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What Doctors Don't Tell You: The Truth about the Dangers of Modern Medicine

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This is an outstanding rebuttal of Western medical practices. Among all reviewers, the book has been well received except for the ones within the medical establishment. For the latter, the book is uncomfortable as it amounts to a well researched attack on many common practices running from vaccines to bypass surgeries. Nothing works quite as well as promoted by the medical establishment. Also, everything is more dangerous in terms of side effect than your doctor suggests.

The reviewers within the medical establishment state that this book is ill informed, that the author is nearly hysterical in her over the top uninformed judgment, and that she relies on dubious and lurid sources to support her arguments.

Are any of these claims valid? No, they are not. Here is why. The author does not advance opinions without backing it with hard evidence such as randomized trials and other scientific studies. The reference section at the end of the book is amazingly long, including 1,800 references to professional medical journals. This reference section is dominated by top caliber journals such as: The Lancet, British Medical Journal, Journal of the American Medical Association, New England Journal of Medicine, and Journal of Nutritional Medicine.

Additionally, fully accredited American doctors have reached the same conclusion as Lynne McTaggart. The most recent book by such a doctor/author is the excellent "The Last Well Person" by Nortin Hadler published in 2004. What's remarkable is that Lynne McTaggart's book was published in 1996 and is still current. "The Last Well Person" confirms that all her findings and statements ring as true today as they did when she wrote this book.

Taggart's last chapter amounting to her own recommendation to maintain your health make good common sense. She recommends maintaining your health through good nutrition (large dose of fruits and vegetables) lots of exercise. She recommends taking antioxidant supplements (Vit. A, Vit. C, Vit. E). She also recommends treating your doctor like you would any contractor by questioning the hows and whys of any treatments he suggests. And, double checking the performance of such proposed treatments through second and third opinions and searches on Medline. I don't think there is any open minded doctor that would disagree with this advice. And, I can tell you firsthand that this simple approach works. That's pretty much what I have done personally for the past few decades to maintain a very good health.

In addition to "The Last Well Person" I recommend another related book by a doctor/author: "Should I be Tested for Cancer?" by H. Gilbert Welch. It's an excellent book that further supports Lynne McTaggart's well founded skepticism of Western medical practice. There are many more such books written by doctors. In other words, Lynne McTaggart is far from alone. And, her opinion is hopefully much closer to the mainstream than it was when she wrote this book.

From my own reading elsewhere plus less than positive experiences with modern medicine, this book rings true to me. It's very well documented with medical journal articles. Perhaps the most startling fact is that doctors discuss among themselves the dangers and ineffectiveness of much of modern medicine without changing their practices or informing the public -- maddening! I know from my own experience of the dangers of the overuse of antibiotics, just one of the areas McTaggart addresses. I'm suffering (now in my forties) for my family doctor's decision to put me on tetracycline for acne when I was a teenager. I think I was on it for a couple of years before getting my first vaginal yeast infection. Now I have chronic systemic candida (yeast) overgrowth and believe me it is tough to shake this. Who knows what other havoc is being wreaked by so-called wonder drugs? McTaggart tells you. Please read this and pass the word. Don't even consider surgery or a drug regimen without reading this book!

Who goes to the doctor today will be examined in a totally different way than 30 years ago. Apparently, we are now suffering all kinds of strange new epidemics, like too much stomach acid, high cholesterol, depression and hyperactivity.

It takes a lot of scepticism to put all what the "man in the white coat" tells you into a broader perspective. Remember that you and you alone are ultimately the most interested subject in your own health. So don't rely too much on your doctor.

A general introduction to this complex subject is presented by Lynne McTaggart in this book.

I would like to refer also to some doctors who take a closer look at some topics, like Dr. Jonathan Wright Why Stomach Acid is Good for You: Natural Relief from Heartburn, Indigestion, Reflux and GERD, Dr. Malcolm Kendrick The Great Cholesterol Con: The Truth About What Really Causes Heart Disease and How to Avoid It and Dr. David Healy in Let Them Eat Prozac: The Unhealthy Relationship Between the Pharmaceutical Industry and Depression (Medicine, Culture, and History).

And continue your personal study with Viral Immunity: A 10-Step Plan to Enhance Your Immunity against Viral Disease Using Natural Medicines of Dr.J. Williams, in which the principles are explained to build a strong immune system with natural methods.

Finally, if you want to know how to prevent and even cure cancer, check out Dr Richardson Laetrile Case Histories: The Richardson Cancer Clinic Experience.

This isn't easy, but trusting your doctor too much can seriously harm your health.

It is recommended that women "prevent" breast cancer by subjecting the breasts yearly to mammography radiation, when radiation causes cancer.

Men with slow growing and potentially non-life threatening prostate cancer are aggressively treated with radiation as well, when radiation has been proven to cause cancer.

We are put under heavy anesthesia, inducing a unnaturally deep, deadening sleep, and have our bodies probed with metal instruments just to "prevent disease" even though we show no symptoms.

We take strong drugs, often with heavy side effects, to "prevent disease", or to treat conditions that could be addressed by nutrition, supplements, emotional counceling or regular exercise.

Back pain is treated by injecting steroids (heavy duty drugs with dangerous side effects) directly into the spine.

We are told that women going through menopause, a natural process, are experiencing an hormonal "imbalance" that needs to be "corrected" by administering hormones in doses far greater than the body would ever produce on its own.

Pregnant women are told to have a large needle inserted into the womb on a during healthy pregnancy, to verify her baby is "developing normally".

Much of modern medicine is deadly overkill. This book vindicates those of us who have had the idea that many modern medical treatments and "preventions" are an invasive affront to simple common sense.

wow!! What an eye opener. All the author did was crunch statistics, what an eye opener. For example, you are three times more likely to die at the hands of a doctor than to die from a hand gun in the USA. The drugs the pharmacy companies are pumping out are ALL dangerous, and for the most part unnessessary. to quote the author "people can get well without drugs and surgery, just by altering what they eat and how they live. Healing isn't simpley a matter of finding the right drug or right operation, but a complex process of accepting responsibility for your own life."

This should be a subject taught in high school. Anyone who has ever been sick and has been given the run around by doctors should read this.

This book is a complete eye opener. The scandle of the century is exposed. If you are concerned about the health of you and your loved ones then you should read this book. You will be shocked.

As director of an organization concerned with medical error, I'm acutely aware of the hazards. There is some useful information in this book, but too much of the time it is over-the-top. The author latches onto dubious and lurid sources; anything that will bolster her thesis, no matter how questionable. It is impossible for the typical reader to sort out the credible information from the nonsense. The book is so extreme that it tends to discredit the effort to inform consumers about medical risks.