Honderden mensen sterven jaarlijks door bijwerkingen van medicijnen, aldus de inspectie voor de gezondheidszorg eind januari 2005. Zembla vroeg zich af of dit getal wel klopt. Het antwoord op de vraag is te zien in het programma van Zembla 'Dodelijke bijwerkingen'.

In 'Dodelijke bijwerkingen' wordt ook de vraag gesteld of de veiligheid van medicijnen zoals antidepressiva of de anti-conceptiepil wel goed wordt gecontroleerd. Als medicijnen op de markt worden toegelaten, hoe kan het dan toch nog misgaan? Worden bijwerkingen wel goed in de gaten gehouden? En als er iets mis is, wordt er dan op tijd gereageerd? Is er wel voldoende toezicht op medicijnen in Nederland en zijn de pillenveilig?

In de uitzending zul je zien dat het niet om honderen gaat maar vermoedelijk om 3.500 doden per jaar in Nederland door bijwerkingen van medicijnen. Dat zijn er volgens Zembla 10 per dag en dat is veel meer dan de 3 verkeersdoden per dag .
In België gaat het minstens om 3.000 doden per jaar .

Heeft u het programma gemist? Geen probleem, kijk dan alsnog via internet:
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 Dat stelt de Inspectie voor de Gezondheidszorg in het rapport de Staat van de Gezondheidszorg
 2004, dat donderdag is verschenen. De inspectie baseert zich in het onderzoek voor het eerst
 ook op databestanden van anderen, zoals ziekenhuizen, universitaire onderzoeksgroepen en het
 College voor zorgverzekeringen.

 Op basis van buitenlandse cijfers vertaald naar de Nederlandse situatie gaan er in Nederland
 jaarlijks enkele duizenden mensen per jaar dood en ondervindt een veelvoud daarvan ernstige
 schade door fouten in de hele zorgsector, schrijft de inspectie. Harde Nederlandse cijfers
 bestaan niet. Generaal- inspecteur H. Kingma wil daarom een landelijk registratiesysteem voor
 fouten die voorkomen hadden kunnen worden. Hij wil zo risico's in kaart brengen. Fouten door
 nalatigheid moeten tuchtrechtelijk worden vervolgd.

 Eén op de vijf ouderen krijgt elk jaar minstens één recept voorgeschreven dat schadelijk voor
 zijn of haar gezondheid kan zijn. Het gaat daarbij om middelen die niet geschikt zijn voor
 ouderen of in lagere dosering moeten worden voorgeschreven. Ouderen die vijf verschillende
 medicijnen gebruiken, lopen bovendien bij elk geneesmiddel dat daarbij komt 10 procent meer
 kans om te vallen. Niet goed bewaken van de medicatie van patiënten is tuchtrechtelijk
 verwijtbaar. Dat geldt voor apotheken die geen contact opnemen met de arts om ze te waarschuwen
 èn voor artsen die zo'n waarschuwing in de wind slaan.

 In ziekenhuizen worden fouten lang niet altijd gemeld, laat staan dat er maatregelen worden
 genomen om ze te herstellen. Zo blijkt uit gesprekken met verpleegkundigen dat maar de helft
 van incidenten met infusen worden gemeld. Het kan zijn dat dit niet gebeurt uit angst voor
 repressailles, of omdat mensen geen zin hebben in de administratieve rompslomp waarmee een
 melding gepaard gaat. In verpleeghuizen bestaan wel goede registratiesystemen, maar ook hier
 worden fouten, zoals ongelukken met tilliften, niet altijd gemeld. Vier van de tien
 thuiszorginstellingen hebben helemaal geen registratiesysteem.

The emergence of Medically Unexplained Illnesses has revealed an epidemic of behavioral problems and personality disorders in doctors.

Patients expressing unfamiliar complaints t their physicians often induce the "It's All In Your Head" (AIYH) or the "That's Impossible" response in doctors suffering from these behavioral problems and personality disorders.

Physicians who manifest the metaphysical belief system of "If we don't know about it, then it doesn't exist" are suffering from a mental defect or psycholo­gical condition known as "Doctors with Unexplained Medical Beliefs" or D.U.M.B.

DUMB doctors are comprised of two categories that are characterized by tho­se who are feigning to be DUMB for monetary gain: "Medicalingering" and tho­se who are not in possession of sufficient information to render intelligent
diagnoses: "Factlessitious Disorder".

