Under the guide of "education," drug companies have a dominating
presence at medical schools, where they indoctrinate future M.D.s with
propaganda about the "benefits" of prescription drugs. The doctors, for
their part, claim they are not influenced at all, and yet several
studies reveal that their prescription habits are sharply altered
nonetheless. Doctors, it seems, aren't very good at knowing when they're
being influenced.
This interaction between drug companies and
medical schools is just one of the many ways in which the medical racket
rolls forward. Doctors aren't learning much about nutrition, the
importance of healthy breathing, or how to beat cancer with everyday
groceries, but they're sure learning a lot about the latest (and most
expensive) prescription drugs. Drug companies spend billions to
"educate" doctors about what drugs they should be prescribing -- with
free dinners, free vacations to Hawaii disguised as training programs,
and free products -- and that investment pays off in a flood of
prescriptions.
The medical treatment you get at the offices of most
doctors has been designed and implemented by pharmaceutical companies,
not by professionals who actually understand health. It is, indeed, the
largest con every perpetrated on the American people, and with 2.2
million injuries and 100,000 deaths caused by prescription drugs each
year in the United States, it is by far the most evil con witnessed in
the last hundred years. Big Medicine must be exposed for the
profiteering racket it has become, and doctors need to start leaning
about the causes of health, not merely how to treat symptoms with drugs.
Recommended reading: Prescription For Disaster.
About the author: Mike Adams is an award-winning journalist and holistic nutritionist with a strong interest in personal health, the environment and the power of nature to help us all heal He is a prolific writer and has published thousands of articles, interviews, reports and consumer guides, and he has published numerous courses on preparedness and survival, including financial preparedness, emergency food supplies, urban survival and tactical self-defense. Adams is an independent journalist with strong ethics who does not get paid to write articles about any product or company. In 2010, Adams launched TV.NaturalNews.com, a natural health video site featuring videos on holistic health and green living. He also founded an environmentally-friendly online retailer called BetterLifeGoods.com that uses retail profits to help support consumer advocacy programs. He's also the founder of a well known HTML email software company whose 'Email Marketing Director' software currently runs the NaturalNews subscription database. Adams is currently the executive director of the Consumer Wellness Center, a 501(c)3 non-profit, and regularly pursues cycling, nature photography, Capoeira and Pilates. Known on the 'net as 'the Health Ranger,' Adams shares his ethics, mission statements and personal health statistics at www.HealthRanger.org
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