is very safe, but the establishment press would have you believe the
exact opposite.
Warning: Doctors May Be
Hazardous To Your Health
By Robert H. Sorge N.D., Ph.D
Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine
I
atrogenic Disease is the fastest growing and most dangerous dis-
ease in America. Each year Iatrogenic Disease takes the lives of six
times as many persons as American soldiers killed in the entire
Vietnam War. Don’t be surprised if you don’t hear about America’s most
dangerous and fastest growing disease on so-called medical news.
Iatrogenic, according to Webster’s 7th Collegiate Dictionary is defined
as, “a physician, and /or drug induced disease.” In short: a disease that
never existed until the drug doctor administered his/her medication
A recent article in the New England Journal Of Medicine acknowl-
edges that “practicing medicine by the book kills 100,000 Americans
each year”. This article was not referring to malpractice, incompetence
or nut cases, but competent physicians practicing medicine exactly
according to their training. Most scientific experts on the subject
believe that the established 100,000 deaths and two million hospital-
izations caused by drug doctors are grossly underestimated. William
Vonpeters D.O., President of the United States School of Naturopathy
and Applied Sciences is of the opinion that 350,000 deaths and five
million hospitalizations are directly attributed to drug medicine.
Jay S. Cohen M.D., author of “Overdose, The Case Against Drug
Companies,” is of the opinion that we’ve reached a point in our histo-
ry where the long term side effects from most drug treatments are
often worse than the condition that is being treated.
The term, “Side Effect” is a bought and paid for Madison Avenue
euphemism. If we were more honest in our language, we would use
the proper term - “poisoning effect.” Allopathic medicine is the science
of using poisons, which work against the body’s natural processes
Hippocrates, the father of modern medicines’ first rule of medicine
is well stated:“do the patient no harm”. In every medical treatment, the
benefit must be carefully weighed against the possibility of downside
risk of harm. What is the downside risk of naturopathic and alternative
medicine verses allopathic drug medicine? In the history of record
keeping, no one has ever died from the proper use of natural foods,
natural food supplements, homeopathic remedies, herbs, colon
hydrotherapy, I.V. Vitamin/chelating therapy, hyperbaric oxygen thera-
py, naturopathic detoxification, thermogenic fat burning, internal
purification and other natural healing modalities.
Let’s compare that with drug medicine, which is the direct cause of
36% of all hospital admittance, of which 100,000 people die each year
from infections acquired while in the hospital. Another 60,000 people
die as a result of unnecessary surgeries while in the hospital. Allopathic
medicine is indeed a very dangerous endeavor. Naturopathic medicine
One million American school children are prescribed a cheap form
of speed called Ritalin, a recreational drug used to get high in the six-
ties. Ritalin stunts physical growth and eventually causes hyperactivity,
depression, mental disorders, acute withdrawal symptoms and an
amphetamine like psychosis. In the long term, Ritalin creates drug
addicts, all in the name of medicine.
Over one million nutritionally deficient citizens are suffering from
brain damage as a result of the administration of one single class of
psychiatric drug, the neuroleptics. Still the beat goes on.
As a result of a lifetime accumulative use of drug medicine, quality
of life for the average American stops at age 50. It then takes medical
intervention to manage their symptoms just to maintain their life. The
average American exchanges short term gain for long term pain, sup-
pression for intractable degenerate disease, including heart disease,
diabetes, strokes and cancer when they start on drug medicines.
Americans pay 20 million dollars a minute for healthy care, and what
do we get for our money? We are 29th in life expectancy and 100th in
health according to the world health organization. We are among the
sickest people on the face of the earth because we are the most over
medicated, over drugged, pharmaceutically dependent people on the
face of the earth.
Earlier in the article I said that Iatrogenic is the fastest and most dan-
gerous of all known diseases in America. Heart disease is still ranked
the number one killer in America. This followed by cancer and third
with 350,000 deaths and 4 million hospitalizations a year is seeing
your orthodox drug doctor. It is a known fact that every time medical
doctors go on strike the death rate declines. Why is Iatrogenic Disease
so dangerous? Because for the last 100 years, the medical profession
has been under the complete control of the international pharmaceu-
tical trust. It’s like putting the fox in charge of the hen house.
The real danger is in our one party medical system. It is more dan-
gerous than a one party political system. Saddam Hussein’s bath party,
Hitler’s Nazi Party and Marxism are all perfect examples of what hap-
pens under a one party system. Ideas have consequences. That is why
Benjamin Rush, M.D. was the only medical doctor to sign the Declaration
Bill of Independence, which stated that freedom of choice in health care
should have been written into the Bill of Rights of our U.S. constitution.
In orthodox drug medicine almost every disease is addressed with
a corresponding drug. Most research revolves around new and more
powerful drugs. All other healing possibilities are ignored. It is this
mindset that has created our present health crises.
In naturopathic medicine we believe that toxicity is the common
denominator to all disease. We believe an once of prevention is worth
a ton of medical cures. We begin our natural treatment process when-
ever possible long before a disease ever gets its foot hold. We uncov-
er nutritional deficiencies, metabolic imbalances, toxicity,
underperforming glands, organs prematurely aging systems of body,
long before they become a named medical condition.
We believe our natural health care system is incongruously back-
wards. Does it make sense for primary health care to be surgery, drugs,
radiation, antibiotics and chemotherapy?
Primary means first. We believe that primary care should consist of
education, lifestyle, fitness, nutrition, spiritual life development, family
relations, and prevention.
Secondary care should consist of naturopathic medicine, chiroprac-
tic care, etc. Emergency care is what our medical profession does best.
They are the best in the world when it comes to crisis intervention.
This should be our last system of care, never our primary.
Iatrogenic disease is our nation’s fastest growing and most danger-
ous disease because we have mindlessly made it our primary rather
than our final healthcare system. ■
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