Physicians who are predisposed to this condition place an inordinate empha­sis on theories of psychological causality for virtually any unfamiliar com­plaints that are presented to them. This somatiform obsession with psycholo­gical etiology "PsychosomatizationDisorder" or "Psychologizing" is a distinc­tive characteristic of the mental illness and should be considered a warning sign that the individual is not rational and may in fact be DUMB.

DUMB disorder may be concomitant but should not be confused with Signs of Thoroughly Unmistakable Physician Intelligence Deficiency or "S.T.U.P.I.D." sin­­ce a STUPID physician is uniformly incompetent while a DUMB doctor is on­­­ly mentally paralyzed into "psychologizing" by unfamiliar symptoms and com­­plaints.

An immediate investigation is warranted to assess the prevalence of DUMB and STUPID doctors and to determine the impact that physicians suffering from these mental defects have on the health care system and their patients.

Erik Johnson

Have psychologizers ever once apologized for the damage they have done?

Did psychologizers ever say to an AIDS patient "I'm sorry I blamed your illness on you because of your lifestyle"?
To a woman with PMS "I'm sorry I said you were a hysterical female"?
Someone with ulcers from H - Pylori, "I'm sorry I kept telling you it was stress when it was really a bacterial infection"?
Tuberculosis: "I'm sorry I told you that you brought this illness upon yourself by having a nervous disposition"?
Thyroid: "I'm sorry that I said your weight problem was from a lack of discipline in your diet"?
ADD/ADHD: "I'm sorry that I told you that this was from your bad choice of sugar laden foods"?
Autism: "I'm sorry that I slapped your child and tried to shake him out of it"?
SIDS/Cot Death:  "I'm sorrry that I accused you of killing your own child"?
Munchausen: "I'm sorry that I wrongly took your children away forever"?
What do psychologizers plan to say to CFS/MS sufferers when psychologizers finally realize that they were wrong again and that CFS/ME is exactly what sufferers say it is?

Is there any illness in history that didn't have psychologizers standing in the way of sick people seeking medical help by saying "They don't need that kind of help. They just need to change their attitude".

When the etiology of any illness was finally found to be "Not Psychological", did psychologizers ever make the slightest attempt to undo the damage they created?

Did psychologizers ever try to restore the credibility they stole from those they falsely told "It's All In Your Head"?

Or did they scamper off to concentrate their "help" on the next "unexplained medical illness" they could find?

How many more examples of this process do we need to go through before society prevents psychologizers from pronouncing their victims "Guilty! - until proven inno­cent of mental illness?

Erik Johnson

Onderzoek uit 2001 naar effekt CBT (bron zie hieronder):

476 mensen met "vermoeidheidsklachten" kregen van Nijmegen en Maastricht de diagnose CVS.

Afvallers vooraf:
198 mensen (=45%) mochten, konden of wilden niet meedoen:
·         22% wilde/kon zelf niet meedoen (deelnemers moesten zeer frekwent naar Maastricht/Nijmegen reizen)
·         22% mocht niet meedoen (welke kriteria gehanteerd zijn, blijft geheel onduidelijk).
Dus slechts 278 mensen met "CVS" mogen en kunnen meedoen: bijna de helft is vooraf al afgevallen!
Onder die afvallers name de "zware gevallen": zij kunnen niet regelmatig naar Nijmegen/Maastricht reizen.

Deelnemers:
De patiënten met CVS werden vervolgens in drie groepen opgedeeld:
1.     Mensen die werden behandeld met kognitieve gedragstherapie (CBT) : 93
2.     Mensen die werden behandeld in praatgroepen (support groups): 94
3.     Mensen waren vrij om elders hulp te zoeken (natural course): 91

Afvallers tijdens de proef:
De duur van de studie was veertien maanden. Gedurende het proeftrajekt waren er natuurlijk afvallers.
In de eerste groep waren de meeste afvallers 35 (bijna 38%), in groep 2 32 (34%), in groep 3 13 (14%).
Blijven dus over: in groep 1 58 (62%), in groep 2 (66%) patiënten en in groep 3 78 patiënten (86%)..

