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Wednesday, July 30, 2014

Medical Errors Net The Medical Industry ONE $TRILLION Every Year

Preventable medical errors cost country $1 trillion

Preventable medical errors may cost the United States up to $1 trillion dollars in lost human potential and contributions, according to the Journal of Health Care Finance.
That estimate is exponentially higher than previous studies, which focused solely on direct medical expenses associated with preventable medical errors. Previous studies showed the economic impact to range from $17 billion up to $50 billion annually and only focused on direct medical costs such as ancillary services, prescription drug services, and inpatient and outpatient care.
“Previous studies do not come close to illustrating the economic loss of human potential and contribution, which families, colleagues, businesses, and communities experience when someone dies from a preventable medical error,” says author Stephen Davidow, a Chicago-based health analyst. “The magnitude of the problem for our society is many orders of magnitude greater than just the medical costs.”
But researchers used “Quality-Adjusted Life Years” to develop a more complete accounting of the economic impact when someone dies from a preventable error.
The authors based their calculation on several well-accepted reports, studies, and economic measures. Based on that, there is a loss of $73.5 billion to $98 billion in QALYs. However, an article in last year’s Health Affairs says preventable deaths due to medical errors are 10 times higher than the IOM estimate. If that is the case, the economic impact is a loss of $735 billion to $980 billion—nearly $1 trillion—in human potential.
“There has been too much focus to date on just the health care cost impact of medical errors. This analysis makes an important contribution to our understanding of the broader economic impact of preventable medical harm,” says Jim Unland, editor of the Journal of Health Care Finance.
Davidow also notes that, to estimate the true economic cost of medical errors, there must be an effort to calculate lost productivity and assign a value to the economic activity of the 1 million or more patients who suffer from a medical error but survive. Some patients clearly have no long-term problems but others may be disabled for an extended period of time or for the rest of their lives. What this means is that the economic impact could be much greater than $1 trillion dollars.



Thursday, July 24, 2014

How to Get Fat and How To Get Skinny

I, Fat Bastard have always said vegetables are what food eats. Proud FA, the former Dean of Feederism will tell you this one undeniable fact... FAT FATTENS BEST.

Two of the greatest forces responsible for the obesity bloom are Dr Arthur Agatston of the South Beach DIEt and the late great Dr Robert Atkins of the Atkins diet. Atkins was obese as hell when he died and Agatston is a fat boy who needs to take statin drugs. OINK! A minor player in that game is Barry Sears of the Zone Diet.

           Why Are Thai Girls So Skinny? Low Insulin?



When I Fat Bastardo really want to have a foodfest or a gluttony safari and I do quite regularly I take a little extra insulin to spike my already huge appetite. Like the Chef, I am a big man with a big appetite and I ain't makin no apologies for it.



Low Carb diets make you fat. That said... fat guys should do low carb and fat girls need to slim down and eat the way Asian girls eat. Asian chicks are HOT and Belly Boy will attest to that. Asian chicks eat high carb diets consisting of of fruit and rice.

Thursday, June 26, 2014

American Medicine More Deadly Than Terrorists

The Following from Natural News



America was rudely awakened to a new kind of danger on September 11, 2001: Terrorism. The attacks that day left 2,996 people dead, including the passengers on the four commercial airliners that were used as weapons. Many feel it was the most tragic day in U.S. history.

Four commercial jets crashed that day. But what if six jumbo jets crashed every day in the United States, claiming the lives of 783,936 people every year? That would certainly qualify as a massive tragedy, wouldn't it?

Well, forget "what if." The tragedy is happening right now. Over 750,000 people actually do die in the United States every year, although not from plane crashes. They die from something far more common and rarely perceived by the public as dangerous: modern medicine.

