Modern Dangers of Medicine

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The writer of this paper argues that modern medicine is in collusion with the pharmaceutical and insurance industries to create a system of profit rather than health. It states that the only effective alternative is to turn back to natural cures, to proper nutrition and diet and a holistic approach to healing.

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"Every single week, more people die at the hands of doctors than in the entire World Trade Center disaster. (Smith, 2002) This is neither a new statistic, nor an unexpected one. In 1979 Robert Mendelsohn wrote a controversial best-seller, Confessions of a Medical Heretic, in which he claimed that modern physicians were nothing more or less than the witch doctors of the Church of Medicine. He suggested that modern treatments precluded the creation of modern cures, and that it was capital rather than caring that dominated the medical system. Today his words ring more true than ever. The allopathic approach to medicine has shown itself to be more kill than cure, and a change is desperately needed. Modern allopathic medicine oppresses women and treats childbearing and childhood as a pathology, and in general it takes a terrible toll with unnecessary and even dangerous techniques."

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