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"India's first book on Medical Scam"
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Dr. Biswaroop Roy Chowdhury
Most guarded secret which will change the way you live, forever
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Cholesterol: On the similar lines, if we talk of cholesterol level in
1998, if the cholesterol level exceeded 240mg/dl, it would be
regarded as high Cholesterol. However, in 1998, W.H.O set up a panel
named, 'Texas Coronary Atherosclerosis Study.' The motive of
the panel was to present the level of cholesterol through new
yardsticks of measurement. The same year in 1998, it was declared
that whose's cholesterol level would exceed 200mg/dl, would be
regarded as high cholesterol patients. Just imagine 56% people who
were healthy, overnight became a victim of high cholesterol.
Osteoporosis: Same is the case of osteoporosis. In 2003, W.H.O
established a new panel, 'National Osteoporosis Foundation.'
This panel was further asked to work out new parameters of
osteoporosis. Before 2003, one with a T-score of less than -2.5 was
declared a patient of osteoporosis. But, the panel reduced the T-score
level to -2. Thus, other 85 % people who were not suffering from
osteoporosis, now came within the ambit of osteoporosis.
Likewise, the parameters of other diseases were also reduced so that
more and more people could be declared patients .Thus, needless to
say that only hospitals, medical practitioners and pharmaceutical
companies stand to gain from such patients.
Now let's understand how the guidelines of these diseases are
formed? In 1948, U.N.O. established W.H.O, whose aim was to set up
norms and standards of health in various medical institutions and
thus improve our health standard. W.H.O conducts research on the
diseases responsible for maximum number of death. Thereafter, it
collects data and feedback from a few selected universities like
Oxford, Harvard University, Toronto University, and Cambridge
University as to which disease proved to be most fatal? On the basis
of this feedback, a panel is selected. The members of this panel are
from pharmaceutical companies. That goes on to say that the
guidelines prepared by this panel are prepared by such
pharmaceutical companies, no matter whether they are for
hypertension, diabetes or levels of cholesterol. It is in the hands of
pharmaceutical companies to set the level and parameters of various
diseases. Later on, the companies' agents become instrumental in
delivering these guidelines and medicines to the concerned doctors.
Many medical conferences for doctors are arranged in order to make
them popular and then made to reach common man through doctors.
The medical agents of pharmaceutical companies act like postmen.
In between the doctors and W.H.O are the pharmaceutical
companies. And pharmaceutical companies have only one aim, 'to
earn profit'. If you want to know the reality of pharmaceutical
companies, then you will have to get in direct touch with the well
established and reliable medical universities ignoring doctors and
pharma industries.
Now let's get to know how these games of illness or diseases start?
How a certain disease is magnified in proportions?
The Connection of Pharmaceutical Companies with Doctors:
D The pharmaceutical companies invite doctors as consultants,
advisers/ speakers .
D These companies help the doctors in arranging and publishing
their research work.
Advice by the doctors to the pharmaceutical Companies:
D The doctors explain them other uses of new medicines.
D Give counsel/advice on marketing of these medicines.
D Other specialists also help them in launching the medicines and
help such companies in seeking permission from ED.As, for the
use of new medicines.
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D A few doctors' money is invested with such companies, so they
keep giving advice to these companies from time to time.
To Define a Disease:
D The pharmaceutical companies arrange for meetings; wherein,
medical specialists are most than ready to give new definition to
such diseases.
D The diseases that are predefined and established are redefined by
the doctors and they write guidelines for the same. The doctors
through this, cognize and apprise other doctors too, about these
changes.
Advertising the Medicines
D The company experts, besides writing the guidelines, apprise the
doctors about the information related to new definitions of the
medicines- their uses, the brand names etc.
I hope that you will have understood this mathematics of different
diseases by now and how we fall in the trap of this process of
geometrical progression of 2 into 2 equals 8.
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The carpenter desires timber,
the physician disease.
- Rigveda
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CHAPTER - 3
Disease Mongering
In the present scenario, man is already trapped in the maze of so
many health problems that he further does not need to aggravate
them. Although in our society, there are many powerful industries
contributing to the rise in such diseases and presenting them as a gift
to the patients. The person is made to believe that he has one or the
other disease or health problem which needs to be treated first and
foremost.
This activity is known as 'Disease Mongering.' Disease mongering
fills the healthy person with a fear that he is suffering from some or
the other ailment for sure, even if he/ she is known to have slight cold
or headache. He is made to believe that he is suffering from some
major disease which undoubtedly needs treatment.
