The Medical Mafia ?

(Cancer suffereres look up 'herbal treatments for cancer...)

The book, "The Medical Mafia", written by  French-Canadian medical
doctor, entrepreneur, and mother Dr. Guylaine Lanctot (pronounced
"Ghee-Lane Lank-Toe") is a book with a correct title, that exposes how
'the medical system' prevents known cures from being integrated into
the health system to prevent many diseases and feeds, in fact profits
from disease.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0964412608/104-1369271-9447920?v=glance&n=283155

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This stunning, easy-to-read book, by French-Canadian medical doctor,
entrepreneur, and mother Dr. Guylaine Lanctot (pronounced "Ghee-Lane
Lank-Toe") answers many questions such as:

(1) Why are certain illnesses untreatable?
(2) Why do some people always become ill and others never?
(3) Why do some people die from an illness and others recover?
(4) Why do medical costs continue to skyrocket? Who profits from this?
(5) Why are some doctors or therapists barred from practicing and
others not?
(6) Why is treatment remunerated and not prevention?
(7) Why are people still dying of cancer after fifty years of intensive
research at astronomical cost?
(8) Why is the public not properly informed about alternative
medicines?
(9) Why is everyone so unhappy with the existing medical and hospital
system?
(10) Why are there so many medical organizations and government medical
agencies? Whose interest are they protecting?

The main chapters of this book answer not only these questions, but
other questions as well. These chapters are divided into four parts:

(1) The Problem. (5 chapters.)

In a nutshell, the author tells us we have "a medicine of sickness."
She goes on to say that "[t]his is true for the United States, as it is
for Canada, France, or, for that matter, for all countries whatever
their health system may be."

(2) The Solution (to the problem). (7 chapters.)

Here, the obvious answer is "a medicine of health." The author tells us
that this solution "treats the cause of illnesses and prevents them
from occurring." However, this obvious solution is prevented due to ...

(3) The Obstacle. (8 chapters.)

What exactly is the obstacle? It is "the medical mafia." The author
explains: "Officially, we are told that the system is at the service of
the patient. But, in practice, the system is at the service
of...industry [that] pulls the strings and maintains a system [or a
medicine] of sickness for its own profit. That is the MEDICAL MAFIA."

(4) The Realization (of what should be done). (10 chapters.)

The author calls this "self-health." She explains: "The only one who
has the ultimate power to change the system is the patient, the very
reason for being of the system. The patients will take back their power
over health and exercise their sovereignty. The doctors recognize the
sovereignty of the patients and help them to exercise it. That is
self-health."

Each part ends with a very brief conclusion. I found these insightful.

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Having known people who have suffered from IBS, AND CROHNS, for
decades, a disease that common sense would suggest is caused by some
type of 'parasites'...I have seen first hand how the system makes
'billion's'' in  testing, referrals, and ignoring the obvious
truths...a simple bacterial infection.

The billions of dollars made within the pharmaceutical industry, brings
with it the power to conceal the many negative sides to the 'pill'
business, that we were made aware of in Vioxx that was causing strokes
and deaths.  Little has been heard about PPA, or phyelprophamine, a
common ingredient of many over the counter drugs that caused
psychiatric symptoms.

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Psychotic Symptoms

Psychotic symptoms can be the consequence of medical conditions,
psychological conditions, use and abuse of controlled substances, and
prescription drug side effects. A patient's particular condition will
often determine the psychotic symptoms that a person may experience.
Generally speaking, psychotic symptoms include hallucinations,
delusions, disorganized and/or bizarre behavior, and disorganized
speech.

Hallucinations are false perceptions: a person may feel, hear, or see
something that does not exist. For example, a person with psychotic
symptoms may hear voices, see objects, patterns or lights, or feel like
bugs are crawling on them, though in actuality none of these things are
occurring. Delusions are false beliefs or gross misinterpretations of
experiences or perceptions. For example, a person with psychotic
symptoms might believe that people want to hurt them, they are someone
they are not, or that others can read their mind. Disorganized or
bizarre behavior might include childlike silliness, unprovoked
agitation, and inappropriate appearance, hygiene, and/or conduct.

Psychotic symptoms are characteristic of a number of mental health
disorders. Schizophrenia and similar conditions like schizophreniform,
schizotypical personality disorder, and brief psychotic disorder, cause
hallucinations, delusions, abnormal thinking, flattened affect (range
of emotion), and more. Schizoaffective disorder produces similar
psychotic symptoms and mood symptoms like mania and depression. Some
serious medical conditions can also cause a person to develop psychotic
symptoms including: brain tumor, thyroid disease, epilepsy, kidney
failure, and vitamin deficiencies.

There are hundreds of drugs- legal and illegal- which can also cause a
person to develop psychotic symptoms. Some studies have suggested that
marijuana use can double a person's risk of developing a mental health
disorder and can prompt psychotic symptoms. There are a number of
prescription medications and over the counter drugs that may cause
psychotic symptoms. Drug induced psychotic symptoms are so widespread
that Public Citizen, a reputable consumer advocate group, released a
two part publication about the many families of drugs which are known
to cause psychotic symptoms. The group's findings were based on a July
2002 issue of The Medical Letter on Drugs and Therapeutics , a highly
respected reference guide for doctors and pharmacists.

The following drug families were just some of those listed as
medications known to cause psychotic symptoms: amphetamine-like drugs,
anabolic steroids, ACE inhibitors, atropine, antidepressants,
antiepileptics, barbiturates, benzodiazepines, beta blockers, calcium
channel blockers, some antibiotics, estrogens, antihistamines, MAO
Inhibitors, NSAIDs, opioids, salicylates, SSRIs, statins, and some
herbal dietary supplements such as those containing ephedra.

Public Citizen recommends that people who develop any new symptom,
including psychotic symptoms, after beginning a new drug treatment
should consult with their medical professional as soon as possible. It
is important not to stop or change any prescribed treatment regiment
without first speaking with a health care professional.

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Canada's "health system" and that in the USA is all about making money
through illness, a paradoxical business.  We should be healthy and
buying FORD and GMC products not illness.

Caesar J. B. Squitti