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BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN
SCIENCE AND MEDICINE
Preface
W
e live in a world where medical discoveries have In the Nth century, tens of thousands of women
become routine events. The sheer volume of died every year from puerperal sepsis (childbed fever).
new findings, however, has overwhelmed practicing The reason for this epidemic was that doctors were per¬
physicians. The result is that people are dying need- forming autopsies and then conducting vaginal exams
lessly, even though therapies to prevent or treat their with their hands covered with decomposing necrotic
diseases already exist. tissue. Dr. Semmelweis observed that women who used
The purpose of this book is to provide lifesaving midwives instead of doctors had low rates of childbed
information that is often overlooked by the medical fever. To test these observations, Semmelweis imple¬
establishment. Our mission has been to translate mented a policy in his department that required doctors
diverse scientific findings into therapeutic protocols to wash their hands with disinfectant prior to attending
that can be understood by the lay public. patients. Mortality rates from childbed fever immedi¬
It is important that the reader knows how this book ately declined from 18.3% to 1.3%.
came into being. In the 1970s, we began to uncover When Semmelweis published his meticulous findings
information that could be used to alleviate suffering about the importance of hand washing, the medical com¬
and prevent death. Conveying this information to munity reacted with hostility or dismissal. The prevailing
those with health problems often resulted in signifi¬ belief at the time was that childbed fever is caused by bad
cant improvements in their condition. air. After strident attempts to persuade skeptics, Semmel¬
As we delved deeper into scientific literature, it weis was committed to an insane asylum where he died at
became clear that many people were dying from medi¬ age 42, possibly from beatings by asylum guards.
cal ignorance. This startling revelation did not go
totally unnoticed. A growing number of individuals
Why Hospitals Can Endanger Your Health
began to ask us for help when confronted with difficult-
to-treat disorders. As more cases were presented to us, Regrettably, 137 years after Dr. Semmelweiss demise, hos¬
we came to the realization that a lethal communication pital care remains abysmal. The best way to describe the
gap exists between scientists and practicing physicians. modem hospital setting is to compare the service they ren¬
Marvelous discoveries are published in prestigious der to what you would expect at a hotel. Just imagine
checking into a hotel and being told the following:
medical journals today, yet little of this information is
utilized to save lives. It is as if an impenetrable barrier
1. You will check in at our convenience and be
separates scientific solutions from those in critical need
placed in a room of our choosing.
of this knowledge. The objective of this book is to break
2. You will be disturbed at our convenience.
down the walls of ignorance and apathy that are the
underlying causes of most human suffering and death. 3. You will be fed at our convenience with whatever
food we choose to give you.
4. You will share your room and bathroom with one or
RESISTANCE TO CHANGE more total strangers who are sick and may be dying.
5. You will be expected to go to sleep at a time of our
A review of past medical discoveries reveals how excru¬
choosing. The door to your room will be left open
ciatingly slowly the medical establishment adopts novel
so that you will be exposed to noise, light, and
concepts. Even simple methods to improve medical
passing medical personnel throughout the night.
quality often meet with fierce resistance.
These distractions will intensify early in the
A classic example of this occurred when a young
morning, which will awaken you.
Hungarian doctor named Ignatz Semmelweis discov¬
ered that a contagious disease was being transmitted 6. You will be exposed to many harmful bacteria,
to hospital patients because medical personnel failed which could lead to an antibiotic-resistant infec¬
to wash their hands. tion that might kill you.
Bridging the Gap Between Science and Medicine vi
7. In the event you experience difficulties while ACCESS TO SCIENTIFIC PIONEERS
staying with us, we will respond to your calls for
How many forward-thinking individuals like Dr. Sem-
help at our convenience.
melweis exist today? The answer is more than in any
8. We don’t know how much money we will charge previous era. The challenge is in finding those who
you because we don’t yet know how many doctors possess exceptional degrees of compassion, compe¬
will examine you, what tests and procedures will tence, and willingness to apply new discoveries.
be performed on you, and how long you will Over the past three decades, we have been privi¬
remain in the hospital. leged to interact with scientific pioneers who have
9. Even though you may be curious as to why we developed novel solutions for preventing and treat¬
keep sticking needles in you, strapping you onto ing degenerative disease. Their methods are based
machines, putting fluids in you, giving you ene¬ upon reviewing thousands of published scientific
mas, and inducing other discomforts, we are not papers, interacting with innovative doctors through¬
obligated to inform you of our reasons for these out the world, and making their own professional
procedures. observations.
Medical history documents that discoveries are not
10. You cannot check out of the hospital until you we
made by bureaucratic committees. Instead, it is the
pull all the needles, catheters, and other intrusive
individual with an insatiable desire for knowledge
objects out of you, give you permission to leave,
who innovates by thinking beyond prevailing dog¬
and force you to sign all kinds of papers.
matic principles.
If these ten rules sound worse than prison, in many This book represents a compilation of work by indi¬
respects they are! At least most of those in prison are viduals who are passionate about ending todays epi¬
in reasonably good health. People entering hospitals demic of unnecessary disease and death.
are often critically ill, yet they are given medieval-
style care that sometimes exacerbates their illness,
THE NEED TO STAY INFORMED
causes them to contract new diseases, and induces
The majority of human suffering and premature death
needless mortality.
is avoidable. It is imperative that individuals be the
What would never he tolerated at a hotel is consid¬
front line soldiers in protecting their own health. Phy¬
ered standard hospital practice. In today’s quasi-socialist
sicians attend to dozens of patients every day. One
system of healthcare, a hotel guest is treated far better
cannot expect a typical doctor to devote all the time
than a wealthy individual checking into a hospital.
needed to provide each patient with optimal individu¬
A Leading Cause of Death alized treatment. It is up to patients and their caregiv¬
The word “iatrogenic” is defined as illness that occurs ers to till this critical void.
as a result of a diagnostic or treatment procedure. The In order to treat any serious disease in optimal fash¬
term is also used to describe problems occurring as the ion, a myriad of details have to be implemented pre¬
result of “exposure to the environment of a health cisely. You should not rely solely on physicians to
care facility.” prescribe and carry out treatment protocols. Patients
Iatrogenic illness is a leading cause of death in the need to gain a thorough understanding of their health
United States. Large numbers of hospitalized Ameri¬ status and the various treatment options open to them,
cans, for instance, die from the effects of malnutrition. so they can work effectively with their physicianfsh
This problem has been documented in medical jour¬ We cannot overemphasize the importance of edu¬
nals, hut many physicians continue to ignore obvious cating yourself about any disorders that may affect
signs that their patients are starving to death. The you, including the aging process. Well-informed
archaic state of most hospitals directly causes seriously patients are more likely to survive longer than naive
ill people to lose their appetite. patients. Even if you are fortunate enough to find a
1 he goal of this hook is to keep you out of the hos¬ brilliant physician, you should still learn everything
pital. For those who must be hospitalized, we provide about your disease and the treatments being pre
critical information about innovative therapies and scribed. What you don’t know could kill you!
ways of preventing harmful side effects that will help There has never been a time in history when so
you get out alive and healthy. many medical breakthroughs hatv not been imple
mented by clinical practitioners. It is not the inten
tion of this kv>k to replace the advice or attention or
