An Interesting Inside Take on Medicine

 

Below is the beginning of a very interesting article on vaccines and autism.  You might wonder why someone with MS is putting up articles about autism. Several reasons actually. Like MS, autism is considered autoimmune. Like MS, autism is still looking for a cause. Like MS, autism is looking for a cure. Like MS, patients are at the beck and call of neurologists who only know how to sell drugs that don't help, often hinder and are expensive.It may be about autism but it says a lot about the way medicine is practiced these days. So the opinions and comments made by a neuro who is not a pusher for the chemical inventions of big pharma are interesting and perhaps have a clue to something that can help us with our MS. I have highlighted the paragraph that caught my eye and kept me reading.

Vaccines, Neurodevelopment and Autism Spectrum Disorders


The Danger of Excessive Vaccination During Brain Development: The Case for a Link to Autism Spectrum Disorders


Russell L. Blaylock, M.D.

In 1976, children received 10 vaccines before attending school. Today they will receive over 36 injections. The American Academy of Pediatrics and the Center for Disease Control assured parents that it was safe to not only give these vaccines, but that they could be given at one time with complete safety. Is this true? Or are we being lied to on a grand scale?

The medical establishment has created a set of terms, which they use constantly to boost their egos and firm up their authority as the unique holders of medical wisdom–the mantra is “evidence-based medicine”, as if everything outside their anointing touch is bogus and suspect. A careful examination of many of the accepted treatments reveals that most have little or no scientific “evidence-based” data to support it. One often repeated study found that almost 80% of medical practice had no scientific backing.

This is not to say that medical practice should be purely based on pure and applied science, as understood in the fields of physics and chemistry. Medicine, as pointed out by many of the great men of medicine, is an art. For a discussion on the proper role of medicine I refer the reader to my paper titled –Regimentation in Medicine and the Death of Creativity – on my website (www.russellblaylockmd.com).

To read the balance of this article, click on the link below.
http://web.mac.com/rblaylock/Russell_Blaylock_M.D./Articles/Entries/2008/3/12_Vaccines%2C_Neurodevelopment_and_Autism_Spectrum_Disorders.html

Another Verbal Go-round with the MS Society of Canada

February 9, 2011

Last week I endured yet another flare-up. If I ever wished for a fast death it was then. So I wrote the MS Society. Well I tried to but the hands would not cooperate and the concentration was out to lunch so I ended up copying and pasting a blurb from their site about drugs and told them I thought they were disgusting. That letter took me close to two hours to put together and two days to get it corrected and sent. Ask me if I was frustrated!

Today I got an answer. Today my body is working better too so today I wrote them a much longer letter. Took the same amount of time. It is all laid out below.

Me to the MS Society of Canada
Six drug therapies are approved in Canada for the treatment of some forms of multiple sclerosis (MS). Five of these medications — Avonex®, Betaseron®, Extavia®, Copaxone® and Rebif® — are immune modulating medications. The sixth — Tysabri® — is a selective adhesion molecule inhibitor. In large clinical trials, all of these drugs have been found to have a direct influence on altering the course of MS. They are sometimes referred to collectively as disease-modifying therapies.

One of these days, you are going to regret putting lies like this up on the Internet. In my opinion,you aught to be charged in criminal court for fraud and negligence. I live for the day.
Of course, you could start writing truth. This is disgusting!

Karen Copeland

MS Society of Canada's Response

 Thank you for your email.

 Please provide us with your full mailing address so that I can forward your inquiry to the appropriate person.

Sincerely,

Celine

Celine Weeling Lee| Receptionist


My Response

Celine

You are a receptionist. As such your job is to pass messages on to your bosses. You can put a copy of this message on everyone's desk at the MS Society. They, if they so chose, can respond by email.

Pushing drugs on the internet should be illegal if it isn't. Making money off of other people's misfortunes is usually called a scam. And it is disgusting! There is a procedure that actually helps people with MS but the MS Society continues to bury its head in the sand in that regard, continues to deny us access to this procedure and continues to push drugs that have little effect on the condition and in fact, have proved dangerous to some. There is nothing ethical in this, in my opinion. There is nothing charitable in this in my opinion.There is nothing intelligent in this, in my opinion.

I have had two flareups in two weeks. MS, it appears, is going to get me. And it is going to get me because the MS Society, which is supposed to help people like me, is only helping themselves. Eventually, the MS Society will have to change its position drastically and accept vascular angioplasty as a viable treatment or it is going to come crashing down in a ball of fire. Either way, I hope it happens before MS has totally destroyed me and the 75,000 other Canadians who suffer from it.

Bringing a bad professional down is very difficult. But it is not unheard of. You may want to read a bit about Ontario pathologist Charles Smith. That, by the way is not a threat. I am too broke to take you on in any other way but by letters like this one. But it is a warning of what can happen to those who get too cocky.It is a warning to those who allow their little bit of power control their lives instead of them controlling their little bit of power.

