How to stop your doctor from killing you
By Dr Vernon Coleman – 50 Questions & Answers – Unbekoming Book Summary
Dr Vernon Coleman1 has been on my radar for several years now, and I though it about time to amplify his work and summarize one of his books.
Anyone who write a book with this title is my type of guy.
Anyone Who Tells You Vaccines Are Safe and Effective is Lying
With thanks to Dr Vernon Coleman.
Let’s start with an analogy born out of the book.
How To Stop Your Doctor Killing You: Coleman, Dr Vernon
Analogy
Imagine your body as a sophisticated self-repairing car with an advanced onboard computer system capable of diagnosing and fixing most problems automatically. Now imagine taking this car to a mechanic who's been trained and paid by a single parts manufacturer. This mechanic has been taught to ignore the car's self-repair capabilities and instead automatically replace parts - often with components that may cause new problems - while dismissing the warning lights from the onboard computer.
The mechanic genuinely believes they're helping, having been educated to trust only in replacement parts from their sponsor, despite clear evidence that many problems could be solved by simply allowing the car's built-in systems to work. Other mechanics who suggest alternative approaches or point out that some replacement parts are causing failures are labeled as troublemakers and pushed out of the industry.
The most successful owners are those who learn about their car's systems, question unnecessary repairs, seek second opinions, and understand when to let the self-repair systems work versus when to authorize mechanical intervention. They recognize that while mechanics and replacement parts sometimes prove necessary, blindly trusting a system designed to sell parts rather than optimize vehicle performance often leads to unnecessary repairs, new problems, and potentially catastrophic failures.
This mirrors modern healthcare, where our bodies' natural healing abilities are ignored in favor of pharmaceutical interventions, and patients must become informed advocates to navigate a system that often prioritizes profit over healing.
12-point summary
1. Doctor-induced illness (iatrogenic disease) has become one of the three leading causes of death and illness in developed countries, alongside cancer and heart disease. One in six hospital patients are there because of doctor-induced illness, with hundreds of thousands dying yearly from medical errors, drug reactions, and mismanagement.
2. The pharmaceutical industry effectively controls modern medicine through its influence on medical education, research funding, and ongoing physician training. This has transformed doctors from independent professionals into marketing agents for drug companies, prioritizing prescriptions over prevention and natural healing approaches.
3. The cancer industry deliberately avoids finding a cure because the ongoing search is more profitable. Despite billions spent on research, cancer rates continue rising while the industry suppresses information about prevention and alternative treatments. Approximately 80% of cancers could be prevented through lifestyle changes.
4. The human body possesses remarkable self-healing capabilities that can handle nine out of ten illnesses without medical intervention. However, modern medicine often interferes with rather than supports these natural healing processes, leading to unnecessary treatments and complications.
5. Modern drinking water contains significant levels of pharmaceutical residues that conventional treatment cannot remove. This creates an uncontrolled experiment where people unknowingly consume combinations of prescription drugs through their tap water, with unknown long-term health consequences.
6. Medical testing and diagnostic procedures are far less reliable than commonly believed. Many tests are performed unnecessarily, equipment is often poorly maintained, and results frequently lead to misdiagnosis or unnecessary treatment. Post-mortem studies reveal wrong diagnoses in more than half of cases.
7. The medical establishment consistently resists new ideas and evidence that threatens profitable existing practices. This pattern has repeated throughout history, from rejection of hand-washing to suppress available medications, maintaining a system that prioritizes profit over patient welfare.
8. Most medical interventions lack scientific evidence supporting their use - only about 15% of medical interventions are backed by solid scientific evidence, and only 1% of articles in medical journals are scientifically sound, despite claims of evidence-based practice.
9. The overuse of antibiotics and other prescription drugs has created serious public health threats, including drug-resistant bacteria and widespread medication dependence. This stems from systematic overprescribing and pharmaceutical industry influence rather than medical necessity.
10. Alternative approaches to major diseases like heart disease and cancer often prove more effective than conventional treatments but are suppressed because they're less profitable. Lifestyle changes and natural healing approaches frequently outperform expensive medical interventions.
11. The benzodiazepine tranquilizer crisis has been replaced by an antidepressant epidemic, showing how the pharmaceutical industry creates new markets by pathologizing normal human experiences and promoting drug solutions for social and emotional problems.
12. Patient survival often depends on being assertive and questioning medical authority. Research shows that "difficult" patients who advocate for themselves receive better care and have better outcomes than passive patients who simply follow doctors' orders without question.
