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Medicines or Drugs: Are They Saving Your Life or Killing
You?
Medicines or Drugs: Are They Saving Your Life or Killing
You?
The most important subject we can talk about
…
that’s your health.
The most important subject we can talk about
…
that’s your health.
Time-tested principles, proven strategies and
best-kept secrets
Time-tested principles, proven strategies and
best-kept secrets
That thousands of wellness doctors use for themselves and their families.
Do you know?Do you know?
Every 30 seconds in the United States,
someone files for bankruptcy as a
result of the treatment they receive
for a serious health problem?
-- according to researchers at Harvard University
Do you know?Do you know?
That’s over 50%of all personal
bankruptcy filings affecting over two million Americans
every year.-- researchers at Harvard University
Do you know?Do you know?
“…three-quarters of the medically bankrupt
had health insurance at the
time of their illness.”
-- researchers at Harvard University
“Nobody’s safe.”“Nobody’s safe.”
-- Elizabeth Warren a law professor at Harvard University
Inconvenient Truths of Health Care
Inconvenient Truths of Health Care
“America is in serious financial trouble.”
-- David WalkerU.S. Comptroller General
(America’s top accountant)
Inconvenient Truths of Health Care
Inconvenient Truths of Health Care
“America and Americans are going bankrupt due to health care …
or dare I say – lack of caring for our health.”
-- Discover Wellness, How Staying Health Can Make You Rich
The American LifestyleThe American Lifestyle
• Pain = stop exercising
+ gain weight
+ poor posture
+ unhealthy thinking
+ poor habits
The American LifestyleThe American LifestyleDepression
High Blood Pressure
Elevated Cholesterol
Increased Risk of Preventable Diseases
Heart Disease
CancerDiabetes OBESITYStress Related Conditions
… And Much More
The American LifestyleThe American Lifestyle
The cycle continues… • Increased Pain =
increased weight gain + unhealthy posture + depressed thinking + destructive habits.
The American LifestyleThe American Lifestyle
Are YouLiving Sick?
America SpendsAmerica Spends
$2 trillion per year on health care …
really… sick care.
America SpendsAmerica Spends
More than 15% of every dollarspent in America … goes toward health care
America SpendsAmerica Spends
More than 70% of our health care Dollars treating preventative lifestyle-related chronic
diseases.
America SpendsAmerica Spends
Heart Disease, Cancer, Diabetes, Obesity, Stress Related Conditions,
Chronic Pain and Adverse Drug Reactions
The Seven Conditions causing America’s #1
crisis
America SpendsAmerica Spends
$6,280
Each and every man, woman and child spends per year on
medical care.
America SpendsAmerica Spends
• If you and your children didn’t spend $6,280 each on health care last year, – that means your neighbors and
coworkers spent your share and you still paid for it.
– A family of four = $25,120 per year
Now, If you’re thinking to yourself…
Now, If you’re thinking to yourself…
I’m not spending that much on health care – this isn’t my
problem… why should I care?
I’m healthy, I feel good,
look good, my family is healthy
Think for a moment…Think for a moment…• Starbucks spends more
money on health insurance than they do on coffee.
• General Motors spends more money on health insurance than they do on steel for their cars.
Think for a moment…Think for a moment…
How do you think they pay for that?
They pass the costs on to us – their customers.
Every time you spend:Every time you spend:
• $1.95 at Starbucks for a cup of coffee, – $.30 goes to cover medical costs.
• $10 for a movie ticket, – $1.50 goes to cover medical costs.
• $20 for a pizza, – $3 goes to cover medical costs.
• $50 for a tank of gas, – $7.50 goes to cover medical costs.
Every time you spend:Every time you spend:
• $250 for an airline ticket, – $37.50 goes to cover medical costs.
• $1,000 on auto repairs, – $150 goes to cover medical costs.
• $2,500 on a plasma television, – $375 goes to cover medical costs.
• $25,000 on a new car, – $1,666 goes to cover medical costs.
We’re all paying the bill …
Increased prices, Increased taxes, Increased premiums
We’re all paying the bill …
Increased prices, Increased taxes, Increased premiums
Medicines or Drugs: Are They Saving Your Life or Killing You?
What Your Medical Doctor May Not Have Told You.
When I discovered the research that I am about to share with you today, I was shocked. I
thought to myself…
this is impossible, it can’t be true.
You may feel that I’m about to convince you to believe in my
opinion. I’m not.
You’re Crazy!No Way!
That’s Not Right! Can’t Be True
Use your favorite search engine and enter: adverse drug
reactions, medical mistakes and
pharmaceutical marketing.
Discover information widely reported within the medical
profession in professional journals such as the Journal of the
American Medical Association, information directly from the FDA’s website, 60 Minutes, The NY Times
and The Washington Post.
There are three main
points that I believe can and
will save your life.
1. Medicines Are Not As Safe As Most People Believe
Them To Be
2. Prescribing medications is
not as scientific as we believe it to be and…
3. The pharmaceutical industry is
a much bigger business than most people believe it to
be.
Each year, approximately 2.2 million people experience Adverse Drug
Reactions (ADRs) from taking prescription medications.
