Do you ever ask yourself "why am I doing this...what difference will it make?" I ask myself that daily! Will it make a difference to provide people with information that they may not know about and encourage them to check things out for themselves before they just swallow the band aid solutions that are provided on a regular basis...perhaps looking at all of the choices/options before just blindly going along with what is presented.
Here's some more food for thought from Mr. Pilzer - followed by some of the transripts from Headline News - Joy Behar's interview with Suzanne Somers 1/12/10 ( I highly recommend reading the entire transcript and watching the video clip):
As my research (Paul Zane Pilzer)led me to the medical industry, I encountered large multinational companies whose nefarious practices made those of the food companies pale by comparison. It quickly became apparent to me why an economist needed to write a book about obtaining good medical care along with how to obtain food for a healthy lifestyle.
When patients go to see a physician, they believe they are receiving a prescription for the best drug or treatment available for their specific ailment. Not likely.
Just as obese consumers are the target market of the food companies, physicians are the target market of the medical and pharmaceutical companies. In the United States, doctors typically prescribe completely different treatments for the same ailment, depending on which drug company has the dominant market share in their region.
Although the ethical (prescription) pharmaceutical companies around the world justify the very high prices of their drugs by citing the high cost of research and development, drug companies actually spend much more money marketing drugs than they do on research and development. Moreover, a considerable amount of the research and development that leads to the creation of new drugs is funded by the federal government through grants to nonprofit entities such as research labs at universities, medical schools, and the National Institutes of Health.
In recent years the pharmaceutical companies have hired the same advertising firms as the food companies and have begun direct image-based advertising to consumers. In these advertisements for prescription-only items that may be legally dispensed only on the written recommendation of a doctor, the patient is directly urged to demand the product and told to "ask your doctor" for a DAW (dispense as written) prescription-with the knowledge that if the doctor refuses to write the prescription the presold patient will simply find another doctor who will.
Sadly, most physicians have become technology dispensers for the products and services of the large multinational medical companies-companies that always seem to tip the scale between profits and patients in favor of profits.
These practices have pushed the price for U.S. drugs so high that patients cannot afford to fill approximately 22 percent of the prescriptions written each year. Prescription drugs now represent the single largest monthly expense for most over 65 U.S. citizens - approximately $300.00/month - millions of people are forced to make the terrible choice of purchasing food or medicine. Medicare pays for doctor visits but generally does not pay for prescriptions.
It is more profitable for medical suppliers to produce products that consumers use for the rest of their lives than to make products that a consumer might use only once. Invariably, this means spending research and development funds on products that treat the symptoms of disease rather than the causes or the cures.
Clips of the interview on Headline News with Joy Behar:
SOMERS: But with all due respect, with the dismal results of chemotherapy, and you know so many people have died, and it`s a horrible death, and particularly with pancreatic cancer, which I have three different doctors who say we all know in the oncology world that chemotherapy does absolutely nothing whatsoever.
BEHAR: So why do they give it?
SOMERS: They said it`s palliative. I said what is palliative. It means it makes the patient feel better, it makes the family feel like something is being done, and when the patient dies, a horrible and very -- it costs about $500,000 to die of chemotherapy, they all feel they did the best they could.
BEHAR: I`m back with Suzanne Somers and Drs. Julian Whittaker and Steven Lamm. OK, this Dr. Burzynski you say has found a cure for cancer?
SOMERS: Dr. Burzynski has completed phase two clinical trials in compliance with the FDA, having a 60 percent success rate with the worst kind of brain tumors. And like Dr. Whitaker was saying, if you can control cell multiplication, you`ve found a cure to cancer.
BEHAR: And how did he do that?
SOMERS: He has found that all people with cancer are missing a specific peptide and amino acid in their liver that controls cell multiplication. He`s dedicated his life to replicating that peptide, puts it back in, and in 60 percent of his brain tumor patients he`s having success. He`s just completed and approved for phase three clinical trials.
BEHAR: Approved by whom?
SOMERS: FDA. My whole point in writing "Knockout" having been diagnosed twice now with cancer, the last time being told I would die, all I want when someone says you have cancer, we can do standard care, which is surgery, radiation, chemotherapy, and harsh drugs, or if that doesn`t appeal to you, you can try x.
These are all the options and Dr. Burzynski -- if I had a brain tumor, I would be on in Houston, I`d be on the train last night.
