Medicine’s Lost Integrity: Did GMO & Big Pharma Eat the Hippocratic Oath?
“Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.” – Hippocrates
Medicine used to be practiced with a check and balance system in place. While never ran by exact science to begin with, considering brain surgery without anesthesia and blood letting were common practices of medieval times. Medicine at least once had integrity – though needed some serious improvements, no doubt. Unfortunately, the Hippocratic Oath, a promise that physicians once made to practice medicine with integrity, has been replaced by corporatism to a calamitous degree.
The Oath begun by Hippocrates in ancient Greece covers many points, but among the salient of many, are the following:
“I will prevent disease whenever I can, for prevention is preferable to cure,” and I will not be ashamed to say “I know not,” nor will I fail to call in my colleagues when the skills of another are needed for a patient’s recovery.”
The first point has been turned completely on its head. We no longer practice preventative medicine that ‘pre-treats’ a person’s dis-ease with simple remedies like organic foods, fresh air, naturally occurring herbs, and the reduction of stress. We are all now part of the modern medical paradigm, which completely ignores this singular point of the Hippocratic Oath (and I haven’t even mentioned the parts which discuss keeping our medical issues private).
There are even medical journals touting the importance of a ‘cure’ rather than prevention. How is this possible? With carrots healing cancer, and coconut oil preventing cognitive impairment? These are some of the most banal ‘cures’ on the planet, yet they are white washed by our brain-washed views on maintaining health.
The second point, “I will not be ashamed to say “I know not,” has been replaced with “I know all,” or even “I know but I won’t tell,” as medical journals, at the behest of Big Agriculture and Big Pharma, along with Big Biotech science, keep churning out false science that makes arguing against disease-causing GMOs almost impossible. The propaganda against any non-Monsanto funded science is ridiculous. It isn’t impossible though, when you realize that the original purpose of medicine – which was to heal – has been turned into an entirely different goal – to earn.
Often, doctors make less and less money, while insurance companies and pharmaceutical companies, along with Monsanto and those who provide our cancer-causing GMOs make more and more money. If Hippocrates were alive today he’d fall flat on his face in disbelief of the ways modern society has turned the ‘noble’ practice of healing others into nothing more than a mob racket.
It’s sad. Modern ‘medicine’ isn’t a love of humanity; it is the love of money.
 | Christina Sarich is a humanitarian and freelance writer helping you to Wake up Your Sleepy Little Head, and See the Big Picture. Her blog is Yoga for the New World. Her latest book is Pharma Sutra: Healing the Body And Mind Through the Art of Yoga. |
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Doctors are trained nowadays to bow to big pharma, big food and Biotech… the oath they take should now be called: the Hypocritical Oath… not the Hippocratic Oath.
RealityCheck really needs a reality check and is definitely narrow-minded to accept anything other than allopathic medicine.
While I appreciate the ad hominem, your ignorance knows no bounds. I didn’t come to this site looking for pseudoscientific nonsense. I’m here because I believe alternative treatments can be an important adjunct to what you narrow-minded alties pejoratively call “allopathy.”
Doctors (I’m sure you mean physicians) are not trained to “bow down” to anyone. What they are trained to do is apply logic and critical thinking skills to divulge the facts as best can be ascertained in a world of Big Alternative hucksters.
Of course, not being an actual physician yourself, you couldn’t possibly comprehend what a real physician is exposed to, would you. So while you sit there playing armchair doctor, the real deal is getting the job done.
Though the allopathic “physicians” are trained not to bow down to anyone, they are trained to accept one certain path which you claim to be scientific all the while, ignoring that natural medicine has been around for thousands of years and are thriving is many parts of the world. Even though “physicians” are train to think critically, they only think down one path – toxic medicines manufactured by big pharma. I do however, admit that allopathic medicine has its place in medicine, but it should never take centre stage as it has now in western society, they are good for trauma but not so great if you are looking at maintaining health… all they do are looking for ways to mask/relieve symptoms while ignoring the fact that the symptoms may be a way of the body telling you there is something seriously wrong and it won’t be fixed until the root of the problem is fixed.
