The entire medical system is so dicey. We have to stop giving them the benefit of the doubt and realize this entire scam we call healthcare is rigged against us, not for us. I know there are some good docs, etc., who try, but they are hamstrung by the system they work in.
Here's a little true horror story : In the early 2000s I went for a routine checkup and my GP called in a panic after seeing my labs saying my liver panels were off the charts and he couldn't figure out how this could be since he saw no symptoms in me that would have been obvious to him in the exam. But he sent me to a gastroenterologist who put me through miles of tests and a liver biopsy and proclaimed I had Hep C. I was promptly enrolled in a new 6 month medication program from Roche called "Pegasys". It was hugely expensive, came with a black box booklet a half inch thick about all the terrible side effects and I was taught to inject myself with this crap on a regular basis. I was also given Ribavirin to lower my immune system (which became a permanent lowering) so the Pegasys would "work" and put on Celexa for depression since suicide and aggression were major side effects.
It made me horribly sick and after 3 months of treatment I demanded to be tested for Hep C again which the Dr. refused to do and harangued me on the phone. Telling me I was going to die and other horrible things. I just quit anyway. I went back to the pharmacy to refill the Celexa since I knew it was bad news just to quit it cold turkey and the pharmacist took me aside and whispered that for some reason unknown to them, I was being given 10mg of Celexa instead of the 30mg the prescription was written for by special instructions from the Dr. Needless to say this was all freaking me out. I quit Celexa cold turkey and it was a horror show.
A few weeks later I tried to commit suicide, unsuccessfully, by the grace of God.
About a year later ten doctors were indicted for conducting illegal drug trials for Roche with Pegasys. The gastro I had been treated by was one of the indicted doctors.
I had excellent heath insurance via Blue Cross that had paid for the entire thing. The cost of this medication was around 2,000/month and that's just the medication.
I wanted to sue but everyone around me kept saying, "Oh, no. Don't do that. It'll go on your record and you'll look bad."
Well, I did not see a doctor for 30+ years until I got captured over the covid period. Since then I have not been able to escape, with escalating health issues. I had no faith in the system before I got captured, and my assessment of the system has continued to decline. The more you see, the more you realise the system is collapsing, and even if you actually believe in what they are delivering, a lot of the time they are unable to deliver in a timely and skillful manner. And the more you see, the more you realise that medicine itself has not advanced in the last 30 years and that what they are delivering is designed to destroy, not to restore good health. I now have two friendly GPs, and the more I see them at work the more I realise that, within the constraints they are forced to operate, and with the lack of support around them, they cannot possibly help me.
I think South Korea may be a one-off. Here in the USA we have the greatest healthcare in the world. 😁Why? Because there’s a pill for that. Or surgery. Or a jab. People tell me about their health issues as if it were a badge of honor and act as if it’s normal to be taking multiple medications. The street I live on has 18 homes. At least seven people have had at least one joint replacement. No, it’s not a retirement community. Some of this is politically driven. Heath insurance is mandatory so people say if I have to pay for it, I’m going to use it. As long as their medication manages whatever issue they have, they are happy. Not for me. I prefer to be free of that. I may not be perfectly happy with my health, but that’s because I’m a bit pedantic and orthorexic.
I know what you mean about people wearing their ill-health with pride. I live on the outskirts of a country town with an average age of 65. Just about everyone is impaired in some way. They think it's totally normal. They react with disbelief when my husband announces that he's 70 as he doesn't look anywhere near that age, and is physically fit and strong. (Yes, I rule the kitchen :).)
Yes, way too much unnecessary testing for starters -colonoscopies for 95% false positive rate FOBT tests are my bugbear (which I've successfully dodged so far), plus ultrasounds and CT scans of the liver for elevated LFT levels from routine blood tests for oldies like me, another of my personal pet peeves. Not to forget fasting blood glucose tolerance tests for pre-diabetes (which I solved on my own initiative by drastically reducing my consumption of high-GI veges).
Yes, the medicos want to cover all bases for legal reasons but in the absence of lifestyle risk factors or any symptoms, much 'preventative' medicine is a big fat waste of time.
Yes, I believe it. I'm personally really starting to question the need for some routine screenings, such as mammograms or colonoscopies. I've had both, but I'm not sure I will again.