Verbetering (succes):
En nu komt nog het mooiste: het succes van de verschillende groepen!
1.  In groep 1 (CBT) trad bij 50% van de "doorzetters" verbetering op (objektief was dit percentage minder).
Dit zijn dus 29 mensen. Van de 93 die mochten deelnemen, rapporteerden 29 verbetering (= 30%).
Er werd NIET onderzocht hoeveel mensen verslechterden. In andere studies was dat minstens 5%.
2.   In groep 2 (de "praatgroepen" zeg maar) trad bij 12 mensen verbetering op (t.o.v. 94 is dit 13%).
3.   In groep 3 (de groep die zijn heil ergens anders zocht) gaven 23 mensen aan verbetering te voelen.
Dit is ten opzichte van het aantal deelnemers (91): 28%.

Konklusies: (als je gewoon leert rekenen)
Wat kunnen we nu uit al die lastige cijfers konkluderen:
1.     Bijna de helft van de patiënten viel vooraf af (met name de zware gevallen).
2.     Als we de afvallers meetellen, die bepalen namelijk ook het succes van een therapie, is het "succes" van CBT (30%) vrijwel gelijk aan het "succes" van mensen die hun heil ergens anders zoeken (ca. 28%).
3.     Bij CBT wordt, bewust?, niet gemeten hoeveel mensen erop achteruit gingen.
4.  Tevens wordt niet vastgesteld of de progressie op lange termijn ook stand houdt.

Volgende cijfers van Nijmegen zelf:
Zelfs als behandelaars zich beperken tot de "lichte gevallen" is CBT niet effektiever dan "niets doen" (+2%).
Sterker nog, als we de mensen die erop achteruit gingen meenemen, is CBT in feite(n) kontra-produktief!!.

bron:
Lancet,  Volume 357, Issue 9259 , 17 March 2001, Pages 841-847
Cognitive behaviour therapy for chronic fatigue syndrome: a multicentre randomised controlled trial
Judith B. Prins, Gijs Bleijenberg, Ellen Bazelmans, Lammy D. Elving, Theo M. de Boo,
Johan L. Severens, Gert Jan van der Wilt, Philip Spinhoven and Jos W. M. van der Meer

Abraham Flexner werd door hem ingehuurd om overal in de Verenigde Staten de doeltreffendheid te "evalueren" van de diverse behandelingen , zoals die aangeleerd weren in de medische scholen . Rockefeller wilde een volledige controle (monopolie) over de geneeskunde in de Verenigde Staten (eerst) en daarna over de geneeskunde in de ganse wereld .

Hij wilde dat overal ter wereld ENKEL ZIJN farmaceutische "geneesmiddelen" gebruikt zouden worden en alzo zou hij een enorme macht verwerven , evenals een enorm fortuin .

Er waren toen in de Verenigde Staten , 3 grote spelers in de "gezondheids"industrie :

1) De "georganiseerde geneeskunde" , vertegenwoordigd door de AMA (American Medical Association) die hoofdzakelijk de financiële belangen behartigde van zijn leden , medische dokters en privé ziekenhuizen .
Belangrijk was voor hun om zoveel mogelijk geld te verdienen aan "geneeskunde" .

2) De FDA (Food & Drug Administration)
In theorie een overheidsinstelling (bekostigd door de burgers) die toeziet over de "veiligheid" van voeding en "geneesmiddelen" .
In werkelijkheid een verlengstuk van de voedings

IN OPBOUW

here are a number of alternative healing therapies that work so well and cost so little (compared to conventional treatment), that Organized Medicine, the Food & Drug Administration, and their overlords in the Pharmaceutical Industry (The Big Three) would rather the public not know about them. The reason is obvious: Alternative, non-toxic therapies represent a potential loss of billions of dollars to allopathic (drug) medicine and drug companies.

The Big Three have collectively engaged in a medical conspiracy for the better part of 70 years to influence legislative bodies on both the state and federal level to create regulations that promote the use of drug medicine while simultaneously creating restrictive, controlling mechanisms (licencing, government approval, etc) designed to limit and stifle the availability of non-drug, alternative modalities. The conspiracy to limit and eliminate competition from non-drug therapies began with the Flexner Report of 1910.
 
 

The report Flexner submitted to The Carnegie Foundation was titled "Medical Education in the United States and Canada". Page 22 of the report said: "the privileges of the medical school can no longer be open to casual strollers from the highway. It is necessary to install a doorkeeper who will, by critical scrutiny, ascertain the fitness of the applicant, a necessity suggested, in the first place, but consideration for the candidate, whose time and talents will serve him better in some other vocation, if he be unfit for this, and in the second, by consideration for a public entitled to protection from those whom the very boldness of modern medical strategy equips with instruments that, tremendously effective for good when rightly used, are all the more terrible for harm if ignorantly or incompetently employed".

