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Title: Confessions of a Medical Heretic by Robert S. Mendelsohn ISBN: 0-8092-4131-5 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies Pub. Date: 01 May, 1990 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (15 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A serious and eye-opening assessment of orthodox medicine
Comment: I read this book a long time ago, but have never forgotten it. For anyone who has doubts about the benevolence of the AMA, pharmaceutical companies and the allied health industries or has suffered from drug interactions, side effects, long-term effects, misadiagnoses, botched treatments, apathy or arrogance on the part of medical providers, this book is MUST reading. This is one of the first mainstream books to address these issues and to suggest alternative treatments.
Rating: 5
Summary: Hear Ye, Hear Ye
Comment: If you do NOT have a medical doctor, you should read this book.
If you DO have a medical doctor, you should read this book.
If you INTEND to become a medical doctor, you should read this book.
If you ARE a medical doctor you should read this book.
I have just re-read my copyrighted 1979 version of Confessions of a Medical Heretic. It's alarming to consider that, published 22 years ago, this book is as fresh a read as if it were published this week. Imagine the conditions that must exist today!
I have read in alternative health for 40 years; own several hundred books ranging from acupuncture & chiropractic to iridology & kinesiology; have dated works that include the writings of Royal Lee and Weston Price; owned and operated a health food store for five years; taught the seriously ill that diabetes, CVD, even emphysema, cancer and AIDS, are all utterly curable.
Dr. Mendelsohn's work is an inspiration. In a latter section of his book, he explains what today's doctor should--and could--be. And it makes me weep for all Americans trying to recoup their health, indeed weep for the people of those countries whose doctors come to America "to study, to learn."
Why? It brings to mind the thousands of customers who came into my health shop spitting out venomous remarks about their doctors. Americans, by and large, dislike and distrust their doctors.
On countless occasions I retorted: no one, NO ONE, worked harder than your doctor to get where he is. NO one wants more to help you than your doctor. When you and I were in high school, how did we spend Saturday night? You know darned well how.
Your doctor, on the other hand, was burning the midnight oil--STARTING IN HIGH SCHOOL--to be at the top of the class, to get into the best college, to be accepted at the best med school, to nail the best internship and residency. He worked feverishly for 20 years before buying that Mercedes.
Please don't see him as the enemy. Help him. Take him a book. Take him a book on magnesium, vitamin C, CoQ10. Take him a book on iridology, on handwriting analysis, on reflexology.
All the fuss over public education, all the money wasted on American schooling? Quit wasting time over trying to reform it...turn it over to the Catholics.
All the fuss over medical education and treatment, all the money wasted on useless study? Quit wasting time trying to reform it...turn it over to Dr. Mendelsohn.
Visualize the sickest nation in the world as healthy again.
Visualize the most awful diseases not as scary, but as cured.
Visualize Americans trim and vigorous again.
Visualize insurance premiums plummetting!
Visualize a nation in love with its hard-working doctors.
So many MDs have led the way for us in the field of alternative medicine. Dr. Mendelsohn is a hero to have bucked the system, and to have given this book--this shocking accounting of the American medical system--to his countrymen.
Confessions of a Medical Heretic is a must read for any American under age 120---and for any foreigner whose MD "studied" in America.
Rating: 4
Summary: A Doctor Confesses All
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The idea behind this book can be ascertained from its title. The word "confession" means to admit. What the late Dr. Robert Mendelsohn does is to admit truths about what he calls the "Church of Modern Medicine." A "heretic" is a person who professes to heresy. A heresy is any opinion opposed to established doctrines.
Thus, Mendelsohn in his book tells us truths and his opinions (based on his excellent qualifications) regarding orthodox medicine. His opinions are angry ones. (I'd be angry too if I spent my entire life in orthodox medicine only to discover that it is not what it claims to be.) Like anyone who is angry, the author occasionally goes off on tangents but overall he sticks to the main premise of the book.
What is the premise of this book? Mendelsohn tells us this immediately in the book's opening section called the "Non Credo." He states, "I do not believe in modern medicine. I am a medical heretic. My aim of this book is to persuade you to become a heretic, too." (Notice, that contrary to popular belief, the premise of this book is not to tell you to stop seeing your doctor.)
Each chapter (there are nine) of this book has many truths. These truths are not out-of-date and will probably remain relevant into the far future. Here are just three examples:
1) "Every drug stresses and hurts your body in some way."
2) "A healthy society is characterized by strong, positive family relationships and subsequent minimal need of doctors."
3) "Doctors are not trained to attack the core of any problem, merely to suppress symptoms."
Sometimes, the author juxtaposes two truths to make a point. My favorite: "All their [that is, doctors'] intentions may be good, but we all know what the road to Hell is paved with."
What I really noticed about this book is the author's strong opinions. Here, again, are three examples:
1) "Doctors in general should be treated with the same degree of trust as used-car salesmen."
2) "When I meet a doctor, I generally figure I'm meeting a person who is narrow-minded, prejudiced, and fairly incapable of reasoning and deliberation."
3) "Get used to the idea right away that no single system can or should claim to have an exclusive fix on the dynamics of health."
There is even discussion about non-drug medicine. Mendelsohn states, "In the Church of Modern Medicine, the doctor who treats without drugs is regarded as a heretic because he or she appears to have rejected the sacrament of medication." Today, orthodox medicine calls such people "quacks." One of the people they call a quack, the author mentions, is Dr. Linus Pauling because he wanted to treat without drugs. The late Linus Pauling was a two-time Nobel Prize winner. Question: What gives orthodox medicine the right to call such a brilliant person a quack? His credentials prove otherwise.
The book's last section is called, "Epilog: In search of the New Doctor." It is an interesting section where Mendelsohn gives his vision of the doctor of the future. This vision has yet to be achieved and my guess is, it will never be achieved.
The only problem I had with this book is the lack of footnotes with respect to specific numbers and statistics. When statistics are given, you have to give credit to their source. However, Mendelsohn does supply many references.
Another good book on this subject that is less opinionated is "The Medical Mafia" (1995) by Dr. Guylaine Lanctot. I think this title is a good indicator of its contents.
In conclusion, Dr. Robert Mendelsohn's book does a good job in exposing the truths behind orthodox medicine. These truths are what you and your family should know for their own protection. I strongly recommend this book if you want to become aware of these truths.
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