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The AMA Will Kill You

by Bob Wallace

Last year JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association) admitted that

doctors are the third leading cause of death in the U.S. Personally, I think

the statistics are on the low side. I wouldn't be surprised if they're the

leading cause (remember that old saying, " doctors bury their mistakes. " And

those mistakes often don't make it into the records. I've seen it.)

I blame this sad state of affairs on the fact the AMA is an arrogant

government-backed guild dedicated to protecting doctors' incomes, status and

professional and political power at the expense of peoples' health and

lives. It doesn't get rid of bad doctors and attempts to prevent

competition. Without competition, the status quo becomes frozen. This means

protecting the status quo becomes more important than protecting people

(years ago doctors use to make house calls. Guess what happened to that?)

Protecting the status quo is one of those bad laws of human nature.

There are several rules I live my life by. One of them is " The State is

always wrong. " Because of this, if I had my way, I would close down the AMA,

the ADA and the ABA in the next nano-second. All exist to protect its

members at the expense of the public (but, of course, each claims it's

protecting the public. They probably believe this is true. Which leads me to

another rule I have: " People are fallen, self-deceptive creatures. " )

A third rule I have is, " Materialism is a sham. " When I say " materialism " I

mean philosophical or scientific materialism, which is the belief mattter is

ultimately all there is, and life, consciousness and self-consciousness are

just by-products of matter. Most doctors operate under this assumption, even

if they don't know it. That's why they consistently attempt to treat the

" matter " of the body. Depression? Prozac or its clones. Anxiety? Buspar or

Xanax. Whatever disease a person has, there is a drug (or drugs) to suppress

the symptoms. What they all have is common is the attempt to treat the body

alone. Since materialism is false, this is why (as the article above shows)

that most people die from the drugs doctors prescribe.

For hundreds of years there has been a controversy in medicine between what

have been called the " mechanists " (who are the materialists) and the

" vitalists " (who think there is a " vital force " along with matter). This

debate still goes on today, although you don't hear much about it. The

reason why is because materialists gained political power and, of course,

have attempted to not only stifle debate but completely destroy any notion

of vitalism in medicine ( " vitalism, " these days, is generally referred to as

" energy medicine. " )

Two years ago I decided to give up my two-pack-a-day habit. I was fine until

the fourth day, when I developed insomnia. I was sleeping an hour-and-a-half

a night. After two months I was up to three hours a night. I decided it was

time to see a doctor.

Since I knew the typical doctor would do nothing except try to suppress my

symptoms with sleeping pills, I looked around until I found someone who

would seek the cause (I knew the cause: giving up cigarettes. But that still

didn't explain why.)

I finally decided on one M.D. (who I'll call Dr. ). When I was in his

office I asked him what he thought of the AMA. " Too much regulation, " he

answered.

I knew then I was in good hands (I actually had a doctor once say to me, " If

the AMA doesn't approve it, it doesn't work. " He probably could have made a

lot of extra money raising daisies to put on his patients' graves.)

Dr. was an education. The first thing he did is look at my teeth. " You

don't have metal fillings, " he said. I told him they were falling out after

20 years, so I had them replaced. The dentist said plastic (or composite)

fillings were cheaper, stronger, and would last longer.

When I asked him why he was so concerned about the fillings, he said, " A few

reasons. One, they're full of mercury. which is a dangerous poison. The ADA

says they're safe, but they're not. One of the first things I tell patients

is that if they want to get well, they have to have their metal fillings

replaced with composite.

" Another reason is that what most people think of as acupuncture meridians

are actually minute DC electrical currents. Since DC current fades out with

distance, acupuncture points are actually 'booster stations' that keep the

current going. That's why acupuncturists use metal needles. It either

increases or decreases the current. This electrical current is actually a

healing force in the body. If you didn't have any electricity in your body,

you'd be dead, wouldn't you?

