-serif; font-weight:bold; color:#800000;font-weight:bold; ">Disease Mongering</span><span style="font:12px Verdana, sans-serif; "><br />A term coined in an article for PR Watch by Bob Burton and Andy Rowell, this phenomenon explains how the pharma industry invents disease categories to create demand among healthy human beings.  </span><span style="font:12px Verdana, sans-serif; font-weight:bold; font-weight:bold; "><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Disease_Mongering" target="self" rel="external">Source Watch run by the Center for Media and Democracy has a very good article</a></span><span style="font:12px Verdana, sans-serif; "> on this phenomenon.  In addition, you will find a very </span><span style="font:12px Verdana, sans-serif; font-weight:bold; color:#800000;font-weight:bold; "><a href="http://collections.plos.org/disease-mongering" target="self" rel="external">good collection of articles at the Public Library of Science</a></span><span style="font:12px Verdana, sans-serif; ">. <br /><br /><br /><br /></span>
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