This tactic has been coined the term, 'Corporate Construction of
Disease', in British Medical Journal, by Ray Moynihan, Iona
Heath, and David Henry. According to them, belying, illusionary
facts about the diseases are spread so that a few multinational
companies make money in the name of diseases and extract the
money from healthy people as well. That is the reason these
pharmaceuticals have been engaged relentlessly in sponsoring the
definition of diseases and promoting them to both prescribers and
consumers .
The product Listerine which comes as a mouth wash now, was
discovered in 1879, as a surgical antiseptic. It was then, that the
term, disease mongering began to be used. The word Listerine was
derived from the name of an English surgeon, Joseph Lawrence
Lister, who had first demonstrated the use of Listerine as a surgical
antiseptic. Soon Joseph Lawrence and Jordan.W.Lambert were
selling Listerine as a floor cleaner. In 1895, suddenly it began to be
used for teeth, as a mouth cleaner, to dispel bad smell from the
mouth, thus was being sold to the dental surgeons. By 1914, in
America, it began to be used as an 'over the counter' mouth wash and
thus became popular by the same. By 1920, Lambert Pharmacal
company, Listerine maker got convinced that he had got cure, now
there arose the need for a disease. Finally, 'Halitosis' disease was
made up. This referred to the foul smell of the mouth, about which a
very few people knew. Through advertisements, Listerine was
demonstrated as the treatment for halitosis. The advertisers
described halitosis as such a disease which could be the one of the
causes of lack of success in the career, romance and married life of a
person. Soon, America's 90% people were known to be affected by
halitosis.
The medical Industry is aware that by co-relating daily experiences or
fluctuation in our daily moods with a particular medical terminology
i.e. some or the other form of illness; could derive maximum benefit
from patients. So it would have to declare the slightest health
problem as a health disorder .Even a minor health condition would be
magnified and exaggerated to such an extent that it looks like a
monstrous disease. It has been medical industry's plan to prove that
such diseases, if not treated in time, would severely affect one's
success and personal happiness. It is a strange but true fact that if a
common man is shown sympathy and his problem is magnified and
thereafter the remedy is suggested by the doctor, he gets all the
sympathy and feels consoled and relaxed. It then becomes natural for
the doctor to win his goodwill and confidence. The poor patient thus
feels, "I have such and such ailment and Thank God, this medicine is
made only for me ! "
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If someone, in our close circle dies, it is but natural for a person who
lost his loved one to take at least two weeks to come back to his/her
normal routine. Grief or sorrow is a personal feeling which could
linger on for six months or even more, depending on person to
person. But, thanks to our psychiatrists. They call it depression, if
your grief or mourning lasts for more than two weeks. "American
Psychiatric Association" calls it mental ill health or depression, so
that all doctors (psychiatrists) call it a mental problem or depression.
To assign this sorrow or mental suffering a mental sickness/ disorder
or depression, would allow us to dispense with our money on the
treatment and thus profit would accrue to the insurance companies
and would be seen as a stigma, in our health record. According to
American Psychiatric Association's classification, any grief or mental
suffering, if extends more than two weeks would be included in the
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (D.S.M -5) as a mental disorder.
According to Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (D.S.M-4), to remain
in low spirits or cry or insomnia are mild symptoms of depression.
The guidelines mentioned in the D.S.M-4, clearly distinguishes
between normal grief and major depression. Richard Friedman
(M.D) says, as he writes for the 'New England Journal of
Medicine', that the parameters of D.S.M-5 make even the healthy
people or little worried or anxious people a candidate for
antidepressants and any psychiatric medicine could be prescribed to
such patients. According to Richard, D.S.M -5 would prove to be a
boon for the pharmaceutical companies producing psychiatric
medicines, as it would bring almost a normal person under the
psychiatric treatment and would encourage the use of
antidepressants and antipsychotics which are otherwise used for
major depression and anxiousness. Richard perhaps, wants to divert
our minds to the fact, that in America, every year 2.9 million death
occur. That would mean, as many people mourning their dear ones'
deaths and thus, the thriving of psychiatrist profession. For this, the
doctors need to thank American Psychiatric Association (A.P.A)
and the parameters / guidelines, set up by them.
Diseases- from a mole hill to a mountain:
American Psychiatric Association (A.P.A) should rather be called
American Psychopharmacological Association since they regard
medicines as the 'be all and end all', of all the mental treatment and
encourage the use of medicines. Sad news is that A.P.A is together
working along the lines of pharmaceutical industry in order to
discover new mental diseases that would soon be included in the
medical literature, from time to time.
For example:
D If you do lots of shopping, you are said to be a victim of
'Compulsive Shopping Disorder'.
D If you have difficulty in calculations or multiplication, then you
could be suffering from ' Dyscalculia' .
