-Taking Lives-

 

      Taking Lives

A Handbook for Those Suffering Medical Harm

(and for those who haven’t–yet)

Taking Lives

Elizabeth Eugenia (James) LaBozetta 2017

 

The truth is like a lion. You don’t have to defend it. Let it loose and it will defend itself.

Saint Augustine

 

Dedication

This book is dedicated to every medical malpractice victim–past, present, and future.  It is for the patient’s-rights activists who fight day-and-night for change in the systems that are wantonly killing us in record numbers.

It is for my four associates who fought long and hard until they just couldn’t fight even one more

Laura Burns

Lucille M. Iacovelli *

Angela Thompson-Heairet

Dayton Smith Jr.

You are all sorely missed and have not been forgotten. Know, somehow, that I have kept my promise to you with this book.

 

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This is also dedicated to one old-school doctor who hated what his profession has become and did everything he could to help me after I was injured. He asked me to write this book; I kept my promise: George Dixon Clouse, MD

 

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*My friend Lucille Iacovelli was featured in an HBO documentary film called “Plastic Disasters” in 2006.

   You are missed, Lucy. What those doctors did to you, and worse yet–continued to do to you–was pure evil. What would it have cost them, really, to be compassionate and kind? What would it have cost them, really, to just tell you the truth? Why did they have to compound your suffering with the relentless emotional battery? There were no accidents in what was heaped onto your shoulders after-the-fact. It was deliberate. Calculated. Unconscionable. Your death is called a suicide but those of us who know what you were subjected to call it murder, that you were deliberately tormented to death by unscrupulous people with no boundaries or conscience. We go back many years. You were a good friend to me. I will never forget you. And although you will never read this, you will also never know that I will never-ever stop fighting the system that killed you. It is what brought us together.

 

Foreword

   I am in very bad condition at the present, do not know if I can live long enough to complete this project. So time and ability may not be on my side here. But the alternative is to do nothing at all and I just can’t accept that.

   It has been a little over 26 years since I was injured by a botched, unnecessary, dangerous new surgery in its introductory phase and the deliberate neglect of its terrible consequences after-the­fact is ongoing.

   In these years I have accumulated experience I feel compelled to pass on to those who can benefit from it–the things I came to know the hardest way possible.

   Some of the things I am going to pass on may be so outrageous in the detail that it might appear unbelievable on the face of it. So, where possible, I am going to provide concrete proof–written by the perpetrators themselves . Listen. Or not. Believe. Or not. Your choice.

   But know this: the “program” of cover-up-and-disposal I have been put through was not created special just for me; it was in place and activated long before I came into the picture.

   Most people get the feeling something is not quite right with the care they are receiving but can’t quite put their finger on what, exactly, is bothering them–and have no name for it. I hope to clarify as much of that as I can for you. I do know that others being put through the same, standardized, cover-up program will instantly recognize the “patterns” described herein–regardless of where they live on the globe. They might not know what to call it but the patterns are crystal-clear.

   People cannot protect themselves if they do not know what is out there laying in wait for them. My hope is to give you at least the ghost of a chance of protecting yourself from predation, from stumbling blindly into the traps that are set and are out there waiting for the unsuspecting to wander blindly into–like I, and thousands just like me, did.

   If I knew then what I know now I would not be dying, miserably, deliberately untreated, and  financially enslaved to the very ones who put me in this terrible place.

   All I can do is leave behind what I have learned the hard way. What you do with it is up to you. Please remember that reality doesn’t change just because we can choose to ignore it. And understand that writing this will not benefit me one bit: it is too late for me. I am locked into a death spiral that cannot be reversed at this late date. But it is not too late for many of you–and that is what I am hoping for: that you will take away something you can use when you need it most.

   Which is more than I got.

Elizabeth Eugenia (James) LaBozetta November 10th, 2016

 

Promise

EDGE OF DARKNESS (2010 movie) “There’s a point where anybody can become an activist. You see something happen that is SO wrong you HAVE to act, I mean, even if it means the end of you.”

   As much as I wish it were possible, I, standing alone, cannot fix this mess. It is going to take something bigger than me. The most I can do is tip you off to what is out there and hope for the best. We cannot protect ourselves from this level of predation, even a little, if we do not know what we are really dealing with so we can adequately confront it when it arises. And it will arise, if not now, later.

   What is the best way to hide something? Take it apart and scatter the pieces around in plain view. My best hope for the effort put into this book is to gather up these scattered pieces and put enough of them together so that people will be able to recognize it for what it is, identify what they are seeing, so they can take steps to protect themselves from predation.  

   There are good doctors out there somewhere. There are good lawyers out there somewhere too. There are good people in government. And law enforcement. And media. But in my experience they are few and far between under the current regime and I know it is because this regime will not tolerate, or support, or keep within its ranks, those who will not follow their rules to the letter. Even the best of them have a hard line they absolutely will not cross for fear of retaliation.

   There are good doctors out there somewhere. There are good lawyers out there somewhere too. There are good people in government. And law enforcement. And media. But in my experience they are few and far between under the current regime and I know it is because this regime will not tolerate, or support, or keep within its ranks, those who will not follow their rules to the letter. Even the best of them have a hard line they absolutely will not cross for fear of retaliation.

   I have the luxury of being made terminal. I am in the end stages of kidney failure on top of the other consequences of a botched laparoscopic gallbladder surgery and a hospital-acquired staph infection that was deliberately ignored and left untreated, was allowed to blow through my body and damage my heart, spleen, liver, kidneys. There is nothing they can do to me now that hasn’t already been done. I am very symptomatic, slowly dying. My punishment for standing up to the corruption I have diligently uncovered is I am not allowed to have relief or treatment, no pain control. It is all I can do to get through a day now.

   There is going to be backlash for writing this book. There has been backlash since I was injured and left untreated back in 1991–so I am used to it. But this book is going to bring out the industry mouthpieces and armchair critics in number and their attacks on the content is going to be harsh. Saying anything negative about their crimes is like waving a rag across a box of snakes. All I can say is what I have always said: the ones being put through this will recognize the patterns of these abuses, will know the truth when they see it because they live it every single day even if they don’t know what to call it–yet.

   There have been many books and articles written by many of the industry mouthpieces and “club” supporters extolling the virtues and successes of the current medical system. This book is about the things that their supporters absolutely will not write. There is a dark side, hidden from public view– a dark side nobody is allowed to talk about in any public forum.

   I am not a professional writer, have to work with what I have got. You won’t find perfection here in spelling, grammar, and all the other things that the professionals have mastered. You will find citations repeated, and certain statements repeated, because they are relevant to more than one topic.

   But what you will find is what matters most: a truth nobody else will tell you. There are no other books out there like this one. And maybe there will never be again…but I can hope.

 

Citations:

“None Dare Call It Conspiracy” (book) By Gary Allen and Larry Abraham QUOTE: “Most of us have had the experience, either as parents or youngsters, of trying to discover the “hidden picture” within another picture in a children’s magazine. Usually you are shown a landscape with trees, bushes, flowers, and other bits of nature. The caption reads something like this: “Concealed somewhere in this picture is a donkey pulling a cart with a boy in it Can you find them?” Try as you might, usually you could not find the hidden picture until you turned to a page farther back in the magazine which would reveal how cleverly the artist had hidden it from us. If we study the landscape we realize that the whole picture was painted in such a way as to conceal the real picture hidden within, and once we see the “real picture” it stands out like the proverbial sore digit.”

The Bible
Ezekiel 23:6
Proverbs 24:11-12
John 3:20

 

“The Prince And The Pauper”

   In author Mark Twain’s story “The Prince And The Pauper” the child Prince Edward has a whipping boy named Humphrey Marlow. When the Prince misbehaves it is the whipping boy who takes the punishment for the Prince. When Tom Canty and Prince Edward exchange places it is the whipping boy who teaches Tom Canty what he needs to know to get by at the palace.

   When a surgeon, or a surgeon-in-training, makes a mistake and causes harm their victim becomes their whipping boy. All the negative assignments that should rightfully go to the one(s) who caused the harm is wantonly diverted to their injury victim–but unlike the story where once the whipping is finished the punishment ends, the surgeon’s injury victim is whipped continuously at every place they turn seeking help. The punishments never end.

   This standardized abuse operates from the principle of:  a good offense is the best defense. There is going to be a load of lying, concealing, records tampering, x-ray tampering, false diagnoses, gaming, gas-lighting, gang-stalking and so on coming in hot-and-heavy from their side. So, for every wrong they commit, it must be reversed to their victim somehow: If they are lying, their victim will be called a liar at every opportunity. If they are concealing the truth, their victim will be accused of hiding something. If they are manipulating, their victim is called a manipulator. We are pelted with false accusations of drug-seeking, attention-seeking, Munchausen’s Syndrome, and so on into infinity. If a relative stands up for the injury victim against their false accusations they are slammed with a false accusation of Munchausen’s-Syndrome-By-Proxy.

   There is no bottom to this particular abuse. There is nothing they will not falsely accuse their victims of to divert responsibility onto the people they have injured and obstruct a correct diagnosis and proper intervention. There is nothing they won’t do to shut down public disclosure and criticism of their crimes. And by “nothing they won’t do” I DO mean nothing–they will do whatever it takes to keep a lid on their dirty-work: even murder outright.

   There have been many cases where a persistent, uncontrollable injury victim has been heavily drugged and locked up on the hospital psychiatric unit–no visitors allowed.

   There have been cases where injury victims were set up on false drug charges and imprisoned.

   There have been cases where the medical syndicate has tried to kill off its injury victims by deliberately prescribing a drug on their victim’s allergy alert list. Or reversing the Standard Of Care. Or improperly performing an invasive procedure without antibiotic protection. Or prescribing drugs, or treatments, to make the true condition worse, faster. Or combining drugs that are never to be combined.

   By withholding a correct diagnosis their targets do not have even a ghost of a chance to protect themselves from this level of predation or thwart intentional harm–and that is what the perpetrators are hoping for.

   But the great favorite is simply withholding early, proper intervention of the injury and deliberately allowing it to pass the point of no return while chanting: “we don’t see anything and because we can’t see anything we can’t do anything…all your tests are normal.”

 

“We never forgive them whom we have wronged”
(
author unknown)

 

The Education We Never Wanted

   The instant we are made a medical malpractice victim life as we have known it is over. This is where we begin a slow and ugly education we never wanted into how things really are verses what we have been brainwashed to believe they are. This is also where we begin to leave behind all the plans we’d made for our own future and the direction we wanted our lives to take.

   All those carefully-crafted messages of hope, caring, safety, and integrity that have been implanted into our heads and hearts through mainstream media are completely reversed and what we are left with, and made to endure, is so sociopathically inhumane it doesn’t seem possible.

   The smiling professionals who were so warm and welcoming in their offices abruptly become cold, uncaring, accusing, verbally abusive, and even threatening. The primary care doctor we thought we’d had a good relationship with for many years subtly, or not-so-subtly, indicates we are not welcome in that office anymore.

   The more questions we ask about our symptoms the worse the response we get from them. We might not yet know what has actually happened to us–but they know and have already dipped into their war chest and begun pulling out, and utilizing, their array of defenses against exposure and accountability.

   We go on to find that we are met with the same response wherever we go trying to seek help. It is as if they are all reading from the same dark-and-terrible script: “you are lying about your symptoms”, “you are a hypochondriac”, “your symptoms are just not possible”, “you must be a drug-seeker”, “you did this to yourself”, “I have no idea what could be going wrong–let’s do some tests”…and then all the tests come back “negative” in spite of our increasing and miserable symptoms. We leave these exchanges stunned, confused, fearing for our safety, and asking ourselves “whatever did we DO to cause this kind of behavior?” And we leave deliberately untreated, getting worse, and fearing we will die before getting any real help.

   And that is exactly the kind of response the creators of this program are shooting for: that we will be stunned into confusion and despair and turn to blaming ourselves right out of the starting gate. What we don’t know, and are not intended to know, is that this IS intentional. That they ARE “reading from the same dark script”.