" These currents all end on the hands and fingers, the feet and toes, and the

teeth. Metal fillings can short-circuit these currents. Since metal fillings

are made of several different metals, all bathed in saliva, do you know what

they are? "

" Batteries, " I said. I had known years that batteries were created by

putting different metals together. It had never occured to me that dental

fillings could be batteries.

" That's exactly what they are, " he told me. I told him an interesting story

which I had never been able to explain. Throughout my entire life my

abdominal muscles have never tight, no matter how in shape I was. Yet the

day I had my fillings replaced the muscles became tight. " One of your metal

fillings was short-circuiting the current to your muscles, " he said. " Once

it was replaced, the current became normal and your muscles returned to

normal. This is one of the reason why the overwhelming majority of the top

athletes in the world don't have any fillings. Few have even one. "

The next thing he did was test these electrical currents with a machine

called an EAV (Electro-Acupuncture According to Voll). Dr. Voll was a German

scientist who discovered in the '50s that the acupuncture meridians were

electrical in nature. He invented a machine to test them. This was

rediscovered by the American scientist O. Becker.

This machine-which showed a rising or falling line on a computer

screen-showed my pituitary gland was under-active and my liver was

overactive. " What I think is happening, " Dr. told me, " is that all the

heavy metals in cigarette smoke-cadmium, aluminum, lead-are now being pulled

out of your body since you've quit smoking. That might account for the

pituitary and the liver, and the insomnia. "

He had my blood drawn for testing- " I rarely find anything from these, " he

said-and also ordered a hair analysis. When the hair analysis came back it

showed extremely high levels of lead, aluminum, cadmium and nickel. " That's

your problem, " he told me. " When you quit smoking the heavy metals started

coming out of your cells. "

" How long can I expect this insomnia to last? " I asked.

" I don't know, " he answered. " Could be months, even up to a year. It depends

on how fast your body gets rid of the metals. "

Oh, no. " What do you suggest, then? "

" There's two ways we can handle this, " he said. " One is you change your diet

to help eliminate the metals. This includes taking herbs that will help your

body pull the metals out. The quickest way, however, is chelation therapy,

which involves putting a IV in your arm. The chemical we use grabs the heavy

metals so that you eliminate them quickly, mostly in your urine. "

Okay, fine. I went into the chelation room and had a needle stuck in my arm.

Two people were in there. One was a teacher in her 50's. " I went to

different doctors for seven years because of heart palpitations, " she told

told. " The last one told me I was a mental case and wanted to put me on

psychiatric medication. When I came to Dr. I found out all the

extensive dental work I had done-right before the palpitations started-was

pouring mercury into my body. Since I've undergone the chelation, the

palpitations have stopped. "

She showed me the results of a current urine test. " Nine parts-per-million

of mercury is high. Mine is 150 ppm,after my last chelation. "

The other guy in the room was a dentist. " " I was near suicide, " he told

me. " I couldn't believe how depressed I was. It turned out is was from the

two decades I spend putting mercury in people's mouths. It went into me. "

I remembered reading several years ago that dentists have the highest

suicide rate in the U.S. Now I knew why. " I'm fine now, " the dentist told

me. " But for a while, after the chelation, my tests showed 170 ppm of

mercury. "

He told me something very interesting. The word " quack " comes from

" quack-salver, " which is German for " quicksilver, " i.e., mercury. " In the

1800's, there were the dentists who used mercury-the quacks-and the ones who

knew it was dangerous. The quacks got the government to back them. So guess

who won? "

The chelation took one hour. I went home and promptly fell asleep. I

underwent ten chelations. The last hair analysis showed a slightly high

level of aluminum. The other heavy metals were gone completely. The

cleansing herbs Dr. prescribed gave me a metallic taste in my mouth.

" It's the metals coming out, " he told me.

I don't have insomnia anymore. Strangely, my mind is clearer. " Those metals

also accumulate in your brain, " Dr. said.

