What Doctors Don’t Tell You
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Lynne McTaggart. What Doctors Don’t Tell You
WHAT DOCTORS DON’T TELL YOU. The truth about the dangers of modern medicine. LYNNE McTAGGART
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Contents
Dedication
Introduction
1 The Un-science of Modern Medicine
2 Diagnostic Excess
BLOOD-PRESSURE READINGS
CHOLESTEROL TESTS
ECG Readings
ANGIOGRAPHY
X-RAYS
Myelograms and X-ray Dyes
BONE SCANS
CAT SCANS
MRI SCANS
LAB TESTS
THE HIV TEST
‘OSCOPY’ TESTS
BIOPSIES
TESTING THE TEST
3 Prenatal Testing: Dead Certainty
ULTRASOUND SCANS
THE NEW DOWN’S TEST
FOETAL MONITORING DURING LABOUR
AFP TESTS
AFP Test
The Triple Test
CHORIONIC VILLUS SAMPLING
AMNIOCENTESIS
Radiation and Down’s Syndrome
GETTING FIT BEFORE CONCEIVING
4 Catching It Early. SCREENING FOR CANCER
SMEAR TESTS
MAMMOGRAMS
SCREENING FOR OVARIAN CANCER
PROSTATE CANCER
SCREENING AGAINST SCREENING
5 Crazy about Cholesterol: Medicine’s Red Herring
THE CHOLESTEROL FALLACY
THE ALL-PURPOSE DRUG
NOT-SO-WONDER DRUGS
A Violent End
DIETS FOR HEART DISEASE
Margarine and Other Plastic Food
THE TROUBLE WITH TODAY’S FOOD
Native Nutrition
Stay Connected
6 Vaccination: Knee-jerk Jabs
A BLUNT INSTRUMENT
MYTH NO 1: DISEASES HAVE BEEN ELIMINATED PURELY AS A RESULT OF VACCINATION
Polio
Tetanus, Diphtheria and Whooping Cough
Measles
Hib Meningitis
MYTH NO 2: THE DISEASES YOU ARE VACCINATED AGAINST ARE DEADLY
Measles
Mumps
Whooping Cough
Polio
Meningitis C
Rubella
MYTH NO 3: VACCINES WILL PROTECT YOU AGAINST THESE DISEASES
Whooping Cough
Tetanus and Diphtheria
Measles
Mumps
Rubella
HIB Meningitis
Polio
Tuberculosis (BCG Vaccine)
MYTH NO 4: THE SIDE-EFFECTS OF VACCINES ARE RARE AND MOSTLY MILD
Whooping Cough
Tetanus
Measles/Mumps/Rubella (MMR) Vaccine
Mumps
Rubella
Polio
THE EXCIPIENTS IN VACCINES
NEW DISEASES FROM VACCINES
MMR and Autism
Measles in the Brain
ALTERNATIVES TO IMMUNIZATION. Vitamin A and Immunization
Other Preventive Measures
7 Hormonal Mayhem
EARLY WARNING SIGNS
THE MYTHS EXPLODED
A LITANY OF SIDE-EFFECTS
SO-CALLED ‘NATURAL’ ALTERNATIVES
ALTERNATIVES TO HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY (HRT)
8 Miracle Cures. ANTIBIOTICS
DRUG TESTING ON THE PUBLIC
DATA TORTURE
TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING
ASTHMA DRUGS
STEROIDS
The Incidence of Side-Effects
Steroids in Children
DRUGS FOR ECZEMA
ARTHRITIS DRUGS
COX-2 Inhibitors
DRUGS FOR HYPERTENSION
COMBINATION HEART DRUGS
Drugs for Heart Disease
DRUGS FOR EPILEPSY
ANTI-DEPRESSANTS
Migraine
DRUGS FOR HYPERACTIVITY
CHEMOTHERAPY
VIAGRA
Speeding Up Sperm
DRUGS TO TREAT THE SIDE-EFFECTS OF DRUGS
A DRUG CHECKLIST
WONDER DRUGS
9 Dental Medicine: Safe until Proven Dangerous
AMALGAM FILLINGS
A TIME-RELEASED POISON
A BODY OF EVIDENCE
POSSIBLE DISEASES FROM MERCURY AMALGAMS
Mercury and the Immune System
ME and Multiple Sclerosis
Amalgam in Pregnancy
Fertility
Hair Loss
Allergies Caused by Mercury
Upset in the Gut
Alzheimer’s Disease and Mercury
Mercury and the Heart
Problems with other Metal Alloys
Mercury and Mental Illness
Mercury Lawsuits
Removing Your Fillings
10 Standard Operating Procedure
BYPASS SURGERY
BACK PAIN
SURGERY FOR BREAST CANCER
HERNIA REPAIR
PROSTATE CANCER
HYSTERECTOMY
TRANSCERVICAL RESECTION OF THE WOMB
BLOOD TRANSFUSIONS
JUST A MINUTE, SURGEON
11 Gee-whizz Technology: The Video-games Wizard and Blocked-drains Mechanic
KEYHOLE SURGERY
Video Games-Playing
‘Adverse Incidents’
Longer and More Dangerous
JOINT-REPLACEMENT SURGERY
Old and New Technologies
Complications
New and Improved?
ANGIOPLASTY: UNBLOCKING THE PLUMBING
ASSISTED CONCEPTION
LITHOTRIPSY
STAR WARS IN THE SURGERY
12 Taking Control
Vitamin K
A Faulty Paradigm
Food as Prevention
Suspicious of Alternatives
A Medical Consumer
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Notes. CHAPTER 1
CHAPTER 2
CHAPTER 3
CHAPTER 4
CHAPTER 5
CHAPTER 6
CHAPTER 7
CHAPTER 8
CHAPTER 9
CHAPTER 10
CHAPTER 11
CHAPTER 12
Index
Further Resources
Acknowledgements
About the Author
Also by the Author
About the Publisher
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‘This groundbreaking book … has potential to save lives. Stunning stuff!’ Kathryn Marsden, author of The Food Combining Diet
‘A hugely impressive book, and the finest critique of modern medical practice I have yet read. Lynne McTaggart takes a scalpel straight to the heart of medicine’s most cherished dogmas. Essential reading …’ Peter Cox, health campaigner and bestselling author
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Some researchers argue that the presence or absence of low bone density is a meaningless indicator of risk of fractures or osteoporosis.85 In one nine-year study of 1,000 middle-aged women, the group considered at high risk of osteoporosis actually had fewer fractures than the group not considered at risk. Bone-density screening has also never been shown to be effective in preventing fractures, according to a large review of published work on bone-density screening.86
Bone scans may have a one-time use to help in diagnosing women suspected clinically of osteoporosis, but appear to be too variable to be relied upon as a general screening test for women without symptoms.
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