According to the groundbreaking 2003 medical report Death by Medicine, by Drs. Gary Null, Carolyn Dean, Martin Feldman, Debora Rasio and Dorothy Smith, 783,936 people in the United States die every year from conventional medicine mistakes. That's the equivalent of six jumbo jet crashes a day for an entire year. But where is the media attention for this tragedy? Where is the government support for stopping these medical mistakes before they happen?

After 9/11, the White House gave rise to the Department of Homeland Security, designed to prevent terrorist attacks on U.S. soil. Since its inception, billions of dollars have been poured into it. The 2006 budget allots $34.2 billion to the DHS, a number that has come down slightly from the $37.7 billion budget of 2003.

According to the study led by Null, which involved a painstaking review of thousands of medical records, the United States spends $282 billion annually on deaths due to medical mistakes, or iatrogenic deaths. And that's a conservative estimate; only a fraction of medical errors are reported, according to the study. Actual medical mistakes are likely to be 20 times higher than the reported number because doctors fear retaliation for those mistakes. The American public heads to the doctor's office or the hospital time and again, oblivious of the alarming danger they're heading into. The public knows that medical errors occur, but they assume that errors are unusual, isolated events. Unfortunately, by accepting conventional medicine, patients voluntarily continue to walk into the leading cause of death in America.

According to a 1995 U.S. iatrogenic report, "Over a million patients are injured in U.S. hospitals each year, and approximately 280,000 die annually as a result of these injuries. Therefore, the iatrogenic death rate dwarfs the annual automobile accident mortality rate of 45,000 and accounts for more deaths than all other accidents combined." This report was issued 10 years ago, when America had 34 million fewer citizens and drug company scandals like the Vioxx recall were yet to occur. Today, health care comprises 15.5 percent of the United States' gross national product, with spending reaching $1.4 trillion in 2004.

Since Americans spend so much money on health care, they should be getting a high quality of care, right? Unfortunately, that's not the case. Of the 783,936 annual deaths due to conventional medical mistakes, about 106,000 are from prescription drugs, according to Death by Medicine. That also is a conservative number. Some experts estimate it should be more like 200,000 because of underreported cases of adverse drug reactions.

Americans today are used to fixing problems the quick way – even when it comes to their health. Thus, they rely heavily on prescription drugs to fix their diseases. For every conceivable ailment – real or not – chances are there's a pricey prescription drug to "treat" it. Chances are even better that their drug of choice comes chock full of side effects.

The problem is, prescription drugs don't treat diseases; they merely cover the symptoms. U.S. physicians provide allopathic health care – that is, they care for disease, not health. So, the over-prescription of drugs and medications is designed to treat disease instead of preventing it. And because there are so many drugs available, unforeseen adverse drug reactions are all too common, which leads to the highly conservative annual prescription drug death rate of 106,000. Keep in mind that these numbers came before the Vioxx scandal, and Cox-2 inhibitor drugs could ultimately end up killing tens of thousands more.

American medical patients are getting the short end of a rather raw deal when it comes to prescription drugs. Medicine is a high-dollar, highly competitive business. But it shouldn't be. Null's report cites the five most important aspects of health that modern medicine ignores in favor of the almighty dollar: Stress, lack of exercise, high calorie intake, highly processed foods and environmental toxin exposure. All these things are putting Americans in such poor health that they run to the doctor for treatment. But instead of doctors treating the causes of their poor health, such as putting them on a strict diet and exercise regimen, they stuff them full of prescription drugs to cover their symptoms. Using this inherently faulty system of medical treatment, it's no wonder so many Americans die from prescription drugs. They're not getting better; they're just popping drugs to make their symptoms temporarily go away.

But not all doctors subscribe to this method of "treatment." In fact, many doctors are just as angry as the public should be, charging that scientific medicine is "for sale" to the highest bidder – which, more often than not, end up being pharmaceutical companies. The pharmaceutical industry is a multi-trillion dollar business. Companies spend billions on advertising and promotions for prescription drugs. Who can remember the last time they watched television and weren't bombarded with ads for pills treating everything from erectile dysfunction to sleeplessness? And who has ever been to a doctor's office or hospital and not seen every pen, notepad and post-it bearing the logo of some prescription drug?