50 Questions & Answers
Question 1: Why does Coleman state that doctors are the most likely people to kill you?
Answer: Modern doctors cause more serious illness than cancer or heart disease, with one in six hospital patients being there due to doctor-induced illness. Through a combination of ignorance, incompetence, and pharmaceutical industry influence, doctors frequently prescribe unnecessary medications, perform unneeded surgeries, and conduct dangerous tests that harm or kill patients.
Studies in Australia showed 470,000 people are admitted to hospital yearly due to medical intervention, with 18,000 dying annually from medical errors, drug toxicity, and mismanagement. In America, the death rate from medical accidents runs around 200,000 per year, making iatrogenic (doctor-induced) illness one of the leading causes of death and disability.
Question 2: How has medical education created problems in modern healthcare?
Answer: Medical education is largely based on learning by rote and eliminating original thought, with students taught to memorize information rather than think critically. This creates doctors who are incapable of questioning established practices or considering alternative approaches, making them easily manipulated by pharmaceutical companies and resistant to new ideas or treatments.
The lengthy formal education process ensures that by qualification time, most doctors become nodding "yes" men and women who follow established protocols without question. They learn extensively about diseases but receive little training about patients as people, human rights, or a doctor's responsibilities, leading to poor doctor-patient relationships and communication.
Question 3: What makes doctors frequently misdiagnose patients?
Answer: Doctors rely too heavily on technology and equipment rather than developing their own diagnostic skills and listening to patients. Studies show that when researchers examined medical records of 100 dead patients who had heart attacks, only 53 percent were correctly diagnosed, even though half were treated by heart disease experts. Post-mortem examinations regularly reveal that wrong diagnoses were made in more than half of cases.
Education deficiencies contribute significantly to misdiagnosis, with doctors being taught about organs and tissues rather than living patients. They often feel uncomfortable dealing with patients from different backgrounds or social classes, leading to communication barriers that result in diagnostic errors. Additionally, many doctors put excessive faith in potentially faulty or poorly calibrated equipment rather than trusting their clinical judgment and patient histories.
Question 4: Why should patients be wary of teaching hospitals?
Answer: Teaching hospitals often use patients as teaching material without proper consent or consideration for their dignity and privacy. Patients frequently face situations where groups of medical students burst into examination rooms unannounced, discuss cases insensitively in front of them, and conduct repeated examinations without proper explanation or respect for patient comfort.
Junior doctors with limited experience often perform procedures and make decisions about patient care without adequate supervision. Many teaching procedures are done for educational purposes rather than medical necessity, exposing patients to unnecessary risks and discomfort while being treated as teaching specimens rather than human beings deserving respect and consideration.
Question 5: What questions should patients ask before accepting surgery?
Answer: Patients must inquire about the surgeon's experience with specific operations, including how long they've been performing them and their frequency. They should also ask about expected complications, recovery time, pain management, and specific details about the surgical procedure, including where cuts will be made and what post-operative care will be required.
Critical questions should also address the necessity of the operation, alternatives to surgery, and whether the surgeon would recommend the same procedure for their own family members. Patients should understand the expected timeline for resuming normal activities and what specific limitations they might face during recovery, always remembering that different occupations require different recovery periods.
Question 6: How do doctors use their desks to establish authority over patients?
Answer: Doctors strategically position their desks as barriers between themselves and patients, using them as tools of power and control. The typical arrangement places patients in exposed, vulnerable positions several feet from the desk while the doctor remains protected behind it, creating an immediate psychological advantage and power dynamic.
To counter this manipulation, patients can move their chairs closer to the desk and place personal items on it, which often causes doctors to lean back and surrender their territorial control. This simple adjustment can help balance the power dynamic and create a more equal consultation environment.
Question 7: Why do hospital consultants keep waiting lists long?
Answer: Hospital consultants deliberately maintain lengthy waiting lists to encourage patients to seek private treatment, where these same consultants can charge substantial fees. Many consultants never even attend their hospital clinics, instead instructing junior, untrained doctors to handle the work while they focus on their more lucrative private practices.
This manipulation of the system creates artificial scarcity, forcing desperate patients to pay for private care to avoid lengthy waits. Consultants often display markedly different behavior toward private patients versus public patients, offering more time, attention, and courtesy to those paying directly for their services.
Question 8: How can patients protect themselves during hospital stays?