   So, what did we DO to cause this response? Absolutely nothing. We were in the wrong place, at the wrong time, with the wrong people. We entered a world we only thought we knew through carefully-crafted brainwashing. The dark underbelly, and actual workings, of this hidden world is closed and concealed to we outsiders. The only way we find out it exists is after something terrible happens to us and it is their fault. Then it is too late to extract ourselves from the abusive consequences. Once pulled in there is no real way out.

   Then our education begins. The one we never wanted. And we will be made to pay for this education every step of the way and in every way possible, eventually with everything we have if we do not take steps to protect ourselves.

   I have survived the terrible education I have been put through with a single change in how I perceive it: I remind myself that “there are no bad experiences, only learning experiences” and take the abuses that are continually inflicted as opportunities to LEARN–then report what I have come to learn the hardest way possible. I make sure I come away with something useful every single time.

 

“Know your enemy and learn his ways”. (From “The Art of War,” written in the second century BC by Chinese strategist Sun-Tzu  孫子)

 

Commodities

“Life is God’s most precious gift. No principle, however glorious, may justify the taking of it.” from “The Crucible” by Arthur Miller

   Once we are injured (or are terminal with another disease or injury) we become an extremely valuable commodity to the New Medicine community and its utilitarian ethic. New Medicine’s utilitarian ethic has discarded its fiduciary duty to its patients, the patient’s right to self-determination, a right to a full informed consent, and has installed its justifications into the minds and hearts of its young doctors early, to be at the ready to override and salve whatever conscience they have left after it has been methodically rubbed out of them in medical training and later by the health insurance companies they come to work for.

   If you listen long and carefully you will sometimes hear these three particular justifications that they have been programmed with spoken aloud:

  • “It is okay to sacrifice a few to benefit many”.
  • “We can’t break what is already broken”.
  • “Eat what you kill”.

   WHO is good enough to select out and sacrifice other human beings? Their overblown sense of entitlement lies to them and tells them they, and their higher placement in society, endows them with that right–to take lives away from their rightful owners and use them up to their own purposes. The criminal elite has always been infected with this specific corruption but in the hands of people we have placed in positions of public trust, and who have the unity and collusion, focus and numbers, to coordinate a project and see it all the way through, creates a dangerous trap for those on the outside. Once lured in, there is no real escape.

   The broken among us are the primary targets for their sacrifices. If we fit one of their “expendable” categories we had better keep our backs to the wall at every single encounter because their teaching hospitals have a continuous need to fill their green surgical trainees credentialing quotas. Experimenters have a continuous need to fill their quotas for experimental subjects for their experimentation with varying degrees of safety. Both utilize doctors in the community for referrals to fill these needs and pay them a “referral fee” for each completed referral. The bulk of the referrals they rely upon come from emergency room doctors and primary care doctors.

   The list of people who they’ve labeled expendable is large and they routinely select from categories of people who are disenfranchised in one way or another. They like easy targets, people who can’t fight back, or fight them off, on a level playing field. It is no accident they choose people whose medical malpractice cases, however meritorious, will be rejected for prosecution by lawyers because they know something we don’t: lawyers only want cases they can make a LOT of money on and that is determined by MONETARY damages only–not actual physical damage done or its natural consequences. A celebrity making millions a year attracts interest and action; the housewife is passed over no matter what was done to her. The medical syndicate knows exactly what it is doing when it selects from certain categories of people for its most dangerous surgery training, drug and device testing, experimentation: these people’s cases will never see a lawyer or a courtroom no matter what is done to them. They are essentially FREE KILLS.

   So, who is expendable?

  • housewives
  • the elderly
  • the retired
  • prisoners
  • terminal with another disease or injury *
  • on public assistance
  • single over the age of 25 with no dependents
  • the homeless
  • institutionalized
  • people damaged by prior medical harm that is not fixable, or cheaply or easily fixable
  • anyone whose monetary worth tolls too low in economic damages as determined by the scale lawyers use to assess value (to themselves) of a case.

   Their “eat what you kill” ethic/ritual is a half-baked, twisted version stolen from the Native Americans practice of using up every single part of the bodies of the animals they kill for food in order to honor the life they have taken and give it respect.  New Medicine’s version is a tool they use to salve their own remnant of conscience in case it whispers: “what you did was wrong and this is why it was wrong” at the same time it justifies what comes next in this ritual:

   Once we are injured by one of them the whole medical community indulges itself in “eating the kill” one of their membership made: they unify tightly to corral and harness up these damaged people and use up whatever is left of them in further green student surgery training, drug testing, device testing, or experimentation–the most dangerous is reserved for this category of expendables “because we can’t break what is already broken”. Those who resist, refuse to participate in what has been selected for them, are incrementally punished. All manner of coercions, threats, and abuses are applied but cutting off pain control is a great favorite to force cooperation because they know pain is a powerful motivator and pain control can be used as a carrot-on-a-stick: “undergo the surgery we want you to have THEN you can have pain control back”. They, and only they, have the means and power to relieve the pain they have caused and they use this as a tool of coercion because it works.    Everything their targets will accept is loaded on in a never ending stream–until there is nothing left. Can you guess who gets to pay for it? The criminal elite likes to keep the big money circulating within their own membership. Remember what I said about the health insurers buying up and owning hospitals? That they get paid to train residents surgery by the government and have a continual need for warm bodies for their trainees to practice on? And our health insurance usually has a large deductible, co-pays, and will pay only a percentage of certain things like a hospital stay, prescriptions, etc? Guess who has to pick up the rest of the tab?

   Many people have had an enormous medical debt run up on them after an iatrogenic injury. And because they are blocked from relief through the “club”-controlled court system and because lawyers will not accept their valid cases, they get stuck with the debt–for the injury itself AND for all the other intrusions coerced by New Medicine in its “eat what you kill” ritual.

   To top it off, because their standardized cover-up program dictates nothing incriminating ever gets acknowledged or recorded outside the only clean record stored in their protected computer databases, their injury victims cannot produce the truthful medical information necessary to collect on the disability insurance policies they have purchased nor can they collect Social Security disability benefits that they are entitled to.

   Nice. Real nice–financially enslaving people who can’t work because of their doctor-caused injuries and methodically plundering whatever assets they have to fill their own pockets, clapping liens on homes and retirement accounts when they can’t pay up.

   Evil has never been so well-rewarded.

 

Citations:

The Columbus Dispatch* “A son remembers loving moments, lessons learned from Dad” by Kirsten Chapman QUOTE: “To kill wantonly is wrong,” the son recalled his father saying, “Eat what you kill.”

The Dallas Morning News May 16, 1999, page 9-A “Patient Drug Trials Lucrative For Some Doctors, Paper says.” Incentives reportedly given to those who recruit subjects” QUOTE: “Drug companies and their contractors offer large payments to doctors, nurses, and other medical staff to encourage them to recruit patients quickly. And doctors do not even have to conduct trials to get paid: There are finder’s fees for those who refer their patients to other doctors conducting research.”

The Savvy Patient (out-of-print book), 1990, By David R. Stutz M.D., Bernard Feder Ph.D and the editors of Consumer Reports Books “There’s another form of experimentation that ostensibly is directed toward clarifying a patient’s diagnosis or treatment but that may not be as useful for that patient as it might appear to be. Dr. Robin points out that when a newly devised invasive procedure is introduced into medical practice, the doctors using it must go through a learning process. Because the doctors must gradually become proficient in using the procedure, the patients subjected to it at this early point are subjects in an experimental situation that will help the doctors more than it will help the patient. During these early stages, the danger to the patient is highest, and it is likely to decrease as the group—doctors, nurses, technicians gain experience. “Patients managed early in the learning phase”, writes Robin, “are sacrificed because of relative inexperience. That the sacrifice is not an inevitable consequence of their disease is usually not apparent to the patient or the patient’s family.” The risk to the patient in the experimental use of innovative, noninvasive techniques, such as magnetic resonance imagery (MRI) and state-of-the-art scanners, is not as obvious, because the immediate physical risks are not present. However, the technicians who use the machines aren’t as proficient as they will be after more practice, and the physicians interpreting the images are not as accurate as they will become with more experience. As a result, the interpretation of images for the earliest patients using these machines is likely to be far less accurate or useful than that for later patients. The hidden risk of inexperience lies behind our advice that you ask about your doctor’s experience with any diagnostic or treatment procedure.”

Life Wish (out-of-print) By: Paula Carroll, Page 179, QUOTE: “I heard of a doctor who enjoys the dubious privilege of getting all the botched-up garbage created by other blundering doctors in the state. It then becomes his job to act as custodian for these patients until they die–a custodian of the doomed and mangled. The original blunderers apparently trust this ghoul with their most irretrievable mistakes. One wonders what sort of explanation is given to the heirs of all this “human garbage,” although knowing as much as I do about medical cover-ups, I am sure the ultimate records will imply “death by natural causes”.

https://surgerycenterok.com/blog/beware-of-population-health-management/ “Beware Of ‘Population Health Management” By Surgery Center Of Oklahoma, September 9, 2016 QUOTE: “If you don’t feel like cattle when you hear the phrase population health management, you certainly will when you are victimized by it. Population health management ultimately is central planning in healthcare that doesn’t take the needs of individual into account, but rather the needs of populations. It also (and this is the really scary part) indicates that the hospitals, some of the most abusive cronies in the industry, will become the insurance company.”

 

Coveting

  It comes down to something my grandfather, Eugene Edgar James told me when I was about three: we were out walking and I saw a discarded toy on the sidewalk and stooped to pick it up. My grandfather told me not to touch it, that it belonged to someone else who had been playing with it there and would certainly come back for it later. I didn’t see another child anywhere and couldn’t envision the concept of ownership at that age and started to argue: “Why did they leave it? Where did they go? When will they come back? What is their name? Why can’t I play with it until they come back for it?”

   Grandpa said something that stuck in my head forever: “All you need to know is that this toy doesn’t belong to you. You don’t need to know anything else about it, don’t need to know who it belongs to, why they left it here, when they will come back and get it. All you need to know is that it is not yours and walk away unless you have permission of the rightful owner to use it.” My message today is one I learned easily at age three from my grandfather:

“Doctors, if it isn’t yours, leave it alone unless you have permission from the rightful owner to use it. All you need to know is that it is not yours…”

 

“It’s Not a Conspiracy Theory if you have proof.”
Jullian Assange

 

High Priority Verses Low Priority

   Whether we are aware of it or not, we have all been divided by the medical syndicate into one of two categories: high priority or low priority.

   Those labeled high priority will be offered the best of the best available at the time. They will get the best doctors, the most effective treatments and prescriptions, and so on.

   Those labeled low priority will be offered something very different.

   I will begin with those tagged “low priority” because that is my stratification label (and yours too, most likely) and the one I am most familiar with: people tagged “low priority” are kept like cattle by the “club” and used for whatever purposes it deems fit. Once the insurance companies corralled and gained control of the doctors through income, they got control of you—the policyholder. It took them years and lots of wrangling and planning, but they did it. Now the insurance companies have wrangled so much control of every aspect of the entire medical block it doesn’t matter anymore if you are one of their policyholders or not because they have set up “special programs” for utilizing low-priority non-policyholders too.

   The insurance companies bought up every hospital they could grab; the doctors work for the insurance companies and their hospitals now. Every dollar that was spent on buying/building new property and paying enormous CEO salaries is a dollar that wasn’t spent on patient care. The insurance companies own most of the teaching hospitals (and can earn lots of extra income, paid for by the government with Medicare funds, by training residents surgery and such while using the residents as cheap labor and overworking them at the same time) and can freely tap into their policyholder pool to gather “teaching material/training dummies” for whatever surgery needs to be trained. The hospital controls the medical records; they keep two (or three) sets of files: a clean one for themselves in the computer database and a sanitized version in the paper file room for outsiders. Some keep a microfiche file too. There is talk of implementing a paperless system, which is well underway already, where all medical information on all people is kept in one single database instead of all these smaller local databases. (like SnoMed, C.H.I.N. which stands for Community Health Information Network, etcetera) Medical care is no longer a private matter or a  private exchange of fee-for-service between doctor and patient.