Medical experts claim that patients' requests for certain drugs have no effect on the number of prescriptions written for that drug. Pharmaceutical companies claim their drug ads are "educational" to the public. The public believes the FDA reviews all the ads and only allows the safest and most effective drug ads to reach the public. It's a clever system: Pharmaceutical companies influence the public to ask for prescription drugs, the public asks their physicians to prescribe them certain drugs, and doctors acquiesce to their patients' requests. Everyone's happy, right? Not quite, since the prescription drug death toll continues to rise.

The public seems to genuinely believe that drugs advertised on TV are safe, in spite of the plethora of side effects listed by the commercial's narrator, ranging from diarrhea to death. Patients feel justified in asking their physicians to prescribe them a particular drug they've seen on TV, since it surely must be safe or it wouldn't have been advertised. Remember all those TV ads heralding the wonders of Vioxx? One might wonder how many lives could have been spared if patients didn't see the ad on TV and request a prescription from their doctors.

But advertising isn't the only tool the pharmaceutical industry uses to influence medicine. Null's study cites an ABC report that said pharmaceutical companies spend over $2 billion sending doctors to more than 314,000 events every year. While doctors are riding the dollar of pharmaceutical companies, enjoying all the many perks of these "events," how likely are they to question the validity of drug companies or their products?

Admittedly, not all doctors reside in the pockets of the pharmaceutical companies. Some are downright angry at the situation, and angry on behalf of an unaware public. Major conflicts of interest exist between the American public, the medical community and the pharmaceutical industry. And although the public suffers the most from this conflict, it is the least informed. The public gets the short end of the stick and they don't even know it. That is why the pharmaceutical industry remains a multi-trillion dollar business.

Prescription drugs are only a part of the U.S. healthcare system's miserable failings. In fact, outpatient deaths, bedsore deaths and malnutrition deaths each account for higher death rates than adverse drug reactions. The problems run deep and cannot be remedied without drastic, widespread change in the system's money and ethics.

The first issue – money – is the main reason the medical industry cannot seem to change. Prescribing more drugs and recommending more surgeries means more profits. Getting more drugs approved by the FDA, regardless of their safety, means more money for the pharmaceutical industry. As the healthcare system stands today, physicians and drug companies can't seem to pass up earning loads of money, even if a few hundred thousand people lose their lives in the process. Even in drastic cases of deadly drugs, everyone involved has a scapegoat: Drug companies can blame the FDA for approving their product and the doctors for over-prescribing it, and doctors can blame the patients for wanting it and not properly weighing the risks.

What ultimately arises is a question of ethics. In layman's terms, ethics are the rules or moral guidelines that govern the conduct of people or professions. Some ethics are ingrained from childhood, but some are specifically set forth. For example, nearly all medical schools have their new doctors take a modern form of the Hippocratic Oath. While few versions are identical, none include setting aside proper medical care in favor of money-making practices.

On the research side of the issue, "Death by Medicine" cites an ABC report that says clinical trials funded by pharmaceutical companies show a 90 percent chance that a drug will be perceived as effective, whereas clinical trials not funded by drug companies show only a 50 percent chance that a drug will be perceived as effective. "It appears that money can’t buy you love, but it can buy you any 'scientific' result you want," writes Null and his team of researchers.

The government spends upwards of $30 billion a year on homeland security. Such spending seems important. Since 2001, 2,996 people in the United States have died from terrorism – all as a result of the 9/11 attacks. In that same period of time, 490,000 people have died from prescription drugs, not counting the Vioxx scandal. That means that prescription drugs in this country are at least 16,400 percent deadlier than terrorism. Again, those are the conservative numbers. A more realistic number, which would include deaths from over-the-counter drugs, makes drug consumption 32,000 percent deadlier than terrorism. But the scope of "Death by Medicine" is even wider. Conventional medicine, including unnecessary surgeries, bedsores and medical errors, is 104,700 percent deadlier than terrorism. Yet, our government's attention and money is not put into reforming health care.