My poor dad, who died at 81 from lung cancer shortly before last Christmas, was told to get a colonoscopy every year. Now research suggests that the risks outweigh the benefits if the patient is over the age of 70.
same with pap smear. I know someone who had a smear, it came back fine, in the meanwhile, waiting 6 weeks for the result, she got pain in her tummy and immediately had to have hysterectomy. When I asked the doc he said the part where you take the sample can be fine, and the other side can be covered in cancer. Was my last visit of course.
At this point, I'm giving doctors, medicine, and hospitals a wide berth unless it's an absolute emergency.
I don't even take over-the-counter meds any more. I regret every vaccine I've ever gotten, but thankfully I at least didn't get any C19 shots. And you know how I feel about the recommended one-size-fits-all food guidelines that almost destroyed my health.
I cook whole foods from scratch, exercise daily, and try to get enough sleep. And do my best not to let current events stress me out too much.
Having said that, people are starting to mask up again. One of the provinces in Canada is now recommending everyone get mRNA boosters every three months forever more, and my brother has already been following this guidance for himself and his babies. I could scream.
Yes, it breaks my heart. The twins turned three last month, and are sick roughly half the time. Lately, one or both now end up in the ER once a month. My poor nephew even had to hospitalized in January for week, hooked up to oxygen. They are both especially prone to respiratory ailments. The vaccine schedule is very aggressive here, and includes a yearly flu shot for babies upwards of six months.
just read an article from my former country Belgium. The major healthcare insurance institution CM boss, urges doctors to euthanize all 80+. First they urged people to get a yearly check up, then when you get older, every 2 months, when dad ended up in the hospital 2 years ago, they found a few items that needed adjusting, now he goes every month or so. Scared, he is 90 and mom almost 86.
That is so horrifying!!!! Catherine Austin Fitts has been outspoken since the start of the scamdemic, expressing the view that it is an escalation of what she describes as a financial coup. The pension funds in both the US and Europe have been systematically looted by the predator class, over many decades. There is no money to pay the social security entitlements that older people have been promised. The only solution is to kill as many of them as possible, and drastically lower the expectations of those who remain. Every piece of the agenda - the deadly medical protocols for 'treatment' of COVID, the clot shots, the degrowth movement of the radical (fake) greens, the destruction of agriculture, the provocation and escalation of armed conflicts - makes complete sense when viewed through this lens.
Oh, I dunno. I think perhaps the State should interpret that for me, in case I draw the wrong conclusions. People who speak Spanish are quite satisfied with their health ? I guess Nigerians maybe only have 1 doctor per 5000 people, and therefore, less likely to have been told that they need a tablet ?
since this scamdemic started I have been thinking of moving to Africa, but being a white woman, I would stick out like a sore finger! not to think of having to learn another language, another lifestyle, and not having a store at hand LOL. If I were half my age I would probably do it. Living in rural GA I think I will just stick it out!
The entire medical system is so dicey. We have to stop giving them the benefit of the doubt and realize this entire scam we call healthcare is rigged against us, not for us. I know there are some good docs, etc., who try, but they are hamstrung by the system they work in.
Here's a little true horror story : In the early 2000s I went for a routine checkup and my GP called in a panic after seeing my labs saying my liver panels were off the charts and he couldn't figure out how this could be since he saw no symptoms in me that would have been obvious to him in the exam. But he sent me to a gastroenterologist who put me through miles of tests and a liver biopsy and proclaimed I had Hep C. I was promptly enrolled in a new 6 month medication program from Roche called "Pegasys". It was hugely expensive, came with a black box booklet a half inch thick about all the terrible side effects and I was taught to inject myself with this crap on a regular basis. I was also given Ribavirin to lower my immune system (which became a permanent lowering) so the Pegasys would "work" and put on Celexa for depression since suicide and aggression were major side effects.
It made me horribly sick and after 3 months of treatment I demanded to be tested for Hep C again which the Dr. refused to do and harangued me on the phone. Telling me I was going to die and other horrible things. I just quit anyway. I went back to the pharmacy to refill the Celexa since I knew it was bad news just to quit it cold turkey and the pharmacist took me aside and whispered that for some reason unknown to them, I was being given 10mg of Celexa instead of the 30mg the prescription was written for by special instructions from the Dr. Needless to say this was all freaking me out. I quit Celexa cold turkey and it was a horror show.