Answer: Patients should gather information about hospital rules, regulations, and ward types before admission, while bringing essential items like current medications, night clothes, and personal care items. They must remember that although hospital staff may seem important, none are as important as the patient, and questions should be directed to junior doctors who typically have the most current patient information.
Documentation becomes crucial during hospital stays - patients should keep notebooks to record questions, answers, and important information about their care. They should also maintain copies of their medical records and ensure they understand all procedures and medications being administered, never hesitating to question or refuse treatments they don't understand or agree with.
Question 9: What makes a "difficult" patient more likely to survive?
Answer: Patients who are aggressive, demanding, and ask questions consistently receive better care and recover more quickly than passive patients. Those who insist on explanations, question treatments, and maintain control over their healthcare decisions not only get more attention from medical staff but also ensure their concerns are properly addressed rather than dismissed.
Studies demonstrate that patients who take an active interest in their treatment and aren't afraid to be labeled "difficult" experience better outcomes and fewer complications. They're more likely to identify potential medical errors before they occur and ensure their treatment aligns with their best interests rather than the convenience of medical staff.
Question 10: Why should patients be skeptical of routine examinations?
Answer: At least two-thirds of all tests and investigations ordered by doctors are unnecessary, with routine blood and urine tests helping doctors make diagnoses in only one percent of cases. Many tests are ordered defensively to protect against potential lawsuits or to satisfy hospital protocols rather than for genuine medical necessity.
These unnecessary tests not only waste resources but can lead to false positives, unnecessary treatments, and potential harm to patients. Even when equipment functions perfectly, most laboratory tests are only 95 percent accurate, meaning that with multiple tests, the likelihood of at least one false result increases significantly, potentially leading to unnecessary treatments or procedures.
Question 11: How do drug companies influence medical practice?
Answer: Drug companies control both undergraduate and post-graduate medical education, ensuring doctors learn primarily about pharmaceutical solutions while receiving minimal training in prevention, nutrition, or alternative therapies. Most doctors get their ongoing education about new drugs from company salesmen rather than independent experts, creating a system where prescribing decisions are based on marketing rather than science.
Only about 15 percent of medical interventions are supported by solid scientific evidence, yet doctors continue prescribing based on drug company influence. The pharmaceutical industry provides financial incentives, research grants, and other benefits to doctors who prescribe their products, effectively turning the medical profession into their marketing arm.
Question 12: What makes prescribed drugs more dangerous than illegal drugs?
Answer: Prescription drugs kill far more people than illegal substances like heroin or cocaine, with over 100,000 people killed by prescription drugs yearly while another two million suffer severe side effects requiring hospitalization. These deaths often occur because doctors prescribe medications without fully understanding their dangers or interactions, and many side effects go unreported or unrecognized.
The system for monitoring drug safety is inadequate, with no international computerized drug monitoring service to track problems. Drug companies can launch products after relatively few tests, admitting they don't know what side effects will appear until a drug has been widely prescribed. The authorities acknowledge they won't know the full extent of a drug's dangers until it has been given to large numbers of patients.
Question 13: Why are drug side effects underreported?
Answer: Five out of six doctors have never reported any drug side effects to authorities, who admit they receive information on only 10-15 percent of even the most serious adverse drug reactions. Some doctors deliberately withhold reports of serious adverse reactions, hoping to later publish their findings in journals or reveal their discoveries to media outlets for personal recognition.
This systematic underreporting means that dangerous drugs remain on the market far longer than they should, continuing to harm patients while generating profits. When side effects do occur, doctors often attribute them to the original illness rather than the medication, further masking the true extent of drug-induced problems.
Question 14: How did benzodiazepine tranquilizers become a global addiction problem?
Answer: The problem began in the 1950s and 1960s when doctors, untrained in handling psychological problems, welcomed benzodiazepines as an easy solution for anxiety and stress-related disorders. Drug companies promoted these medications as safe and effective, leading doctors to prescribe them widely and regularly for extended periods, creating widespread dependency.
Despite early warnings about addiction potential appearing as far back as 1961, the medical establishment continued denying any problems for decades. In some developed countries, over a third of the adult population became dependent on prescribed tranquilizers, antidepressants, or sleeping pills, creating what Coleman describes as the world's biggest addiction problem.
Question 15: What makes repeat prescriptions dangerous?
Answer: Approximately half of all prescriptions are provided without any meeting between doctor and patient, often written by receptionists and signed by doctors without proper checks. This system, originally designed for chronic conditions requiring continuous medication, has been expanded to include patients who should be regularly examined rather than automatically receiving refills.
