Americans' Health

If you are an individual who has chosen to give all of your trust to your family physician, you may have good reasons. However, many physicians are members of the American Medical Association, a large lobbying force in Congress. If you would like to begin to educate yourself on the unannounced conflict between the medical industry and the patients who have given themselves over to their trusted care, use the following links to begin your research into this obvious betrayal, of the trust of both doctors and patients, that may have been going on for decades. Doctors are trapped by their huge investment in education, and sometimes expectations for their own success and accumulation of wealth. Some pre-conditioned dreams of large houses, luxury cars and boats, put these practitioners in unrealistic and competitive situations. That said, there are probably some who were raised to have the right values, and who would refuse, at all costs, to abuse the privilege of being treated like gods by their patients. These same people would never allow a pharmaceutical representative to sell them on a new drug before extensive research had been done or before they could look into the published results. Even then, they would only prescribe a drug for a short time as an emergency therapy, and then carefully take them off of it when the patient was out of danger and able to heal the root cause and not just treat symptoms. Unfortunately, some of these drug evaluation reports have been published, leaving out parts of the results that look bad. There appears to be evidence that actual Journals of medicine now publish flawed test results and this is what the physicians are seeing. Those who head up the research, and those to whom they report at the FDA, are all supported by the same industry whose products are being reviewed.Research this idea and see the problemcaused by a greedy industry that acts like it has real issues caring about more than the 'bottom line.' Questionable FDA approval of Prozac ___________________________________________________________ More than two dozen staff lobbyists at AMA worked Congress and federal agencies during the period, pushing the organization's plan to change Medicare reimbursement rules, urging caution on reform of the Food and Drug Administration and watching the progress of bills dealing with late-term abortion, assisted suicide and access to emergency medical care. The highest-paid lobbyists... can make $1 million a year. Washington's influence game is at least a $1.2 billion-a-year business. AP 1998 AMA Lobbying ___________________________________________________________ An example of some questions with some mind opening answers is about Prozac: Who was paid to approve Prozac? What is found in the Freedom of Information Act that Lilly does not want you to know? FOIA and Lilly New Documents Prozac.com (Safety Statements) Children & Prozac Petition for Grand Jury Investigation Getting Off Drugs Safely Expanded list of links ____________________________________________________________ And that isn't the whole problem. LINK to "The Tomato Effect," a documentary film by the daughter of a brave, Environmental Medicine physician, who is no longer with us.