Sometimes I wonder what health-care would be like in this country if the

quacks in the AMA and the ADA hadn't won the political battle. One thing I

do know: there would be many, many people who would not have died early.

One of the most dishonest and dangerous sites about medicine is the

mis-named Quackwatch. While some of the criticisms are valid, it

overwhelmingly supports that which has made doctors the third leading cause

of death. Take special attention to the patronizing, totalitarian article,

" Why Strong laws Are Needed to Protect Us " (it reminds me of the joke,

" What's the difference between God and a doctor? God doesn't think He's a

doctor. " )

Can you imagine what would happen if we had national health care? How much

say do you think you'd have in your treatment? Would it even matter is the

treatment didn't work, or worse, killed you? I doubt it.

January 1, 2002

Bob Wallace [send him mail], a former newspaper reporter and editor, and an

incurable lover of puns, lives in St. Louis.

Copyright © 2001 LewRockwell.com

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The AMA Will Kill You

by Bob Wallace

Last year JAMA (Journal of the American Medical

Association) admitted that doctors are the third

leading cause of death in the U.S. Personally, I think

the statistics are on the low side. I wouldn't be

surprised if they're the leading cause (remember that

old saying, " doctors bury their mistakes. " And those

mistakes often don't make it into the records. I've

seen it.)

I blame this sad state of affairs on the fact the AMA

is an arrogant government-backed guild dedicated to

protecting doctors' incomes, status and professional

and political power at the expense of peoples' health

and lives. The AMA doesn't get rid of bad doctors and

it attempts to prevent competition. Without competition,

the status quo becomes frozen. This means protecting

the status quo becomes more important than protecting

people (years ago doctors use to make house calls.

Guess what happened to that?) Protecting the status

quo is one of those bad laws of human nature.

There are several rules I live my life by. One of them

is " The State is always wrong. " Because of this, if I

had my way, I would close down the AMA, the ADA and

the ABA in the next nano-second. All exist to protect

its members at the expense of the public (but, of

course, each claims it's protecting the public. They

probably believe this is true. Which leads me to

another rule I have: " People are fallen,

self-deceptive creatures. " )

A third rule I have is, " Materialism is a sham. " When

I say " materialism " I mean philosophical or scientific

materialism, which is the belief mattter is ultimately

all there is, and life, consciousness and

self-consciousness are just by-products of matter.

Most doctors operate under this assumption, even if

they don't know it. That's why they consistently

attempt to treat the " matter " of the body. Depression?

Prozac or its clones. Anxiety? Buspar or Xanax.

Whatever disease a person has, there is a drug (or

drugs) to suppress the symptoms. What they all have is

common is the attempt to treat the body alone. Since

materialism is false, this is why (as the article

above shows) that most people die from the drugs

doctors prescribe.

For hundreds of years there has been a controversy in

medicine between what have been called the

" mechanists " (who are the materialists) and the

" vitalists " (who think there is a " vital force " along

with matter). This debate still goes on today,

although you don't hear much about it. The reason why

is because materialists gained political power and, of

course, have attempted to not only stifle debate but

completely destroy any notion of vitalism in medicine

( " vitalism, " these days, is generally referred to as

" energy medicine. " )

Two years ago I decided to give up my two-pack-a-day

habit. I was fine until the fourth day, when I

developed insomnia. I was sleeping an hour-and-a-half

a night. After two months I was up to three hours a

night. I decided it was time to see a doctor.

Since I knew the typical doctor would do nothing

except try to suppress my symptoms with sleeping

pills, I looked around until I found someone who would

seek the cause (I knew the cause: giving up

cigarettes. But that still didn't explain why.)

I finally decided on one M.D. (who I'll call Dr.

). When I was in his office I asked him what he

thought of the AMA. " Too much regulation, " he

answered.