   You might want to ask yourselves WHY it became so important for the “club” to wedge themselves so firmly into the middle of this essential PERSONAL service and gain control of both sides: what doctors can offer and what patients can get. My grandfather had an old saying that applies here: “if someone does something you just can’t understand no matter how you look at it ask yourself:  WHO does this benefit because the answer lies there—always.” The “club” understands very well the benefits of grabbing control of a whole medical system and gaining total control over WHO gets offered what, when, where, and why.

   I have heard it said that once the medical profession allowed itself to be taken over by the insurance industry it became “the medical branch of the seated government”. In the movie “Damaged Care” (which I highly recommend) one insurance executive says to another: “It’s just the New World Order!” This is exactly what I am trying to tell you here: this isn’t about medical care at all—it is about control, getting the “herd” under control and corralled so that it can be utilized (or disposed of) more efficiently by the New World Order “club members”. It can be used as a vehicle to harvest the wealth of we outsiders.

   There is another saying applicable here: “after the dog is trained, you do not need the leash anymore”. The insurance monsters have trained their membership “dogs” over a period of years now; they do not need the leash anymore.

   The New World Order sociopaths do not need us, the common man, anymore: the trees are cut and the forests are cleared, the roads have been built, the buildings are up, the cities are erected…all the donkey-work has been done. All they need now is a maintenance crew–­something they can get from the foreigners they have been importing. The common man served a useful purpose when this country was in its early years; we have outlived our usefulness and will soon expect to collect on the Social Security benefits we have paid into all our working lives that have been wantonly squandered and frittered away on everything but what it was intended for: retirement income for the elderly. Currently, billions of dollars a year goes out to the teaching hospitals to train residents. Why? The elderly are first choice for dangerous resident surgery training…go figure. The more elderly who are killed off in surgery training is less to be paid out in Social Security benefits.

   The medical care offerings of today are more like the “herd management” utilitarian protocols a rancher goes by than the direct service ethic of the past. We all are expected to get vaccinated. We all get a response, limited and getting more limited as time goes by, to trauma that can be seen by others and is not easily ignored. We get basic prenatal care. And a limited array of symptomatic relief. We are offered surgery only when it serves the “club” and its purposes; it serves their purposes best when they need warm bodies to train the students they have contracted with the government to train for pay. WE ARE THE GUINEA PIGS, THE LAB RATS. We are the first in line for drug and device testing; private companies pay big money to get their drugs, surgical equipment, and devices tested—and if you are so unfortunate as to stumble blindly into such a racket your permission will not be asked first; the experiment will be given to you on the sly, you’ll be told whatever it takes to get you onto their operating room table and you will be inhumanely monitored after-the-fact without interference. You will be tracked wherever you go through the computer database records under your name, birth date, and social security number: it’ll dictate what you have been told already, what you can be told, what you can’t be told, what you can and can’t be offered in care, everything necessary to present a united front in the medical syndicate and keep you under total control. (why do you think former President Bush was pushing a unified medical record database and talking of finding government funding for it? Once the “club” gets this level of control there will be no escape hatches left for the “herd” they are seeking to micro-manage.)

   Those tagged “low priority” are deliberately left undiagnosed and untreated of certain chronic, incurable, diseases (like lupus, kidney failure, diabetes, etcetera) long past the time the disease was actually identified so costly treatment could be withheld and the miserable and increasing symptoms can be utilized to trick the targets into unnecessary student surgery training and experimental programs. Their favorite targets are responsible people with a good credit history–people known to pay their bills because these are the people that can be mined of their accumulated assets for all that can be extracted once made sick and desperate.

   It is unconscionable to withhold treatment when a disease process, or injury, is known—but the medical syndicate did it during the Tuskegee Syphilis Study (and other such studies) to serve themselves. This crime has a name: “destroyed opportunity”. Don’t think for a minute that the

medical syndicate will not wantonly destroy any opportunity you might have of improvement or getting well to serve their own purposes, however small in proportion to what you stand to lose. Why would anyone think anything has changed since the Tuskegee Syphilis Study? Today, they just have more technology to hide their crimes-against-humanity and better unify against discovery.

   Remember the scene in the movie “Miss Evers’ Boys” where two of the men corralled in the study tried to step out of the program and tried to get one man the antibiotics he needed to cure his syphilis at a local hospital once the proper treatment for the disease was commonly available? One of the men had already gotten appropriate treatment when he left the area by joining the army. The desk nurse refused to allow it, checked a paper posted on the nursing station wall, said “nope—you’re on the list”. Well, consider these patient-records computer databases just like that posted list—except that now it will be available at every medical facility or office in the world and it will not matter where you go to try to get help based on your own needs and preferences.    

   I am telling you that YOU are “on a list” too. It is a different kind of list, held in a different format, but the intention is the same: insider control and unity in their offerings and presentation to us outsiders. They can pretty-up their stated “reasons” for creating this computer database and consolidation of all these smaller, local medical records databases into one great big one for the whole country but there is a hidden agenda they discuss only amongst themselves. The days of a direct exchange solely for the good of the patient, and confidentiality kept between doctor and patient, is over. Gone. If you doubt this, you can test it: see what happens the next time you call up a doctor’s office for an appointment and refuse to give the desk clerk your social security number and your birthdate. They are not entitled to that information but they demand it anyway and most will refuse to give you an appointment if you refuse to provide it. Why? Because without it they cannot access your “clean” computer records and find out in advance of your arrival for the appointment what your stratification tag is, what your true diagnoses are, what care can and can’t be offered. Without that information the doctor would be working without control and unity—and you would stand a better chance of getting that direct, honest and ethical, service of the old days before managed care health insurance and the centralized computer databases entered the picture. Recently, medical offices and facilities demand to take a photograph of our faces. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out what this is used for.

   Those tagged “high priority” (the “club members”) get the very best care available: surgery performed by top-drawer surgeons with the highest level of expertise (not green student-trainees sneaked in on them after being anesthetized) perfected on those tagged “low priority”, the most effective prescriptions already tested on those tagged “low priority”, the most effective treatments regardless of cost, special suites at the hospital very unlike the common patient rooms. (In the movie “Damaged Care” the main character is being coached by an insurance executive on what care gets approved for who: “low priority” people with valid needs are being flatly denied and this one “high priority” society woman is given whatever she wants, however frivolous and expensive) The insurance companies rob one segment of society to enrich another; the “insiders” will be paying the same premiums as you but will be getting so much more at your expense. Have you guessed yet which side of this program YOU are on?

 

Citations:

The Newark Advocate June 24, 1998 Letters To The Editor “Nurses” by Mary Billy, Debbie Manifold, Mary Ann Wade, Gayle Coffman, Debbie Baucher, Mendy Magers, Michelle Mettler, Kathy Gummer “Our professionalism was insulted when we were told by the administration to take “special care” when a “VI.P.” was having surgery. We feel all patients should be given the very best of surgical care, regardless of social status.”

The Savvy Patient (Book) 1990 By David R. Stutz M.D., Bernard Feder Ph.D and the editors of Consumer Reports Books “There’s another form of experimentation that ostensibly is directed toward clarifying a patient’s diagnosis or treatment but that may not be as useful for that patient as it might appear to be. Dr. Robin points out that when a newly devised invasive procedure is introduced into medical practice, the doctors using it must go through a learning process. Because the doctors must gradually become proficient in using the procedure, the patients subjected to it at this early point are subjects in an experimental situation that will help the doctors more than it will help the patient. During these early stages, the danger to the patient is highest, and it is likely to decrease as the group—doctors, nurses, technicians gain experience. “Patients managed early in the learning phase”, writes Robin, “are sacrificed because of relative inexperience. That the sacrifice is not an inevitable consequence of their disease is usually not apparent to the patient or the patient’s family.” The risk to the patient in the experimental use of innovative, noninvasive techniques, such as magnetic resonance imagery (MRI) and state-of-the-art scanners, is not as obvious, because the immediate physical risks are not present. However, the technicians who use the machines aren’t as proficient as they will be after more practice, and the physicians interpreting the images are not as accurate as they will become with more experience. As a result, the interpretation of images for the earliest patients using these machines is likely to be far less accurate or useful than that for later patients. The hidden risk of inexperience lies behind our advice that you ask about your doctor’s experience with any diagnostic or treatment procedure.”

Donahue Show (transcript) “Get Ready For A Turn Of The Century Economic Nightmare” Airdate: 5-29-1996 Quote: “Lester Thurow: …I think the thing that’s going to be explosive is not so much the salaries as health care because if you look at big corporations, they’re pushing everybody into managed health care, you know, which means you don’t get a choice of doctors. You don’t get some treatments==you know, very limited health care. And at the same time, a lot of these big corporations, as reported in The New York Times recently, they’ll have a special health care system for, let’s say, the top 50 executives and that executive gets kind of old-fashioned, Blue Cross-Blue Shield, all the money you want, choose the doctor you want, any treatment you want.” “On the other hand, we’re communists when it comes to health care. If your kids get a treatment that my kids are not going to get and your kids and my kids both need it, I am going to be irritated, right?”

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/44723391/ns/health-health_care/t/docs-admit-hospital-vips-get-faste r-care-er/#.WHYu6lxOnIU

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/27/when-the-patient-is-a-vip/?_r=0

https://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/health-wellness/2016/04/02/hospital-loses-its-way-care-f or-vip-patient/YNCtmYKxtHQid17M58a9hN/story.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/26/opinion/hospitals-red-blanket-problem.html

http://www.redbookmag.com/body/mental-health/advice/a3803/letting-intuition-guide-you/

 

QUOTE: Listening to her gut led to… Linda Lemma, 42, Nutley, NJ

“One hot summer evening four years ago, I decided to take a shower before going to bed. While I was washing up, something told me to lift my left arm and examine my breast, which was weird because I had never done a breast self-exam before. Still, I have always felt in tune with my body; for instance, when I became pregnant with each of my four kids, I had a ‘feeling’ that I had conceived long before I missed a period.

“I went to the ob/gyn a few days later. I had talked to this same doctor six months earlier, when one of my nipples was cracked and bleeding, and he had said that it was dry skin and told me that

I should ‘just put cocoa butter on it,’ something that I had never felt quite right about. At this visit, my nipple was still bleeding and cracked, but it was as if my doctor didn’t even see it or didn’t want to deal with it. And when I showed him the lump, he insisted that he didn’t feel anything. But I knew what I felt, so I insisted on a mammogram. My doctor told me that it wasn’t necessary, and then he actually left the room to see his next patient! I really couldn’t believe the way he was blowing me off, and I just knew that I could not accept his reaction — I was sure that something was wrong.”After a few minutes, this doctor came back into the exam room, telling me that there was nothing more that he could do for me. I told him that I would absolutely not leave his office until I had a referral from him for a mammogram. The doctor kept leaving and coming back, and every time, I just refused to leave the room, insisting that I needed the test because I knew deep down in my gut that something wasn’t right. I had never in my life acted quite this stubborn before, in any situation, but I was so completely certain I needed that mammogram that I never once even considered leaving his office without it. I guess the doctor got tired of me taking up space in his exam room because after about an hour of this back-and-­forth, he finally handed me that referral.”I had the mammogram a few days later — it revealed that there wasn’t just one lump in my breast but a total of three, along with swollen lymph nodes. I was diagnosed with Stage III breast cancer, and I spent the next two years going through chemotherapy and radiation treatments. Today, I’m completely cancer-free, but I still get tears in my eyes every time I think about what could have happened. My children could be motherless. My husband could be a widower. I am forever thankful that I followed through and acted on instinct — that weird little feeling saved my life.”

http://www.seeker.com/your-body-part-price-list-youre-worth-more-dead-than-alive-infographic­1765741389.html

 

New Medicine

   What is the best way to hide something? Take it apart and scatter the pieces around in plain sight.

