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I had everything wrong with me that was on Dr.Z's list of Self Evaluation symptoms. I had no energy, chronic aches and pains all over my body.

I had difficulty with motivation, depression, arthritis, hearing loss, ringing in the ears, high blood pressure, heart palpitations, light headedness, trouble sleeping, shortness of breath, excessive appetite, frequent constipation, digestive problems, bloated feeling, heartburn, anxiety attacks, nervousness, and my balance was way off.

I am 61 years old. This went on for thirty years. Sometimes I really felt like giving up.

I was on thirteen different medications at the time.

For years I had gone from medical doctor to medical doctor - all they did is give me more medications which made me only more miserable.

I went to see Dr. Z at his office for an examination where he screened me for pain, muscle strength imbalance, hypoglycemia/blood sugar problems, allergies and evaluated my nutritional and digestive status.

Dr. Z was hesitant to take me on as a patient. He told me that because I had these problems for so many years that I would have to make drastic life style changes and follow his recommendations absolutely...could I do that? Well, I decided right then that I could do anything I put my mind to.

In one week, yes in just one week, in getting chiropractic adjustments, changing my diet, taking supplements and doing the home work brain exercises he gave me I am much stronger than I have been in years! I can hardly believe this myself.

The hypoglycemia diet - no carboydrates. Breakfast is hardest - I used to eat cereal with non-fat milk, dried apricots and banana every morning. Popcorn for snacks during the day.

PS - Within two weeks I decided to go off three of my medications - OxyContin, Prevacid and Glucophage.. I would love to be off all of them, eventually.

Dr. Z's comments:

For that very reason - I have not been to a medical doctor (MD) for over thirtyfive (35) years - except for a hernia surgery.

Medical doctors, typically, have nothing to offer for chronic illness - except of course - more and more pharmaceutical medications..

Here is a letter from Annette J.

I WANT to seriously try your recommendations but I honestly do not have the means as I have been going to my Doctor/s almost every two weeks for the last 4 years.

I can try in a month to get on your program if you can possibly email me then. Thank you for your information. I believe there is a lot of truth to what you say, believe me."

I used to be a home health nurse but I fall asleep at the wheel even now. I forgot, I am also on

What is wrong with this picture?

EVERY single medication has a NUMBER OF POSSIBLY SERIOUS SIDE EFFECTS published in the PDR. You can also "Google" them on-line.

From her letter to me, it appears that Annette is NOT getting any better.

At this point it may be nearly impossible to decipher what are Annette's true health problems, and which are doctor/medication induced secondary problems.

Absurd example - She takes Ambien for insomnia - and Provogil to stay awake

Death by Medicine

American medical system - the leading cause of death and injury in the United States - could this be true?

Here are excerpts of my article on the Death by Medicine, which I first published a few years back.

At that time, I called Gary Null's office in Manhattan. A staff person contacted him by phone. Through her, he gave me permission to quote form this research project.

Death by Medicine
Gary Null PhD, Carolyn Dean MD ND, Martin Feldman MD
Debora Rasio MD, Dorothy Smith PhD
November 2003

ABSTRACT
A definitive review and close reading of medical peer-review journals, and government health statistics shows that American medicine frequently causes more harm than good.

The number of people having in-hospital, adverse drug reactions (ADR) to prescribed medicine is 2.2 million. 1

Dr. Richard Besser, of the CDC, in 1995, said the number of unnecessary antibiotics prescribed annually for viral infections was 20 million. Dr. Besser, in 2003, now refers to

It is evident that the American medical system is the leading cause of death and injury in the United States. The 2001 heart disease annual death rate is 699,697; the annual cancer death rate, 553,251. 5

TABLES AND FIGURES (see Section on Statistical Tables and Figures, below, for exposition)

We could have an even higher death rate by using Dr. Lucien Leape's 1997 medical and drug error rate of 3 million. 14 Multiplied by the fatality rate of 14% (that Leape used in 1994 )16 we arrive at an annual death rate of 420,000 for drug errors and medical errors combined. If we put this number in place of Lazorou's 106,000 drug errors and the Institute of Medicine's (IOM) 98,000 medical errors (which may have a drug error overlap with Lazorou¹s study), we could add another 216,000 deaths making a total of 999,936 deaths annually.

The enumerating of unnecessary medical events is very important in our analysis. Any medical procedure that is invasive and not necessary must be considered as p art of the larger iatrogenic picture. Unfortunately, cause and effect go unmonitored.

