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Spot on! I was a head nurse in an extended care facility attached to a hospital in Nanaimo, BC in the mid 70s, and had come from the USA where I'd practiced in critical care units. Of the 108 patients, the majority of them each had been put on huge numbers of meds by the attending physician, and they'd been given without any further evaluation of need for years upon years! I was aghast at the lackadaisical care to their health. I managed to get the majority of them down to essentially only those with maximum benefits ,and many changed for less adverse and side effects. It apparently was easier to drug them then to spend the time to evaluate them thoroughly and assess their individual needs.

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Which brings us to the fake vaccines because no risk benefit studies even exist. If they did, we would all know, instead of only some of us, that the risk of the phony vaccines is much higher than the benefit and the phony vaccines have killed more people than save and injured millions more permanently. But it's much worse than this article describes as bad as that is. The medical profession in the U.S. is almost entirely corrupt now. If you think any of these medical clowns put an iota's effort into researching the risks rather than simply parroting the FDA, CDC, HHS, NIH, NIAH and the crooks in Big Phony Pharma, you've got another thing coming. Shear laziness. They are busy to be sure, but that is no excuse for neglecting to get informed so you actually know what you are recommending because what you are recommending has killed, is killing and will kill people directly and indirectly.

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Great article. Some books to add to the reading list:

Sickening: How Big Pharma Broke American Health Care and How We Can Repair It. By John Abramson

and The Metabolic Approach to Cancer: Integrating Deep Nutrition, the Ketogenic Diet, and Nontoxic Bio-Individualized Therapies. By by Dr. Nasha Winters ND FABNO L.Ac Dipl.OM, Jess Higgins Kelley MNT, et al.

Dr Abramson makes the point that only about 1 in 4 new drugs offer any new benefit over drugs with expired patents.

My friend cured his cancer with a Ketogenic diet inspired by the 2nd book. His doctor could not believe his eyes when he saw the tumors fade away without drugs.

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I've been doing these calculations since the mRNA vaccines where thrust upon us. Using BMJ data and the correct endpoints that include SAE's grade 3 and 4 and death here's what I came up with for Moderna, Pfizer and J&J.

Moderna: NNH=5, Efficacy=-322.59%

Pfizer: NNH=241, Efficacy=-52.38%

J&J: NNH=74, Efficacy=-80.32%

These are just the basic calculations but they show what a wreck these drugs are. Keep in mind this comes from their data. Right off the FDA submissions. The current way of calculating efficacy is a mathematical trick. It is not scalable and produces spurious results. From a clinical standpoint absolute risk reductions makes much more sense. But then the NIAID and FDA would be losing out on a lot of money.

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This presentation was given in Sweden. Regarding over-diagnosing, in the US many physicians are influenced by the ever-present specter of defending themselves against malpractice suits. This results in the inclination of "doing more is safer than doing less". However this article was excellent, and should demonstrate that actions guided by fear or intimidation are dysfunctional for providing optimal patient care.

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My husband and I are both mid 60's, he is on no prescriptions and myself only on levothyroxin. I have avoided any other suggestions for treatments over the years by finding natural alternatives for both of us. My doctor doesn't always agree with my choices but can't argue the results I get. I always find it shocking that with the wealth of information online that most people do no research on drugs they are taking and are completely trusting that their doctors always know best. While I do think most doctors are trying to do the right thing, you also have to take personal responsibility and critically study any drug or treatment prescribed for you.

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