One out of every 1,000 hospital patients died as a result of a drug or group of drugs. A Boston University study reported 163,000 cases of drug-induced memory loss or impaired thinking in America alone. Many diagnostic and surgical procedures are unnecessary. Seven times more people die from prescription drug side effects than from heroin, crack or other illegal drugs. Medical techniques like radical mastectomy, balloon angioplasty and cancer chemotherapies, to mention only a few, are not only unproven but in many cases disproved.
Surgery is a multi-million dollar industry per day .
The dedicated practitioners and researchers who bring this shadow side of modern medicine to our attention are deeply concerned about the direction in which we are going. All of which forms a significant part of what I call the grassroots approach to health care. We have our own solutions. To expect the medical profession to approach our society's declining health in any other way than by drugs and surgery, no matter how blatant the evidence, is, I think, somewhat unrealistic. Wellness to them is to be free of symptoms, which is not the same thing as optimal health.