Category Archives: Death by Medicine

Does one need say more? More deaths take place in the united States today due to medical malpractice and and mishandling of patients in hospitals than are killed by guns each year. “OOPS – did I misplace that scalpel?”

Dickens: The Business of Medicine

Medicine and Private Equity Firms (PEFs)

…or – Making Pain Pay!

Hippocrates, for whom the Hippocratic Oath is affectionately named, covers the breadth and depth of his knowledge and teachings from his life as a healer. Scholars believe it to be a compilation of his writings and teachings, estimating that it was written in the 4th or 5th century BC. The most memorable phrase attributed to Hippocrates, “First do no harm”, as an admonition to the physicians who would follow him, is a paraphrase of ‘either help or do not harm the patient,’ and probably ‘I will abstain from all intentional wrongdoing and harm.’

It offers a comprehensive list of cautions for covering topics such as Abortion, Religious Themes, and Euthanasia. Hippocrates’ central premise is to ‘Treat the patient, not the disease’, which is a real departure from where we find ourselves today in Merka and the Business of Medicine – or as I like to think of it, “Making Pain Pay”!

The ghastly adjunct to this is Big Pharma –  the Drug Companies!

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Nearly 20K Cancer Patients at NYC’s Memorial Sloan Kettering at Risk of Losing Critical Care Over Insurance Spat

Nearly 20,000 patients at Memorial Sloan Kettering could lose access to critical care because of a contract battle between the renowned cancer hospital and health insurance behemoth UnitedHealthcare.

The two sides have until the end of June to hash out a new deal over reimbursement rates — but are trading blame while patients, many in need of lifesaving care, anxiously wait to see if they will keep in-network treatment.

Patient Lee Kassler, of Plainview, Long Island, said he was in “disbelief” and “shocked” when he found out that he could lose care on July 1 if the Manhattan hospital and health insurance company don’t reach an agreement by June 30.

“Full of anxiety, full of stress, saddened, angry, worried, just a whole host of emotions that I was faced with when I was diagnosed with cancer,” Kassler, who has had a rare, incurable gastric cancer since 2022, told The Post Friday. Continue reading

Trump’s FDA Drops Covid Vaccine Bombshell as Pfizer and Moderna Admit Heart Damage Risk

The FDA is forcing Pfizer and Moderna to use expanded warning labels about the risks of heart damage tied to Covid vaccines.

The shots previously included warning labels about the rare risks of myocarditis, inflammation of the heart muscle, and pericarditis, inflammation of the sac-like lining surrounding the heart.

The new labels will expand that warning to certain age groups — specifically males aged 16 to 25 who appear to be at the highest risk of the rare complication. Continue reading

A Devastating New Exposé of Johnson & Johnson Indicts an Entire System

An investigative history of the scandal-plagued company shines a light on a health care industry riddled with corruption and criminality.

Illustration by Deena So’oteh

If health care industry corruption and criminality were a city skyline, it would be booming, with tower cranes and half-built skyscrapers in every direction. Among the downtown giants at the center would stand Johnson & Johnson, an iconic U.S. company whose villainy receives a just and overdue accounting in Gardiner Harris’s No More Tears: The Dark Secrets of Johnson & Johnson.

The book is an investigative demolition job in the best tradition of muckraking exposés and should find a sizable and receptive audience at a moment when public sentiment toward our corporate health care system ranges between Ralph Nader and Luigi Mangione. Harris, a former reporter for The New York Times, spent years digging into the company’s past and conducted hundreds of interviews, but the most damning evidence in the book comes from internal documents that have surfaced during decades of lawsuits against the company’s long record of public endangerment. Continue reading

Mr. “X”: FACTS of Chemotherapy

I will never forget the first time I saw those words. I was entering a cancer ward for children. Written on a large easel at the entrance to this ward was the following inscription…

I Am Not Afraid Of Tomorrow,
For I Have Seen Yesterday,
And I Love Today.

I walked past crib after crib. The cribs were like cages. Babes were in these cribs; pitiful small children – starry eyed, listless – some whimpering. They didn’t even notice anyone walking past them. Needless to say, my heart softened – went out to them – and I cried. Continue reading

Why Aren’t Hospitals Incentivized to Save Lives?

What makes hospitals so deadly and how can we fix it?