A few weeks later I tried to commit suicide, unsuccessfully, by the grace of God.
About a year later ten doctors were indicted for conducting illegal drug trials for Roche with Pegasys. The gastro I had been treated by was one of the indicted doctors.
I had excellent heath insurance via Blue Cross that had paid for the entire thing. The cost of this medication was around 2,000/month and that's just the medication.
I wanted to sue but everyone around me kept saying, "Oh, no. Don't do that. It'll go on your record and you'll look bad."
True story. Watch out.
That is a horror story all right! I'm so glad you survived this nightmare.
I am grateful to have survived, but I'm permanently impaired because of it. I have Morgellons and POTS and other autoimmune diseases.
Thank you for your well wishes. Back at you. God Bless.
So sorry to hear that.
Well, I did not see a doctor for 30+ years until I got captured over the covid period. Since then I have not been able to escape, with escalating health issues. I had no faith in the system before I got captured, and my assessment of the system has continued to decline. The more you see, the more you realise the system is collapsing, and even if you actually believe in what they are delivering, a lot of the time they are unable to deliver in a timely and skillful manner. And the more you see, the more you realise that medicine itself has not advanced in the last 30 years and that what they are delivering is designed to destroy, not to restore good health. I now have two friendly GPs, and the more I see them at work the more I realise that, within the constraints they are forced to operate, and with the lack of support around them, they cannot possibly help me.
Professionals who were trained to treat disease don't know how to (and aren't oriented toward) restore and promote health.
Least jabbed, most satisfied.
I think South Korea may be a one-off. Here in the USA we have the greatest healthcare in the world. 😁Why? Because there’s a pill for that. Or surgery. Or a jab. People tell me about their health issues as if it were a badge of honor and act as if it’s normal to be taking multiple medications. The street I live on has 18 homes. At least seven people have had at least one joint replacement. No, it’s not a retirement community. Some of this is politically driven. Heath insurance is mandatory so people say if I have to pay for it, I’m going to use it. As long as their medication manages whatever issue they have, they are happy. Not for me. I prefer to be free of that. I may not be perfectly happy with my health, but that’s because I’m a bit pedantic and orthorexic.
Greatest profit-maker in the world, sure!
I know what you mean about people wearing their ill-health with pride. I live on the outskirts of a country town with an average age of 65. Just about everyone is impaired in some way. They think it's totally normal. They react with disbelief when my husband announces that he's 70 as he doesn't look anywhere near that age, and is physically fit and strong. (Yes, I rule the kitchen :).)
Yes, way too much unnecessary testing for starters -colonoscopies for 95% false positive rate FOBT tests are my bugbear (which I've successfully dodged so far), plus ultrasounds and CT scans of the liver for elevated LFT levels from routine blood tests for oldies like me, another of my personal pet peeves. Not to forget fasting blood glucose tolerance tests for pre-diabetes (which I solved on my own initiative by drastically reducing my consumption of high-GI veges).
Yes, the medicos want to cover all bases for legal reasons but in the absence of lifestyle risk factors or any symptoms, much 'preventative' medicine is a big fat waste of time.
Love the data on S Korea.
All those scans and ultrasounds are virtually guaranteed to detect an incidentaloma.
Yes, I believe it. I'm personally really starting to question the need for some routine screenings, such as mammograms or colonoscopies. I've had both, but I'm not sure I will again.
My poor dad, who died at 81 from lung cancer shortly before last Christmas, was told to get a colonoscopy every year. Now research suggests that the risks outweigh the benefits if the patient is over the age of 70.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/health/when-are-you-too-old-to-get-a-colonoscopy-5621694?utm_source=promotion&src_src=promotion&utm_campaign=EET04112024&src_cmp=EET04112024&utm_medium=email&utm_content=healthpromo&est=AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAZuEndAYIwMDo674Pt2kXCLt3W%2BpuOJz0koZ7pGbDeBlRSw%3D%3D
Screening mammography does not lower the death rate from breast cancer, does not reduce overall mortality, and does more harm than good. See https://empowertotalhealth.com.au/breast-cancer-screening-when-talking-to-your-doctor-may-mislead-rather-than-inform/, and https://empowertotalhealth.com.au/new-study-on-screening-mammography-shows-more-harms-than-benefits/.