I knew then I was in good hands (I actually had a

doctor once say to me, " If the AMA doesn't approve it,

it doesn't work. " He probably could have made a lot of

extra money raising daisies to put on his patients'

graves.)

Dr. was an education. The first thing he did is

look at my teeth. " You don't have metal fillings, " he

said. I told him they were falling out after 20 years,

so I had them replaced. The dentist said plastic (or

composite) fillings were cheaper, stronger, and would

last longer.

When I asked him why he was so concerned about the

fillings, he said, " A few reasons. One, they're full

of mercury. which is a dangerous poison. The ADA says

they're safe, but they're not. One of the first things

I tell patients is that if they want to get well, they

have to have their metal fillings replaced with

composite.

" Another reason is that what most people think of as

acupuncture meridians are actually minute DC

electrical currents. Since DC current fades out with

distance, acupuncture points are actually 'booster

stations' that keep the current going. That's why

acupuncturists use metal needles. It either increases

or decreases the current. This electrical current is

actually a healing force in the body. If you didn't

have any electricity in your body, you'd be dead,

wouldn't you?

" These currents all end on the hands and fingers, the

feet and toes, and the teeth. Metal fillings can

short-circuit these currents. Since metal fillings are

made of several different metals, all bathed in

saliva, do you know what they are? "

" Batteries, " I said. I had known years that batteries

were created by putting different metals together. It

had never occured to me that dental fillings could be

batteries.

" That's exactly what they are, " he told me. I told him

an interesting story which I had never been able to

explain. Throughout my entire life my abdominal

muscles have never been tight, no matter how in shape I

was. Yet the day I had my fillings replaced the

muscles became tight. " One of your metal fillings was

short-circuiting the current to your muscles, " he

said. " Once it was replaced, the current became normal

and your muscles returned to normal. This is one of

the reason why the overwhelming majority of the top

athletes in the world don't have any fillings. Few

have even one. "

The next thing he did was test these electrical

currents with a machine called an EAV

(Electro-Acupuncture According to Voll). Dr. Voll was

a German scientist who discovered in the '50s that the

acupuncture meridians were electrical in nature. He

invented a machine to test them. This was rediscovered

by the American scientist O. Becker.

This machine-which showed a rising or falling line on

a computer screen-showed my pituitary gland was

under-active and my liver was overactive. " What I

think is happening, " Dr. told me, " is that all

the heavy metals in cigarette smoke-cadmium, aluminum,

lead-are now being pulled out of your body since

you've quit smoking. That might account for the

pituitary and the liver, and the insomnia. "

He had my blood drawn for testing- " I rarely find

anything from these, " he said-and also ordered a hair

analysis. When the hair analysis came back it showed

extremely high levels of lead, aluminum, cadmium and

nickel. " That's your problem, " he told me. " When you

quit smoking the heavy metals started coming out of

your cells. "

" How long can I expect this insomnia to last? " I

asked.

" I don't know, " he answered. " Could be months, even up

to a year. It depends on how fast your body gets rid

of the metals. "

Oh, no. " What do you suggest, then? "

" There's two ways we can handle this, " he said. " One

is you change your diet to help eliminate the metals.

This includes taking herbs that will help your body

pull the metals out. The quickest way, however, is

chelation therapy, which involves putting a IV in your

arm. The chemical we use grabs the heavy metals so

that you eliminate them quickly, mostly in your

urine. "

Okay, fine. I went into the chelation room and had a

needle stuck in my arm. Two people were in there. One

was a teacher in her 50's. " I went to different

doctors for seven years because of heart

palpitations, " she told told. " The last one told me I

was a mental case and wanted to put me on psychiatric

medication. When I came to Dr. I found out all

the extensive dental work I had done-right before the

palpitations started-was pouring mercury into my body.

Since I've undergone the chelation, the palpitations

have stopped. "

She showed me the results of a current urine test.