Many patients have become psychologically dependent on sleeping tablets and tranquilizers due to the ease of obtaining repeat prescriptions. Some doctors even sign blank prescription forms, leaving receptionists to fill in the details, creating significant risks for medication errors and inappropriate long-term drug use.
Question 16: Why do doctors overprescribe antibiotics?
Answer: Between 50-90 percent of antibiotic prescriptions are unnecessary, with doctors often prescribing them for viral infections where they have no effect. This overprescribing occurs partly because doctors feel pressured to do something when faced with a patient, and prescribing a drug is virtually the only thing most of them can do.
The main reason for antibiotic overprescribing is the drug companies' influence on doctors. The careless, inaccurate, and inappropriate prescribing of antibiotics has led to the development of antibiotic-resistant bugs, making once-powerful drugs ineffective and causing a growing number of patients to die because antibiotics no longer work as well as they used to.
Question 17: How do drug companies test new medications on unsuspecting patients?
Answer: Doctors in general practice and hospitals receive huge personal bonuses for testing new drugs for pharmaceutical companies, often enrolling patients in trials without their knowledge. Signs of involvement in drug trials include unusual politeness from doctors, regular clinic visits, free medication instead of prescriptions, and extensive questioning about side effects.
Patients should be suspicious if their doctor makes an unusual fuss over them or asks questions that don't seem entirely relevant. Drug companies paying for new drugs to be tested may require blood tests without explaining why they're necessary. These unofficial trials often put patients at risk unnecessarily while primarily serving to benefit the doctor's bank balance and drug company profits.
Question 18: Why does Coleman consider Ritalin prescription "authorized child abuse"?
Answer: Ritalin is frequently prescribed for children based on vague diagnoses like Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), which can be applied to almost any child showing normal childhood behaviors. The criteria are so non-specific that activities like being sweet-tempered, cooperative, friendly, or being either a light or heavy sleeper could qualify for diagnosis and medication.
Despite being on the market since the 1960s, there is still no complete data on the safety and efficacy of long-term Ritalin use. The drug can cause serious side effects including growth retardation, and some studies have shown brain atrophy in adults previously treated with psychostimulants. Yet schools and social workers often pressure parents to medicate their children, sometimes threatening to remove children if parents refuse.
Question 19: How do drug residues contaminate drinking water?
Answer: After drugs are taken, they are metabolized and excreted, with many powerful prescriptions leaving the body in much the same form as they entered it. Traditional sewage treatment plants cannot remove all drug residues from water, resulting in drinking water containing traces of antibiotics, heart drugs, tranquilizers, sleeping pills, antidepressants, painkillers, and contraceptive hormones.
Each time the water cycle repeats, the concentration of drug residues increases. People drinking tap water are involuntarily consuming a cocktail of prescription drugs, with unknown long-term health effects. Despite this serious concern, there has been minimal research into the impact of these pharmaceutical contaminants on human health.
Question 20: What makes antidepressants the new tranquilizer problem?
Answer: Until the mid-1990s, depression was relatively uncommon, but today it has become one of the fastest-growing diagnoses worldwide, coinciding with the development of new, expensive antidepressants. The diagnosis of depression is now often made when patients are simply unhappy or fed up with their lives, leading to unnecessary medication.
This mirrors the benzodiazepine crisis of the 1970s, with powerful drugs being prescribed for similar symptoms. Coleman predicted that drug companies would attempt to replace reduced tranquilizer sales by promoting antidepressants, creating a false need and replacing one addiction problem with another - a prediction that proved accurate.
Question 21: Why does Coleman believe the cancer industry will never find a cure?
Answer: The cancer industry's profits depend on continuing to search for a cure rather than actually finding one. Scientists working for cancer charities would likely avoid discovering a cure since it would eliminate their funding and jobs, while the drug companies are more interested in selling ongoing treatments than finding actual solutions.
The industry is corrupted by its alliance with pharmaceutical companies, focusing almost exclusively on drug-based treatments while suppressing alternative approaches. About 90 percent of cancer research money is spent searching for expensive high-tech cures rather than investigating prevention or non-pharmaceutical treatments, ensuring the industry's continued profitability while cancer rates steadily increase.
Question 22: How can people reduce their cancer risk by 80 percent?