Couldn't a little chunk of the homeland security money be better spent on overhauling the corrupt U.S. healthcare system, the leading cause of death in America? Couldn't we forfeit the color-coded threat system in favor of stricter guidelines on medical research and prescription drugs? No one is attempting to say that terrorism in the world is not a problem, especially for a high-profile country like the United States. No one is saying that the people who died on 9/11 didn't matter or weren't horribly wronged by the terrorists that day. But there are more dangerous things in the United States being falsely represented as safe and healthy, when, in reality, they are deadly. The corruption in the pharmaceutical industry and in America's healthcare system poses a far greater threat to the health, safety and welfare of Americans today than terrorism.

If the Obama Administration really wants to save lives -- a lot of lives -- it needs look no further than the chemical war has been declared on Americans by Big Pharma.


Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/009278.html#ixzz35oHf54h4

Monday, April 28, 2014

How You Can Save Others From Weight Loss Surgery

There is a site called Obesity-Help. It's a weight loss surgery site set up to sucker suckers into paying a butcher/surgeon to wreck their digestive system. Obesity Help is not about helping people struggling with obesity but rather Obesity-Help is there to exploit the fears and ignorance of the obese.

Obesity help has a forum and a chat room. Many of the members are sock puppets and attack trolls. I would urge you to register on that forum and using private messaging to was newbies about the dangers of WLS. Click Here For The Obesity Help Forum 

My motivation for asking you to do his is two fold. First and foremost it is to save lives and prevent misery but it is also to put a financial hurt on the scumbags doctors who do this.

If you are considering WLS ask yourself for all the valid reason for why you can't eat 2000 calories a day if you are a woman and 2500 if you are a man. If you eat at that level you CANNOT become obese.

Related:  Doctors and Their Role in the Medical Holocaust Click Here

Don't take my word for it. Here is the first page of a Google search.


  1. Weight Loss Battles: Gastric Bypass Nightmares - The Third ...

    weightlossbattles.blogspot.com/.../gastric-bypass-nightmares-third-act.ht...

    Jul 28, 2008 - Gastric Bypass Nightmares - The Third Act. So I arrived home after 11 days in hospital, sore and vey slow moving. You don't realize how much ...
  2. Gastricbypass Nightmare - Experience Project

    www.experienceproject.com/...Gastric-Bypass-Surger...

    Experience Project
    Gastricbypass Nightmare : A true, personal story from the experience, I Have HadGastric Bypass Surgery. hello everyone , First of all i want to say before getting ...
  3. My 1 Year and two week in nightmare - 2 Years Post-Op (GB ...

    www.thinnertimesforum.com › ... › 2 Years Post-Op (GB)

    Aug 9, 2012 - My 1 Year and two week in nightmare - posted in 2 Years Post-Op (GB): Hi everyone, I had my gastric bypass on August 1st 2011. I must say ...
  4. Gastric Bypass Nightmare - ObesityHelp.com

    www.obesityhelp.com/forums/CA/4012060/Gastric-Bypass-Nightmare/

    Sep 1, 2009 - Gastric Bypass, LAP-BAND® System, DS and Other Surgical and Non-Surgical Weight Loss Options.
  5. 'My gastric bypass is starving me to death': Mum's living ...

    www.mirror.co.uk/.../my-gastric-bypasss-is-starving-me...

    The Daily Mirror
    'My gastric bypass is starving me to death': Mum's living nightmare after losing 11 stone following surgery. Sep 08, 2012 21:56; By Jack McKay.
  6. Gastric Bypass Kills: Weight Loss Surgery Nightmare or ...

    gastricbypasskills.blogspot.com/.../weight-loss-surgery-nightmare-or.htm...

