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Are Most DISEASES CAUSED By THE MEDICAL SYSTEM? CAUSED ARE Most DISEASES SYSTEM? THE MEDICAL Medical treatments, pharmaceutical drugs and decisions based on wrong information are responsible for causing an epidemic of disease throughout the western world. do not want to pretend that this is an impartial investigation. Instead, I am now completely convinced that most diseases are indeed caused by the medical system, and in the following pages I state my reasons for this conclusion. Increasingly over the years, my health beliefs have been turned around. I started out by working as a biochemist and toxicologist in university medical departments, fully believing that all these chronic and incurable diseases are indeed incurable and generally of unknown origin, but that pharmaceutical drugs make life easier for patients and often are even curative. My re-education started after immigrating to New Zealand and learning about natural healing and living; this made me realise that disease is mainly caused by unnatural living conditions and can be overcome by natural methods of living and healing. While I learned about the harmful nature of drug treatment, I was still thinking of it as being ineffective and causing side effects rather than being a main cause of our diseases. Diseases caused by medical treatment are called iatrogenic diseases. The total number of iatrogenic deaths in the USA for 2001 was estimated to be 783,936; these were due to fatal drug reactions, medical errors and unnecessary medical and surgical procedures. With this, the medical system is the leading cause of death and injury in the United States. In comparison, in 2001, heart disease deaths were 699,697 and cancer deaths were 553,251.! This is also the reason why it is so beneficial for patients when doctors go on strike. Statistics show that whenever there has been a strike by doctors, the death rate in the affected population has fallen dramatically. In 1976, the death rate fell by 35 per cent in Bogota, Colombia, and by 18 per cent in Los Angeles County, California, during doctors' strikes. In Israel in 1973, the death rate fell by 50 per cent during a strike. Only once before was there a similar drop in the death rate in Israel, and that was during another doctors' strike 20 years earlier. After each strike, the death rate jumped again to its normal level.’ However, these figures for iatrogenic deaths do not take into account iatrogenic diseases from the long-term harm done by medical treatments where patients survive but with a chronic disease. My real awakening to this problem started when I became aware of the story of Orian Truss who discovered the candidiasis-causing potential of antibiotics. Dr Orian Truss's Candida Discovery In 1953, in a hospital in Alabama, USA, Dr Orian Truss discovered the devastating effects of antibiotics.’ During a ward round, Truss was intrigued by a gaunt, apparently elderly, man who was obviously dying. However, he was only in his forties and had been in hospital for four months. No specialist had been able to make a diagnosis. Out of curiosity, Truss asked the patient when he was last completely well. The man answered that he was well until six months before when he had cut his finger. He had received antibiotics for this. Shortly afterwards, he developed diarrhoea and his health deteriorated. Truss had seen before how antibiotics cause diarrhoea. It was known that Candida was opportunistic and thrived in debilitated patients, but now Truss wondered if it might not be the other way around—that candida actually caused the debilitated condition. Truss had read that potassium iodide solution could be used to treat candida infestation of the blood, so he put the patient on six to eight drops of Lugol's solution four times a day for three weeks and before long the patient was completely well again. Soon afterwards, Dr Truss had a female patient with a stuffy nose, a throbbing NEXUS + 27 by Walter Last © 2007 FEBRUARY — MARCH 2008 www.nexusmagazine.com