   I am old enough to remember what the delivery and practice of medical care was like before the corrupting influences, and the controls, of the health insurance industry came into the picture and took over.

   The doctors lived in the communities they served, not in walled and gated McMansion settlements at the edge of the cities where they are removed from, and do not have to witness, the natural consequences to the problems they create for others. 

   The doctors provided a direct, uncomplicated service and the only needs considered were those of the patient right in from of him/her. Patients paid at the front desk on the way out the door and the cost was affordable. There was no middleman sitting between the doctor- patient relationship dictating to both sides what could, and couldn’t, be offered based upon cost over necessity while they vacuumed up the lion’s share of the money involved for themselves.

   To build and keep clients the doctors had to perform to community standards of behavior. The better they treated their clients the more money they made. The medical record stayed in the office and its content was kept confidential.

   There are still a few old-school doctors left but they are leaving this world, and their profession, fast and they are leaving it in a form they will freely tell us has now become abhorrent to them. Their humanitarian ethic has been replaced in recent decades by a utilitarian ethic and the needs of the individual has been drowned in it. We no longer get care based upon individual need but only receive what is deemed best for the whole of elite society. Much like a rancher attends to the entire herd to keep it producing for him/her. We get something akin to herd management to keep us on our feet and producing. Unfortunately, the power-elite is not above culling the herd they micro-manage or targeting selected groups to use up to their own enrichment.

   Enter organized crime. Nobody knows how to sniff out where the big money is that can be harvested like organized crime. And nobody is less inclined to do honest work for it than

organized crime when they can wrangle a way to coerce others to do it for them while they sit back and collect the lion’s share right off the top. Today the big money is in healthcare, an essential service everyone needs to utilize sooner or later. All they have to do to get a foothold is to infiltrate a little at a time, throw lots money at the ones who will be doing the actual work and guarantee those targeted for parasitization a steady and increasing clientele. When their targets get used to the perks and benefits they start loading on invasive rules and regulations incrementally. Once the dog is trained they don’t need the leash anymore. It is an insidious process, but they know how to install it from centuries of experience: set the traps and install them slowly–slowly enough to allow their targets to get used to them before loading on the next layer. By the time the burdens become too heavy to carry comfortably and their targets start to complain, begin questioning the integrity of it, they are in so deep they can’t easily extract themselves anymore. The traps snap shut. The lure was money.

   When organized crime got their hooks sunk in real tight and the big money started rolling in, they wanted to keep it rolling in. To ensure this, they installed a system they know works because it has always worked: punish those who do not do exactly as they are told. So they installed a set of rewards for those harnessed up to who do their bidding and they installed a set of punishments for those who go against their dictates.

   The old-school doctors saw this coming and tried to warn the young doctors but they wouldn’t listen, plowed ahead anyhow. Now many are complaining, suffering, even committing suicide in increasing numbers because they can’t justify, or tolerate, what is being required of them anymore. What they were led to believe would make the practice of medicine easier has left them buried under regulations, rules, and paperwork. They are given quotas to meet. Are driven to sell tests and prescriptions over taking time with patients and responding to their actual needs. And the patients suffer while they are required to pay whether they get a good service, a bad service, or no service at all. The doctors working for New Medicine have no incentive to do a good job anymore because they are going to receive a steady clientele no matter what they do as long as they please their handlers and follow their dictates; everything comes at a price–and organized crime sets that price. Why would doctors make the extra effort when the pay is the same for a good job, a bad job, or no job at all?

   People are put through “what if…” scare tactics to convince them they need health insurance to avert a financial disaster in case something expensive and prolonged happens, but, ironically, by having bad health insurance it practically guarantees we’ll get nothing but the response the health insurer wants us to have, based upon cost..or nothing at all. It isn’t your potential financial disaster they concern themselves with: it is theirs.

   Organized crime never gives anything away for free. And they never reach “enough”, will drive their targets to produce more and faster for them regardless of consequences. Organized crime produces nothing itself; they parasitize others and force them to produce.

 

Citations:

Modern Healthcare magazine May 19, 1997 “Crime And Healthcare” by Ron Shrinkman and Eric Weissenstein Pages 32-37 QUOTE: “As evidence of mob activity in healthcare comes to light, experts debate whether we are seeing an isolated incident or the beginning of a terrible trend.”

New York Times 8-21-1996 “New Jersey Officials say Mob Infiltrated Health Care Industry” by Selwyn Raab http://www.nytimes.com/1996/08/21/nyregion/new-jersey-officials-say-mafia-infiltrated-health-c are-industry.html QUOTE: “Law-enforcement officials say that mob families have for decades been secret partners or controlled companies in many lawful industries, including food distribution, trucking, garbage removal, garment manufacturing, construction and the entertainment industry. But they said the mob’s entry into the nation’s rapidly expanding field of group care poses an ominous threat.”

https://lambschopped.wordpress.com/2013/01/06/insurance-and-the-mafia-on-organized-crime/

Dayton Daily News October 7, 1997 page 8-A QUOTE: “Three malpractice settlements involving patients who died could wreck the career of a physician in private practice, setting off reviews by “peer committees”, and malpractice insurance underwriters and causing high premiums.”

Columbus Dispatch “Letters To The Editor” by Dr. Ruth Purdy MD QUOTE: “We are now being dictated to by the insurance companies, and the good care of the patient literally has been scrapped for big salaries for the chief executive officers of health maintenance organizations, much to the disgust not only of patients but also of the physicians.” “Veterinarians are taking better care of their animals than we are taking of our patients, because of the restrictions that are imposed upon us by the insurance companies.” “I am sincere when I say I think that a lot of our representatives and senators in Congress have been influenced by the insurance companies, or they would not permit this brand of medicine to be imposed upon the citizens.”

Academy Of Medicine “Overview Of The Bottom Line” by George Dixon Clouse, M.D. QUOTE: “What emerged like bats out of a cave were groups and subgroups determined to get a bite of the health care dollars. In a feeding frenzy, many groups were formed. Congress eventually realized it didn’t need to pass a lot of complex laws. It was done for them by insurance carriers, employers, hospitals and doctors who were afraid of being left behind and squeezed out. Everybody wanted in on it, and the practice of medicine became a business, intent on the bottom line.” “Contracts where drawn up and signed. Then changed. The concept of managed care sounded good, but in reality it is an euphemism for manipulated care.” “…you can bet Congress will continue the debate as long as the dollars keep rolling in.” “It is a grab of the greedy for power and control.” “It is for us physicians to remember that the real bottom line of medical care is patient satisfaction: listening, supporting, and healing—not capitation.”

Hospitals March 26, 1992 “Managed Care In The 1990s: Providers’ New Role For Innovative Health delivery” QUOTE: “For hospitals today, the message is clear,” Ellwood says. “Attract a set of very strong primary care physicians and tie them as closely to the hospital as possible.” “We’re going to be in a much stronger position to produce reliable outcomes, resource utilization and quality data because we collect the total care information in one system.” “Some hospitals are trying to develop stronger relations with physicians by requiring doctors to invest more equity into physician-hospital organizations…” “…some hospitals are creating limited partnerships and other equity-driven models to involve physicians as part owners in these programs,…” “However, these hybrids require sophisticated management information systems, marketing, and actuarial expertise to manage risk,…” “If both sides have unified contracting, we’ll have the same interests in managing care as economically and as effectively as possible…”

The New York Times 12-27-1999 “Ambitious effort To Cut Mistakes In U.S. Hospitals” By Peter T, Kilborn QUOTE: They also say that some doctors have their own wall of silence, not unlike that of police officers, and are reluctant to report colleagues who make mistakes. “You don’t tell on each other” said

Anna Polk, director of the Agency for Healthcare Administration in Florida. Ms. Polk oversees one of the nation’s oldest and most comprehensive systems to report and prevent errors, yet one that she said the culture obstructs. “There’s a strong back current that keeps people from being entirely honest”, Ms. Polk sad. “It is a very old culture. It is a very longstanding culture. And it’s a very powerful culture.” A physician who discloses another physician’s mistake, she said, faces “almost certain retribution, like losing referrals. We’ve seen that over and over.”

The Columbus Dispatch 6-30-1993 P. 4-B “Coroner Charges he Was Pressured To Protect Doctors” QUOTE: “A coroner was pressured by hospital colleagues to change autopsy procedures to protect physicians, his attorney said yesterday. “If he hadn’t been coroner he wouldn’t have been subjected to pressure” said A. William Zavarello, attorney for Dr. William Cox. The Summit County Coroner. Cox’s suit alleges that hospital staff members pressured him to avid critical autopsies to “protect the physicians at Summa from public disclosure as having caused patient deaths.”

Zanesville Times Recorder 4-29=1993 By Peggy Matthews QUOTE: “A former Bethesda Hospital nurse has sued the hospital alleging the hospital fired her when she refused to falsify medical records. The complaint states Doyle, who worked for Bethesda a little over a year, was required to report any incidents which might be considered important to “risk management” Those are cases that might result later in medical malpractice suits.” “Doyle said that twice she was asked to either alter reports already written or to include only certain information to the report. The intent was to minimize risk for malpractice actions, “not to accurately reflect the events which had transpired” “The suit accuses Bethesda of violating Ohio’s Whistleblower statute and the state’s criminal laws against falsification of evidence that could be used in subsequent criminal or civil investigations.”

Newsweek 10-23-1995 “Beware Your HMO” QUOTE: “People think their worst nightmare is getting a terrible disease, but they are wrong. It’s getting a terrible disease and not being able to get treated for it.” “…HMOs were saving money by rationing medical care to their members. Last month the New York Post ran a week’s worth of stories on ‘managed-care casualties’. “HMO doctors often make more money by denying you care.” “HMO doctors stand to lose their livelihood if they provide ‘too much care’.” “Provide too much expensive care to your patients and you’ll be out of a job. The more patients a doctor has from a single HMO, the more powerful that message becomes.” “Three groups of anesthesiologists recently sued Aetna because they say the company strong-armed them into joining its HMO. If they didn’t sign, they said Aetna told them it would refuse to do business with the doctor’s hospitals.”

The Ohio Observer April 1994 “Doctors And Healthcare Reform” by Cathy Levine QUOTE: “Howison speaks passionately and bitterly about the present system: “It’s impossible to take care of people based on need–you take care of people based on their insurance coverage.” “Especially alarming is the spread of “capitated plans,” whereby the physicians receive a set reimbursement for each patient every month, regardless of service. But the provider receives a bonus to reduce patient services. Doctors who perform necessary services are often penalized for “overutilization.” Howison says most of his patients do not know they are in capitated plans until he tells them. He describes the system as “perverse, obscene, dangerous, and unhealthy.”

USA TODAY 199* By Judi Hasson “Physicians Put Insurance Plans Under The Knife” QUOTE: “The American Medical Association on Monday accused insurers and managed-care companies of trying to “take over the examining room”–denying some medical care to boost profits.” “They may offer doctors financial incentives to hold down costs.” “…some doctor are being intimidated “out of their proper role as patient advocates”. The threat of being dropped “is to keep the doctors in line.” Some physicians have seen incomes fall as managed-care companies move into an area, limiting how much doctors are paid and in some regions dominating the market so doctors must sign up with them to stay on business.” “There are things insurance companies don’t want you to know about their health plans. That’s why you need the facts. So you can make informed choices and get quality care in spite of their efforts to keep you in the dark.”

Maury Povich Show (transcript) “HMO Tragedies” Airdate: 1-9-1996 QUOTE: “Mark: Because 180,000 women a year get breast cancer, and when you’re a stage-four breast cancer patient, the most cost-effective way for the HMO to treat you is to let you die–with most cancers, with most tragic diseases.” “Mark: …that’s where the conflict of interest comes in, because he has to sign up 4,000 patients at $30. A month. And if he doesn’t see any of them, he makes more money. And if he never refers them, he makes more money. And that’s one of the greatest, life-threatening secrets of HMOs that no one knows.”