" Nine parts-per-million of mercury is high. Mine is

150 ppm,after my last chelation. "

The other guy in the room was a dentist. " " I was near

suicide, " he told me. " I couldn't believe how depressed

I was. It turned out is was from the two decades I

spend putting mercury in people's mouths. It went into

me. "

I remembered reading several years ago that dentists

have the highest suicide rate in the U.S. Now I knew

why. " I'm fine now, " the dentist told me. " But for a

while, after the chelation, my tests showed 170 ppm of

mercury. "

He told me something very interesting. The word

" quack " comes from " quack-salver, " which is German for

" quicksilver, " i.e., mercury. " In the 1800's, there

were the dentists who used mercury-the quacks-and the

ones who knew it was dangerous. The quacks got the

government to back them. So guess who won? "

The chelation took one hour. I went home and promptly

fell asleep. I underwent ten chelations. The last hair

analysis showed a slightly high level of aluminum. The

other heavy metals were gone completely. The cleansing

herbs Dr. prescribed gave me a metallic taste in

my mouth. " It's the metals coming out, " he told me.

I don't have insomnia anymore. Strangely, my mind is

clearer. " Those metals also accumulate in your brain, "

Dr. said.

Sometimes I wonder what health-care would be like in

this country if the quacks in the AMA and the ADA

hadn't won the political battle. One thing I do know:

there would be many, many people who would not have

died early.

One of the most dishonest and dangerous sites about

medicine is the mis-named Quackwatch. While some of

the criticisms are valid, it overwhelmingly supports

that which has made doctors the third leading cause of

death. Take special attention to the patronizing,

totalitarian article, " Why Strong laws Are Needed to

Protect Us " (it reminds me of the joke, " What's the

difference between God and a doctor? God doesn't think

He's a doctor. " )

Can you imagine what would happen if we had national

health care? How much say do you think you'd have in

your treatment? Would it even matter is the treatment

didn't work, or worse, killed you? I doubt it.

January 1, 2002

Bob Wallace [send him mail], a former newspaper

reporter and editor, and an incurable lover of puns,

lives in St. Louis.

[Guest guest]

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> http://www.lewrockwell.com/wallace/wallace16.html

>

> The AMA Will Kill You

> by Bob Wallace

>

> Last year JAMA (Journal of the American Medical

> Association) admitted that doctors are the third

> leading cause of death in the U.S. Personally, I think

> the statistics are on the low side. I wouldn't be

> surprised if they're the leading cause (remember that

> old saying, " doctors bury their mistakes. " And those

> mistakes often don't make it into the records. I've

> seen it.)

>

> I blame this sad state of affairs on the fact the AMA

> is an arrogant government-backed guild dedicated to

> protecting doctors' incomes, status and professional

> and political power at the expense of peoples' health

> and lives. The AMA doesn't get rid of bad doctors and

> it attempts to prevent competition. Without competition,

> the status quo becomes frozen. This means protecting

> the status quo becomes more important than protecting

> people (years ago doctors use to make house calls.

> Guess what happened to that?) Protecting the status

> quo is one of those bad laws of human nature.

>

> There are several rules I live my life by. One of them

> is " The State is always wrong. " Because of this, if I

> had my way, I would close down the AMA, the ADA and

> the ABA in the next nano-second. All exist to protect

> its members at the expense of the public (but, of

> course, each claims it's protecting the public. They

> probably believe this is true. Which leads me to

> another rule I have: " People are fallen,

> self-deceptive creatures. " )

>

> A third rule I have is, " Materialism is a sham. " When

> I say " materialism " I mean philosophical or scientific

> materialism, which is the belief mattter is ultimately

> all there is, and life, consciousness and

> self-consciousness are just by-products of matter.

> Most doctors operate under this assumption, even if

> they don't know it. That's why they consistently

> attempt to treat the " matter " of the body. Depression?

> Prozac or its clones. Anxiety? Buspar or Xanax.

