Drug Cocktails Possibly Lead To Death
Feb 7, 2008 
Dr. Carolyn Dean MD, ND, is the author and coauthor of 15 books. Proficient in both conventional and alternative medicine, Dr. Dean serves as the medical advisor to YeastConnection.com, medical director of VidaCosta Spa el Puente in Costa Rica, and offers customized consultations for health by phone.
When I was in medical school, back in the mid 70’s, we learned to diagnose disease and treat symptoms with drugs. Instilled in us was a healthy respect for these drugs and their side effects. We were cautioned to prescribe them only for the duration of the patient’s symptoms. For example, anti-anxiety drugs are still labeled for use in short term anxiety for no more than 2 weeks.
In the past decade, however, I’ve noted, in my telephone consulting practice, that clients are being told to keep taking their medicines for anxiety, hypertension, high blood sugar, and cholesterol “as a preventive measure” even if they have no more symptoms. This advice is being offered in spite of the fact that there are no studies to show that these drugs can improve a person’s future health. On the contrary, taking more than 2 drugs at one time has never been scientifically studied and can result in serious drug interactions and side effects.
One of my latest books is an eBook called Death by Modern Medicine: Seeking Safe Solutions. In it I report that Americans are taking, on average, ten prescription medications per day. Direct to Consumer Advertising and a media that is financed by drug advertising, promote the message that you can eat, drink, and be merry and expect a prescription from your doctor when you get sick. The quick talk at the end of the TV drug ads legally must list the side effects some of which are up to and including “sudden death”. Yet, people flock to their doctors, asking for the miracle cure and are surprised when it doesn’t work.
The solutions for our failing health and failing health care system are not at the bottom of a pill bottle, they include better eating habits, organic food, exercise, restful sleep, stress reduction, and organic food based vitamins and angstrom sized minerals. If you follow healthy lifestyle habits, high blood sugar, hypertension, anxiety, and high cholesterol will be a thing of the past. If you presently have one or more of these conditions, you can read my eBook, VidaCosta Good Health Encyclopaedia: Vol I for healthy solutions.
My long-term solution for the future of health includes a health spa in Costa Rica where clean air, food, and water will provide the right building blocks for a long and healthy life--VidaCosta Spa el Puente, opening in 2010.
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Readers may not be aware that there is an organized attack and harassment against any doctor who practices alternative medicine or speaks out against the standard practice of drugs and surgery for every ailment. The moment we enter mainstream media a switch is tripped and the vitriol flows.
It's just a way of life for those of us who have been offering natural medicine choices for the past 30 years. We have all been attacked. Below is my story written in my book, Death by Modern Medicine (2005). This book has been most recently quoted in great detail by Shirley MacLaine in her latest book, Sage-ing While Age-ing.
In 2006 my book won the following award.
"Death by Modern Medicine" is the winner of the 2006 Independent Publisher Book Awards, Most Progressive Health book.
EXCERPT, DEATH BY MODERN MEDICINE (2005)
A Whistle-Blower on Sugar
I had such success getting people off sugar that I decided to write a book on the subject. It was to be my second book. When I had just finished writing, I was asked to do a segment on The Dini Petty Show on TV. It was a Christmas show on December 11, 1989, and the topic was overindulgence over the holidays and how to counter it. Dini wanted me to talk about sugar and its effects. I came prepared with my research and my props. In front of a gaping audience, I spooned out the ten teaspoons of sugar in a can of pop and the twenty-seven teaspoons in a milk¬shake. A scientist in Montreal on friendly terms with a sugar lobby group in Ottawa apparently was not impressed. He and the lobby group enlisted a Toronto doctor who had never seen the show, and they sent a letter of complaint to the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (CPSO).
The CPSO is a licensing body for physicians and has a mandate to “protect the public and guide the profession.” They really had no authority to accept a complaint from the sugar industry. However, at that time the CPSO was staging an all-out war against natural medicine. Dr. Josef Krop was under attack, and many doctors practicing any form of alternative medicine were being harassed. This attack is well documented by Helke Ferrie in her book Malice in Medicine: The 14-Year Trial of Environment Physician, Dr. Josef Krop.
The CPSO was not concerned about the dangers of sugar or the need to help alert the unsuspecting public. They only seemed to care about keeping the status quo, supporting industry, and admonishing doctors who were not conforming to the “standard practice of medicine.” That standard included prescribing drugs and having nothing to do with nutrition or natural health products.
