They changed it - subtly at first - big time recently. Check out what they use at your local medical school. I think the current one that is used at Harvard was posted once. Like night and day from what you quoted. Illusions - it's not all it seems to be. Here's another biggie... Mad Cow, Testing, and PR. DRINK your CS consistently. Gotta run... clients now...
Christine ~~~~~~~ From: "Nutrition and Healing - Amanda Ross" <[email protected]> Health e-Tips Thursday September 23, 2004 ************************************** We hope you enjoy this free e-letter from Dr. Jonathan V. Wright's Nutrition and Healing. ************************************* Dear Reader, I can't help but wonder what the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the cattle industry is so afraid of right now. When a small producer of high-quality beef, Creekstone Farms Premium Beef, decided that they'd like to privately test all of the cattle they slaughter for mad cow disease at their own expense, I would think the Feds would give them a gold star for being so responsible and taking this kind of industry leadership. Instead, they're acting much more like a teen who has been out past curfew -- and up to no good. If you can believe it, the USDA does not allow private testing for mad cow disease by producers, insisting that the government testing system is perfectly adequate. Even though they have just introduced a new plan that will test 10 times more animals than before, they will still test less than 1 percent of the 37 million cattle slaughtered each year. I don't find this very comforting. Especially not when you consider that some other countries, like Japan, require 100 percent testing of beef products sold in their country. Cattle producers, of course, are fighting against Creekstone Farms' independent testing plan, saying that it would set an expensive precedent that consumers will be footing the bill for in the supermarket. But the fact is, if the government raised its current standard to 100 percent testing, the shift would add only six cents per pound to the cost of beef. And polls have shown that 95 percent of Americans would happily pay an extra TEN cents per pound for beef they knew was safe without a doubt. So what's the problem? Why won't they allow even one small farm to perform 100 percent testing -- at its own expense? Granted, bureaucratic systems hate change -- and our labyrinth of government regulators always seem more likely to resist a new idea than investigate its merits. But this ban goes beyond reason -- and into the realm of guilt and fear-based behavior. The bottom line is that whether our government is merely afraid -- or practicing a more sinister cover-up -- they are putting us all at risk. You can somewhat sidestep this mess by sticking with meat from grass-fed cattle. But since beef products can be found in much more than just steak and burgers, you're still not completely safe. There's much, much more information about mad cow disease than I could even begin to fit in here. You might want to look into it, although I'll warn you that it is extremely unsettling. Of course, I suspect that some of the more hysterical claims should be taken with a grain of salt and dismissed until proven. But the lingering question is: shouldn't we be anxious to learn the truth -- and avoid the consequences of such a potentially dangerous disease? I know what my answer is. > From: "Deb&Mark" <[email protected]> > Whatever happened to the Hippocratic Oath: > > THE HIPPOCRATIC OATH > I swear by Apollo the physician, by Æsculapius, Hygeia, and Panacea, and I > take to witness all the gods, all the goddesses, to keep according to my > ability and my judgement, the following Oath. > > "To consider dear to me as my parents him who taught me this art; to live in > common with him and if necessary to share my goods with him; to look upon > his children as my own brothers, to teach them this art if they so desire > without fee or written promise; to impart to my sons and the sons of the > master who taught me and the disciples who have enrolled themselves and have > agreed to the rules of the profession, but to these alone the precepts and > the instruction. I will prescribe regimen for the good of my patients > according to my ability and my judgement and never do harm to anyone. To > please no one will I prescribe a deadly drug nor give advice which may cause > his death. Nor will I give a woman a pessary to procure abortion. But I will > preserve the purity of my life and my art. I will not cut for stone, even > for patients in whom the disease is manifest; I will leave this operation to > be performed by practitioners, specialists in this art. In every house where > I come I will enter only for the good of my patients, keeping myself far > from all intentional ill-doing and all seduction and especially from the > pleasures of love with women or with men, be they free or slaves. All that > may come to my knowledge in the exercise of my profession or in daily > commerce with men, which ought not to be spread abroad, I will keep secret > and will never reveal. If I keep this oath faithfully, may I enjoy my life > and practice my art, respected by all men and in all times; but if I swerve > from it or violate it, may the reverse be my lot." > > or is that just a fairy tale now. > >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "sol" <[email protected]> >> CS>Hydrogen Peroxide >> You are probably right about the legal issue. When did the responsibility >> change from helping a patient, to prescribing pharmaceuticals? Is this >> relatively recent, or did I just spend the majority of my life ignorant of >> the true purpose of MDs? It all seems to be escalating so >> fast.............. >> sol >> >> Christine Carleton wrote: >> >>> Sol, >>> >>> It's not personal. It's legal. >>> >>> In court the first responsibility of an MD is to prescribe pharmaceuticals >>> rather than suggest clean water or food to patients. -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. 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