When doctors breach the public trust

LETTE RS TO THE EDITO R When doctors breach the public trust Editor, If you teach a rat to nego­tiate a maze to get its food you don’t get a new and improved ethical or moral rat, you just get an educated rat. Recent doings at the Luzerne County Court­house indicate that if that same rat also successfully negotiates the maze of law school and bar exams, the result is still the same, so I can understand the concern Dr. Greco has about the rat ethos negatively affecting the state of medicine. But since the American Rat Association is an equal opportunity weed; it chal­lenges the wheat of medi­cine as severely as it does law and most other human endeavors. In his Oct. 2004 newsletter under the headline “Public Enemy No. 1,” Dr. Julian Whitaker in part has this to say about conventional med­icine: “Conventional medi­cine is the most dangerous industry in the world.” In an excellent analysis of the dangers of conventional medicine intervention, Gary Null Ph.D. and col­leagues show that adverse drug reactions, medical errorsandotherdoctor­induced events are the lead­ing cause of death in this country, responsible for 783,936 fatalities every year. Why don’t we recognize this? This astounding figure, meticulously researched and documented, outpaces heart disease (pegged as our number one killer) by almost 100,000 deaths per year and cancer by 200,000. It means that every single day, more than 2,000 deaths are caused by the profession to which we entrust our health. Every decade, more Americans are killed by conventional medical prac­tices than have died in all the wars our country has ever fought. Dr. Greco, it seems, has sufficient weed­ing in his own garden to do before he gains enough credibility to be in a posi­tion to advise alternate medicine on the disposition oftheirs. While the weeds of medi­cine pay lip service to the tenets of science, in prac­tice what they consider to be “unscientific” is any­thing that actually or poten­tially negatively impacts them financially. Prescrib­ing statin drugs and moni­toring those who take them is a multi-billion dollar cash cow for both doctors and drug companies who are of the “cholesterol is bad” reli­gion. Nobel Prize winner Linus Pauling was not exactly a scientific lightweight. A successor of his has written a book titled “Stop Ameri­ca’s No. 1 Killer!,” the prem­ise of which is that athero­sclerosis is actually scurvy of the arteries that can suc­cessfully be reversed with high doses of vitamin C. Though there are 50 pages of scientific references in this 320 page book in sup­port of his thesis, I don’t think Barnes & Noble has to worry about being over run by doctors abandoning the very lucrative “cholesterol is bad” religion in favor of exponentially cheaper orthomolecular vitamin C therapy as outlined in Dr. Levy’s book. Statin drugs have a list of insidious side­effects, like actually weak­ening the heart because of CoQ10 depletion, memory loss and muscle weakness, but not satisfied with the billions they get from work­ing this scam on adults, drug companies want to expand their horizons and start chemically abusing children as young as 8 years old. While the abuses of the legal profession in the pur­suit of individualmalprac­tice awards are real, their sins of omission in not pur­suing thesystemicmalprac­tice drug companies, allo­pathic doctors and amalgam placing dentists engage in is a greater breach of social trust. Martin Husovich, WhiteHaven

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