Answer: Major risk reduction comes from avoiding tobacco, cutting consumption of fatty foods, eliminating meat from the diet, and eating plenty of fresh fruit and vegetables with high fiber content. Environmental factors also play a crucial role, including avoiding unnecessary X-rays, minimizing sun exposure, and staying away from power lines and electrical appliances.
Additional preventive measures include minimizing alcohol consumption, avoiding smoked and salt-cured foods, maintaining healthy body weight, and reducing exposure to chemical additives. The medical establishment rarely promotes these prevention strategies because there's little profit in teaching people to avoid cancer through lifestyle changes.
[Unbekoming: Eliminate meat, avoid fatty foods, minimize sun…obviously disagree.]
Question 23: What makes mammography potentially dangerous?
Answer: Mammography exposes sensitive breast tissue to radiation, which itself is known to cause cancer. This creates a paradoxical situation where the screening method meant to detect cancer might actually cause it. Regular mammogram screening may increase cancer risk over time, particularly in younger women with more sensitive breast tissue.
The procedure produces many false positives, leading to unnecessary biopsies and treatments. Women are often pressured into regular mammograms despite limited evidence of benefit, while safer alternatives like self-examination are discouraged. This emphasis on mammography appears driven more by profit motives than genuine concern for women's health.
Question 24: Why does Coleman criticize chemotherapy and radiotherapy?
Answer: Chemotherapy works by poisoning cells indiscriminately, killing both cancer cells and healthy cells throughout the body. The treatment often weakens the immune system when it should be strengthened to fight cancer, while also being carcinogenic itself, potentially causing new cancers to develop later.
Radiotherapy's effectiveness remains unproven, with studies suggesting its upside is slight while its downside is considerable. Both treatments attack the symptoms of cancer rather than addressing underlying causes, while generating substantial profits for the medical establishment despite their questionable efficacy and significant risks.
Question 25: How has the cancer industry suppressed alternative treatments?
Answer: Laws in most western countries make it illegal to offer cancer treatments not approved by the medical establishment and pharmaceutical industry. Doctors who dare to offer new hope and treatments are scorned, abused, persecuted, vilified, and often forced into hiding or threatened with imprisonment, even when their work shows promising results.
The cancer industry, through its influence on media and government, ensures that alternative approaches receive minimal attention or are presented with skepticism and derision. Success stories from alternative treatments are dismissed as misdiagnosis or spontaneous recovery, while conventional treatment successes are celebrated regardless of long-term outcomes.
Question 26: What would Coleman do if diagnosed with cancer?
Answer: He would take control of his own destiny by following a combination program incorporating both body and mind healing powers. This would include extensive research into his specific type of cancer, obtaining multiple medical opinions, and carefully evaluating all treatment options, including both conventional and alternative approaches.
The program would focus on strengthening the immune system through diet, stress reduction, and lifestyle changes while considering conventional treatments only when clearly justified by evidence. He would maintain overall control of his treatment decisions rather than passively accepting standard protocols, ensuring any chosen treatments aligned with his body's natural healing capabilities.
Question 27: Why is diet crucial in cancer prevention and treatment?
Answer: Between one-third and one-half of all cancers are linked to food choices, with meat consumption being second only to tobacco as a cause of cancer. A diet rich in fresh, organically grown fruits and vegetables provides essential antioxidants that help prevent cancer development while supporting the body's immune system.
The medical establishment largely ignores dietary approaches because there's no profit in telling people to eat differently. Despite clear evidence linking certain foods to cancer prevention and others to cancer development, most doctors receive minimal nutrition education and remain skeptical about diet's role in both preventing and treating cancer.
[Unbekoming: Meat as a cause of cancer…obviously not.]
Question 28: How does stress affect cancer development?
Answer: Stress weakens the immune system, making the body more vulnerable to cancer development and less able to fight existing cancer cells. When the mind experiences prolonged stress, the body becomes weaker and less capable of maintaining its natural defense mechanisms against abnormal cell growth.
Evidence shows that people living near potential stress sources, such as nuclear power stations, may have increased cancer rates not just from radiation exposure but from the stress of living near perceived dangers. The therapeutic value of peace and dignity in cancer treatment is often undervalued by healthcare professionals who focus solely on attacking tumors rather than supporting the body's natural healing capabilities.
Question 29: Why does the body heal itself in 9 out of 10 illnesses?
Answer: The human body contains comprehensive self-healing mechanisms that can handle most health challenges without medical intervention. These internal systems include natural pain relief, temperature regulation, immune responses, and various feedback mechanisms designed to maintain health and fight disease.
