Until November of 2013, I lived my entire life in Maryland with my wife of 31 years. She passed away in October of 2013. Financially, I was forced to live here in New Mexico.
In 2007, I was told by three doctors that I had better have coronary bypass surgery or I would die. In retrospect I realize that God is the only person who knows when I will die. Apparently, the "good" doctors think of themselves as God...
Because I was ignorant of the evils of modern-day medicine, I agreed to the surgery. There were five (5) bypasses! After the surgery there was no more chest pains. None. Nada. I thought I had a new lease on life. I became a fanatic and did everything the doctors advised me: I kept track of my calories burned, my calories consumed; I lifted light weights and walked a mile every day, and did workouts in my home on the Total Gym. I felt better than I did when in my 30's! And then it happened: the chest pain returned while I was doing my daily walk.
I immediately drove back to that damned hospital and sought out the "good" doctor. I told him the chest pains had returned and I asked him why. His response, "I don't know." Now wait a minute, doc, I said, let me understand this. You made a quarter of a million dollars in three hours and twenty-two minutes in O.R. (fifty thousand a bypass), and you're saying you don't know. The hospital made an additional $28,000 for my four-day stay.
The doctor said that I must come back to the hospital for more tests. And I told him that I had a stent put in one of the arteries surrounding my heart in 1998. Four months afterwards, it collapsed and I had to return for the artery to be reopened. And now the bypass surgery failed in five months. "Does that tell you something about your medicine, doc?" His response, "If you can live with the pain, then so can I."
From my research I discovered that approximately fifty percent of bypass surgeries fail. FIFTY PERCENT. HALF! Why are they being allowed to continue? Say it with me: because it's fifty thousand dollars a bypass. A lot of these surgeries failed because of the procedure in sewing an artery before the blockage to bypass the blockage. That's a whole different explanation, requiring more time. Do you own due diligence.
Everything is "money." Medicine, politics, religion, etc. Sad thing is, it ain't even money. It's green toilet paper printed by a corporation that loans it to our government at 6% interest, and we're the chumps that pay it back. Why do you think we got "income" tax?
There is an organization that is part of the World "Health" Organization, Codex Alimentarius. One of their stated goals is to eliminate all sources of natural substances, leaving us dependent upon the pharmaceutical industry and the ever-expanding genetically modified food producers, et al. But, be careful there, Bill. You may leave the impression that you're a conspiracy nut!
RE: Do you trust your doctor?
A most resounding HELL NO!Until November of 2013, I lived my entire life in Maryland with my wife of 31 years. She passed away in October of 2013. Financially, I was forced to live here in New Mexico.
In 2007, I was told by three doctors that I had better have coronary bypass surgery or I would die. In retrospect I realize that God is the only person who knows when I will die. Apparently, the "good" doctors think of themselves as God...
Because I was ignorant of the evils of modern-day medicine, I agreed to the surgery. There were five (5) bypasses! After the surgery there was no more chest pains. None. Nada. I thought I had a new lease on life. I became a fanatic and did everything the doctors advised me: I kept track of my calories burned, my calories consumed; I lifted light weights and walked a mile every day, and did workouts in my home on the Total Gym. I felt better than I did when in my 30's! And then it happened: the chest pain returned while I was doing my daily walk.
I immediately drove back to that damned hospital and sought out the "good" doctor. I told him the chest pains had returned and I asked him why. His response, "I don't know." Now wait a minute, doc, I said, let me understand this. You made a quarter of a million dollars in three hours and twenty-two minutes in O.R. (fifty thousand a bypass), and you're saying you don't know. The hospital made an additional $28,000 for my four-day stay.
The doctor said that I must come back to the hospital for more tests. And I told him that I had a stent put in one of the arteries surrounding my heart in 1998. Four months afterwards, it collapsed and I had to return for the artery to be reopened. And now the bypass surgery failed in five months. "Does that tell you something about your medicine, doc?" His response, "If you can live with the pain, then so can I."
From my research I discovered that approximately fifty percent of bypass surgeries fail. FIFTY PERCENT. HALF! Why are they being allowed to continue? Say it with me: because it's fifty thousand dollars a bypass. A lot of these surgeries failed because of the procedure in sewing an artery before the blockage to bypass the blockage. That's a whole different explanation, requiring more time. Do you own due diligence.
Everything is "money." Medicine, politics, religion, etc. Sad thing is, it ain't even money. It's green toilet paper printed by a corporation that loans it to our government at 6% interest, and we're the chumps that pay it back. Why do you think we got "income" tax?