Medicine is Business! - Letters to the Editor

Editor:

In the January issue, Dr. Collin says, "Why would medicine steer students and doctors away from something so safe and simple? I never really have answered that question. Some have talked about money power, and politics. Perhaps these have played an important role." Perhaps? I thought it was completely obvious but reading some books written by Doctors makes me wonder. About 40 years ago the famed Naturopathic Physician Paavo Aerola said this. "Our American medical system is a profit-oriented professional monopolistic organization built on the principle: the more sickness -- the more profit. Thus, the total elimination of disease, be it cancer or anything else, is contrary to the basic economic interest of our medical, drug, hospital industrial complex. Disease is big business -- a multi-billion dollar a year business. Cancer represents one of the biggest sources of income to the medical-drug hospital industry." Absolutely nothing has changed since then, that's for sure.

Many people are upset over the millions of dollars that the American people gave to victims of 9-11, who are not getting the money fast enough. Yet no one seems to mind that since Richard Nixon declared war on cancer, billions of dollars have been collected for research. Research for a cure? Of course, but there's only one catch. The only cure they're looking for is a pharmaceutical cure. Many people have the mistaken belief that research is wide open, looking for a cure from any source. Absolutely not. If it cannot be patented then there's no interest. I recently saw Jimmy Carter on TV saying that almost everyone in his family had died of pancreatic cancer and he was asking for support for the pancreatic cancer research society. I remember distinctly that Dr. William Donald Kelley cured his own pancreatic cancer starting the 'cure' when he was only days away from death. Not only that -- he reproduced the results in numerous others. What was his reward for saving lives? Outright persecution. No wonder he fina lly unplugged his computer and moved back to Kansas. I talked to him a couple of years ago and he was doing well. I believe Dr. Gonzales is using much of Dr. Kelley's work with outstanding results. None of the 'nutrients' etc. that Kelley used are patentable, so of course, are ignored.... Isn't it very obvious what's going on? Medicine is all about special interests and money.

In the Sunday paper weekend magazine there's always a column by a woman who belongs to Mensa and therefore is classed in the top percentile of intelligence. Recently a writer asked how much money it would take for her to pose naked in Playboy. She answered that she had always said. No money. However she had reconsidered and would pose for one million with the money being given to the American Heart Association to "solve" heart disease. See what I mean? How can someone be so brilliant but so very naive. Of course the American Heart Association doesn't ever want a cure for heart disease. In fact they very obviously try to suppress any information that might help overcome the disease. Just look at the battle chelation has had and still has in some states. There's millions and millions of dollars involved in bypasses alone, without even counting all the so-called heart medicine. They still go on and on about fat and cholesterol, ignoring everthing about homocysteine, vitamin deficiencies and the involvement of ca rbohydrates.

The fact is that because there is no money in healthy people the 'authorities' appear to deliberately misinform people about diet to make them sicker. Just look at the food pyramid with grains at the top!

A back pain patient of mine, had a triple bypass about six years ago. I tried to advise him about diet, but he was convinced the cardiologist knew what he was talking about. He went off all fat, almost no meat and bought all the junk low fat items. He also had 140 chelation treatments, spread out over a five-year period. All this was to no avail. His angina returned and finally he was rushed in and given another 'lifesaving' bypass. Later he was saying. "I did everything they told me and look what happened." Yes, he ate pancakes and syrup for breakfast. Lots of pasta and 'good' whole grain bread etc, etc. I tried to introduce him to the Pauling Rath protocols and the importance of vitamin C and the use of lysine and proline but the interest was not there.

Drug companies, who largely control all of medicine in North America, have absolutely no interest in curing anything. There is no money in cure. That's why the pharmaceuticals they love to develop only control symptoms, never cure anything and usually must be taken on a continuing basis. Good business.

Isn't it interesting that the drug companies were not satisfied having regular doctors be their 'pushers' but have now bypassed them, going directly to the public, advertizing on TV and in magazines. Makes even more money.

The number of people on cholesterol-lowering drugs is frightening. Likewise the anti-depressants like Prozac. All drugs have secondary effects. Many are dangerous.

Let's not be naive about medicine. Business is business, regardless, is the motto.

Curt Maxwell, DC, NMD

P.O. Box 1075

Winterhaven, California 92283 USA

Phone 928-220-1295

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