Many of the people injured by doctors never needed medical treatment in the first place, as their bodies would have recovered naturally. Understanding and supporting these self-healing capabilities often proves more effective than aggressive medical intervention, which can interfere with the body's natural healing processes.
Question 30: Which alternative therapies does Coleman consider legitimate?
Answer: Coleman recognizes several alternative therapies as potentially beneficial, including acupuncture for pain management and other conditions endorsed by the World Health Organization. He also acknowledges the value of osteopathy and chiropractic for back problems, and homeopathy's similarity to vaccination principles in stimulating the body's defense mechanisms.
He particularly supports therapies that enhance the body's natural healing abilities, such as the Gerson therapy for cancer treatment, which shows impressive survival rates compared to conventional treatments. However, he emphasizes maintaining skepticism about all therapies, whether alternative or conventional, and evaluating their effectiveness based on evidence rather than marketing claims.
Question 31: How can heart disease be conquered without pills or surgery?
Answer: Research by Dr. Dean Ornish has documented that heart disease can be halted or reversed through comprehensive lifestyle changes. These include thirty minutes of moderate daily exercise, regular stress management techniques, and following a low-fat vegetarian diet. This approach has shown measurable reversal of coronary artery blockages in 82 percent of patients after one year.
The medical establishment resists promoting these methods because they offer little profit potential compared to drugs and surgery. Despite clear evidence that lifestyle modifications can effectively treat heart disease, most doctors continue prescribing medications or recommending surgery, largely due to their pharmaceutical industry-influenced training.
Question 32: What makes the immune system crucial for overall health?
Answer: The immune system serves as the body's primary defense against both disease and cancer development. When functioning properly, it can identify and eliminate threats, including abnormal cells that could become cancerous. Most illness results from a compromised immune system, often weakened by stress, poor diet, and environmental toxins.
Modern medical treatments frequently damage the immune system rather than support it. Chemotherapy, radiation, and many prescription drugs suppress immune function, making patients more vulnerable to future illness. Supporting immune system health through diet, stress reduction, and lifestyle changes often proves more effective than conventional treatments that weaken natural defenses.
Question 33: How can visualization therapy help healing?
Answer: Visualization therapy harnesses the mind's power to influence physical healing processes. It requires developing specific mental skills to engage the body's self-healing mechanisms. Like learning emergency driving skills before needed, patients should develop visualization abilities before illness strikes rather than waiting until they're sick.
The effectiveness of visualization therapy demonstrates the strong connection between mind and body in healing. Despite its potential benefits, most doctors remain unaware of or skeptical about this technique, highlighting the medical establishment's resistance to approaches that don't involve drugs or surgery.
Question 34: How do prescription drugs end up in drinking water?
Answer: When people take medications, their bodies excrete significant portions of these drugs, often in forms similar to their original state. Traditional water purification methods cannot remove these pharmaceutical residues, resulting in treated water containing traces of various medications including antibiotics, hormones, and psychiatric drugs.
Each cycle of water treatment increases the concentration of these drug residues, creating an increasingly contaminated water supply. Despite this serious concern, limited research exists on the long-term effects of consuming this unintentional drug cocktail, and authorities have taken minimal action to address the problem.
Question 35: What makes fluoridation controversial?
Answer: While fluoride can help protect tooth enamel, adding it to public water supplies raises serious ethical and health concerns. The amount must be precisely controlled, as just two parts per million can cause tooth mottling, while higher amounts may lead to bone disorders and cancer.
The practice represents compulsory medication without individual consent or consideration of personal need. Some scientists have suggested adding other substances to drinking water, including antibiotics and tranquilizers, highlighting the dangerous precedent set by fluoridation.
Question 36: How can people protect themselves against contaminated water?
Answer: Using bottled natural mineral water from protected, pure sources offers one solution to avoid drug-contaminated tap water. However, consumers must carefully check labels as some "spring water" may be treated or filtered tap water. Natural mineral water should come from an unadulterated source and remain untampered.
Additional protection measures include using water filters that remove contaminants and having private water supplies tested regularly. Coleman suggests implementing two separate water systems - one for drinking from uncontaminated sources and another for general household use - as a potential long-term solution.
Question 37: What environmental factors contribute to illness?
Answer: Chemical pollutants in food, air, and water represent major contributors to modern disease patterns. Thousands of untested chemicals enter our environment through farming practices, manufacturing processes, and consumer products, accumulating in our bodies and compromising our immune systems.