D If you are engrossed most of the time in Web-surfing, then you are
said to b e inflicted with ' Internet Addiction Disorder' .
D If you are used to working out too much in the gym, you are said to
be a victim of 'Biogorexia' or 'Muscle Dysmorphia'
D If you are scared of no 13, you are possibly suffering from
'Triskaideka phobia' .
Andsoon...
If such diseases or health disorders continue to be found in a large
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number of people by World Health Organization, then these would
soon be included in the next editions of Diagnostic and Statistical
Manual. If these medicines affect the human behavior; or any mental
disorder is cured by the psychiatric medicines then, sure enough,
these will be included in the D.S.M. Out of the 297 mental diseases,
none of them could be measured accurately on substantial grounds.
In other words, the so called psychiatric disorders or mental ailments
are completely subjective.
The symptoms of these mental disorders, as mentioned in the D.S.M
are given the form of diseases, arbitrarily, by the psychiatric panel.
There is no concrete parameter of measurement. Their motive is
clear. They are discovering new diseases on the basis of new
medicines made and not the other way round.
Today, if you go to a psychiatrist, it is presumed that you are a mental
patient. Even your normal behavior would be seen as a mental
disorder or disease. There is a hundred percent possibility that you
are awarded the medal of a psychiatric patient and you come out with
a long list of psychiatric medicines. Instead of counseling on how to
make your behaviour normal or change your life style, it is their
endeavour to choose an easy path and that is how the drugs should be
consumed by you! It is not only easy for them but also alluring and
beneficial, which would mean more money accruing to the
pharmaceutical companies as well as the psychiatrists.
To assign some or the other mental disorder/problem to any human
behaviour, has been like cash cows for big pharma. 'Marketing
Professional Vince Parry' has given a name to this art,' The Art of
Branding a Condition. '
Every decade, seeing the increasing size of D.S.M, one could say that
the world has become all the more unstable. There is no wonder that
all the money of these pharmaceutical companies is going into the
discovery and advertising of these newly discovered diseases and
henceforth, experimenting with the medicines, required for their
treatment.
The most despicable part is that the ex chief/head of the American
Psychiatric Association, himself agrees that the blunder and
negligence committed by the A. PA in the D.M A, could have a very
adverse effect and consequences. "Due to negligence on their part, so
many children and adults have been labeled as 'a mental patient' and
thus, an epidemic of mental diseases has spread to such an extent,
which virtually did not have any existence".
Target the children-The outrageous act of the pharma
companies
The invention of diseases arbitrarily, not only has an adverse effect
on the adults, but also targets the children. There is a new book, 'Born
with a Junk Food Deficiency'. How Flacks Quacks and Hacks Pimp
the Public Health', that reveals many secrets about the big
pharmaceutical companies' as to how our children become the soft
targets of such biggies. According to Alernet, 'child psychology',
which was regarded as a modest speciality of psychology, has become
today very active and hot market for Pharmaceutical industry .
Ranging from schizophrenia to peevishness, to ill
temper/snappishness, the pharmaceutical industry has every
remedy in the form of medicine /tablet for every child. All this, is the
result of a good marketing.
Medical representatives, Gen Olson says, "it is very easy."
"There are medical rooms in school, where small children are sent for
minor problems and are compelled to take medicines. At home, they
are pressurisedby their parents, guardians and relatives.
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Likewise, when they go to hospitals, doctors mentally coax them to
take the medicines. Thus, the children become ideal patients and
indirectly the clients of the big pharmaceutical companies, life long."
According to Gen, children, who in their early childhood, take
medicines for ADHD, Bipolar or for any other problem and become
fine still lead their life very cautiously and systematically. They are
gripped by a great psychological fear of the so called mental diseases
and disorders, for life long, which is a menace to their mental,
emotional and social development. The psychiatric medicines taken
in the childhood have their adverse effects, repercussions in the long
run on every aspect of their life.
According to the latest research, the medicines administered for
asthma and allergy endanger the possibility of mental disorders.
The children, who start out with small psychiatric problems, become
psychiatric patients for life long, as well as expensive patients. The
monthly expenses incurred, could be more than RslO,000 on their
treatment. This pharmaceutical industry is undoubtedly, getting the
support of the government and other organizations in their Polio
vaccination campaign, other vaccinations and other necessary
clinical tests; which make their task easy.
It is so embarrassing that mostly the psychiatrists are so busy in
writing the medicines/ prescription that they do not bother to update
even their own knowledge.
Recently, in a research published in B.M.C Psychiatry, it has been
found that teenagers of today who are known to be suffering from a
serious mental problems, have shown deficiency of vitamin-D. It is
not at all surprising since vitamin-D is indispensable for mental
development.