> Whatever disease a person has, there is a drug (or

> drugs) to suppress the symptoms. What they all have is

> common is the attempt to treat the body alone. Since

> materialism is false, this is why (as the article

> above shows) that most people die from the drugs

> doctors prescribe.

>

> For hundreds of years there has been a controversy in

> medicine between what have been called the

> " mechanists " (who are the materialists) and the

> " vitalists " (who think there is a " vital force " along

> with matter). This debate still goes on today,

> although you don't hear much about it. The reason why

> is because materialists gained political power and, of

> course, have attempted to not only stifle debate but

> completely destroy any notion of vitalism in medicine

> ( " vitalism, " these days, is generally referred to as

> " energy medicine. " )

>

> Two years ago I decided to give up my two-pack-a-day

> habit. I was fine until the fourth day, when I

> developed insomnia. I was sleeping an hour-and-a-half

> a night. After two months I was up to three hours a

> night. I decided it was time to see a doctor.

>

> Since I knew the typical doctor would do nothing

> except try to suppress my symptoms with sleeping

> pills, I looked around until I found someone who would

> seek the cause (I knew the cause: giving up

> cigarettes. But that still didn't explain why.)

>

> I finally decided on one M.D. (who I'll call Dr.

> ). When I was in his office I asked him what he

> thought of the AMA. " Too much regulation, " he

> answered.

>

> I knew then I was in good hands (I actually had a

> doctor once say to me, " If the AMA doesn't approve it,

> it doesn't work. " He probably could have made a lot of

> extra money raising daisies to put on his patients'

> graves.)

>

> Dr. was an education. The first thing he did is

> look at my teeth. " You don't have metal fillings, " he

> said. I told him they were falling out after 20 years,

> so I had them replaced. The dentist said plastic (or

> composite) fillings were cheaper, stronger, and would

> last longer.

>

> When I asked him why he was so concerned about the

> fillings, he said, " A few reasons. One, they're full

> of mercury. which is a dangerous poison. The ADA says

> they're safe, but they're not. One of the first things

> I tell patients is that if they want to get well, they

> have to have their metal fillings replaced with

> composite.

>

> " Another reason is that what most people think of as

> acupuncture meridians are actually minute DC

> electrical currents. Since DC current fades out with

> distance, acupuncture points are actually 'booster

> stations' that keep the current going. That's why

> acupuncturists use metal needles. It either increases

> or decreases the current. This electrical current is

> actually a healing force in the body. If you didn't

> have any electricity in your body, you'd be dead,

> wouldn't you?

>

> " These currents all end on the hands and fingers, the

> feet and toes, and the teeth. Metal fillings can

> short-circuit these currents. Since metal fillings are

> made of several different metals, all bathed in

> saliva, do you know what they are? "

>

> " Batteries, " I said. I had known years that batteries

> were created by putting different metals together. It

> had never occured to me that dental fillings could be

> batteries.

>

> " That's exactly what they are, " he told me. I told him

> an interesting story which I had never been able to

> explain. Throughout my entire life my abdominal

> muscles have never been tight, no matter how in shape I

> was. Yet the day I had my fillings replaced the

> muscles became tight. " One of your metal fillings was

> short-circuiting the current to your muscles, " he

> said. " Once it was replaced, the current became normal

> and your muscles returned to normal. This is one of

> the reason why the overwhelming majority of the top

> athletes in the world don't have any fillings. Few

> have even one. "

>

> The next thing he did was test these electrical

> currents with a machine called an EAV

> (Electro-Acupuncture According to Voll). Dr. Voll was

> a German scientist who discovered in the '50s that the

> acupuncture meridians were electrical in nature. He

> invented a machine to test them. This was rediscovered

> by the American scientist O. Becker.

