Don't be a statistic.
Protect yourself.
According to the Journal of the American Medical
Association,
U.S. medicine generates every
year around 250,000 deaths
caused by a doctor's therapy
or by prescribed drugs.1
The true figure is closer to 500,000 U.S.
deaths annually,
and three million injured by medical practices.
"Our
society believes itself to be rational, scientific, and free of
superstition.
It fails to recognise that it is still,
in effect, observing the old
religious rituals, but under a
new guise. It lives its religious experiences through secular forms
- medical ones, in particular - and
has
at the same time transferred its
hopes and aspirations from the
spiritual world to the material.
Medicine, then,
has become the
new world religion..."
Full Article:
Modern
Medicine:
The New World Religion
by Olivier Clerc
Reference 1. Dr. Barbara Starfield,
JAMA Vol 284 July 26, 2000
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THE SUMMARY
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Introduction
"Physicians have taken the place of priests;
- Vaccination plays the same initiatory role as baptism,
and is accompanied by the same threats and fears;
- The search for health has replaced the quest for salvation;
- The fight against disease has replaced the fight against
sin;
- Eradication of viruses has taken the place of exorcising
demons;
- The hope of physical immortality (cloning, etc)
has been substituted for the hope of eternal life;
- Pills have replaced the sacraments;
- A hypothetical universal vaccine could save humanity
from all its illnesses, as from sins;
- Medical power has become the government’s ally,
as was the Catholic Church in the past;
- "Charlatans” are persecuted today as "heretics”
were yesterday;
- Dogmatism rules out promising alternative medical theories;
- The same absence of individual responsibility is now found
in medicine, as previously in the Christian religion;
People are still being manipulated by their fears and childish hopes.
They are still told that the source of their problems is outside
them,
and that the solution can only come from the outside. They are
not allowed to do anything by themselves and they must have the
mediation of priest-physicians, the administration of
drug-hosts,
and the protection of vaccine-absolutions....."
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FULL ARTICLE:
Modern
Medicine:
The New World Religion
by Olivier Clerc
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