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According to the research, lack of vitamin-D in young boys and girls,
increases the possibility of their being mental patients by four times.
According to the research, the quantity of vitamin-D in the children
living in mental health clinic was found to be dangerously low. In
young girls, it was found to be only 20 ng/ml and boys, 10 ng/ml,
whereas the normal range is between 30-74 ng/ml. Any child who is
showing unusual mental and behavioral patterns/ symptoms ought
to get his vitamin-D level checked.
There should be a regular test, a standard check up of the vitamin-D
level of the children. However, this has been overlooked by the
doctors and the psychiatrists. Many research studies have shown
that by offsetting the deficiency of vitamin-D amongst the mental
patients, their health had shown significant improvement.
When Mourning Becomes a Cause of Worry?
The intensity of mourning gets diminished with time. It dies its
natural death; since time is the greatest healer. Although 10-20%
people afflicted with depression may take a few months or more than
a year to get back to normal. According to research, a depression
lasting for a long time, works like an obsession and the afflicted
person unknowingly starts rejoicing in the same, his mind takes
refuge in the same.
If you wish to come out of your prolonged depression then follow the
following remedies. This would prove very beneficial.
Firstly, you must understand that it's not so easy to come out of the
murky darkness of depression, but, every man is capable of coming
out of this black cave of darkness or gloom. Within six months only,
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you will be able to see a ray of hope towards the other end and with
your positive willpower, you will be able to overcome your
depression. During this phase of depression, exercise proves to be
quite effective and helpful. Meditation too helps a lot in making the
patient stress free. Always remember that your mind and body
depend a lot on the food that you intake. Purer (Saatvik) the food, the
more pure would be your mind and a healthy mind would reside in a
healthy body. You would then, never be afflicted with any mental ill
heath/ disorder. Besides healthy food, sound sleep is also a must.
Lack of sleep may lead to mental imbalance; although, you may have
been taking good diet and doing regular exercises.
The gist is that, through regular exercise, sound sleep and positive
thinking ,one could come out of any state of depression easily, which
could otherwise aggravate and become a cause of mental imbalance
in the long run.
Some examples of Disease Mongering
Condition
Disease
1. Hair falling or baldness
Disorders of the hair follicle
2. Stomach ache or change in
bowel movements
Irritable bowel syndrome
3. Hesitation or shyness
Social phobia
4. Bones becoming weak
(This is a risk factor but it was
given the form of disease)
Osteoporosis
5. Difficulty in getting and
maintaining an er****on
Erectile Dysfunction
6. Those females who have not
much interest in s*x
Female s*xual dysfunction
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Condition
Disease
7. Growing Children's fluctuating
moods
Bipolar in children
8. The tension in females before
the arrival of Me**es
Premenstrual Dysphoric
Disorder
9. Unnecessary movement of legs
Restless Leg Syndrome
10. Risk of mental illness after
60 yrs
Psychosis Risk Syndrome
11. Tendency to forget
Mild Cognitive Impairment
12. Blood/glucose level raising
slightly above normal
Pre diabetes
13. Infection in the upper toe
Toenail Fungus
14. Occasional , sensation
i t"> tho f n oof
111 LllC LllCoL
G.E.R.D (Gastro Esophageal
lYc 1 1U.A iVlotrdotry
15. Lack of interest in work/
apathy, forgetfulness and
lack of concentration
Adult Attention Deficit
Hyperactivity Disorder
16. Unexplained pain and fatigue
in the body
Fibromyalgia
17. Foul breath
Halitosis
18. End of Menstrual Cycle
after 45 yrs of age medicalised
as a disorder when really a
normal paint of life
Menopause
19. Driving vehicle rashly
Road Rage
20. Frequent tendency/ urge
to Urinate
Over Active Bladder
21. Due to rigorous exercise,
lack of fat under the flesh of
an athlete's face
Runner's Face
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Condition
Disease
22. Tendency of frequent
shopping
Compulsive Shopping
Disorder
23. Low level of testosterone
in males
Low T
24. Excessive internet
browsing/ surfing
Internet Addiction
Disorder
25. Difficulty while doing
mathematical calculations
Dyscalculia
26. To be a stickler for Hygiene,
to go into perfection
of every work/perfectionism
Obsessive compulsive
Personality Disorder
27. To spend much time in Gym
Muscle Dysmorphia
28. The fear of number 13
Triskaidekaphobia
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Every drug increases and
complicates the patient's
condition.
- Robert Henderson, M.D.