    Apr 13, 2013 - Woman Now Has to Eat 5,000 Calories a Day to Stay Alive After Weight Loss Surgery. Julie Dunbar, 51, had weight loss surgery after her ...
  7. Gastric Bypass ? The Nightmare for Food Lovers - Weight ...

    www.boxingscene.com/weight-loss/58311.php

    Gastric Bypass - The Nightmare for Food Lovers. While the gastric bypass may seem like the perfect solution to those who are obese, I'd like to explain just how ...
  8. Gastric Bypass Nightmare - Bariatric / Weight Loss Surgery ...

    www.medhelp.org/.../Bariatric...Surgery/Gastric-Bypass-Nightmare/.../11...

    Jan 11, 2010 - 3 posts - ‎2 authors
    My mother had the gastric bypass surgery about 3 years ago. The operation went horribly wrong and she almost died on the operation table.
  9. Post-bariatric surgery nightmare! | allnurses

    allnurses.com/general-nursing.../post-bariatric-surgery-429156.html

    Oct 5, 2009 - Help! Help! Help! Has anyone heard of anyone "changing" so dramatically after having a gastric bypass? I feel like I am living a nightmare ...
  10. my gastric bypass nightmare - OJAR

    ojar.com/view_13141.htm

    my gastric bypass nightmare inpain: Greetings to all! I am so grateful for having found this site. The stories and advice that I have read has been very comforting ...



Thursday, April 17, 2014

Cervicore Lawsuit Cervicore Victims


 


It's not just the weight loss industry that is a criminal enterprise. The American orthopedic industry is every bit as corrupt if not more than the weight loss industry, the pharmaceutical and hospital industries.

You've probably seen the TV advertisements regarding product liability lawsuits for victims of the Stryker metal on metal knee and hip implants. Stryker and their cabal of orthopedic surgeons along with the FDA knew from  published information that hip implants & knee implants using metal-metal articulating surfaces came with egregious safety concerns, e.g., the risk of tumor formation, chromosomal aberrations, carcinogenic potential in human patients -- and yet these highly trained medical professionals and orthopedic surgeons allowed these lethal devices to be implanted into their patients without providing them with any warning. To put it into simpler terms; everyone at Stryker knew from it's own testing that its metal on metal joint implants would degrade, deform and shed toxic metal ions into their human recipients. Stryker knew all along that implanting metal on metal implants into human beings would cause catastrophic health problems that would lead to prolonged and agonizing deaths. In their depraved indifference the power that be at the amoral Stryker corporation and the surgeons involved just didn't care. The sinister saga continues

Stryker Strikes again only worse this time!  Their latest batch of victims were injured even more grievously than the 1000's of hip and knee implant  victims and in this case there was even more medical malfeasance involved. Stryker Spine's CerviCore disc is a metal on metal artificial total replacement prosthetic. Thomas Errico, MD designed the  articulating saddle shaped device with the aim of preserving motion after implanting it into the intervertebral space between two vertebrae of the cervical spine. The inherently unstable saddle shape design of the CerviCore device in combination with the use of a heat treatment was known by Stryker to escalate the deterioration and wear properties of cobalt chromium (nickel and molybdenum with titanium plasma spray) in metal on metal articulating devices was a well known red flag for causing catastrophic outcomes in the device industry. Ironically, it was Stryker Howmedica's own research team of engineers, Wang, Wang & Gustavson who demonstrated that the heat treatment caused rapid deterioration of articulating wear properties in their published research  titled:  Metal on Metal Wear Testing of Co-Cr Alloyshttp://www.surfacehippy.info/pdf/corinheattreatingdebate.pdf 

The FDA did NOT approve the application for the legally required investigational device exemption (IDE) that had been submitted by Stryker Howmedica Osteonics in 2004. Without an order from the FDA granting a valid IDE to the sponsor, Howmedica Osteonics, dba Stryker Spine, the CerviCore device was absolutely prohibited for use on human subjects in clinical trials. And it stands to reason, that shipping the unauthorized device for experimental use or marketing anywhere in US jurisdiction would be prohibited and a violation of Interstate Commerce Act 21 USC 331. 