I do not claim to be a doctor of any description, but the ones I’ve been to (and there are many) has done nothing to improve my health… instead, when I ended up going to the Traditional Chinese Medical Practitioner, my health improved – because he started treating the cause of my ailments.
All because people who uses and practice alternative medicines believes in treating the illness via natural herbal means do not make them narrow-minded as you suggest, they are rather adventurous looking for ways of healing the body naturally… sure, we are narrow-minded towards toxic chemicals you find in a pill but that’s about it… whereas, allopathic “physicians” will only accept toxic chemicals and not one I’ve been to accepts any alternative… this is narrow-mindedness. I do not “play armchair doctor” I take an active part in my health and sure, part of it involves sitting in front of a computer doing research… but you are right the real deal is getting the job done which I always do…
very nicely put. But, for personal experience, i can tell you that SOME doctors, (many) do just that, bow to pharma. and to companies to get a benefit. Example; I have asthma, I was in Spain when I had an attack, from there I got bronchitis etc..I went to a doctor (he had a PH. D. in medicine, he had taught medicine for more than 30 years (he was the director) in the medical school. He prescribed a medicine that I could find in the US. but he told me about the side effects and told me not to take this medicine for more that 2 weeks (it was dangerous). If I didn’t get better to comeback to see him. Well I got better. When i came back,I went to my doctor here, IMMEDIATELY SHE TOLD ME THAT I NEEDE TO TAKE THAT MEDICINE FOR EVER -no stopping- (it is a very expensive med.- I explained what the dr. in Spain told me. She told me not to listen to the doctor there. He didn’t know anything (and more or less doctors there -in Spain- didn’t know anything) . That was the last time I saw this doctor, never comeback. I WAS A LITTLE ‘IFI’ BEFORE because the medication she was prescribing (all of them ) were very expensive and brand name drugs. after the last visit, i was sure – or suspected- she was getting something from someone )
Exactly how does a lab technician or a CEO of a pharmaceutical corporation take a Hippocratic oath? These are not physicians so your straw man fails here.
The cancer curing carrot story is fictional. Its protagonist, Ann Cameron actually had surgery which removed the cancer. The alleged metastases never actually existed. Ouch.
Finally, Big Alternative rakes in over 34 billion dollars annually, compared to 85 for the pharmaceutical industry. How is pushing horribly disfiguring cansema, deadly “B17” (fictional name for cyanide), and proven hoaxes “caring” for patients? Is profit not a factor?
Funny how millions of people have taken B17 and not died of cyanide poisoning. Like myself… Then, there’s ‘cyanocobalamin’, another one of the vitamins your body needs to function. The Laetrile debacle from the 1970s was one of those most obvious scare tactics by the Pharmaceutical-Industrial Complex; when you actually legislate against people taking their health into their own hands and following the treatment of their choice, with full knowledge offered to them of the pros and cons of any treatment, and instead insist that ‘standard of care’ (so benign sounding with its radiation and chemotherapy, both carcinogenic and toxic as hell) is the ONLY choice, and threaten with jail those who have other ideas, well then we can see that corporatism has won. Otherwise known as fascism.
You might be interested to know that Mandel, the plant geneticist, spent a lot of time breeding the ‘bitter’ out of fruits and vegetables, so the B17, which is bitter, was lowered in content in all our foods. The food we eat today is not the same as the food from 200 years ago, not by a long shot. Could this be why people get so much cancer now (besides the tons of toxins added to the air, water, etc?) We know the action of B17 and why it works. Why the absolute refusal to let the public know? Profit runs everything with these people, and they’re willing to kill to maintain it.
You mention ‘horribly disfiguring cansema’ which I’ve never heard of. How is chemo and radiation not ‘horribly disfiguring’? 34 billion for ‘Big Alternative’ versus 85 for pharmaceuticals? Please. The alternative industry is mostly simple vitamins, minerals and supplements, not dangerous pills that have a horrible track record (all FDA approved!) of killing; it’s been estimated that every doctor kills an average of a patient a year with side effects and drug interactions. The alternative industry’s track record is nowhere near as lethal. And now we find through whistleblowers that cancer was added to millions of doses of polio vaccine years ago. Bon Appetite!