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thereby continuously concentrating ownership and It's worse than that because medicine actually has a power over all local and regional economies. negative impact on health. Medical errors (not counting The rest of us have to earn money rather than simply _—misattributed deaths from correctly administered fabricate it, and we never own more when we die. The _ "treatments") are the third leading cause of death in the middle class either pays rent or a mortgage. Wage __US after heart disease and cancer, and there is a large slavery is perpetuated and further degraded in stable gap between this conservative underestimate in the areas and installed in its most vicious varieties in all | number of medical error deaths and the fourth leading newly conquered territories. cause of death.’ Since medicine can do little for heart It is quite remarkable that the largest exploitation disease and cancer, and since medicine has only a small scam (private money creation as debt) ever enacted and _ statistically positive impact in the area of trauma applied to the entire planet does not figure in economic _ interventions, we conclude that public health would theories. Economists are so busy modelling the ups and __ increase if all MDs simply disappeared. Think of all the downs of profits, returns, employment figures, stock time and stress that sick people would save... values and the benefits of mergers for One of the most dangerous places in mid-level exploiters that they don't society is the hospital. Medical errors notice their avoidance of the include misdiagnoses, bad foundational elements. They model prescriptions, prescriptions for the construction schedule while The only human medications that should not be refusing to acknowledge that the element that combined, unnecessary surgery and terrain is an earthquake zone with unnecessary or badly administered vultures circling overhead. economists treatments including chemotherapy, Meanwhile the financiers write and consider in their rachotnerapy and corrective surgeries rewrite the rules themselves, an tt oe ot e lie extends to the my' a S again this process does not figure in predictive anywhere near understand the human rocrecconomic Meares, The only | mathematical bos, Ths well- sua. consider in their "predictive" models is low-level doctors, thereby opening the door to a mathematical models is low-level consumer well-orchestrated profit bonanza for consumer behaviour, not high- Big Pharma. level system manipulation. behaviour, not The first thing that Doctors does not figure. The economies, high-level system need to doin order to contribute cultures and infrastructures o manipulation. significantly in disaster zones is order to enslave via new and Corruption is and get to work on the priority larger national debts for the norm... tasks at hand: supplying water, food and shelter, and preventing disease propagation—not vaccinating or operating or defaulting on these debts... prescribing medication... Public Management tools for the health comes from. safety, bosses, and smoke and mirrors for the rest of us: thank stability, social justice and economic buying power, not generations into the future while economists forecast alleged catastrophic consequences o you, expert economists. MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) units and prescription drugs. The Medicine-is-Health Lie Bonehead MDs _ routinely apply unproven We've all heard some medical doctor (MD), interviewed “recommended treatments" and prescribe dangerous on the radio, gratuitously make the bold proposal tha drugs for everything from high blood pressure from a ife expectancy has increased thanks to modern medicine. | sedentary lifestyle and bad nutrition to apathy at Nothing could be further from the truth. school, anxiety in public places, post-adolescence Life expectancy has increased in First World countries erectile function, non-conventional sleep patterns and hanks to an historical absence of civil and territoria all the side effects from the latter drugs. In professional wars, better and more accessible food, fewer work and yet nonetheless remarkable reversals of logic, doctors non-work accidents and better overall living and working —_ prescribe drugs to remove symptoms that are risk conditions. The single strongest indicator of persona indicators rather than address the causes of the risks, ealth within and between countries is economic status, _ thereby only adding to the assault on the body. irrespective of access to medical technology and It's unbelievable the number that medicine has done pharmaceuticals. on us: just one more way to keep us stupid (ignorant economists "predictive" mathematical consumer high-level system manipulation. the norm... The Medicine-is-Health Lie We've all heard some medical doctor (MD), interviewed on the radio, gratuitously make the bold proposal tha life expectancy has increased thanks to modern medicine. Nothing could be further from the truth. Life expectancy has increased in First World countries thanks to an historical absence of civil and territoria wars, better and more accessible food, fewer work and non-work accidents and better overall living and working conditions. The single strongest indicator of persona health within and between countries is economic status, irrespective of access to medical technology and pharmaceuticals. 40 * NEXUS The only human element that consider in their models is low-level behaviour, not Corruption is you, expert economists. OCTOBER - NOVEMBER 2010 www.nexusmagazine.com