Likewise, screening colonoscopy does not reduce colon cancer or all-cause mortality. See https://robynchuter.substack.com/p/major-trial-finds-screening-colonoscopy.
Overall, cancer screening programs do not 'save lives'. See https://robynchuter.substack.com/p/major-study-finds-that-cancer-screening.
same with pap smear. I know someone who had a smear, it came back fine, in the meanwhile, waiting 6 weeks for the result, she got pain in her tummy and immediately had to have hysterectomy. When I asked the doc he said the part where you take the sample can be fine, and the other side can be covered in cancer. Was my last visit of course.
Pap smears are one of the few screening tests that have any demonstrable benefit, but even they produce false positives and false negatives.
At this point, I'm giving doctors, medicine, and hospitals a wide berth unless it's an absolute emergency.
I don't even take over-the-counter meds any more. I regret every vaccine I've ever gotten, but thankfully I at least didn't get any C19 shots. And you know how I feel about the recommended one-size-fits-all food guidelines that almost destroyed my health.
I cook whole foods from scratch, exercise daily, and try to get enough sleep. And do my best not to let current events stress me out too much.
Having said that, people are starting to mask up again. One of the provinces in Canada is now recommending everyone get mRNA boosters every three months forever more, and my brother has already been following this guidance for himself and his babies. I could scream.
https://www.westernstandard.news/news/alberta-updates-mrna-booster-guidance-to-every-three-months-starting-with-six-month-old-babies
It's hard to imagine how anyone could be getting their babies injected with the mRNA goo. That must be hard for you to watch.
Yes, it breaks my heart. The twins turned three last month, and are sick roughly half the time. Lately, one or both now end up in the ER once a month. My poor nephew even had to hospitalized in January for week, hooked up to oxygen. They are both especially prone to respiratory ailments. The vaccine schedule is very aggressive here, and includes a yearly flu shot for babies upwards of six months.
Absolutely monstrous. Parents have to learn to stand up for their kids, or they will lose them one way or another.
"Now research suggests that the risks outweigh the benefits if the patient is over the age of 70."
My rules are a little different than other expert researchers.
If the patient is under 12 years of age, forget it, NO colonoscopies.
If the patient is over 12 years of age, nope sorry, NO colonoscopies. Never. Never, ever.
Problem(s) solved.
the benefit is only for the pocket of the doctor
... and that's how their complicity is purchased.
just read an article from my former country Belgium. The major healthcare insurance institution CM boss, urges doctors to euthanize all 80+. First they urged people to get a yearly check up, then when you get older, every 2 months, when dad ended up in the hospital 2 years ago, they found a few items that needed adjusting, now he goes every month or so. Scared, he is 90 and mom almost 86.
That is so horrifying!!!! Catherine Austin Fitts has been outspoken since the start of the scamdemic, expressing the view that it is an escalation of what she describes as a financial coup. The pension funds in both the US and Europe have been systematically looted by the predator class, over many decades. There is no money to pay the social security entitlements that older people have been promised. The only solution is to kill as many of them as possible, and drastically lower the expectations of those who remain. Every piece of the agenda - the deadly medical protocols for 'treatment' of COVID, the clot shots, the degrowth movement of the radical (fake) greens, the destruction of agriculture, the provocation and escalation of armed conflicts - makes complete sense when viewed through this lens.
Oh, I dunno. I think perhaps the State should interpret that for me, in case I draw the wrong conclusions. People who speak Spanish are quite satisfied with their health ? I guess Nigerians maybe only have 1 doctor per 5000 people, and therefore, less likely to have been told that they need a tablet ?
I reckon the Nigerians are served quite well by not having enough doctors to make 'regular check-ups' a part of the culture.
since this scamdemic started I have been thinking of moving to Africa, but being a white woman, I would stick out like a sore finger! not to think of having to learn another language, another lifestyle, and not having a store at hand LOL. If I were half my age I would probably do it. Living in rural GA I think I will just stick it out!
My husband and I frequently ponder where we would run to if SHTF. The problem is, every country on Earth is vulnerable and problematic in some way.
Unfortunately doctors only treat the symptoms, never the root cause.