Ch 10.12 - Pharmaceuticals
"If you are healthy you have a thousand wishes, if you are sick you only have one" - Adi Redzic
a. Medication
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"How unusual... they entrust the management of their health to those who profit from their sickness?" - If an alien could observe us from outer space, that is what they'd say to themself
Pharmakeia - far-mak-i'-ah - noun- Ancient Greek - sorcery, witchcraft, and drug administration fostered by worshipping idols
Pharmacia - Swiss pharmaceutical company that took over Upjohn in 1995. Spun off agricultural subsidiary Monsanto in 2002 and then was acquired by Pfizer in 2003
"for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries [phamakaiea] were all nations deceived." - Revelation 18:23 KJV
"The pharmaceutical industry does not create cures. They create customers." - Unknown
"Chemotherapeutic drugs are the only classification of drugs where the prescribing doctor gets a direct cut. So if your doctor prescribes chemo for you, here‘s how it goes. The doctor buys it off the pharmaceutical company for $5,000. He sells it to the patient for $12,000, insurance pays $9,000, and the doctor pockets $4,000. The only reason chemotherapy is used is because doctors make money from it, period, and it doesn‘t work 97% of the time." - Dr. Peter Glidden
"Ain't no money in the cure, the money's in the medicine… That's how a drug dealer makes his money, on the comeback." - Chris Rock
"They're not there for your health. They treat symptoms. They don't treat the root cause. They don't want to cure anything. Goldman Sachs wrote a research paper report about this several years ago saying that curing the disease is not a good business model because once you cure the patients, the cash flow stops." - Unknown
"It's more important to understand the imbalances in your body's basic systems and restore balance, rather than name the disease and match the pill to the ill." - Mark Hyman, M.D.
"Highest Quality of Evidence / Lowest Risk of Bias
1) Evidence-Based Medicine
2) Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis of Random Controlled Trials (RCTs)
3) Randomized Controlled Trials
4) Cohort Studies
5) Case-Control Studies
6) Cross-Sectional Studies / Surveys
7) Case Reports / Case Studies
8) Mechanistic Studies
9) Editorials / Expert Opinion
Lowest Quality of Evidence / Highest Risk of Bias" - Unknown
"Manipulating the data is not science.
Censoring opposing opinions is not science.
Scaremongering and coercion are not science.
Discriminating against medical choice is not science
We were told to follow the science, but the science followed the propaganda (and money)" - Unknown
"To an industry that does not even know how to cure heartburn, we have given 600 BILLION dollars to come up with a cure for cancer. Gee, I wonder why we aren't any closer to a cure since Richard Nixon declared a war on cancer (44yrs ago)." - Dr. Peter Glidden
"The three most potent drugs in the world are placebo, denial, and apathy." - Unknown
"One of the best things you can do for your family and yourself at this moment is to focus on getting, and remaining, as healthy as possible. This is not going to get 'better'....being reliant on medications will become a death sentence for many. And a lot of this reliance is self-imposed." - Unknown
b. Snake Oil
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"FDA approval means little... I work in healthcare, and over the past many years, we have lost count of the number of ‘FDA Approved’ drugs that have been taken off the market and recalled due to adverse side effects and deaths."
"Ten most significant lawsuits in Pfizer's history:
10) Protonix – $55 Million
9) Trovan – $75 Million
8) Faulty Heart Valves- $215 Million
7) Chantix-$288 Million
6) Rapamune – $490.9 Million
5) Medicaid Rebates- $784.6 Million
4) Neurontin – $945 Million
3) Prempro -$1.2 Billion
2) Celebrex – $1.5 billion
1) Bextra, Zyvox, Geodon, and Lyrica -$2.3 Billion" - Unknown
"OxyContin - $6 billion. Most significant legal case in pharma ever." - Unknown
Dr. Glidden's ten questions to ask your oncologist:
1) Does the therapy you're recommending cure my cancer?
2) What causes my cancer?
3) What can I expect if the treatment you're recommending doesn't cure my cancer?
4) What side effects from the treatment can I expect?
5) Can the treatment give me cancer?
6) How will you manage the treatment's side effects if they happen?
7) What will happen to the quality of my life while I'm undergoing this treatment?
8) How much are you going to profit from this treatment?
9) How much is the hospital going to profit from this treatment?
10) Can I talk to 5 different patients in my demographic with the same Cancer who had the same treatment to see how they're doing?
"Those who have never known sickness, and those who have never known suffering, often have a lack of empathy; and often their heart is narrow and small and restricted, and not able to open up and embrace the suffering of others because they just don't know it. The sick, on the other hand, are often the most loving and understanding and compassionate people that you will ever meet, and they are the ones who will have boldness before God in their prayers for others." Elder Aimilianos of Simonopetra, 'Blessed are the Pure in Heart' by Father Maximos Constas
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