Donahue Show (transcript) “Get Ready For A Turn Of The Century Economic Nightmare” Airdate: 5-29-1996 Quote: “Lester Thurow: …I think the thing that’s going to be explosive is not so much the salaries as health care because if you look at big corporations, they’re pushing everybody into managed health care, you know, which means you don’t get a choice of doctors. You don’t get some treatments–you know, very limited health care. And at the same time, a lot of these big corporations, as reported in The New York Times recently, they’ll have a special health care system for, let’s say, the top 50 executives and that executive gets kind of old-fashioned, Blue Cross-Blue Shield, all the money you want, choose the doctor you want, any treatment you want.” “On the other hand, we’re communists when it comes to health care. If your kids get a treatment that my kids are not going to get and your kids and my kids both need it, I am going to be irritated, right?”

Sally Jesse Raphael Show (transcript) Airdate: 6-14-1995 QUOTE: “Bruce Silverman: “Nurse changed. She had visits. She changed the records. She made another set of records.” Janie Silverman: “Two sets of nurse’s notes. First one, she put in her locker. And the second, put on the chart and then went on vacation.”

Donahue Show (transcript #3888, excerpt) Airdate: December 23, 1993 “When Medical Procedures Go Wrong”  QUOTE: “Mr. Bern: Phil, you–you mentioned getting your records from your doctor. Donahue: Right Mr. Bern: You are entitled to your records. But that–you may have had your first surgery, but the second comes when they look at the records. You only get a copy. Ask them to see the originals. Then you’ll know. Donahue: Oh, you mean you think there’s some fooling around between the slip and the lip and the dip and the– Mr. Bern: Well, there might have been in the past. Donahue: Really? Mr. Bern: Because they’re going to–if you ask for the records, they’re going to send you a copy, and– Donahue: And it might be sanitized. Mr. Bern: And they–oh, might be sanitized? Donahue: Really. Mr. Nader: You know, Phil, there are a lot of examples where doctors and hospital personnel have altered or even forged records– Donahue: Yeah. Mr. Nader: –medical records, to escape accountability when something bad went wrong due to incompetence. Donahue: Right. Right.

ABC News 20/20 (transcript #1439 excerpt) Airdate: September 30, 1994 “They Know Your Secrets” DR. TIMOTHY JOHNSON: “…the data stored in a medical file goes beyond doctors’ diagnoses and hospital laboratory tests. It can also include the drugs you take, your sexual orientation, genetic test results, and even risky hobbies like skydiving. In short, it can contain anything you have told your doctor or his office staff. But what you tell your doctor may not stay just between you and your doctor. It can also go to large companies which do nothing but compile and exchange your private medical information on behalf of insurance companies. Inside this unassuming brick building are millions and millions of facts culled from the medical records of at least 15 million Americans. Stored here at the Medical Information Bureau is coded information which can include anything from blood tests to certain psychiatric diagnoses. Based in Westwood, Massachusetts, MIB is the biggest database used by insurance companies. So how do they get that information? It’s simple. When you apply for insurance, you authorize your insurer to collect your medical records and pass on the information to MIB.” JEFFREY ROTHFEDER: “MIB has become somewhat of a sinister organization, akin to the credit bureaus in the financial arena, in the sense that they’re very secretive about what they have and it’s very difficult for individuals—for the person himself, the subject—to get their own records out of there.” DR. TIMOTHY JOHNSON: “But medical information does not just come from doctors’ offices or hospitals or even insurance companies. Employers may also gain access to medical information, ironically access often technically granted by the employees. First, when you apply for a job, you may sign authorization forms for background checks that include checking your medical records. Second, if you ever file a medical claim, many people at the company may have access to your medical file. And finally, more and more employers are gaining medical information from employees who use in-house counseling programs known as EAP’s—employee assistance programs.”

Lancaster Eagle-Gazette August 27, 1993 Letter To The Editor “Doctor’s Letter Gets Immediate Response” by Martha E. Douds, RN, BSN QUOTE: “What is particularly frustrating for me is the lack of physicians who have the courage to speak out when they see that a patient has been seriously injured as a result of medical negligence. It seems that the path of least resistance prevails and eyes are closed and lips are sealed, instead of doing what is ethically correct. Thus, they become part of the problem instead of the solution.”

Trauma and Recovery (book) by Judith Lewis Herman, M.D.  “In order to escape accountability for his crimes, the perpetrator does everything in his power to promote forgetting. Secrecy and silence are the perpetrator’s first line of defense. If secrecy fails, the perpetrator attacks the credibility of his victim. If he cannot silence her absolutely, he tried to make sure no one listens. To this end, he marshals an impressive array of arguments, from the most blatant denial to the most sophisticated and elegant rationalization. After every atrocity one can expect to hear the same predictable apologies: it never happened; the victim brought it upon herself; and in any case it is time to forget the past and move on. The more powerful the perpetrator, the greater is his prerogative to name and define reality, and the more completely his arguments prevail.”

The Dallas Morning News May 16, 1999 page 9-A “Patient Drug Trials Lucrative For Some Doctors, Paper says.” Incentives reportedly given to those who recruit subjects” QUOTE: “Drug companies and their contractors offer large payments to doctors, nurses, and other medical staff to encourage them to recruit patients quickly. And doctors do not even have to conduct trials to get paid: There are finder’s fees for those who refer their patients to other doctors conducting research.”

Kevin MD (blogspot) http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2016/01/physicians-arent-burned-theyre-abused.html?utm_content=buffere0892&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer   January 2, 2015  “Physicians Aren’t Burned Out. They’re Abused.” By Pamela Wible, MD “Physicians are overworked and overwhelmed with bureaucratic bullsh*t during most of their careers. They are trapped in assembly-line big-box clinics where they are treated like factory workers and berated for not seeing enough patients per day. These are human rights abuses in our nation’s hospitals. This doctor worked seven days in a row with almost no sleep!”

LIFE WISH” (out-of-print book) by Paula Carroll, Page 29 QUOTE: “In time, I also learned about the “Godfather” figure who heads the local doctors. Whenever new doctors set up practice in town, this doctor calls them to his home and gives them a list of regulations to which they must conform if they want to have a successful practice here. If they want to make a good living, they will conform; otherwise, they will be treated like outsiders. The doctor who told us of this ritual admitted he had moved out of the area because he could no longer tolerate the pressure. He now has an excellent practice in a different state. This, then, was the “system” I was up against. And because it was all so covert (for a long time I didn’t even know it existed), I never really knew what I was fighting. But in time, fighting is exactly what I found myself doing–fighting for my life.”

 

“No other country in the developed world has “for profit” health insurance. And you know what, that is why they have lower healthcare costs than we do. Their people aren’t burdened with the cost of supporting billionaire health insurance executives and the millionaires who work for them.” Dr. Thom Hartmann

 

New World Order Medicine

   New Medicine, New World ORDER Medicine, has an “eat what you kill” and a “what is useful is good” utilitarian philosophy they have programmed their new doctors with (the older doctors are harder to convince because they can still remember when the individual practice of medicine was independent and provided a service for a fee directly to the patient). It comes from their “let’s spin a positive out of every negative we create” programming that has since eroded into “it’s okay to sacrifice a few to benefit many” justification for targeting the lives of others and using them up.

The criminal elite’s “eat what you kill” ethic has a universal set of standards for “eating” its “kills.”

   “Eating” means “consuming entirely”; it does not mean “taking care of” or “maintaining comfortably.” Once a person has been injured by a doctor and there is no way to fix it, and in some cases to cheaply fix it to please the health insurers, the person becomes “scrap” and immediately goes onto a use-up-completely-then-kill list. New Medicine chants loudly: Quote: “WE CAN’T BREAK WHAT IS ALREADY BROKEN” to unify their membership into agreeing to, and performing, their inhumane, self-serving, utilitarian ethic. The offerings delegated to those on the kill list is a standardized: “symptomatic relief only; no active intervention”program. Once assigned to that kill list we cannot buy our way off for love nor money; there is nothing we can say or do from that day forward to get a humane response to our suffering. The medical syndicate intends to “eat” what it has “killed.” This is presented as a superior utilitarian ethic where it is considered better to “eat” than to waste their kills. “Yes, we have indeed killed people with our bungling and selfishness—but we can make it all right again by changing the words we use to describe what happened and by maximizing the utilization of our kill, thereby “giving meaning” to it—and by this we redeem ourselves.” Their programming instructs them to glean and spin off any “positive”, however insignificant and self-serving, out of the negative situation they have inflicted, and focus only on that, keep other’s attention onto it. Of course their victims do not enter the picture at all. Did the VICTIM want to be “sacrificed” to enrich the “club”? No? Well, too bad—it is going to happen anyway because the “club” wants it.

Does the injured party want to be put through the standardized “eat-what-you-kill” program? These sociopaths are only interested in getting what they want from us and making themselves feel better about their inhumane actions and if, in doing so, they have to compound their victim’s injuries and losses, well, so be it.

   “Eat-what-you-kill” is  a kind of half-baked justification-and-atonement ritual the “club” goes through to make themselves “clean” again, by rewording, reinventing, then ritualizing reality, however self-serving and warped.

   “A good offense is the best defense”: attack, and attack, and attack because when the perpetrators attack hard and fast right after committing a boundary violation it keeps their target off balance and so busy just trying to ward off the blows to fight back. (called a “scorched earth” defense) Insurers use a 3-D defense to skirt responsibility for paying out valid claims: Delay, Deny, Defend. The medical syndicate has its own version of the 3-D defense to neutralize those they injure: Debility, Dependance, Dread.

   Due to the parasitic criminal elite’s overblown sense of entitlement they have presumed ownership over our lives and assumed ownership over the direction and maintenance of these lives: we are alive only to serve them and their interests. They refer to us as cattle, think of us and talk about us as “cows–to be milked dry.” As long as we are well, working, and creating resources for them, putting money into their pockets and systems,  all is well. Once we become ill or injured, and start taking from their system instead of putting into it we are no longer useful to them and are to be gotten rid of as fast and as cheaply as possible–then they will methodically consume us entirely, both physically and financially. With the “club” sitting in complete control of ALL mainstream governing, enforcing, and regulating agencies they fear no real consequences coming from their criminal activity, depraved heart crimes, or murders. These technopaths have a reckless indifference to the suffering they cause and care nothing for the burdens they wantonly inflict on others. With no consequences, anything goes.

   We do not get medical care anymore; it has turned into “herd management.” The whole herd over the individual cow. Their herd. They cull out the unproductive cattle and utilize the rest as they see fit. When a kill occurs, it is “eaten” by utilizing all possible parts. Patterned after the American Indians methodically using every part of the deer they hunt and kill: hoof, horn, bone, skin, meat, organs and such because it is considered wrong to take another life away then dishonor the life taken by wasting even a particle of it after-the-fact.

   The most precious gift a person has is life—a gift given by God. Some people are not satisfied to just live their own lives and let others live theirs, just can’t mind their own business, enjoy their own life, and allow others to enjoy their own gift of life unencumbered and unburdened. Piggery dictates they encroach and destroy: one life, one gift of life, is not enough for them—they want more, feel entitled to more, feel cheated somehow because for all their wanton accumulation/compulsive acquisitiveness there is ONE thing they cannot acquire more of for love nor money: life itself. God allotted one life per person. This brings them down to the level of the common man they parasitize in a way that cannot be changed: all men are equal in death. For all their compulsive accumulation life is the one thing they can’t get more, more, more of. So they take away the lives of others—like a spoiled child slapping an ice cream cone from the hand of another child: “if I can’t have it then I will see to it that you won’t have it either!” Piggery dictates “me first”. This behavior has a name: it is called “leveling”: if they can’t acquire more life by any other means then they can create an artificial advantage for themselves and serve their own twisted egos by taking away the lives of others as the next best thing.

