Life Span, Life

Expectancy & Health

Expectancy.
The Role of the Medical
Establishment in all these.
Professor B. M. Hegde
 MD, FRCP (London), FRCP (Edinburgh), FRCP (Glasgow),
FRCPI (Dublin) FACC, FAMS.
 Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Science of Healing Outcomes.
Penn. State, USA & Mangalore, India. (www.thejsho.com)
 Visiting Prof. of Cardiology, London University, London,
UK.
 Affiliate Prof. Human Health, University of Northern
Colorado in Greeley.
 Former Vice Chancellor, Manipal University.
 Former Dean, Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore.
 Chair, State Health Society’s Expert Committee, Govt. of
Bihar, Patna.
 Chairman, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Mangalore Kendra
What is Life Span?
What is Life Expectancy?
Life Expectancy UK.
What IS health, anyway?
Health is capacity to “work and love”
Three kinds of love:-- Eros. Phil & Agapi (Agapo)
Health is the capacity to work
and “love.” Smith R
What is Health Expectancy?
Why does one get ill?
Disease is an accident!
What is Disease?
 We might think of a disease as like a species--
something that exists in nature and is waiting
to be discovered
 In fact disease is a medical and social
construct--and as such a very slippery concept
 The BMJ conducted a survey on the web to
identify "non-diseases"and found almost 200
 To have your condition labelled as a disease
may bring considerable benefit--both material
(financial) and emotional
Is it more complicated?
Social Epidemiology
Health and disease.
Medical Consultation?
Doctor-Patient relationship.
Like mother and her child.
Where are the limits of medicine: are we turning
the whole world into patients?

 What is medicalisation?
 Medicalisation of birth, death, and sexuality
 Screening: a major medicalisaing force?
 What is normal? What is a disease?
 Creating “diseases”: disease mongering
 Why does medicalisation matter?
 What are the forces driving medicalisation?
 How should we respond?
 Medcalisation

(is pushing the patients into a bottomless pit of anxiety, suffering

.
and hopelessness )
Dr. Levine
 “Pharmaceutical companies, by enlisting
the aid of influential academic
physicians, have gained control of the
practice of medicine in the United States.
They now set the standards of practice
by hiring investigators to perform studies
which establish the efficacy of their
products or impugn those of their
competitors.”
Throwing light on the scientific
fraud!
Evidence Based Medicine?

 A socio-historical perspective shows

us that medicine has no more and
no less fraud, heresy, schism, and
relative knowledge than any other
equivalent forms of knowledge…
 (Kenneth Jones. Edinburgh University 2003.)
Doctors have lost the woods in
counting the trees.
Who is a normal person?
 Within two standard deviations of the mean (5%
abnormal on every test)
 A level that carries no extra risk (we all have high
cholesterol compared with Pacific islanders)
 Every one that goes for bone scan has osteopaenia!
 Beyond a point at which treatment does more good
than harm (depends on effectiveness of treatment)
 Politically or culturally aspired to (homosexuality)
BMJ of 18th June 2002, researchers claim
clinical trials are reported with misleading
statistics. Uffe Ravanskov
 .
 | BP |
4S | WOCO
 ______________________________________________
_________________________-
 Relative risk reduction % | -20 |
-29 | -21
 Absolute risk reduction % | -0.8 |
-3.3 | -0.9
 Survival chance without drugs % | 96 |
88.5 | 90.6
 Survival chance with drugs % | 96.8 |
91.8 | 91.4
“Lead kindly light-lead thou me on”
John Henry Newman 1833.
Cancer Screening?
 1000 women have to be screened for 35 years
to prevent one death
 One nurse performing 200 tests a year would
prevent one death in 38 years
 During this time she or he would care for over
152 women with abnormal results
 79 women would be referred for investigation,
and over 53 would have abnormal biopsy
results
 During this time one woman would die of
cervical cancer despite being screened
Conventional cancer treatment is like
jumping off this cliff, like this fall!
 Why medicalisation is bad?
 People are treated when they are
“normal”
 Non-medical, perhaps traditional, ways
of managing difficulties are devalued and
even destroyed
 We see ourselves as victims and
perhaps fail to take action ourselves
Doctors need enlightenment in the
dark night of therapeutic delusions.
 Pill pushing for non diseases

 “Research into illnesses has progressed

so much that it is almost impossible to
find some one who is completely
normal.”

