Is Your M.D. Killing You?

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(All quotes are taken from the book "Kids First: Health With No Interference" by Dr. Ogi Ressel.)

"The most striking evidence was seen in Israel though. Doctors reduced their daily patient contact from 65,000 to 7,000 for one month. According to the Jerusalem Burial Society, the Israeli death rate dropped 50 percent during that month."

"As if to reinforce the point, an on-going strike by medical doctors in Israel had put a severe economic strain on the funeral business in that country. The dramatic decline in the death rate prompted the burial association to ask the government to approve an increase in the doctors' pay."

"According to the newspaper, The Jerusalem Sun, strike action by doctors in Israel seemed to be good for their patients' health. A survey of burial societies revealed that death rates dropped considerably in most of the country since physicians in public hospitals implemented a program of sanctions lasting three months. Meir Adler, manager of Shaingar Funeral Parlour, which buries most of the residents of Jerusalem, declared with much more certainty, "There definitely is a connection between the doctors' sanctions and fewer deaths. We saw the same thing in 1983." (when the Israel Medical Association applied sanctions for four and one half months).

Those of you who believe that medicine represents health care may feel quiet shocked by this time-I totally understand."

Yes you read that right! By doctors going on strike, the death rate went down 50%! What is even crazier is that the morticians were losing money...big money. They are the ones that asked the government to pay these doctors more (to kill people) so that they could get back to work (to bury killed people).

Now that will make you think.

If you want to have a few more fun facts to throw around at your next poker night, check these out:

"The late Dr,. Robert Mendelsohn, M.D., a famed and self proclaimed "medical heretic," put this into an interesting context. "In 1976, physicians in Bogota, Columbia, went on a 52 day strike. The National Catholic Reporter described a string of unusual "side-effects" from the strike. The death rate went down 35 percent." A spokesman for the national Morticians Association said, "It might be coincidence, but it is fact." In Los Angeles, the death rate dropped 18 percent when doctors went on strike to protest soaring malpractice premiums. When the strike ended, the death rate once again rose to the pre-strike levels."

Once again the morticians noticed the change. It really does seem that it all comes down to money, not what is best for our health, doesn't it?

How much would the death rate in your city go down if the M.D.'s went on strike?

Now, I am not saying that M.D.'s are not valuable, but this proves medicine has it's place and it still does not know it!