   Coveting what others have and lack of self-control is a very bad combination. It never once enters the “club members” heads that these lives are not theirs for the taking, do not belong to them, that they have no right to help themselves to the lives of others for ANY reason. Their pathology doesn’t allow them to see that. It is: see, want, take. All internal controls are absent, which has released their sadism. With external controls removed anything goes. All hell has broken loose because these people cannot tell themselves “no”. If you get in their way, they will kill you. If they want something you have they will kill you to get it.

   The interesting part in all of this, from an observation standpoint, is how this freedom to kill in the workplace has unexpectedly extended into the “club member’s” private lives and is no longer contained to the workplace anymore: in recent years many stories have been featured in the mainstream media about doctors and nurses killing off their troublesome, unwanted spouses: instead of divorcing them they just kill them to get rid of them. In July of 2000 these killings became such a problem in Massachusetts that the Massachusetts Medical Society sent out information packets to the state’s physicians listing resources to help them by offering free, confidential counseling! The boundary between killing in the workplace and killing at home has gotten unclear from extensive exposure to it and now certain individuals cannot differentiate as well between the two: at work they freely kill anyone who irritates them or gets in their way, is costing too much, etcetera. There are no real consequences to these workplace kills. Their programming has become so entrenched in their minds and hearts that they are carrying the resultant attitude home with them and when the spouse begins presenting with the same irritants and barriers to their instant gratification they automatically respond with what they have been conditioned with and move forward to correct the irritant just like in the workplace: give the irritant a nice stiff dose of Pavulon, potassium chloride, or poison of another kind, and kill them off. Or just shoot or drown them.

   If you watch mainstream media carefully you will come across the occasional reference to this sociopathically  inhumane ethic. Little is actually hidden from us; we just don’t recognize what it is we are seeing. My files are filled with such cases; I study them for patterns and detail.

   A word of warning: once injured by a doctor, the standardized cover-up program dictates referral to a psychiatrist or some other such hand-selected “mental health professional” who has proven blind obedience and loyalty to the “club” and its rules. If you are so foolish as to accept such a referral you need to keep your back to the wall at all times because that so-called professional will never be working for your best-interests. They have one purpose: to ferret out your weak points then use them to disable you psychologically, dig out as much “dirt” on you as can be extracted to hold over your head as they see fit, and to advise you to behave along the lines of the “club member’s” comfort. One victim’s weak point was her appearance; once the psychiatrist learned this he would masterfully hammer her, viciously, with that topic at every visit and she would phone me afterward in tears. It never occurred to her that she was being deliberately abused and to just stop seeing this monster. A custom-tailored abuse program will be created from the information you trustingly give them and it will be used by every contact you have with the “club” forever after in the attempt to try to break you down. It’ll be entered into your computer files and ready for instant reference to all who seek to utilize it against you. (the same applies to charted allergens; hospital staff “forgets” you are deathly allergic to a specific drug…understand?) Disgusting cowards band together in order to gain the ability to commit acts they’d never have the courage to commit on their own: women, children, the poor, the elderly, prisoners and such disenfranchised segments of society are easy targets, cannot fight back or protect themselves from predation on a level playing field.

   I am not so young that I can’t remember “old school” medicine. There are a few “old school” doctors left practicing still but they are very old and dying off or getting pushed out of the New World Order’s medical syndicate. I’ve met a few. They are horrified at how low the practice of medicine has sunk in their time. In the beginning a patient could consult a doctor for a specific ill and the doctor responded directly to the individual patient’s unique needs based solely on the patient’s best-interests. Nobody had to answer to, or go through, seek permission from, anyone else. There was no middleman standing between the completion of the direct transaction and dictating to both sides, no interference whatsoever. I can remember going in with a problem and getting a response on the spot, complete with a prescription handed to me while in the office. Simple, Direct. Personal. After the transaction was complete the patient paid for the services received at the desk on the way out the door. There wasn’t any of this testing merry-go-round where intervention (if it comes at all) is days-to-weeks away from the initial office visit. Doctors lived in the communities they served, participated in the communities they served and co­mingled with the public in the usual ways of all. They did not live in gated communities of pretentious mansions alongside those of their own “club” kind, gated away like royalty at the edges of the cities removed from the common people.  The “old school” doctors lived in the communities they served and a solid, thriving practice was built from the ground up on reputation and behavior within that community. The “old school” doctors children attended public school alongside everyone else. There was an incentive for the “old school” doctors to build and maintain an ethical practice of medicine: if he/she did not perform properly word got out quickly and he/she would be called to account immediately. True errors and mistakes were forgiven because the community already had a long history with that doctor and a solid reputation had already been built, as had trust, so the community well-understood perfection is just not possible and that the best intentions were present under any circumstances—even under circumstances that did not turn out so well. Mistakes were inevitable and expected; when they occurred the truth was told and apologies were made with immediate corrective action taken to the best-interests of the damaged patient so as not to compound the burden of the injury. It would have done no good to try to lie or cover-up; in a small community people talk and the truth would have been all over town by the end of the day anyhow—a cover-up was simply not possible so it was generally agreed-upon that honesty was the best policy and an ethical performance was expected—and was received without quibble. Lawsuits were practically non-existent.  So it just plain looked better to tell the truth right out of the starting gate and accept the natural consequences like any mature adult, make the best of it by behaving properly after-the-fact–­behaving properly after-the-fact is the only damage-control measures that need to be taken. If a doctor did not conduct his practice or person properly in the community people would simply seek care elsewhere, across town or in a neighboring town, so, it was in the doctor’s best interest to perform at the highest possible standard.

   One of my uncles, while hospitalized, was accidentally given his roommate’s heart medication and it nearly killed him. The truth was told immediately, proper intervention was applied with no quibble, a sincere apology was made—and that was the end of it. A lawsuit was unthinkable because my uncle was treated ethically and responsibly the second the mistake was identified. Socially, it would have been frowned upon by the community if my uncle did initiate a lawsuit because the response he had been given was the right one and everything that could be done to correct the honest mistake was immediately provided.

   The introduction of health insurance and the parasitic “middleman” both sides must now answer to have turned the doctor-patient relationship adversarial. It has introduced an incentive to criminal activity and patient abuse, even killing patients to save money for the insurance companies. The doctor has to bury his/her own judgement and automatically give over to the will of the health insurer who pays the bills, too often at the detriment of the patient. “He who pays the piper calls the tune.” The insurance company pays the policyholder’s bills; the doctor answers to the one who pays the bills. The patient has become a commodity and has been removed from the direct exchange of services for pay: the contract is now between the doctor and the insurance company; the patient is incidental to that exchange. Often I will hear injury victims complain about the lack of services they have received from their doctors and will say something like: “It cost $250. for that worthless office visit and I’ve got absolutely nothing to show for it!” What people don’t seem to understand is that when they signed up for health insurance they signed away their right to direct their own health care and gave that right over to the health insurance company. The doctors are no longer accountable to the patients but to the insurance companies, answer only to them. The doctor is not under contract with the policyholder, the doctor is under contract with the insurance company—that is who pays the doctor’s bills. The patient is under contract with the health insurance company. The doctor does the insurance company’s bidding, not the patient’s bidding. You have NO say in what you will get, or not get, because you are not the one paying your bills. “He who pays the piper calls the tune” You are not the one paying the piper…

   The goal is to keep all the big money at the top and circulating around and around at the top, in “club”-only circles. You showing up at the doctor’s office, whether you get anything useful on an individual basis or not, moves money from the insurer to the doctor. The doctor ordering tests but providing no actual intervention to the individual patient moves money from the insurer to the testing lab and to the doctor for the office visits. Nobody seems to notice that everyone gets something useful but the policyholder who is being run all over the place. The doctors own stock in the insurers and the testing labs; the insurer owns the testing labs outright or owns stock in them. It can feel like our presence is needed only to move money around the game board because the actual response to our true medical needs we receive in real life is just about zero: lots of tests, no actual intervention. Everything given to us, the outsiders, is one less thing the “club” gets to keep for itself. (unless they need us for something…like student surgery training or experimental purposes) Sending us out for testing and referrals “gives” to themselves and keeps money inside the “club”.

   The insurance company doesn’t see patients, the doctors on their plan lists do: it is the doctors who have been co-opted to perform the dirty-work of the insurance companies: denying intervention, refusing proper testing, ignoring symptoms, prescribing ineffective drugs…prescribing the wrong drugs, improperly performing invasive procedures, threatening patients to silence,….CRIMINALLY REVERSING THE STANDARD OF CARE. What the doctors can’t do, the crooked labs will: falsifying test results, hiding injured areas, keeping two patient files—one clean “for doctors only” and one that’s been tampered with for cover-up purposes. The insurance companies have funded the campaigns of  “club members” they want in political office, who go on to appoint  more “club members” to positions where protection of their interests is most necessary: Medical Board members, law enforcement, judges, legislators, etcetera. It is all one big happy family.

 

Citations:

Modern Healthcare May 19, 1997 “Crime and Healthcare” by Ron Shrinkman and Eric Weissenstein “As evidence of mob activity in healthcare comes to light, experts debate whether we are seeing an isolated incident or the beginning of a terrible trend.”

The American Journal Of Surgery Vol. 161 March 1991 “Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy: Gateway To The Future” By Jacques Perissat and Gary C. Vitale MD QUOTE: “Laparoscopic cholecystectomy had a semi-clandestine debut in nonacademic settings with the initial reviews being highly critical, incredulous, and strongly sarcastic. The revolutionary stir generated by this new procedure and the speed of its adoption by the rank-and-file general surgeons have left many conservative surgeons uneasy and apprehensive. Although one hears tales of complications and woe,…” “Although insurers and government bodies have demonstrated a generous wait-and-see attitude toward us as we embark, they will be just as quick to close the door and turn off the tap if complications and rising cost associated with the new laparoscopic approaches to disease.”

Hospitals March 26, 1992 “Managed Care In The 1990s: Providers’ New Role For Innovative Health delivery” QUOTES: “For hospitals today, the message is clear,” Ellwood says. “Attract a set of very strong primary care physicians and tie them as closely to the hospital as possible.” “We’re going to be in a much stronger position to produce reliable outcomes, resource utilization and quality data because we collect the total care information in one system.” “Some hospitals are trying to develop stronger relations with physicians by requiring doctors to invest more equity into physician-hospital organizations…” “…some hospitals are creating limited partnerships and other equity-driven models to involve physicians as part owners in these programs,…” “However, these hybrids require sophisticated management information systems, marketing, and actuarial expertise to manage risk,…” “If both sides have unified contracting, we’ll have the same interests in managing care as economically and as effectively as possible…”

Academy Of Medicine “Overview Of The Bottom Line” by George Dixon Clouse, M.D. QUOTES: “What emerged like bats out of a cave were groups and subgroups determined to get a bite of the health care dollars. In a feeding frenzy, many groups were formed. Congress eventually realized it didn’t need to pass a lot of complex laws. It was done for them by insurance carriers, employers, hospitals and doctors who were afraid of being left behind and squeezed out. Everybody wanted in on it, and the practice of medicine became a business, intent on the bottom line.” “Contracts where drawn up and signed. Then changed. The concept of managed care sounded good, but in reality it is an euphemism for manipulated care.” “…you can bet Congress will continue the debate as long as the dollars keep rolling in.” “It is a grab of the greedy for power and control.” “It is for us physicians to remember that the real bottom line of medical care is patient satisfaction” listening, supporting, and healing—not capitation.”

Columbus Dispatch “Letters To The Editor” by Dr. Ruth Purdy QUOTES: “We are now being dictated to by the insurance companies, and the good care of the patient literally has been scrapped for big salaries for the chief executive officers of health maintenance organizations, much to the disgust not only of patients but also of the physicians.” “Veterinarians are taking better care of their animals than we are taking of our patients, because of the restrictions that are imposed upon us by the insurance companies.” “I am sincere when I say I think that a lot of our representatives and senators in Congress have been influenced by the insurance companies, or they would not permit this brand of medicine to be imposed upon the citizens.”

