16 Doctors Speak Out on Pharmaceutical Drugs

The following quotes come from the Global Institute for Alternative Medicine (GIFAM). It is accredited by the American Naturopathic Medical Certification and Accreditation Board, and the American Association of Drugless Practitioners Commission on Accreditation.

These statements are offered here to demonstrate the fact that even some in the medical field question standard practices.  While the medical profession continues its dependence on pharmaceuticals, at such an enormous cost in dollars and suffering, others are finding a safer, gentler — and more effective — approach to healthcare.  (The original article can be found here.)

Here is what 16 doctors have to say.

Charles E. Page, M.D.

1. "The cause of most disease is in the poisonous drugs physicians superstitiously give in order to effect a cure."

Hans Kusche, M.D.

2. "Medicines are of subordinate importance because of their very nature, they can only work symptomatically."

O.W. Holmes, (Prof. of Med. Harvard University)

3. "If all the medicine in the world were thrown into the sea, it would be bad for the fish and good for humanity."

R.T. TraIl, M.D., in

4. (Excerpt from a two-and-one-half-hour lecture to members of Congress and the medical profession, delivered at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington D.C.)

"Drug medications consist in employing, as remedies for disease, those things which produce disease in well persons.  Its materia medica is simply a lot of drugs or chemicals or dye-stuffs: in a word poisons.  All are incompatible with vital matter; all produce disease when brought in contact in any manner with the living; all are poisons."

Robert Henderson, M.D.

5. "Every drug increases and complicates the patients condition."

Daniel. H. Kress, M.D.

6. "Drugs never cure disease.  They merely hush the voice of nature's protest, and pull down the danger signals she erects along the pathway of transgression.  Any poison taken into the system has to be reckoned with later on, even though it palliates present symptoms.  Pain may disappear, but the patient is left in a worse condition, though unconscious of it at the time."

Henry Lindlahr, M.D.

7. "The greatest part of all chronic disease is created by the suppression of acute disease by drug poisoning."

Richard C. Cabot, M.D. (Mass. Gen. Hospital)

8. "Every educated physician knows that most diseases are not appreciably helped by medicine."

Wier Mitchel, M.D.

9. "Medicine is only palliative, for back of disease lies the cause, and this cause no drug can reach."

William Osler, M.D.

10. "The person who takes medicine must recover twice: once from the disease and once from the medicine."

Elmer Lee, M.D., Past Vice President, Academy of Medicine.

11. "Medical practice has neither philosophy nor common sense to recommend it.  In sickness the body is already loaded with impurities.  By taking drugs — medicines — more impurities are added, thereby the case is further embarrassed and harder to cure."

Milton Silverman, M.D. (Professor of Pharmacology, University of California)

12. "Our figures show approximately four and one half million hospital admissions annually due to the adverse reactions to drugs.  Further, the average hospital patient has as much as thirty percent chance, depending how long he is in, of doubling his stay due to adverse drug reactions."

L.F. Kebler, M.D.

13. "Why would a patient swallow a poison because he is ill, or take that which would make a well man sick."

John H. Tilden, M.D.

14. "What hope is there for medical science to ever become a true science, when the entire structure of medical knowledge is built around the idea that there is an entity called disease which can be expelled when the right drug is found?"

Charles Armbruster, M. D.

15. "The necessity of teaching mankind not to take drugs and medicines, is a duty incumbent upon all who know their uncertainty and injurious effects; and the time is not far distant when the drug system will be abandoned."

Robert Mendelsohn, M.D

16. "We are prone to thinking of drug abuse in terms of the male population, and illicit drugs such as heroin, cocaine, and marijuana.  It may surprise you to learn that a greater problem exists with millions of women dependent on legal prescription drugs."

Can there be any question that we are in need of a better way?