16 Doctors Speak Out – What Doctors Say About Medicine
Not all physicians believe that the only good medicines are ones that can also be harmful. Here are comments from 16 MDs who speak out about the practiice of medicine. And you will be surprised by what some of them say.
“If all the medicine in the world were thrown into the sea, it would be
bad for the fish and good for humanity”
O.W. Holmes, M.D. (Prof. of Med. Harvard University)
“The person who takes medicine must recover twice, once from the
disease and once from the medicine.” William Osler, M.D.
“Every educated physician knows that most diseases are not
appreciably helped by medicine.”
Richard C. Cabot, M.D. (Mass. Gen. Hospital)
“The cause of most disease is in the poisonous drugs physicians
superstitiously give in order to effect a cure.” Charles E. Page, M.D.
“Medicines are of subordinate importance because of their very
nature, they can only work symptomatically.” Hans Kusche, M.D.
“Drug medications consist in employing, as remedies for disease,
those things which produce disease in well persons. Its materia
medica is simply a lot of drugs or chemicals or dye-stuffs—in a word
poisons. All are incompatible with vital matter; all produce disease
when brought in contact in any manner with the living; all are poisons.”
R.T. Trail, M.D., (lecture to members of congress and the medical
profession, Smithsonian Institute, Washington D.C.)
“The greatest part of all chronic disease is created by the
suppression of acute disease by drug poisoning.”
Henry Lindlahr, M.D.
“Every drug increases and complicates the patients condition.”
Robert Henderson, M.D.
“Medicine is only palliative, for back of disease lies the cause,
and this cause no drug can reach.” Wier Mitchel, M.D.
“Medical practice has neither philosophy nor common sense to
recommend it. In sickness the body is already loaded with
impurities. By taking drug – medicines more impurities are
added, thereby the case is further embarrassed and harder to
cure.” Elmer Lee, M.D., Past Vice President, Academy of Medicine.
“Our figures show approximately four and one half million hospital
admissions annually due to the adverse reactions to drugs. Further,
the average hospital patient has as much as thirty percent chance,
depending on how long he is in, of doubling his stay due to adverse drug
reactions.” Milton Silverman, M.D. (Professor of Pharmacology,
University of California)
“What hope is there for medical science to ever become a true
science when the entire structure of medical knowledge is built
around the idea that there is an entity called disease which can be
expelled when the right drug is found?” John H. Tilden, M.D.
“We are prone to thinking of drug abuse in terms of the male
population and illicit drugs such as heroin, cocaine, and marijuana.
It may surprise you to learn that a greater problem exists with
millions of women dependent on legal prescription drugs.”
Robert Mendelsohn, M.D (author of book, “Confessions of a
Medical Heretic.)
“Why would a patient swallow a poison because he is ill, or take
that which would make a well man sick.”
L.F. Kebler, M.D.
“Drugs never cure disease. They merely hush the voice of nature’s
protest, and pull down the danger signals she erects along the
pathway of transgression. Any poison taken into the system has
to be reckoned with later on even though it palliates present
symptoms. Pain may disappear, but the patient is left in a worse
condition, though unconscious of it at the time.”
Daniel. H. Kress, M.D.
“The necessity of teaching mankind not to take drugs and
medicines, is a duty incumbent upon all who know their uncertainty
and injurious effects; and the time is not far distant when the
drug system will be abandoned.” Charles Armbruster, M. D.
With so many people losing their jobs and insurance, perhaps more will look into the alternatives available that are usually less costly and less damaging to the body.