The CPSO reprimanded me, three and one-half years later, on May 25, 1993, for making “misleading statements about sugar and sugar substitutes...and their relationship to diabetes, infection, osteoporosis, hyperactivity, and addiction.” The reprimand continued, “Dr. Dean is hereby admonished regarding sensational and scientifically unsubstantiated comments.” The CPSO chose to ignore my sugar book with the hundreds of references that did substantiate my comments.
Going in for the Kill
With a foot in the door and hot on the heels of the sugar complaint, the CPSO, I believe, sent a “plant” to my office in July, 1990. Someone whom I saw once and referred to another doctor in my clinic tried to lodge a complaint about me that was completely fabricated. I countered this very readily and thought that was the end of that. However, this young man then wrote another complaint and said that I was “incompetent” because in that brief visit with me I “refused to give [him] a homeopathic remedy for [his] allergies.” Based on that incredible piece of fluff, the CPSO felt they had the right to enter my offices without warning and take thirty-six patient charts, with which they could go on a “hunting mission” to find something wrong with my practice.
Another incredible fact is that the day the CPSO took the files from my office, in December 1991, was four days before I was due to leave on a one-year sabbatical, which I had been planning for three years. After several months my charts were returned, with no charges being laid. A year passed, and there was still no word from the CPSO about my case. At this point I spoke with my lawyer, who corresponded with the CPSO, who said they were not proceeding with the case. I was fairly sure this was true, because my lawyer even gave back my retainer!
My year-long sabbatical to study a new medical modality turned into a permanent position for me in New York when the doctor I was working with suddenly died and left me to complete his work. The CPSO, however, had apparently not forgotten about me. Around mid-July 1995, without my knowledge and without me being in attendance, the CPSO revoked my license. This was a full five years after the frivolous complaint was lodged. Funnily enough, I had stopped paying my dues for my Ontario license when I realized I would remain in New York and not go back to private practice. The CPSO essentially revoked a non-existent license. Part of their intent may have been to send a message to other doctors that they should not step outside the standard practice of allopathic medicine boundaries. Notice of my license revocation was duly noted in the quarterly report sent out by the CPSO to all doctors in Ontario.
In the aftermath of my license removal in Ontario, I hired a lawyer to fight my case. In speaking with a CPSO lawyer we were made the following offer: I could recoup my license if I agreed to not practice natural medicine. If I committed to dolling out prescriptions for drugs that I knew had side effects and refused to give my patients the safe options afforded by traditional medicine, I would be free to practice. In my mind that would be tantamount to tying my arms and legs together, gagging me, and ripping out my heart and soul. I refused. Knowing what I know about modern medicine and comparing that to natural medicine, it would be like a soldier killing innocent victims on the orders of an insane general. Somebody in the chain of command has to take a moral stand.
Licensed in California
I still hold a license to practice medicine in California. Shortly after I found out from a friend that my license had been revoked in Ontario, the California State Licensing Board sent me a letter saying that Ontario had notified them that I was unfit to practice medicine and advised them to revoke my California license. I immediately hired a lawyer in California and successfully saved my California license by providing the California authorities with the facts about my case in Ontario, which seems to be riddled with inconsistencies and procedural errors.
It is important that I overturn the 1995 revocation of my license and send a message back to the CPSO that they cannot ride roughshod over doctors who practice traditional medicine.
Doctors Will Not Speak Out
My “sugar adventure” shows the lengths to which the sugar industry and modern medicine will go to retain their monopoly control over our health, taste buds, and purses. You would be right to suspect that doctors live in fear of having a complaint lodged against them. Therefore publicizing cases where a natural medicine practitioner goes against the allopathic standard practice of medicine is likely to keep other doctors from stepping out of line.
Patients, on the other hand, assume that doctors would tell them if sugar, environmental pollution, prescription drugs, or any other substance were dangerous. However, since it can cost them their medical license, most doctors are unwilling to pay the price. Thus there are few health professionals who will tell the truth about these dangerous substances. Add to that the fact that most doctors know very little about nutrition and do not themselves realize the dangers of sugar. (Many of the clinicians during my medical training were overweight, smoked, drank gallons of coffee, and ate junk food. One gastroenterologist put down my suggestion that his bag of chips, coffee, and cigarettes could be the cause of irritable bowel syndrome. We now know from many studies that such is the case.) We also assume that doctors will not prescribe drugs that are unsafe, but as you will see in chapter 5, this is an invalid assumption.
