CONFESSION OF A MEDICAL HERETIC

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The idea behind this book can be ascertained from its title. The word "confession" means to admit. What the late Dr. Robert Mendelsohn does is to admit truths about what he calls the "Church of Modern Medicine." A "heretic" is a person who professes to heresy. A heresy is any opinion opposed to established doctrines.

Thus, Mendelsohn in his book tells us truths and his opinions (based on his excellent qualifications) regarding orthodox medicine. His opinions are angry ones. (I'd be angry too if I spent my entire life in orthodox medicine only to discover that it is not what it claims to be.) Like anyone who is angry, the author occasionally goes off on tangents but overall he sticks to the main premise of the book.

What is the premise of this book? Mendelsohn tells us this immediately in the book's opening section called the "Non Credo." He states, "I do not believe in modern medicine. I am a medical heretic. My aim of this book is to persuade you to become a heretic, too." (Notice, that contrary to popular belief, the premise of this book is not to tell you to stop seeing your doctor.)

Each chapter (there are nine) of this book has many truths. These truths are not out-of-date and will probably remain relevant into the far future. Here are just three examples:

1) "Every drug stresses and hurts your body in some way."
2) "A healthy society is characterized by strong, positive family relationships and subsequent minimal need of doctors."
3) "Doctors are not trained to attack the core of any problem, merely to suppress symptoms."

Sometimes, the author juxtaposes two truths to make a point. My favorite: "All their [that is, doctors'] intentions may be good, but we all know what the road to Hell is paved with."

What I really noticed about this book is the author's strong opinions. Here, again, are three examples:

1) "Doctors in general should be treated with the same degree of trust as used-car salesmen."
2) "When I meet a doctor, I generally figure I'm meeting a person who is narrow-minded, prejudiced, and fairly incapable of reasoning and deliberation."
3) "Get used to the idea right away that no single system can or should claim to have an exclusive fix on the dynamics of health."

There is even discussion about non-drug medicine. Mendelsohn states, "In the Church of Modern Medicine, the doctor who treats without drugs is regarded as a heretic because he or she appears to have rejected the sacrament of medication." Today, orthodox medicine calls such people "quacks." One of the people they call a quack, the author mentions, is Dr. Linus Pauling because he wanted to treat without drugs. The late Linus Pauling was a two-time Nobel Prize winner. Question: What gives orthodox medicine the right to call such a brilliant person a quack? His credentials prove otherwise.

The book's last section is called, "Epilog: In search of the New Doctor." It is an interesting section where Mendelsohn gives his vision of the doctor of the future. This vision has yet to be achieved and my guess is, it will never be achieved.

The only problem I had with this book is the lack of footnotes with respect to specific numbers and statistics. When statistics are given, you have to give credit to their source. However, Mendelsohn does supply many references.

Another good book on this subject that is less opinionated is "The Medical Mafia" (1995) by Dr. Guylaine Lanctot. I think this title is a good indicator of its contents.

In conclusion, Dr. Robert Mendelsohn's book does a good job in exposing the truths behind orthodox medicine. These truths are what you and your family should know for their own protection. I strongly recommend this book if you want to become aware of these truths.

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美国医学博士著书：西医是一个惊天大骗局
美国, 医学, 西医, 骗局, 博士
惊天大骗局——了解医学的真相' 曼戴尔松医学博士（Robert**endelsonMD），不
仅是一位名医，而且曾任美国知名大医院的院长，著名研究所的研究员，医学院的教授
，伊利诺州医师执照局的局长，还是美国医学会（AMD——AMERICAMEDICALASSOCIATION
一个具有超强政治力量的工会组织——美国医师工会）的领袖。他在1980年出版了一部
巨著，书名是《一个医学叛逆者的自白CONFESSIONOFAMEDICALHERETIC》，是美国
WARNERBOOKS出版社出版的。这本书再版过无数次，拥有读者无数。他忠实的读者们纷
纷站出来，成立了一个组织叫做：全国健康联盟 NATIONALHEALTHFEDERATION，公推曼
博士为会长，美国大城小镇都有分会，定期举行集会，并邀请名人演讲，还有定期会刊
。这是西方有史以来首次对医药界的大革命。 曼博士书的副题是：如何捍卫自己的
生命，不受医生、化学药物和医院的坑害。封面上列出六个重点：
- （1）医院的年度身体检查是一个陷阱。

（2）医院是患者的险地和死所
（3）大多数的外科手术给患者的伤害过于益处。手术每次必定都是非常成功的。
但病人伤了或死了。

（4）所谓疾病化验或检验，检验的体系和过程不合理，简直是腐败一团，即使是科学
仪器，也是错误百出，完全不可信任。

（5）最大多数的化学药物不但没有治疗的真实效果，抑且是致病、添病的缘由。
（6）X光的检验是诊断程序的重点和特色，“一张照片胜过千言万语”，它不但辐射线
对人十分危险，而且检验结果错误频出。因为解读X光照片的是人，人就会受偏见、情
绪的影响而导致错误的判断。即使是同一个专家，在十年后再次解读同一张照片，就有
75﹪的偏差（试验证明）。、3 书中对以上六点，作了详细的说理和举证，使行家
读后，觉得：一点也不错，他替我把我心里的话都说出来了；使外行人读后，如恶梦初
醒，觉得：是他替我说明我生病时所受到的万般委屈和无辜的灾难。所以，曼博士的书
一出来，就轰动全美国。