The figures on unnecessary events represent people (“patients”) who are thrust into a dangerous healthcare system. They are helpless victims. Each one of these 16.4 million lives is being affected in a way that could have a fatal consequence. Simply entering a hospital could result in the following:

• In 16.4 million people, 2.1% chance of a serious adverse drug reaction,1 (186,000)

• In 16.4 million people, 5-6% chance of acquiring a nosocomial infection,9 (489,500)

• In 16.4 million people, 4-36% chance of having an iatrogenic injury in hospital (medical error and adverse drug reactions),16 (1.78 million)

• In 16.4 million people, 17% chance of a procedure error, 40 (1.3 million)

All the statistics above represent a one-year time span. Imagine the numbers over a ten-year period. Working with the most conservative figures from our statistics we project the following 10-year death rates.

**** Our projected statistic of 7.8 million iatrogenic deaths is more than all the casualties from wars that America has fought in its entire history.

Our projected figures for unnecessary medical events occurring over a 10-year period are also dramatic.

TEN-YEAR STATISTICS FOR UNNECESSARY INTERVENTION

These projected figures show that a total of 164 million people, approximately 56% of the population of the United States, have been treated unnecessarily by the medical industry – in other words, nearly 50,000 people per day.

We have added, cumulatively, figures from 13 references of annual iatrogenic deaths. However, there is invariably some degree of overlap and double counting that can occur in gathering non-finite statistics. Death numbers don't come with names and birth dates to prevent duplication On the other hand, there are many missing statistics. As we will show, only about 5 to 20% of iatrogenic incidents are even recorded. (16,24,25,33,34) And, our outpatient iatrogenic statistics (112) only include drug-related events and not surgical cases, diagnostic errors, or therapeutic mishaps.

We have also been conservative in our inclusion of statistics that were not reported in peer review journals or by government institutions. For example, on July 23, 2002, The Chicago Tribune analyzed records from patient databases, court cases, 5,810 hospitals, as well as 75 federal and state agencies and found 103,000 cases of death due to hospital infections, 75% of which were preventable. (152) We do not include this figure but report the lower Weinstein figure of 88,000. (9) Another figure that we withheld, for lack of proper peer review was The National Committee for Quality Assurance, September 2003 report which found that at least 57,000 people die annually from lack of proper care for commons diseases such as high blood pressure, diabetes, or heart disease. (153)

Overlapping of statistics in Death by Medicine may occur with the Institute of Medicine (IOM) (6) paper that designates "medical error" as including drugs, surgery, and unnecessary procedures. Since we have also included other statistics on adverse drug reactions, surgery and, unnecessary procedures, perhaps a much as 50% of the IOM number could be redundant. However, even taking away half the 98,000 IOM number still leaves us with iatrogenic events as the number one killer at 738,000 annual deaths.

Even greater numbers of iatrogenic deaths will eventually come to light when all facets of health care delivery are measured. Most iatrogenic statistics are derived from hospital-based studies. However, health care is no longer typically relegated to hospitals. Today, health care is shared by hospitals, outpatient clinics, transitional care, long-term care, rehabilitative care, home care, and private practitioners offices. In the current climate of reducing health-care costs, the number of hospitals and the length of patient stays are being slashed. These measures will increase the number of patients shunted into outpatient, home care, and long-term care and the iatrogenic morbidity and mortality will also increase.

Dr. Z's Comment:

You have to do it ALL -

You Must start with YOURSELF

You may find that your good health will depend less and less on pharmaceutical medications, but rather on intelligent choices you can make for your life and in your life.

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Today's Topics:

Content:

The Dangers of Western Medicine - I get letters
(bolds and links added by Dr. Z)

Dr. Z's comments:

Here is a letter from Annette J.

What is wrong with this picture?

Death by Medicine

American medical system - the leading cause of death and injury in the United States - could this be true?

Dr. Z's Comment:

You have to do it ALL -

You Must start with YOURSELF

Dr. Z's Self Evaluation

More Dr. Z's Client Testimonials

Ask Dr. Z

Today's Topics:

Content:

The Dangers of Western Medicine - I get letters (bolds and links added by Dr. Z)

Dr. Z's comments:

Here is a letter from Annette J.

What is wrong with this picture?

Death by Medicine American medical system - the leading cause of death and injury in the United States - could this be true?

Dr. Z's Comment:

You have to do it ALL - You Must start with YOURSELF

Dr. Z's Self Evaluation

More Dr. Z's Client Testimonials

The Dangers of Western Medicine - I get letters
(bolds and links added by Dr. Z)

Death by Medicine

American medical system - the leading cause of death and injury in the United States - could this be true?

You have to do it ALL -

You Must start with YOURSELF