 Aldous Huxley 1894-1963.

 Science of Modern Medicine

Reductionistic-based on
linear mathematics.
Statistical science!

?Future Science!
Future Medical care system
Science without sense-statistics.
 Why is medicalisation bad?
 All effective treatments have side effects!
 Political and social problems demand political
and social solutions but may be treated
medically.
 An increasing proportion of a country’s wealth
is spent on health care.
 Doctors are oppressed by being under
pressure to “solve” problems they cannot
solve.
% of GDP on Medical care
Per capita expenditure on medical care
Bottom Line Medicine
 Richard Stanzack.

 Algora Publishers.
Over treatment.

 “Nothing is more fatal to health than an

over care of it.”

 Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790.

Why American medicine(Indian as well)
is doomed to fail?
Fight against false hopes with
true love.
Medical Humanism?
Who Killed Primary Care?
The White Death
Rising star of TB.
Incidence of TB in Europe per 100,000
Global distribution of TB
What is resistance?
Death Patterns in the EU.
Economic trends in EU
Health and wealth in the UK.
GDP-Blue. Life Expectancy-Yellow
Other Viral infections also.
 CHD Mortality (not related to our
efforts)
CHD mortality Cross country data
 CHD data inter and intracultural.
 The case of the missing data BMJ 2002;
325: 1490.
Who benefits from Medical
Interventions?
 BMJ 1994; 308: 72-74 Smith D & Eggar M
Why is modern medicine losing its sheen?
Doctor Running Away
Medical Guidance.
What is spirituality?
Who Heals?
Praanic Healing
 Professor Joie Jones, MD, PhD.,
 Professor of Radiology, UC Irvine.

 Conclusions:
 96% complete healing of cancer in “He
La” cells in vitro.
 Becomes 100% with good Karma effect
added!
Doctor dresses the wound; God
heals! (Nature heals)
 Announcing A New Journal

The Science of Healing Outcomes

Editor in Chief, B. M. Hegde Co-Editor in Chief, Rustum Roy

MD, FRCP, FRCPE, FRCPG, FRCPI, FACC, FAMS. Evan Pugh Professor of the Solid State Emeritus
Chairman, State Health Society’s Expert Committee, Govt. of Bihar, Professor of Science Technology and Society Emeritus
Patna. The Pennsylvania State University
Visiting Prof. Cardiology, The Middlesex Hospital Medical School, 102 MRL
University of London, University Park, PA. 16802
Affiliate Prof. of Human Health, Northern Colorado University, Distinguished Professor of Materials,
Visiting Prof. Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla, Arizona State University
Retd. Vice Chancellor, Manipal University, Visiting Professor of Medicine,
Manjunath University of Arizona
Pa is Hills, Bejai
MANGALORE-575004. India

To be published in Mangalore, India

First issue: Ready for launch.
Editorial Office, Mangalore, India.
Editor in Chief: Co-Editor in Chief:
BM Hegde Rustum Roy.

Editor, North America: Ms. Joanna Floros.