The situation worsens as new chemicals are created and introduced faster than their effects can be studied. Companies performing their own safety testing often suppress negative findings, while regulatory authorities fail to protect public health, instead defending industry interests.
Question 38: Why are X-rays overused and dangerous?
Answer: Doctors order X-rays primarily for legal protection rather than medical necessity, with many performed routinely without clear justification. The average diagnostic X-ray dose carries similar risk to smoking six cigarettes, yet doctors often claim X-rays are perfectly safe, ignoring cumulative radiation exposure risks.
Three-quarters of current breast cancer cases in the United States reportedly stem from earlier ionizing radiation, primarily from medical sources. Despite these risks, many dentists perform routine X-rays at every visit, while doctors continue ordering unnecessary scans to protect against potential malpractice claims.
Question 39: What makes medical tests unreliable?
Answer: Even when laboratory equipment functions perfectly, most tests are only 95 percent accurate. With multiple tests, the probability of at least one false result increases significantly. Equipment calibration problems, maintenance issues, and operator error further reduce reliability.
Many tests are performed by inadequately trained personnel using poorly maintained or improperly calibrated equipment. Doctors often make treatment decisions based on these unreliable results, leading to unnecessary procedures or missed diagnoses. Despite these known issues, the medical establishment continues promoting extensive testing.
Question 40: How do hospital errors occur in diagnosis?
Answer: Studies examining post-mortem results have shown that doctors made wrong diagnoses in more than half of cases, with potentially treatable conditions missed in one in seven patients. These errors often occur because doctors rely too heavily on technology rather than developing proper diagnostic skills and listening to patients.
Hospital errors frequently result from poor communication between staff members, overreliance on junior doctors, and failure to properly review test results. Despite the high error rate, many mistakes go unreported or are covered up, preventing systemic improvements and perpetuating dangerous practices.
Question 41: Why should patients question routine screenings?
Answer: Research shows that many screening programs benefit doctors financially while providing little value to patients. Many commonly performed screenings lack scientific evidence supporting their effectiveness and can lead to false positives, unnecessary treatments, and significant anxiety for patients.
Routine screenings often discover conditions that would never have caused problems, leading to overdiagnosis and overtreatment. This creates a cycle where healthy people are transformed into patients requiring ongoing medical attention, primarily serving to generate profits for the healthcare system.
Question 42: How has high blood pressure treatment changed?
Answer: Traditional treatment relied heavily on medication, but evidence now shows many patients can reduce blood pressure through lifestyle changes. These modifications include weight loss, stress reduction, dietary changes, and regular exercise, often proving more effective than drug therapy.
Despite this evidence, many doctors continue defaulting to prescription medications because they lack training in lifestyle interventions and remain influenced by pharmaceutical industry marketing. When Coleman first suggested lifestyle changes could control blood pressure, he faced significant criticism from the medical establishment.
Question 43: What makes cholesterol-lowering drugs controversial?
Answer: Studies have shown that patients taking cholesterol-lowering drugs may be more likely to die from injuries or suicide, suggesting these medications might affect behavior and mental health. Additionally, the link between cholesterol levels and heart disease remains disputed, with many heart disease patients having normal cholesterol levels.
Drug companies promoted these medications as so safe and effective that they should be prescribed to everyone over 30, regardless of cholesterol levels. However, the drugs can cause serious side effects while providing questionable benefits, especially for women who show less correlation between cholesterol levels and heart disease.
Question 44: Why does Coleman criticize modern mental health treatment?
Answer: Psychiatric treatment methods like electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) continue despite lack of evidence supporting their effectiveness or safety. After decades of use, doctors still don't understand how ECT works, what patients should receive it, or how it should be administered.
The widespread prescription of psychiatric medications often occurs without proper diagnosis or consideration of alternatives. Depression diagnoses have increased dramatically, coinciding with the development of new, expensive antidepressants, suggesting that normal human emotions are being pathologized for profit.
Question 45: How has breast cancer treatment become a scandal?
Answer: The medical establishment promotes aggressive treatments like mastectomy and dangerous drugs while suppressing information about prevention through diet and lifestyle changes. Doctors now remove healthy breasts preventively, despite evidence that half of all breast cancer deaths could be avoided through dietary changes alone.
Women are discouraged from breast self-examination, which costs nothing, while being pushed toward mammography screening, which generates profit and may actually cause cancer through radiation exposure. The breast cancer industry has become more focused on maintaining its profitability than finding effective treatments or prevention strategies.