All too often, politicians are prepared to enact laws that rob citizens of yet another constitutional freedom under the banner of "public protection". Needless to say, congress swallowed the recommendations of this report hook, line, and sinker. It was decided that the American Medical Association (AMA), would be the "doorkeeper". The AMA was now empowered to certify or de-certify any medical school in the country on the grounds of whether that school met the AMA's standards of "approved" medicine.

The AMA came into existence in 1847. It is a private organization of allopathic physicians which serves the interests of its members, especially when it comes to influencing favorable legislation. It functions in every sense of the word as a union, although its members wear white collars instead of blue. Giving the AMA the power over the certification of medical schools is the equivalent of giving the Teamsters Union the exclusive right to decide on the laws of interstate commerce and transportation. Is it any wonder that the total number of medical schools in the United States went from 160 in 1906 (before the Flexner Report) to 85 in 1920 and further down to 69 schools in 1944? A little like putting the fox in charge of the hen house, no?

Not surprisingly, Flexner ‘found' that any discipline that didn't use drugs to help cure the patient was tantamount to quackery and charlatanism. Medical schools that offered courses in bioelectric Medicine, Homeopathy or Eastern Medicine, for example, were told to either drop these courses from their curriculum or lose their accreditation and underwriting support. A few schools resisted for a time, but eventually most schools cooperated (or were closed down). A similar scenario was played out in Canada. It was attempted in England against Homeopathy, but it failed due to the personal intervention of the Royal Family who had received much relief and healing at the hands of Homeopathic healers in the 19th century. By the way, the AMA was found guilty of conspiracy against chiropractors in 1987 by a federal judge and fined a couple of million dollars. Here in America, a relentless campaign of misinformation, fraud, deception, and suppression of alternative therapies and healers has been in place for the better part of this century in order to keep highly effective alternative therapies from reaching any significant plateau of public awareness. Control is exerted through "news items" and propaganda from pro-establishment organizations like The American Medical Association, The American Cancer Society, The Diabetes Foundation, etc.; local medical boards; and government agencies like the FDA, The National Institute of Health (NIH), and The National Cancer Institute (NCI), The National Academy of Science, etc. with the full cooperation of main-stream media of course .

Over the past decades, hundreds of caring, concerned, and conscientious alternative healers have been jailed and abused like common criminals for the "crime" of curing people of life-threatening diseases in an "unapproved" manner by heavy-handed government agents who swoop down on clinics with drawn guns, flax jackets, and Gestapo manners. All the while, these same agents and agencies posture themselves before TV cameras and the public under the ludicrous pretense of being servants of the people and protectors of the common good.

The medico-drug cartel was summed up by J.W Hodge, M.D., of Niagara Falls,  N.Y., in these words:   'The medical monopoly or medical trust, euphemistically called the American Medical Association, is not merely the meanest monopoly ever organized, but the most arrogant, dangerous and despotic organization which ever managed a free people in this or any other age. Any and all methods of healing the sick by means of safe, simple and natural remedies are sure to be assailed and denounced by the arrogant leaders of the AMA doctors' trust as fakes, frauds and humbugs Every practioner of the healing art who does not ally himself with the medical trust is denounced as a 'dangerous quack' and impostor by the predatory trust doctors. Every sanitarian who attempts to restore the sick to a state of health by natural means without resort to the knife or poisonous drugs, disease imparting serums, deadly toxins or vaccines, is at once pounced upon by these medical tyrants and fanatics, bitterly denounced, vilified and persecuted to the fullest extent.'

(see The Drug Story for more revelations about the AMA, the House of Rockefeller and the pharmaceutical industry)

At long last, however, the public's consciousness seems to have finally reached a critical mass and is now beginning to seriously question the efficacy and appropriateness of using orthodox therapies and allopathic medicine in general. Thank God. It's been too long overdue.