Deputy Editors:
CV Krishnaswami
CV Raghuveer
Arunachalam Kumar

Managing Editor: Finance Controller:

Jairaj Kumar. Jayram Shetty.
Editorial Secretary: Ms. Meenakshi Punja.
Office: “Ganesh”
Lower Bendur,
Mangalore-575 004. India.
B.M. Hegde, Editor
JSHO Board of Editors Rustum Roy, Co-editor
Evan Pugh Prof. of Solid State Emeritus
Visiting Professor, Cardiology
University of London, UK
(as of November 2007) The Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA USA
Iris Bell
Professor of Family and Viktor Inyushin Marc Newkirk
Community Medicine, (Program in Doctor of Biology, Professor at President
Integrative Medicine), Al-Farabi Kazakh State University Mobius Sciences Inc.,
University of Arizona Almaty, Kazakhstan Massachusetts, USA
Tucson, Arizona USA
Wayne Jonas Marilyn Schlitz
President
Juliana Brooks Samueli Institute for
Director of Research
Senior Managing Director Institute of Noetic Sciences
Information Biology Petaluma, California USA
General Resonance, LLC
Alexandria, Virginia USA
Havre de Grace, Maryland USA
Richard Smith
Krishnaswami CV. Joie Jones Former Editor of British Medical Journal
Retd. Prof. Clinical Professor of Radiology Editor, Cases Journal,
University of California Irvine London, UK
Medicine, Irvine, California USA
Head. Diabetology, VHS William Tiller
centre, Brian Josephson Professor Emeritus of Materials Science
Chennai, India Nobel Laureate, Physics Stanford University
Cambridge University, UK Stanford, California USA
Barbara Dossey
Director, Holistic Nursing
Mark Mortenson Vladimir Voeikov
Consultants General Resonance, LLC Professor, Vice-Chairman
Co-Director, Nightingale Initiative Havre de Grace, Maryland USA Faculty of Biology
for Global Health Lomonosov Moscow State University
Santa Fe, New Mexico USA Konstantin Korotkov Moscow, Russia
Professor of Physics
Hans-Peter Duerr St. Petersburg State Technical Andrew Weil
Dir., Max Planck Institute University Director, Program of Integrative Medicine
Munich, Germany St. Petersburg, Russia University of Arizona
Effie Chow
Bart Flick Herbert Nehrlich. East West Academy of Healing Arts
Visiting Professor Family Physician, & Poet. San Francisco, California USA
University of Georgia Hobart, Tasmnia. Tucson, Arizona USA
Athens, Georgia USA Australia.
 The Science of
Healing Outcomes
A
journal
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Cover mock-up treatment

Luke: after the LifeVessel treatment

Volume 1, Number 1 Editor in Chief – B.M. Hegde

January 2008 Co Editor in Chief – Rustum
Roy
Energy Medicine
 Life vessel treatment.
 Praanaayaama and the heart.
 Breathing and energy,
 JSHO launches a new journal.
The business called medicine
 “The business of
 health care delivery
 in the US
 has the same potential
 for graft and corruption
 as casino gambling and construction rackets!”

 Lisa Van Dusen. CMAJ 1997; 157: 1724.

What to do for the future?
 Encourage debate and understanding of
medicalisation
 Help people understand that diseases are
medically and socially created
 Help people understand the severe limitations
and risks of medicine
 Move away from using corporate funded
information on medical conditions/ diseases
What to do?
 Generate independent accessible
materials on conditions and diseases
Promote non-medical ways of
responding to problems
 Spread knowledge--for example, through
the internet
 Encourage self care
What to do?
 Create more organisations like the
“Natural childbirth trust”
 Resist direct to consume advertising
 Resist the constant growth in health
budgets
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We have more experts, but
more problems; more
medicine, but less wellness.

我们的专家越来越多，问题却也
日渐增加；药物越吃越多，健康
却每况愈下。

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We've been all the way to the
moon and back, but have
trouble crossing the street to
meet the new neighbor.

我们能够往返于地球与月球之间
却不乐于穿过马路向新邻居问好
。
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Let’s tell our families and friends
how much we love them. Do not
delay anything that adds laughter
and joy to your life.

不要把对家人和朋友的爱深藏心
中，大胆地告诉他们。对于能给
你的生命增添快乐的事情，不要
押后拖延。
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Million thanks for being so
patient.