>

> This machine-which showed a rising or falling line on

> a computer screen-showed my pituitary gland was

> under-active and my liver was overactive. " What I

> think is happening, " Dr. told me, " is that all

> the heavy metals in cigarette smoke-cadmium, aluminum,

> lead-are now being pulled out of your body since

> you've quit smoking. That might account for the

> pituitary and the liver, and the insomnia. "

>

> He had my blood drawn for testing- " I rarely find

> anything from these, " he said-and also ordered a hair

> analysis. When the hair analysis came back it showed

> extremely high levels of lead, aluminum, cadmium and

> nickel. " That's your problem, " he told me. " When you

> quit smoking the heavy metals started coming out of

> your cells. "

>

> " How long can I expect this insomnia to last? " I

> asked.

>

> " I don't know, " he answered. " Could be months, even up

> to a year. It depends on how fast your body gets rid

> of the metals. "

>

> Oh, no. " What do you suggest, then? "

>

> " There's two ways we can handle this, " he said. " One

> is you change your diet to help eliminate the metals.

> This includes taking herbs that will help your body

> pull the metals out. The quickest way, however, is

> chelation therapy, which involves putting a IV in your

> arm. The chemical we use grabs the heavy metals so

> that you eliminate them quickly, mostly in your

> urine. "

>

> Okay, fine. I went into the chelation room and had a

> needle stuck in my arm. Two people were in there. One

> was a teacher in her 50's. " I went to different

> doctors for seven years because of heart

> palpitations, " she told told. " The last one told me I

> was a mental case and wanted to put me on psychiatric

> medication. When I came to Dr. I found out all

> the extensive dental work I had done-right before the

> palpitations started-was pouring mercury into my body.

> Since I've undergone the chelation, the palpitations

> have stopped. "

>

> She showed me the results of a current urine test.

> " Nine parts-per-million of mercury is high. Mine is

> 150 ppm,after my last chelation. "

>

> The other guy in the room was a dentist. " " I was near

> suicide, " he told me. " I couldn't believe how depressed

> I was. It turned out is was from the two decades I

> spend putting mercury in people's mouths. It went into

> me. "

>

> I remembered reading several years ago that dentists

> have the highest suicide rate in the U.S. Now I knew

> why. " I'm fine now, " the dentist told me. " But for a

> while, after the chelation, my tests showed 170 ppm of

> mercury. "

>

> He told me something very interesting. The word

> " quack " comes from " quack-salver, " which is German for

> " quicksilver, " i.e., mercury. " In the 1800's, there

> were the dentists who used mercury-the quacks-and the

> ones who knew it was dangerous. The quacks got the

> government to back them. So guess who won? "

>

> The chelation took one hour. I went home and promptly

> fell asleep. I underwent ten chelations. The last hair

> analysis showed a slightly high level of aluminum. The

> other heavy metals were gone completely. The cleansing

> herbs Dr. prescribed gave me a metallic taste in

> my mouth. " It's the metals coming out, " he told me.

>

> I don't have insomnia anymore. Strangely, my mind is

> clearer. " Those metals also accumulate in your brain, "

> Dr. said.

>

> Sometimes I wonder what health-care would be like in

> this country if the quacks in the AMA and the ADA

> hadn't won the political battle. One thing I do know:

> there would be many, many people who would not have

> died early.

>

> One of the most dishonest and dangerous sites about

> medicine is the mis-named Quackwatch. While some of

> the criticisms are valid, it overwhelmingly supports

> that which has made doctors the third leading cause of

> death. Take special attention to the patronizing,

> totalitarian article, " Why Strong laws Are Needed to

> Protect Us " (it reminds me of the joke, " What's the

> difference between God and a doctor? God doesn't think

> He's a doctor. " )

>

> Can you imagine what would happen if we had national

> health care? How much say do you think you'd have in

> your treatment? Would it even matter is the treatment

> didn't work, or worse, killed you? I doubt it.

>

>

> January 1, 2002

>

> Bob Wallace [send him mail], a former newspaper

> reporter and editor, and an incurable lover of puns,

> lives in St. Louis.