Newsweek October 23, 1995 “Beware Your HMO” by Ellyn E. Spragins “People think their worst nightmare is getting a terrible disease, but they’re wrong. It’s getting a terrible disease and not being able to get treated for it.”

The Savvy Patient (Book) 1990 By David R. Stutz M.D., Bernard Feder Ph.D and the editors of Consumer Reports Books “There’s another form of experimentation that ostensibly is directed toward clarifying a patient’s diagnosis or treatment but that may not be as useful for that patient as it might appear to be. Dr. Robin points out that when a newly devised invasive procedure is introduced into medical practice, the doctors using it must go through a learning process. Because the doctors must gradually become proficient in using the procedure, the patients subjected to it at this early point are subjects in an experimental situation that will help the doctors more than it will help the patient. During these early stages, the danger to the patient is highest, and it is likely to decrease as the group—doctors, nurses, technicians gain experience. “Patients managed early in the learning phase”, writes Robin, “are sacrificed because of relative inexperience. That the sacrifice is not an inevitable consequence of their disease is usually not apparent to the patient or the patient’s family.” The risk to the patient in the experimental use of innovative, noninvasive techniques, such as magnetic resonance imagery (MRI) and state-of-the-art scanners, is not as obvious, because the immediate physical risks are not present. However, the technicians who use the machines aren’t as proficient as they will be after more practice, and the physicians interpreting the images are not as accurate as they will become with more experience. As a result, the interpretation of images for the earliest patients using these machines is likely to be far less accurate or useful than that for later patients. The hidden risk of inexperience lies behind our advice that you ask about your doctor’s experience with any diagnostic or treatment procedure.”

Donahue (transcript # 4380 excerpt) airdate: November, 13, 1995 “Shortened Hospital Stays Are Dangerous To Newborns” DR. KAREN BELL: I just wanted to say one thing. If we’re going to be cutting costs, it’s not going to be with mothers and babies. Eighty percent of the costs are taken up by a very small percent of the people in this country and they are at the end of their lives. We’re not going to save big dollars by anything we do–­PHIL DONAHUE: “Well–­DR. KAREN BELL: “—with mothers and babies. And I just want to make that very clear—” PHIL DONAHUE: “Yeah, but if—” DR. KAREN BELL: “—up front. That’s not what’s driving this whole particular—”

Donahue (transcript # 4522 excerpt) Airdate: May 29, 1996 “Ready For A Turn Of The Century Economic Nightmare—Survival Tips” LESTER THUROW:”—I think the thing that’s going to be explosive is not so much the salaries as health care because if you look at big corporations, they’re pushing everybody into managed health care, you know, which means you don’t get a choice of doctors. You don’t get some treatments—you know, very limited health care. And at the same time, a lot of these big corporations, as reported in the New York Times recently, they’ll have a special health care system for, let’s say, the top fifty executives and that executives get kind of old-fashioned, Blue Cross-Blue Shield, all the money you want, choose the doctor you want, go to the hospital you want, any treatment you want.” “On the other hand, we’re communists when it comes to health care. If your kids get a treatment that my kids are not going to get and your kids and my kids both need it, I am going to be very irritated, right?” “And I think things like dual systems for health care are going to be much more explosive than–­big salary increases.” (SEE: The New York Times March 17, 1996 “A Double Standard In Health Care”)

Donahue (transcript # 3888 excerpt) Airdate: December 23, 1993 “When Medical Procedures Go Wrong” MR. BERN (attorney in New York State): “You are entitled to your records. But that—you may have had your first surgery, but the second comes when they look at the records. You only get a copy. Ask them to see the originals. Then you’ll know…” DONAHUE: “Oh, you mean you think there’s some fooling around between the slip and the lip and the dip and the–­MR. BERN: “Well, there might have been in the past.” DONAHUE: “Is that what you mean? In other words, get the originals because they could be altered in the copying?” MR. BERN: “At the very least, take a look at the originals, if you can.” DONAHUE: “Really?” MR. BERN: “Because they’re going to—if you ask for the records, they’re going to send a copy and-­DONAHUE: “And it might be sanitized.” MR. BERN: “And they—oh, MIGHT be sanitized?!” DONAHUE: “Really?” MR. (Ralph) NADER: You know, Phil, there are a lot of examples where doctors and hospital personnel have altered or even forged records—” DONAHUE: “Yeah.” MR. NADER: “—medical records to escape accountability when something bad went wrong due to incompetence.”

ABC News 20/20 (transcript #1439 excerpt) Airdate: September 30, 1994 “They Know Your Secrets” DR. TIMOTHY JOHNSON: “…the data stored in a medical file goes beyond doctors’ diagnoses and hospital laboratory tests. It can also include the drugs you take, your sexual orientation, genetic test results, and even risky hobbies like skydiving. In short, it can contain anything you have told your doctor or his office staff. But what you tell your doctor may not stay just between you and your doctor. It can also go to large companies which do nothing but compile and exchange your private medical information on behalf of insurance companies. Inside this unassuming brick building are millions and millions of facts culled from the medical records of at least 15 million Americans. Stored here at the Medical Information Bureau is coded information which can include anything from blood tests to certain psychiatric diagnoses. Based in Westwood, Massachusetts, MIB is the biggest database used by insurance companies. So how do they get that information? It’s simple. When you apply for insurance, you authorize your insurer to collect your medical records and pass on the information to MIB.” JEFFREY ROTHFEDER: “MIB has become somewhat of a sinister organization, akin to the credit bureaus in the financial arena, in the sense that they’re very secretive about what they have and it’s very difficult for individuals—for the person himself, the subject—to get their own records out of there.” DR. TIMOTHY JOHNSON: “But medical information does not just come from doctors’ offices or hospitals or even insurance companies. Employers may also gain access to medical information, ironically access often technically granted by the employees. First, when you apply for a job, you may sign authorization forms for background checks that include checking your medical records. Second, if you ever file a medical claim, many people at the company may have access to your medical file. And finally, more and more employers are gaining medical information from employees who use in-house counseling programs known as EAP’s—employee assistance programs.”

Lancaster Eagle-Gazette August 27, 1993 Letter To The Editor “Doctor’s Letter Gets Immediate Response” by Martha E. Douds, RN, BSN QUOTE: What is particularly frustrating for me is the lack of physicians who have the courage to speak out when they see that a patient has been seriously injured as a result of medical negligence. It seems that the path of least resistance prevails and eyes are closed and lips are sealed, instead of doing what is ethically correct. Thus, they become part of the problem instead of the solution.”

Trauma and Recovery (book) by Judith Lewis Herman, M.D. “In order to escape accountability for his crimes, the perpetrator does everything in his power to promote forgetting. Secrecy and silence are the perpetrator’s first line of defense. If secrecy fails, the perpetrator attacks the credibility of his victim. If he cannot silence her absolutely, he tried to make sure no one listens. To this end, he marshals an impressive array of arguments, from the most blatant denial to the most sophisticated and elegant rationalization. After every atrocity one can expect to hear the same predictable apologies: it never happened; the victim brought it upon herself; and in any case it is time to forget the past and move on. The more powerful the perpetrator, the greater is his prerogative to name and define reality, and the more completely his arguments prevail.”

Dayton Daily News October 7, 1997 page 8-A “Three malpractice settlements involving patients who died could wreck the career of a physician in private practice, setting off reviews by “peer committees”, and malpractice insurance underwriters and causing high premiums.”

The Dallas Morning News May 16, 1999 page 9-A “Patient Drug Trials Lucrative For Some Doctors, Paper says.” Incentives reportedly given to those who recruit subjects” QUOTE: “Drug companies and their contractors offer large payments to doctors, nurses, and other medical staff to encourage them to recruit patients quickly. And doctors do not even have to conduct trials to get paid: There are finder’s fees for those who refer their patients to other doctors conducting research.”

The Newark Advocate June 24, 1998 Letters To The Editor  “Nurses” by Mary Billy, Debbie Manifold, Mary Ann Wade, Gayle Coffman, Debbie Baucher, Mendy Magers, Michelle Mettler, Kathy Gummer “Our professionalism was insulted when we were told by the administration to take “special care” when a “VI.P.” was having surgery. We feel all patients should be given the very best of surgical care, regardless of social status.”

Columbus Dispatch June 30, 1993 page 4-B “Coroner Charges He Was Pressured To Protect Doctors” “A coroner was pressured by hospital colleagues to change autopsy procedures to protect physicians, his attorney said yesterday. If he hadn’t been coroner he wouldn’t have been subjected to pressure.” Cox’s suit alleges that hospital staff members pressured him to avoid critical autopsies to “protect the physicians at Summa from public disclosure as having caused patient deaths” “Cox was fired in retaliation for refusing to allow his employer to compromise his office as a public official”

Zanesville Times-Recorder April 29, 1994 “Former Nurse Sues Bethesda” by Peggy Matthews “A former Bethesda Hospital nurse has sued the hospital alleging the hospital fired her when she refused to falsify medical records.” The complaint states Doyle, who worked for Bethesda a little over a year, was required to report any incidents which might be considered important to “risk management.”Those are cases that might result in medical malpractice suits. Doyle said that twice she was asked to either alter reports already written or to include only certain information in the report. The intention was to minimize risk for malpractice actions, “not to accurately reflect the events which had transpired”, according to the complaint. The suit accuses Bethesda of violating Ohio’s Whistleblower statute and the state’s criminal laws against falsification of evidence that could be used in subsequent criminal or civil investigations. Falsification of reports with the intent to “prevent discovery of medical malpractice on the part of Bethesda Hospital is fraud”, the suit alleges. Doyle claims she was fired in October 1993 for her “hesitance to engage in such illegal behavior.”

New York Times 12-27-99 “Ambitious Effort To Cut Mistakes In U.S. Hospitals” by Peter T. Kilborn  “But for all the momentum, patient advocates and some regulators warn that for most hospitals and physicians a culture of defensiveness and secretiveness is dug in deep, and will be difficult to change.” “They also say that some doctors have their own wall of silence, not unlike that of police officers, and are reluctant to report colleagues who make mistakes. ‘You don’t tell on each other’ said Anna Polk, director of the Agency for Health Care Administration in Florida. Ms. Polk oversees one of the nation’s oldest and most comprehensive systems to report and prevent errors, yet one she said the culture obstructs. ‘There’s a strong back current that keeps people from being entirely honest’ Ms. Polk said. ‘It’s a very old culture. It’s a longstanding culture.’ A physician who discloses another physician’s mistake, she said, faces ‘almost certain retribution, like losing referrals. We’ve seen that over and over.’

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette  “Medication Errors: Nobody’s Watching. Part Four.” by Steven Twedt October 24-28  “For example, Ennis said, they heard unconfirmed reports that doctors would “sit” on patients who developed blood clots shortly after surgery, rather than return them to surgery. The reason: an immediate return to surgery would be a reportable incident under New York state law, something doctors want to avoid. Ennis said: “what we were hearing from all over the place is, ‘you know, you guys are preventing people from getting appropriate care.’ Believe it or not, the doctors were blaming it on us.”

Paramount Pictures  “Damaged Care” airdate: May 26, 2002 Showtime Premiere Showtime and Paramount Pictures Dr. Linda Peeno is played by Laura Dern INSURANCE COMPANY EXECUTIVE: “So, tell me: what do you know about managed care? DR. LINDA PEENO: “Well, I believe it’s a new kind of medical insurance.”An HMO, a health maintenance organization, is a group that contracts with medical facilities, physicians, employers, sometimes even individual patients to provide medical care. Essentially, we insert a layer of management between the physician and the patient to let them both make more responsible choices.”  SAM VERBUSH: “Better you than me. I’d hate to go back to private practice. How’s it going?” AVERY PRINCIPLE: “Great! I finally understand the beauty of the capitation system now that I have my own practice. With the money the managed care companies allot for each subscriber’s care all you have to do is find a lot of patients and then keep them healthy. SAM VERBUSH: “Then you get to keep the money. Just watch out for those damned expensive procedures that cut into your profit margins.” AVERY PRINCIPAL: “Sam, if I didn’t know any better I’d say you’re critical of the system. Don’t you see why capitation is so brilliant? It incentivizes doctors to not order up expensive procedures.” LINDA PEENO: “But that’s just another form of control over the physicians, right? I mean, what if the patient requires an expensive procedure for his or her well-being?” AVERY PRINCIPLE: “You think twice about it, I’ll tell you that.” LINDA PEENO: “I think that sounds terrible.”

