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her blog: “Welcome to my blog. I was a nursing student in 2005-2006 and decided not to
enter the field and give people drugs. My school experience opened my eyes to the
depth of medical fraud within the military-industrial-medical-complex and the willful
cover-up of the real causes of disease.”
Western Medicine, in the name of protecting the patients from quackery, is the most
draconianly regulated profession in the world with big Brother management across the board.
This big Brother works for big-Pharma. And big-Pharma controls the medical profession as
well as its professionals. All non big-Pharma healing methods are minimally considered
unorthodox when not outright condemned, even when empiricism speaks otherwise and even
when respectable medical coverage is given to it.
A notable example of this “unorthodox” treatment which received considerable medical press,
but with otherwise little interest shown by the medical establishment other than as a quirky
curiosity, is Norman Cousins. The New England Journal of Medicine published a revealing
case study of self-healing by Norman Cousins (Cousins, N. Anatomy of an Illness (as
Perceived by the Patient) NEJM 295:1458-1463 December 23, 1976). Cousins expanded that
NEJM article into a 1979 book, Anatomy of an Illness (As Perceived by the Patient), detailing
his observations of the medical profession and his “unorthodox” experiments in self-healing.
He was stricken by a painfully debilitating illness in 1964 upon returning from a trip to the
Soviet Union, which was diagnosed as ankylosing spondylitis. Eventually, after all the medical
remedies in the hospital had proved futile, and as he put it in his book: “I had a fast-growing
conviction that a hospital is no place for a person who is seriously ill.” (pg. 31), Cousins
left the hospital, checked into a hotel, and under his own enlightened doctor's supervision, a
Dr. William Hitzig, created for himself a daily schedule of hearty laughter therapy as an
exercise in mind-body self-healing.
Read Norman Cousins' book to glean the commonsensical insights into the rational and wholly
scientific thought processes behind its author's specific experiments in self-healing. Such
general analytical thought processes which affectively tickle the natural human biochemistry is
not known to be FDA approved (sic!). There is no profit in natural or nature-derived remedies
for big-Pharma which projects anything non-pharmacological as a zealous move towards
abandoning the very canons of science. Therefore, modalities afforded freely by nature, by low
cost natural remedies, and by natural human biochemistry do not constitute any significant part
of the medical school training regimen which is entirely high-margin pharmaceutical driven as
the Alpha and Omega of modern medical intervention.
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