I do not know specifically where your research efforts are presently, legitimately going. If it is stem cell research, I am a firm believer that this research can help many (MSers and others), including those for whom Vascular angioplasty does not work. No one has called on researchers in MS to stop that research. They have only asked that you allow those of us who can be helped with angioplasty to have access to that help.

They say that "Pride Goeth Before a Fall". Do not let your pride be your downfall. Most especially, do not let your pride be my downfall.

Sincerely,

Karen Copeland
cc: MSdragonslayer blog spot.__

Letter to Ministers of Health for Canada and for Ontario

December 12, 2010

Letter sent today to Ms. Aglukkaq, Federal Minister of Health and Ms. Matthews, Minister of Health for Ontario

On Friday, December 10^th, the CBC carried an item about Thelin – depending on what news source you read, it is a blood pressure or a lung drug.

http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2010/12/10/thelin-blood-pressure-recall.html

The reason for pulling it was because it causes liver disease. My question to the Health Ministries is why was it out there in the first place if all the required tests were not conducted? Clearly the drug companies are either lying to you or you make subjective decisions about what can be done and what can’t be done. The MS Liberation treatment is one you have emphatically refused to allow in Canada, even though Angioplasty has been used in Canada for other things for years. Of course, your experts make no money from the treatment. They do from prescribing the hoard of MS drugs presently on the market even though they have never been proven to work and have not had one result that could begin to compare with some of the good results of the treatment. Are you aware that patients have quit some of these C.R.A.B. drugs cold turkey after taking them for more than a decade and have experienced no difference in the behavior of their affliction?

http://www.msliberation.ca/MS_Liberation_Group/Welcome_files/New%20Studies%20Show%20the%20MS%20Drugs%20Don%27t%20Slow%20Progression%5B1%5D.pdf

Frankly, from a strictly financial view, I am not sure why you would ok these drugs. They  don’t work and they cost the taxpayer, either directly or indirectly, a small fortune that would be better spent on treatments for other conditions or even treatments for this condition that work. The Liberation treatment, if done in Canada, would cost about half the price. Right now, Canadians who can afford it or who fundraise for themselves, are going elsewhere and having it done for $15-20,000. Do you really think so many people would fork out that kind of money on what Dr. Freedman has called a hoax?  If you do I think you need to give your head a shake and clear the cobwebs out.

I will grant you some of these folks are independently wealthy but most are not. They come from every province and territory, are not related to each other – they don’t even know each other usually. They have no reason to say they can walk when they can’t – that would be one of the easier ways of recognizing a lie. And those that it has not helped have been quite open about it not working for them. If you understood the vast array of symptoms that are lumped together and called MS, you would not find that all that surprising.

Every time $3000 comes out of the tax account to pay for a C.R.A.B. drug that doesn’t work, it isn’t going to someone who needs something that we already knows works. You continually talk about lack of funds but you blatantly waste the funds you have. And I have no doubt, you will want to spend even more money come election time, telling people to vote you back in because you have done such an outstanding job?? I don’t think so – not my vote anyway. I think I have already mentioned to you both that if the press did not include your names with your press releases, I couldn’t tell which of you was speaking. That could be because you are both taking advice from people paid to tell you what to think. I cannot believe either of you is quite that dense if left to your own devices.

CBC did an Insight program this past week about how the various governments have so trivialized politics that the average citizen has lost all interest. They are right. On the subject of MS at least, can one of you, or preferably both of you, not start making your own decisions instead of the ones the drug companies via “experts” such as Dr. Mark Freedman tell you to take?  Who runs the health ministries in this country anyway? You or the drug companies? You want to talk to an expert on MS? It can be arranged to put you in touch with a patient who knows more about MS than Dr. Freedman et al will ever know. Or a relative of a patient – again, they know more than Dr. Freedman et al.

There are 75,000 people who are known to have MS in Canada. Dr. Freedman’s staff have decided I have had it for over 20 years but it was only diagnosed recently – MRI was not always available. How many other undiagnosed/misdiagnosed  folks are out there? Add to that all the other forms of autoimmune conditions that neurologists and drug companies have not, in fact, been able to help and you have a lot of sick Canadians. You might think you, yourself are immune but you aren’t. Do you want to be treated this way should MS land on your plate? Or Alzheimer’s? Or any other autoimmune disease? And if those two arguments do not make a dent, is this the way you want to remembered in history – as the two female Health Ministers who were puppets for the drug companies? Cause, ladies, that is how you are coming across to me and to many Canadians.

Finally, (and this is directed mostly to Ms. Aglukkaq because Ms Matthews did respond once) could you please do something totally unusual and respond. I am from the old school that says a response from your representatives in government is not only good manners, it is good politics.

Sincerely

Karen Copeland