Stryker's Sinister Bait and Switch

Instead of complying with the FDA decision for further testing of the CerviCore disc, Stryker switched the CerviCore Disc that was used in the application for an IDE  that was denied with and replaced it with a second CerviCore disc that you see in the picture above. This was done to thwart federal laws governing the protection of  human research subjects in clinical trials. 

Related: 

Test Subjects Were Deceived 

The second rogue CerviCore disc was never tested in any pre-clinical trial tests and was arbitrarily implanted into the spines of any patient that the surgeons could coerce into becoming participants in what was an illegal clinical trial. The Stryker Spine CerviCore CT-002-04 had to be registered in the Government database for trial devices that were NOT approved for any usehttp://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT00588601



Stryker CeriCore Victims Product Liability Case

On Friday April 11, the law firm of Zoll, Kranz & Borgess, LLC filed a lawsuit behalf of a group of fourteen plaintiffs against Howmedica Osteonics Corp. (which does business as Stryker Spine) alleging Howmedica’s trial device called called CerviCore injured them.


Read Here About Stryker's Sinister Bait and Switch 




Monday, April 14, 2014

Shame On You Fat Girl!

Carnie Wilson Still Fat
That's right. You did this to yourself and now you are paying the piper. You can either screw up your courage and own your gluttony and then either accept it or change it or you can remain in denial. Even the butcher surgeon who makes millions butchering perfectly health digestive systems will tell you that weight loss surgery is merely a tool albeit a deadly tool. Chances are you will blow it like Carnie Wilson and return to your fat and gluttonous lifestyles. OINK!

This article is called Shame On You Fat Girl so here comes the  much needed dose of fat shaming at Chateau Heartist. 

For those of you who won't venture over to his place to read his full essay, here are seven lessons  from him, being a self described malevolent force, with regards to the truth about fat:
Lesson Number One
Men are repulsed by the sight and feel (and smell) of fat chicks. All further lessons flow from this basic premise.

Lesson Number Two
A man with options to do so will choose a slender babe over a fat chick, EVERY TIME.(Rare exceptions prove the rule. Or: Don’t count on miracles, fatties.)

Lesson Number Three
A man married to a woman who has bloated into Hogzilla proportions will become increasingly unhappy, frustrated and resentful, and will express his displeasure with his fat wife in both passive and active ways.

Lesson Number Four
A fat wife is more harmful than is a fat husband to marital health and happiness. Fatness exacts a bigger toll on a woman’s sexual market value (and, therefore, marital market value) than it does on a man’s sexual and marital market value. Men are more visually oriented than women, and a fat man can compensate for his fatness by being attractive in other ways that women love. Fat women cannot compensate for their fatness except by losing weight and slimming down to a sexy, hourglass shape.

Lesson Number Five
Fat wives increase the odds of spousal adultery and marital dissolution. A wife who lets herself go on piles of cakes and cheesy poofs is primarily responsible for any infidelity her husband commits. Harsh, but true.

Lesson Number Six
A husband will be more likely to love, cherish and support his wife if she is thin. Life is conditional. Stop crying, and deal with it.

Lesson Number Seven
The cure for marital unhappiness and a lowering of the high risk of divorce among fat wife-healthy man couples is the fat wife losing weight until she has regained her attractive, slender, feminine shape. Marriage counselors will invariably bleat tired platitudes about “interpersonal dynamics”, “increasing perceived support”, and “unresolved masculinity issues”, and none of their solutions will work except to line their filthy pockets and turn wives against their husbands. They are worse than useless, because they lead women away from the one tried-and-true solution that *will* fix their marriages: losing weight.