Throughout COVID-19, abysmal hospital care and the suppression of effective off-patent therapies killed approximately a million Americans. Much of this originated from Obamacare pressuring hospitals to aggressively treat patients so they could quickly leave the hospital and reduce healthcare costs.

More frail patients respond poorly to aggressive protocols, resulting in them frequently being pushed into palliative care or hospice. Sadly doctors are no longer trained to gradually bring their patients back to health, and hence view many of those deaths as inevitable.

In this article, we will review some of the forgotten medical therapies that dramatically improve hospital outcomes and highlight some of the key strategies patients and lawmakers can use to reduce hospital deaths. Continue reading

Common Drug Taken Daily by 19 Million Americans Increases the Risk of Internal Bleeding

… and 3 Million Are Taking It Against Medical Advice

  Aspirin should not be taken by those over 60 years old to prevent a first heart attack or stroke, doctors say

A quarter of older adults are still taking a drug that could cause them to suffer from internal bleeding, a study has found.

Aspirin was once recommended for people over 60 in the US as a way to prevent a heart attack or stroke.

But in 2018, medical organizations began to dial back the advice, saying that for those who hadn’t suffered from the conditions before, any benefits were outweighed by the risks — which include bleeding in the intestines or the brain. Continue reading

Store-Brand Cold Medicines Found to Contain Cancer-Causing Chemical

The contaminated offerings are on shelves at Walmart, CVS, Target, and Walgreens

When cold and flu season comes around, it’s not uncommon to flock to the nearest pharmacy for something to relieve the symptoms. However, an analysis and report issued by Bloomberg News may have many consumers rethinking which package of cold medicine they’re reaching for.

Researchers retained by the news outlet found that store-brand versions of Mucinex found at Walgreens, CVS, Walmart, and Target contain a cancer-causing chemicalBENZENE. Continue reading

Cancer-Drug Costs Rise, Leaving Even Insured Patients with Financial Burden

But the REAL question is – Is TRADITIONAL cancer treatment doing it’s correct job for the Victims – or are they just continuing to line the pockets of the Doctahs and BIG Pharma?

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Why can’t the Medical Community just get to the point of admission – that they just DON’T get it! ~ Editor

As cancer rates rise for people under 50, the cost of life-saving treatment is rising far past their ability to pay. An increase in cancer cases is putting pressure on Americans. With medical debt burdening patients, the battle against cancer is taking a new financial front that could affect many cancer patients’ lives. Continue reading

Pfizer Agrees to Settle 10,000 Lawsuits Accusing Pharma Giant of Hiding Cancer Risks of Heartburn Drug Zantac

Pfizer has agreed to settle more than 10,000 lawsuits alleging it it of hiding the cancer risks of its heartburn drug Zantac.

The financial details have not been revealed but pharma rival Sanofi agreed to pay more than $100million to resolve 4,000 Zantac-cancer claims last nonth.

The over-the-counter pill was pulled in the US in 2020 after animal studies found a key ingredient released ‘probable human carcinogens’.

Pfizer was the primary manufacturer of Zantac from 1998 to 2006, when several suits claim it should have known that the drug was contaminated with NDMA. Continue reading

CDC Found Evidence COVID-19 Vaccines Caused Deaths

Internal documents contradict claims from the CDC, which refused to explain the discrepancy.

U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) officials found evidence that the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines caused multiple deaths before claiming that there was no evidence linking the vaccines to any deaths, The Epoch Times has learned.

CDC employees worked to track down information on reported post-vaccination deaths and learned that myocarditis—or heart inflammation, a confirmed side effect of the vaccines—was listed on death certificates and in autopsies for some of the deaths, according to an internal file obtained by The Epoch Times.

Myocarditis was also described as being caused by vaccination in a subset of the deaths. Continue reading

Why Are Vaccine Injured Patients Silenced?

How a decade of propaganda turned us against each other

One of the cruelest things about being injured by a pharmaceutical is the degree to which doctors will deny the idea that the injury happened (as acknowledging it requires them to accept the shortcomings of the medical model they’ve invested their lives into). This denial is known as medical gaslighting and it is often so powerful that friends and family members of the patient will adopt the reality asserted by those doctors and likewise gaslight the injured patient. I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve seen this tragedy transpire in my immediate circle and one of my missions here has been to bring awareness to medical gaslighting and explain why it always happens (i.e., it was discussed in detail HERE). Continue reading