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顺便说一句，都没有自己的真知灼见，这么贴来贴去的，有意思吗？支持和反对永远都可以找到论据，到最后大家相信的东西都是“我听说，我读到。。。。”


什么时候才是“我感觉到，我真的觉得是这样。。”？？

我在这里说中医，是我实实在在的感觉到中国古老文化带给我的震撼和变化， 我做的每一件事都在验证我的信仰。。。

我昨天刚刚学会断卦，今天帮2个朋友各断一卦，一个朋友只是见了几次面，对她的感情生活一无所知。而且我只听说她和一个男孩有什么，但是我从卦上清清楚楚看到不是那个男孩，而是另外一个我完全不认识的。。。。另一个在国内，我对她的社交圈也仅仅知道若干而已，我知道她有一个年龄相差无几的男孩子喜欢她，可是我从卦上就是看到她真喜欢的是一个比她年长很多的男士。。。。这里根本就没有心理暗示的余地。。。。你说这玩意不科学，可是他有自己完整的理论基础，而且真的有用，就是值得研究，就是值得学习，你再怎么举反例啊，落井下石啊，还是会有人学习，还是会有人相信。。。

对什么东西有怀疑，最好是去亲身验证，听别人说啊说的，有啥用？

我是验证过了西医没有效果，还把我搞的一身毛病，真正的毛病还找不出来。。。。。

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贴个反对意见

Book Review: Confessions of a Medical Heretic (Warner Books, 1980)

Whereas a calm, mature, and scholarly application of professional self-examination can readily uncover many areas for correction or modification in the practice of modern medicine, Robert Mendelsohn chooses instead to take the low road in an apparent effort to use shock therapy for the selling of his very private and dogmatic panaceas. What ensues is a boring and repetitive harangue which attacks frontally the patient-doctor relationship and tries ineffectually to foster a hodge-podge of confused views about the physician as a social and scientific manipulator of the patient's well being.
Confessions of a Medical Heretic aims a litany of indictments at most life-benefiting therapeutics whose occasional side effects are considered grounds for outlawing all pharmacologic research, and essentially all physicians whose motivations, mentality, and training are thought by the author to be perverse, and at an entire health care system which is defamed as being diabolically structured and contrived for patient abuse. Although it can be readily acknowledged that medicine as a profession, like most of society, is peopled by a spectrum from good to bad, it is pathetic to find a physician so negativistic and so obviously laying bare his own lack of professional joy.
If this book were merely one man's diatribe about his own career dissatisfactions and misadventures, it could be passed over as yet another commercial "pop'' paperback. What becomes disturbing, however, is the amount of actual misinformation dispensed on such health tenets as childhood immunizations, fluoridation, the causes of breast cancer, and even the alleged transmission of disease via the use of the stethoscope. It is gratifying that some of us can still recall with satisfaction our exposure to some of the giants of medical education whose wise teachings have never reached this overbearing prophet of gloom.
In truth, this book makes several cogent observations such as the overuse of laboratory procedures by physicians and the now well accepted value of second opinions in order to curb unnecessary surgery. But these few appropriate consumer alerts become diluted to near obscurity by the incessant pleas for the author's two ``cures'' for all ills --- home birthing and breastfeeding. In the case of breastfeeding, medical experts have long ago conceded to its nutritional, emotional, and practical superiority over formula feeding, but this principle hardly requires the monolithic arrogance of a pedant. As for home deliveries in an age of life-saving technology for high-risk pregnancies, the author shows an astounding ignorance of biostatistics.
After nearly decimating all systems and people that make up the rubric of modern medical practice, Dr. Mendelsohn puts forth a naive collection of personal notions, hardly new and mostly ethereal, that constitute his "New Medicine.'' As the replacement for all past medical discovery, including the body thermometer, we are subjected to exhortations that we should all love one another, that the home is the temple of all good things, and that marriage and bearing children will counteract most depressions and other feelings of ill health. Such are the simplistic solutions of a pediatrician who has apparently labored too long in the nursery and not experienced sufficient exposure to the real adult world.
If the author has just now made the discovery that a good physician should be a sensitive and caring person who relates warmly and sincerely to his patient, he has fortunately been preempted long ago by the wise writings and humble teaching of Sir William Osler and Dr. Francis Peabody. If the arrogance of the modern day physician must be exposed and dissected in a constructive manner, so be it -- but I would then refer the reader to the posthumous publication of Dr. Franzingelfinger's gentle but persuasive essay in a recent issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. From such responsible writing should blow the winds to change.
Joseph M. Miller, M.D., M.P.H
ACSH News & Views, March/April, 1981

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贴呀帖的，帖不完的。。。。可以上网直接google"反对中医“”支持中医”，或者“反对西医”支持西医“，智商差不多的人都能看懂。。。。。