Doctors who are concerned about the power wielded by their own medical licensing bodies do not have to stand alone; they do have options. As mentioned in the introduction, doctors can join professional lobby groups, such as the Alliance of Natural Health Suppliers. The vision and mission of this group is to unite all food-based, functional food, and other natural health retailers, distributors, manufacturers, and related organi¬zations, including health professionals. The organization will collectively pursue the necessary legal, political, marketing, self-regulating, quality control, and scientific research initiatives to remove all unnecessary barriers to the free flow of truthful information and quality food-based medicine products and therapeutic food-style services.
Most doctors are as shocked as you are about the spread of drugs, the acceptance of unnecessary side effects, and the suppression of common-sense traditional medical care, but they are hamstrung by their licensing bodies and losing their right to practice medicine as they see fit.
Who Does the CPSO Protect?
Is the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario more interested in protecting the allopathic monopoly in the practice of medicine than in the health and well-being of patients? Here are the reasons why I ask that question:
Dr. Josef Krop
Unlike many other doctors who were hunted down and attacked by the CPSO, I was not living in Ontario when the CPSO revoked my license. Dr. Josef Krop, however, had to defend himself while continuing to practice medicine and to raise funds in the order of one million dollars during his fourteen-year inquisition. Dr. Krop, like myself, was accused of not conforming to the “standard practice of medicine.” Telling patients to drink spring water and eat organic foods was worthy of condemnation in the eyes of the CPSO. As mentioned earlier, Helke Ferrie’s new book Malice in Medicine documents Dr. Krop’s Kafkaesque journey.
Dr. Frank Adams
Dr. Frank Adams, an internationally recognized neuropsychiatrist and pain specialist who wrote the World Health Organization protocols on the treatment of pain, was charged with incompetence in the treatment of his patients and had his license revoked in 2000. Dr. Adams and a growing number of pain specialists have come to the conclusion that narcotic medications, when properly used, are the most effective in relieving pain, do not become addictive, and do not produce a “high.” Properly trained pain doctors make an assessment and work individually with their patients to help meet their needs. There is no “one size fits all” prescription for people with severe pain. However, the standard practice of medicine, which says to use the least amount of pain medication possible, results in most people suffering unnecessarily. When Dr. Adams’ license was revoked, his patients were left to suffer because no doctor was willing to work with them the way Dr. Adams had. Unable to keep up with the tremendous costs for his defense, Dr. Adams was accepted with open arms in the United States, where he continues to practice.
Dr. Michael Smith
Dr. Michael Smith and his family suffered greatly at the hands of the inquisitorial CPSO. A medical doctor and psychotherapist who practiced hands-on bioenergetic therapy, Dr. Smith had a complaint of sexual impropriety laid against him by an unstable patient. When the patient saw the venom with which the CPSO was attacking Dr. Smith, supposedly on her behalf, she withdrew her charges—but to no avail. The CPSO stepped up the pressure on Dr. Smith, to the point of revoking his license in December 1992, a few days before Christmas. Two weeks later, Dr. Smith quietly went to his home office and shot himself.
Dr. Ravikovitch
Dr. Ravikovitch, an internationally respected allergist, had such extraordinary results with his asthma and allergy patients by using the simple medication histamine that he came under attack by the CPSO. In spite of getting wonderful results, not using the standard list of drugs—prednisone, ventolin, alupent, etc.—made Dr. Ravikovitch a target.
The list goes on and on, as documented by fellow activist and writer Helke Ferrie in her many writings (see www.kospub¬lishing.com). It’s not just Ontario, and not just Canada, that suf¬fers the effects of modern medical control. Pharmacists and drug reps are able to capture prescribing practices of local doctors all over North America. Doctors have told me that if a doctor falls below their “drug quota,” they can be “turned in” to the local medical board. Most patients and health consumers have no idea this is happening. Doctors are too humiliated to go public when attacked by their medical licensing board, and they accept whatever penalties the board metes out, just to stay in practice.
We were shocked that they'd be surprised. Its not the blood sugar levels, although that can cause damage, its the insulin.
Anyways, I have seen both sides to naturopathic medicine. Even worked with a former doctor from Romania whose wife was an ND, and they were just wrong on so many things but they believed it as fervent as a religion.
I would like to see a balance at least and to go after a physician for saying sugar is bad. I dont think that would be possible these days.20 years ago, yeah, you had it happen. Interesting articles of the two I have read. Good luck