SAM VERBUSH: It’s just The New World Order, Linda. It’s inevitable that Humana will implement capitation as well. You have to get used to it.” LINDA PEENO: “I hope not. You know what? I think we should go to Scarwood together. I think we should tell him he’s taken this control of doctors too far.”

GORDON (speaking to a group of residents during hospital rounds): “The patient came in yesterday complaining of abdominal pain. Who can tell me why we are going to be recommending a gallbladder operation? LINDA PEENO (to Doug Peeno): “She needs an operation? There aren’t specific symptoms!” DOUG PEENO: “Why don’t you go ahead and say something? Go on, raise that hand right up there!” FELLOW RESIDENT(to Dr. Gordon): “Dr. Gordon, apart from the abdominal pain, what are the indications for gallbladder?” DR. GORDON: “She has no definitive symptoms but the patient is 3F—which makes her a prime candidate for the operation.” DOUG PEENO: “3F, Dr. Gordon?” Dr. Gordon: “Fat, female, and forty. Now, you all may think that’s flippant but there are several very good reasons to perform this operation. One, it is quite likely the patient will indeed benefit from it and at the very least it will do her no harm. Two, you’ll all have a chance to observe the operation and the more operations we do the better educated the next generation of surgeons. And three, it’s entirely paid for by her insurance. Any questions?” DOUG PEENO (to Linda Peeno): “He just said that. Greed, boredom, and money.”

Valley News, Lebabon New Hampshire May 12, 2000 “…Hartford Hospital administrators say they did not have to report him to the data bank because doctors who are interns or residents are exempt from reporting requirements.”

“….I have also noticed the decline in the quality of nursing documentation, and the rise of computerized checklists and “charting by exception”. (for those of you unfamiliar with this term, it is a form of records-keeping which, if there is no exception noted, presumes that patients were monitored and care was provided and all findings were normal unless specifically noted—so a nurse could die in the hallway, and her charts would reflect that every patient was receiving optimal care, and was in perfect health, until either the shift ended or she started to smell bad) I know that “risk management” is supposed to reduce liability risk. Obviously, this can be done in two ways: 1.) By focusing on improving the quality of care; or 2.) by trying to hide negligent errors and reduce the risk of detection. Sadly, the latter approach is cheaper and easier—and more in keeping with the training of many risk managers. When a physician confirms the nursing records are less usable to him, I have to question the motive behind changing the form of recordation is to improve the quality of care.  J.C. (Attorney, Arizona)

The Unkindest Cut (book) by Marcia Millman pages 148-149 For by not admitting the to the patient that he cannot help him and that he is dying, the physician deprives the patient of the opportunity to seek medical help elsewhere. Finally, in the account that follows, we may observe the doctor’s assumption that patients are to be treated somewhat like children: “Honesty is not always the right thing. It can be cruelty. Doctors must make the determination about what a patient can be told. Why ruin someone’s last months if they’re dying? I’ve seen a patient told she has cancer roll over and die of depression. There is no point telling someone what’s wrong with them if there’s nothing you can do about it. If there’s a treatment, that’s one thing, but not if there isn’t. And even if patients ask to be told everything, you shouldn’t necessarily listen to them. You can’t just tell people things because they say they want to know, because they’re curious. Children are curious—are you going to tell them everything they want to know? No, you don’t load up a child with the weight of knowledge and you don’t do it to patients either.”

Forgive and Remember (book) by Charles L. Bosk page 68 “First, there is failure from disease. Sometimes the best efforts of surgeons cannot cure those in the more advanced stages of terminal illness. Operative complications  always raise questions about the adequacy of surgery; but deaths, especially when separated from the operation by a respectable period of time, do not terribly threaten surgeons. These deaths indicate to surgeons what the limits of their skills are; and they are seen as inevitable. Much disease is irreversible. An interesting feature of the allocation of effort on a surgery ward is the division of patients into two classes: salvageable and nonsalvageable. Heroic care goes only to salvageable patients. The nonsalvageable do not receive emergency cardiac resuscitation or other aggressive, life-prolonging measures. This is not to say that the surgeons at Pacific practice euthanasia; rather they limit their heroism. Nonsalvageable patients are allowed to die from their diseases and not saved to suffer from them. These patients are still treated—they are not ignored—but the surgeon does not play all his cards. Salvageable patients are candidates for heroic measures. These two classifications of patients help determine the allocation of scarce healing resources.”

Rationing Medicine (book) by Robert H. Blank Columbia University Press 1988 If you want to know what the medical syndicate is up to read this book. I haven’t gone through the whole book yet but I can tell you I am heartsick at what I have read so far and also feel validated in my “controversial” position and statements these years passed. Pages 23, 24, and 25 are a real eye-opener. It is about something called “computer rationing” and makes clear what use computerized medical records in the central databases are really going to be used for. Here is an interesting statement from page 25 about COMRATS: “This system would have the benefit of removing from the physicians or authorities the difficulty of personally making a decision not to treat. If such use of a computer were strongly supported by society, physicians would be able to point out to their patients their inability to counter or even appeal before a higher authority the official decision. The computer rationing system (COMRATS) would relieve the physician of making painful decisions and justifying them to patients for whom the verdict is “no treatment”. “The computer capacity is already present, and the medical databanks necessary for such a system are well underway. All that is needed is the motivation to institute the process. A PERCEIVED uncontrollable crises in medicine, if sufficiently onerous and widespread, might be enough.” Page 81 states: “Meanwhile, the Office of Health Economics questions any use of the term “rationing” in the health care context and suggests that “triage” or “PRIORITY SELECTION” be substituted.

Heart Failure Diary of a Third Year Medical Student” (book) by Michael Greger MD

Medical Sociopaths” Dr. Mark Sircus  http://drsircus.com/general/medical-sociopaths/   2-11-2016: “Some might think it an exaggeration to put mainstream doctors in the same boat as extremely sick and dangerous people but modern medicine in the United States is putting people in their graves in large numbers but before it does, the system is beating them into bankruptcy. It matters little to them the hundreds of thousands of people each year who suffer and die at their hands. Most people do not recognize doctors as psychopaths or sociopaths until they are trapped, suffering or dying at the hands of one.”

MSNBC, 2-27-2011,  “Ugly Past Of U.S. Human Experiments Uncovered”

 QUOTE: U.S. officials also acknowledged there had been dozens of similar experiments in the United States–studies that often involved making healthy people sick.” “At best, these were a search for lifesaving treatments; at worst, some amounted to curiosity-satisfying experiments that hurt people but provided no useful results.” “These studies were worse in at least one respect–they violated the concept of “first do no harm, a fundamental medical principle that stretches back centuries” “When you give somebody a disease–even by the standards of their time–you really cross the key ethical norm of the profession, said Arthur Caplan, director of the University Of Pennsylvania’s Center For Bioethics.”

Newsweek 10-23-1995 “Beware Your HMO” QUOTE: “People think their worst nightmare is getting a terrible disease, but they are wrong. It’s getting a terrible disease and not being able to get treated for it.”

“…HMOs were saving money by rationing medical care to their members. Last month the New York Post ran a week’s worth of stories on ‘managed-care casualties’. “HMO doctors often make more money by denying you care.” “HMO doctors stand to lose their livelihood if they provide ‘too much care’.” “Provide too much expensive care to your patients and you’ll be out of a job. The more patients a doctor has from a single HMO, the more powerful that message becomes.” “Three groups of anesthesiologists recently sued Aetna because they say the company strong-armed them into joining its HMO. If they didn’t sign, they said Aetna told them it would refuse to do business with the doctor’s hospitals.”

The Ohio Observer April 1994 “Doctors And Healthcare Reform” by Cathy Levine, QUOTE: “Howison speaks passionately and bitterly about the present system: “It’s impossible to take care of people based on need–you take care of people based on their insurance coverage.”

“Especially alarming is the spread of “capitated plans,” whereby the physicians receive a set reimbursement for each patient every month, regardless of service. But the provider receives a bonus to reduce patient services. Doctors who perform necessary services are often penalized for “overutilization.” Howison says most of his patients do not know they are in capitated plans until he tells them. He describes the system as “perverse, obscene, dangerous, and unhealthy.”

USA TODAY, By Judi Hasson, “Physicians Put Insurance Plans Under The Knife”

QUOTE: “The American Medical Association on Monday accused insurers and managed-care companies of trying to “take over the examining room”–denying some medical care to boost profits.”

“…some doctor are being intimidated “out of their proper role as patient advocates”. The threat of being dropped “is to keep the doctors in line.” Some physicians have seen incomes fall as managed-care companies move into an area, limiting how much doctors are paid and in some regions dominating the market so doctors must sign up with them to stay in business.”

“There are things insurance companies don’t want you to know about their health plans. That’s why you need the facts. So you can make informed choices and get quality care in spite of their efforts to keep you in the dark.”

Maury Povich Show (transcript), “HMO Tragedies”, Airdate: 1-9-1996 QUOTE:

“Mark: Because 180,000 women a year get breast cancer, and when you’re a stage-four breast cancer patient, the most cost-effective way for the HMO to treat you is to let you die–with most cancers, with most tragic diseases.”

“Mark: …that’s where the conflict of interest comes in, because he has to sign up 4,000 patients at $30. A month. And if he doesn’t see any of them, he makes more money. And of he never refers them, he makes more money. And that’s one of the greatest, life-threatening secrets of HMOs that no one knows.”

 Donahue Show (transcript), “Get Ready For A Turn Of The Century Economic Nightmare,” Airdate: 5-29-1996, Quote:  “Lester Thurow: …I think the thing that’s going to be explosive is not so much the salaries as health care because if you look at big corporations, they’re pushing everybody into managed health care, you know, which means you don’t get a choice of doctors. You don’t get some treatments–you know, very limited health care. And at the same time, a lot of these big corporations, as reported in The New York Times recently, they’ll have a special health care system for, let’s say, the top 50 executives and that executive gets kind of old-fashioned, Blue Cross-Blue Shield, all the money you want, choose the doctor you want, any treatment you want.”

“On the other hand, we’re communists when it comes to health care. If your kids get a treatment that my kids are not going to get and your kids and my kids both need it, I am going to be irritated, right?”

 

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Sally Jesse Raphael Show (transcript) Airdate: 6-14-1995 QUOTE: “Bruce Silverman: “Nurse changed. She had visits. She changed thee records. She made another set of records.” Janie Silverman: “Two sets of nurse’s notes. First one, she put in her locker. And the second, put on the chart and then went on vacation.”  

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 Donahue Show (transcript #3888) Airdate: 12-23-1993 QUOTE: “Mr. Bern: Phil, you–you mentioned getting your records from your doctor.

 Donahue: Right Mr. Bern: You are entitled to you records. But that–you may have had your first surgery, but the second comes when they look at the records. You only get a copy. Ask them to see the originals. Then you’ll know.

Donahue: Oh, you mean you think there’s some fooling around between the slip and the lip and the dip and the– Mr. Bern: Well, there might have been in the past.

Donahue: Oh, you mean you think there’s some fooling around between the slip and the lip and the dip and the– Mr. Bern: Well, there might have been in the past.

Donahue: Really? Mr. Bern: Because they’re going to–if you ask for the records, they’re going to send you a copy, and–

Donahue: And it might be sanitized.

Mr. Bern: And they–oh, might be sanitized? Donahue: Really. Mr. Nader: You know, Phil, there are a lot of examples where doctors and hospital personnel have altered or even forged records– Donahue: Yeah. Mr. Nader: –medical records, to escape accountability when something bad went wrong due to incompetence. Donahue: Right. Right.

 

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