CHAPTER - 4
Overdiagnosis
Just imagine, if, in the middle of the way, your car breaks down
(ceases to operate). And then automatically starts again or in case
there is a puncture in one of the tyres and the puncture gets repaired
all by itself! Not possible isn't it!
Can a car or a machine repair itself! This could happen only in our
fantasies or imagination. But this has been happening with the
human machine. When any one part of your body gets wounded, the
blood starts oozing out. In due course of time, the blood starts
clotting and gradually the wound gets automatically healed up! And
you recover completely within a few days .
Similarly, if a virus enters our body, the body immunity system
raises the body temperature as a result of which that harmful virus
loses its effectiveness and becomes dormant. Thus, gradually the
temperature of our body subsides. This is the only difference
between machine and human body.
Our body is not a product manufactured by a factory. Every
individual is unique in this world. Before the product enters the
market, the quality of the product is tested. If in case ,it is found to be
defective, a ban is imposed on its manufacturing. The product
cannot rectify itself but man has a potential to change himself,
correct himself. Human beings have the capability of reforming
themselves, if there is any drawback in them. Human body has
infinite capacity to set itself right, to repair the body tissues. The
product manufactured by machine doesn't have this quality and
capacity. But sadly enough, when you go to a hospital, your body is
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seen and treated in such a way as though you were not a body but a
machine.
To understand this, let's throw some light on the following examples:
1. According to a report published in Investigative Radiology
Journal, in 1991, in a research a few people were collected, who had
no symptom of gall bladder stone. Later on to confirm the same,
when an ultra sound was conducted, it was discovered that there
was a gallstone amongst 10% of them.
2. According to the report of 'New England Journal of Medicine,
1994', a few people were grouped together who had no complain
of back pain or any such history of back pain. However, through
M.R.I, when the back was scanned, it was discovered that about
50% of them had the problem of bulging lumber disc.
3. According to 'New England Journal of Medicine, 2008', in one such
experiment, some people were selected who had no knee pain or
ever any history of knee pain. But when M.R.I was done, almost
40% of the people were found to have miniscus damage.
The conclusion is that in our body's damage and repair system is at
work. This is a mystery of our body. But we don't believe in this self-
healing mechanism of our body and immediately consult the doctors
and surgeons out of nervousness and fear. Thereafter, if any M.R.I or
ultra sound reports show problems, doctors start treating the same.
Consequently, the subtle balance of your body gets disturbed. Then
from first, second, third. . .a series of ailments thus begin, which never
come to an end.
According to a report of "Time Magazine", an autopsy test conducted
after the death of the people showed that in 98 % of the people,
cancerous cells/ tissues remain present in the body in dormant form.
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However, they don't cause any harm to our body However, due to
certain factors, these inactive cancer cells become active and turn
malignant.
Following are the factors that activate a dormant cancerous cell:
1. Long term consumption of medicines like those taken by the
patients of diabetes, cholesterol and B.P. Consuming birth control
pills for a long time could also activate the cancer cells in the body.
2. Any type of diagnostic X-ray like mammography, ultrasound etc
can act as a call for cancer.
3. According to "Finland's Pathologist Report's Record, it was
discovered in throat's autopsy report that almost in every person's
thyroid, very small amount of dormant cancer cells exist.
Therefore, presence of dormant cancer cells in the thyroid of a
person should be considered normal but today, hospitals are
spreading the campaign that every year, you must get your body
scanned to see the possibility of presence of malignant cells in the
body.
In Guide to Clinical Preventive Services, 1996, it has been advised
that every year, the screening for thyroid cancer is a must. The graph
given in the next page will show you that since 1998 thyroid cancer
cases have shown an increasing trend. It is strange that the doctors
try to remove the thyroid glands through surgery, which is not at all
necessary.
If thyroid gland is removed, the biochemistry of our body gets
disturbed and the patient becomes a living co**se. If you carefully
look at the graph, you will find that till 1995 there were not many
cases of thyroid cancer but, after 1995, the cases of thyroid cancer
increased abruptly due to frequent tests conducted for thyroid
cancer. Statistical facts reveal that the cases of thyroid cancer death
were the same in 2005 as they were in 1975. Cancer screening did not
bring down the death rate and it is evident that the hospitals
endeavour is to declare you patients and provide you with such a cure
which initially you didn't require at all.
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New thyroid
cancer cases and deaths
(per 1000,000 person) 4
1975 1980 1985 1990 2000 2005
(New cases and death due to thyroid cancer (1975-2005)
Now let's throw some light on mammography breast cancer
screening. Through hospitals, this awareness is spread that after 40
yrs of age, women should get the screening of breasts for the
possibility of the symptoms of breast cancer. Let' try to find out the
authenticity of t
