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Author: Harvey Bigelsen, M.D. Publisher: North Atlantic Books ISBN: 1556439881 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 265
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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.
Author: Harvey Bigelsen, M.D. Publisher: North Atlantic Books ISBN: 1556439881 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 265
Book Description
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.
Author: D. M D. Publisher: Xlibris ISBN: 9780738823027 Category : Health & Fitness Languages : en Pages : 0
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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
Author: David Wootton Publisher: OUP Oxford ISBN: 0191579564 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 320
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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.
Author: David B. Agus Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1451610173 Category : Health & Fitness Languages : en Pages : 352
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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.
Author: Philip M. Tierno Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 9780743421881 Category : Health & Fitness Languages : en Pages : 324
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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.
Author: Les Irwig Publisher: Judy Irwig ISBN: 1905140177 Category : Health & Fitness Languages : en Pages : 255
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Every day we make decisions about our health - some big and some small. What we eat, how we live and even where we live can affect our health. But how can we be sure that the advice we are given about these important matters is right for us? This book will provide you with the right tools for assessing health advice.
Author: Harvey Bigelsen, M.D.
Author: Harvey Bigelsen, M.D.
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