Question 46: How have doctors historically resisted medical progress?
Answer: Throughout history, doctors who made important discoveries were often ridiculed, persecuted, or forced out of practice. Examples include Ignaz Semmelweiss, who was ostracized for suggesting doctors should wash their hands between patients, and William Harvey, who faced ridicule for accurately describing blood circulation.
This pattern continues today, with the medical establishment consistently opposing new ideas that challenge existing profitable practices. Those who question established treatments or suggest alternative approaches face professional isolation, criticism, and sometimes loss of their careers.
Question 47: What historical medical mistakes are still repeated?
Answer: Many dangerous practices continue despite evidence against them, similar to how bloodletting persisted for centuries without scientific basis. Modern examples include the overuse of antibiotics, unnecessary surgeries, and the widespread prescription of potentially harmful drugs.
The medical establishment continues defending outdated practices primarily because they generate profit, just as previous generations of doctors defended their traditional treatments. This resistance to change costs lives while protecting the financial interests of the medical-industrial complex.
Question 48: How can patients effectively advocate for themselves?
Answer: Successful self-advocacy requires thorough research about conditions and treatments, maintaining detailed records, and questioning all recommended procedures. Patients should never accept treatments without understanding their necessity, risks, and alternatives.
Effective advocates also seek second opinions, remain skeptical of routine procedures, and aren't afraid to be labeled "difficult" by medical staff. Research shows that assertive patients who question their care receive better treatment and experience better outcomes than passive ones.
Question 49: Why should patients seek second opinions?
Answer: Different doctors often recommend completely different treatments for the same condition, demonstrating the subjective nature of medical practice. Surgeons tend to recommend surgery while physicians prefer medication, showing how treatment recommendations often reflect provider bias rather than patient needs.
Second opinions can reveal alternative treatment options and help patients make informed decisions about their care. Many doctors resist second opinions because they expose the lack of scientific consensus in medical practice and threaten their authority.
Question 50: What makes modern medicine unscientific despite its technological advances?
Answer: Only about 15 percent of medical interventions are supported by solid scientific evidence, while 99 percent of articles in medical journals lack scientific soundness. Despite claims of being evidence-based, most medical practices reflect tradition, pharmaceutical industry influence, and physician preference rather than proven effectiveness.
Modern medicine relies heavily on sophisticated technology while ignoring basic principles of health and healing. Doctors often treat symptoms rather than causes, suppress rather than support natural healing processes, and prioritize profitable interventions over effective ones, making modern medicine more of a business than a science.
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Profile of Dr. Vernon Coleman
Profession:
Dr. Vernon Coleman is a registered general practitioner (GP) in the UK with a long-standing career in medicine and writing.
Credentials:
MB ChB: Medical degree.
DSc: Doctor of Science, an advanced research degree.
FRSA: Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
Achievements:
Author of over 100 books, which have sold more than 2 million copies in the UK and have been translated into 25 languages.
Sunday Times bestselling author.
Recognized as a leading medical writer and patient advocate.
Writing and Advocacy:
Dr. Coleman is renowned for his provocative and critical stance on modern medicine. His works often highlight systemic flaws in healthcare, the overuse of drugs, and the dangers of medical interventions. He is a strong advocate for patient empowerment and self-healing.
Notable Themes in Work:
Critique of the pharmaceutical industry and its influence on healthcare.
Exposés on medical errors and malpractice.
Advocacy for alternative medicine and natural healing practices.
Focus on patient rights, autonomy, and informed decision-making.
Media Recognition:
Dr. Coleman has been described as:
"The patients' champion" (Birmingham Post).
"A persuasive writer whose arguments, based on research and experience, are sound" (Nursing Standard).
"Britain's leading health care campaigner" (The Sun).
"Probably one of the most brilliant men alive today" (Irish Times).
Controversy:
His outspoken views have sparked debate within the medical community, with supporters praising his boldness and critics questioning his conclusions. Nonetheless, his work has been influential in raising awareness about the risks associated with mainstream medical practices.
Legacy:
Dr. Vernon Coleman’s books and media presence have established him as a leading voice in the movement for healthcare reform and patient advocacy. His ability to blend medical insights with accessible writing has made his work widely read and impactful.
Great post, agree with everything but the vegetarian diet, stay away from the sun, Dr. Ornish. I know many vegetarians that are not healthy, fat etc. Keto, low-carb/high good fats, good meats are the way to go.
Avoid doctors and eat mostly meat and fish.