BEHAR: Dr. Lamm, would she survive if she went to Dr. Burzynski with a brain tumor?
LAMM: Let`s put it this way -- I would hope that`s the case, but I`m a little skeptical, and I think some of this fine doctor`s work has been reviewed, and, you know, the medical community has not at this point been able to validate that it truly makes a clinically significant difference.
WHITAKER: That`s non-sense! Listen, I have visited Burzynski`s clinic four or five times. I have been in a room where they were celebrating 30 years where children who had cancer 15 years ago were standing up there vibrant, prosperous, and holding a child on their hip.
BEHAR: Why doesn`t the FDA and the medical establishment say this is a good thing and we`re going to approve this?
WHITAKER: I can tell you why. There`s so much money tied up into conventional medicine that to actually allow him free reign --
BEHAR: This sounds conspiracy-theory like.
SOMERS: If some little guy in Houston has the cure to cancer, it wipes out a $200 billion a year business.
WHITAKER: Trillion.
SOMERS: Trillion.
LAMM: The medical profession is not rooting for disease. I think it`s being very -- as you say, conspiratorial to actually believe or delude yourself that doctors would rather their child die of cancer if a cure were available. There are no secrets in medicine.
WHITAKER: Wait a minute, no, no, look. It`s not individual doctors scheming to let children die. It`s the system. Never has medicine at any time in human history ever been so tied up into business. And when you have a business where you`re training physicians to do it this way, they think this way, and all of a sudden a guy says, wait a minute, the body has a parallel system to control cell division, and I have discovered how it works. Well, then that challenges all of the purging the body -- let`s do this chemo, let`s do that chemo. And now all of a sudden the cancer just disappears.
BEHAR: I remember years and years ago people used to say that the cancer business was so big that they would never find a cure. And here it is 50 years later, or whatever it is, and they still haven`t found a cure for cancer.
SOMERS: The FDA tried to put Dr. Burzynski in jail for 300 years for unlawful dispensation of unapproved drugs across state lines. Hundreds and hundreds of his patients marched in front of the Houston courthouse, and the lawyer who was representing them was not able to ask if they were cured, but he was able to say you had stage four liver cancer how many years ago? 12 years ago. Thank you, sir. He would bring them on one after another, and it spoke volumes.The jury acquitted Dr. Burzynski and he was allowed to continue his work. I really think that they are jealous of Dr. Burzynski because it`s a little guy in Houston who figured it out.
BEHAR: I believe -- one of my doctors, I said to him, does acupuncture help you to lose weight? And he said, if it, worked, there would be an acupuncturists on every corner. And I say unto you the same thing. If this worked, if this guy can cure brain cancer in children, I`m sure that the medical establishment would be right there.-
SOMERS: But he is curing children.
WHITAKER: But he is doing it.
SOMERS: He is doing it.
BEHAR: But no one from the AMA is going there to find out?
SOMERS: You have to understand that our medical schools are pharmaceutically funded, our government bureaucrats are pharmaceutically funded. You`ve got to connect the dots. I know if I had cancer, I`d try alternative first.
There`s pockets of doctors who have decided they can`t do it anymore. They have stepped out of the standard of care box, and they get persecuted by the medical establishment for doing so.It`s very hard in a hospital setting to go against standard of care. So those of us who want to go alternative, we`ve got to find it on our own. And that`s all I`m trying to do.
BEHAR: I know, I hear you. Dr. Lamm, do you think these doctors, this Burzynski, they lack credibility because the AMA and the FDA are not behind them?
LAMM: I think people lack credibility because there`s no evidence for their work.
BEHAR: He`s telling you to go there.
LAMM: I understand. I`m happy to. But you have to remember, this has been going on for many, many years. This is not a new thing. This has been going on since 1992 1993, 1995.
WHITAKER: Let me make a statement here. Dr. Burzynski patented all of his therapies beginning in the early `80s. The National Cancer Institute visited him in the early `90s and saw that it worked. They then put it consultant in there and they actually patented all of Burzynski`s work under a different name and assigned it to HHS. I have those patents. It is unbelievable.
SOMERS: And the FDA is in Burzynski`s office all the time.
LAMM: I would root for him to work, but I`m skeptical. (CROSSTALK)BEHAR: You`ve heard this conversation out there, so you decide for yourself. Thanks to Suzanne and my panel for joining me tonight and thank you for watching. Goodnight, everybody. END
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