Understanding the Nature of Ill Health and Disease

The entire approach and foundation of Orthodox Medicine is based on Luis Pasteur's Germ Theory, a flawed concept. A disease condition is viewed by the orthodoxy as an isolated event, confined to the area in which it manifests itself (E.g. an ear infection, eye infection, gum infection, lung cancer, skin cancer, etc. ). Under this theory, for unknown reasons, microbes or tumors indiscriminately grow in the patient and must be cut (surgery), burned (radiation), or poisoned (drugs) out of the body. In the orthodox model, the solution is sought through mechanical and chemical means. Seeking to understand WHY the infection or disease condition appeared in the first place,  is not seriously explored. The quick fix with a prescription for drugs to smother the symptoms is the typical orthodox 'answer'.

A contemporary of Pasteur, Antoine Beauchamp, had a different opinion as to why disease conditions 'took hold'. Beauchamp felt that the ENVIRONMENT, or the ECOLOGY of the blood played the critical role in deciding whether disease conditions would manifest or not.

Alternative medicine explores the stressors (environmental, biological, chemical, psychological, and emotional) in a patient's life that cause a weakening of a particular energy field; which in turn allows the manifestation of a disease condition in a weakened area. In order to maintain a state of health, all energy systems within the body need to exist in a state of balance or equilibrium. Imbalance leads to conditions of discomfort (dis-ease) which eventually spirals into ill health if not corrected. The Chinese and Indians (Ayurvedic medicine) had worked all of this out thousands of years ago.

Orthodox or Allopathic Medicine utilizes poisonous substances (drugs) in non-lethal dosages in order to suppress symptoms in an affected area. This approach neither addresses the cause of the disease condition, nor is it responsible for healing the patient. Rather, the use of drugs often will temporarily mask the outer manifestations of the malady, while at the same time, drive the disease deeper into the body...only to reappear at a later date, as a more serious, and chronic health threat. One of the many flaws of the orthodox approach is that it focuses on the disease condition itself, rather than the patient. The term wholistic (or holistic) originally sprang up to distinguish those physicians whose diagnostic gestalt considers all of the physical, emotional, and spiritual energies interacting with the patient.

Do not assume that the only difference between allopathic and alternative medicine, however, is an honest difference of opinion in the philosophies and views on the origin of disease states. Hardly!. There is, in truth,  a concerted, organized agenda -concocted, planned, and contrived by the international pharmaceutical companies and organized medicine to suppress any and every alternative, non-drug therapy that WORKS. Why?

Because they want people to keep on coming back for more treatments and more drugs.

A cured patient is a lost source of income. A sick patient who is marginally "improved" is a manageable patient.

Managing patients means routine office visits and renewing of drug prescriptions. Therefore, a manageable patient is a continuing source of income; a cash cow if you will. Multiply that by a few hundred million people and you get an idea why this deceit is being put upon you. The profits from the so called "health-care" industry are staggering!

The thrust of the orthodox pharmaceutical agenda is to provide temporary relief, while never addressing the cause of the disease condition. This agenda insures regular visits to the doctor's office and requires the patient to routinely return to the pharmacy to refill his prescriptions. This is what the game is all about folks, plain and simple. Deny it or Deal with it,...Stick with it or Get Out of it! ... your choice.

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Natural Healing

The patient's immune system and the immune system alone is responsible for healing and recovery from ill health. The use of drugs and vaccines represents an assault on the immune system. In some cases, the use of a particular drug might be a wise choice to speed healing and recovery for the patient, but the use of natural, orthomolecular therapies and substances (substances normally found in Nature) that can more effectively address the cause of the disease should be considered first because natural substances work in harmony with Nature. They aid and stimulate the body to truly cure itself, without the terrible millstone of drug side-effects.

The human body is predisposed to heal itself and to exist as a healthy, thriving organism. We inhibit that process by ingesting unhealthy foods, fouling our inner environment with toxins, and relying upon poisonous substances to treat disease conditions.

Unlike ‘miracle drugs' and other ‘drug breakthroughs', you will never see or hear anything from mainstream media about most of the therapies described here. The Big Three see to that, but you can still glean this information from the alternative health press, books, web sites, and at health expos. Some of these alternative therapies require high-tech equipment and specialized knowledge, but many, many others can be done at home without third party intervention or supervision. It's amazing, but true, that many of the most effective healing therapies (even for grave, life-threatening disease conditions) are simple things that you can do for yourself at home. You simply have to educate yourself and take responsibility for your own health.

The following is a brief overview of some alternative therapies that have demonstrated themselves to be effective and readily obtainable, usually at a low to modest cost. This list is far from complete. As time permits, the description and scope of these and other therapies will be added to, and expanded upon.