— Journal of the American Medical Association
We’re Not as Safe as We Thought
We’re Not as Safe as We Thought
Of these, it is estimated that more than 100,000 patients die
annually. ADRs are the fifth greatest killer in U.S.
We’re Not as Safe as We Thought
We’re Not as Safe as We Thought
Right after heart disease (743,460)
cancer (529,904)
stroke (150,108)
pulmonary disease (101,077)
We’re Not as Safe as We Thought
We’re Not as Safe as We Thought
This study is a Meta analysis of 39 research reports
published from 1966 to 1996. — (JAMA 279:1200 1998)
We’re Not as Safe as We Thought
We’re Not as Safe as We Thought
Approximately 1.5 million hospitalizations a year were
caused by adverse drug reactions.
Every day, more than 4,000 patients have ADRs so serious
that they need to be admitted to American hospitals.
— Journal of the American Medical Association
We’re Not as Safe as We Thought
We’re Not as Safe as We Thought
2.09% of all pediatric hospitalizations were caused by ADRs and 39% of these were
life-threatening.
We’re Not as Safe as We Thought
We’re Not as Safe as We Thought
In one year, there are 79,000 children admitted to the hospital because of ADRs -
31,000 of these children had
life-threatening
adverse reactions.
We’re Not as Safe as We Thought
We’re Not as Safe as We Thought
The FDA reported that Vioxx may have contributed to almost 28,000 heart attacks in the U.S. between 1999 and 2003.
We’re Not as Safe as We Thought
We’re Not as Safe as We Thought
There are approximately 100,000 deaths
annually due to adverse drug reactions – that is…
We’re Not as Safe as We Thought
We’re Not as Safe as We Thought
Five times the number of
deaths due to AIDS in America (20,000)
We’re Not as Safe as We Thought
We’re Not as Safe as We Thought
Almost twice the number of
deaths due to Diabetes (53,894)
We’re Not as Safe as We Thought
We’re Not as Safe as We Thought
Medical errors (wrong medications or doses, surgical mistakes,
infections and other preventable adverse events) contribute to
more than 1 million injuries and up to 98,000
hospital deaths per year. — Institute of Medicine (IOM) report
To Error is Human: Building a Safer Health System
We’re Not as Safe as We Thought
We’re Not as Safe as We Thought
A more recent study titled Patient Safety in
American Hospitals, found that such errors could be as
high as 195,000 deaths per year.
We’re Not as Safe as We Thought
We’re Not as Safe as We Thought
“I don’t know why the public isn’t more pissed off about this.
Imagine what the reaction would be if we had a similar
mortality in aviation.” — Donald Berwick, MD
member of the IOM panel President of Institute for Healthcare
Improvement
We’re Not as Safe as We Thought
We’re Not as Safe as We Thought
“Imagine a fully loaded Boeing 747 crashing every day of the year with no survivors. Then, you can begin to understand the number of preventable deaths that occur in our health care
system.” — AmericansMadAndAngry.org
We’re Not as Safe as We Thought
We’re Not as Safe as We Thought
Medicine is not as
scientific as we thought
Off-label use of prescription medications (medications
prescribed for conditions other than those “approved” by the U.S.
Food and Drug Administration) occurs in about one in every five prescriptions filled in the
United States.
Medicine Is Not as Scientific as We ThoughtMedicine Is Not as
Scientific as We Thought
73% of all off-label prescriptions (109 million) had little or no evidence supporting the
use in question.
The most common off-label uses were for heart medications, anticonvulsants and asthma
medications.
Medicine Is Not as Scientific as We ThoughtMedicine Is Not as
Scientific as We Thought
Why are there so many Adverse Drug
Reactions and medical errors?
Medicine Is Not as Scientific as We ThoughtMedicine Is Not as
Scientific as We Thought
Americans have been convinced – through billions of dollars of
pharmaceutical advertising – to just… ask their doctor.
As a result, 64% of all patient visits to physicians result in
prescriptions.
Medicine Is Not as Scientific as We ThoughtMedicine Is Not as
Scientific as We Thought
Americans have a mania for medications. 2.8 billion
prescriptions were filled in the year 2000. That is about 10
prescriptions for every person in the United States.
Most new drugs are approved with an average of
1,500 patient exposures and
usually for only relatively short periods of time.
— FDA.gov
Most experts agree … there is a total lack of incentive to improve the quality of our health care system. Our providers are
actually paid more when quality is worse, such as
when complications occur.
When studies are done to test the safety and efficacy of
medications to be approved by the FDA, they are not done
to determine the safety and efficacy of multiple
medications being taken at the same time.
Medicine is a much bigger business than we thought…
The pharmaceutical industry has been the most profitable industry in America for most of
the past decade.
In 2002, Pfizer Inc., the world’s largest drug company, reported
return on sales of 28.4%.
Two and a half times
better than the 10.7% return of
General Electric Company, perennially ranked
as America’s best managed business.
Nearly nine times better than
the 3.3 percent return of Wal-Mart Stores, the country’s largest and best-run
retailer.
And it was nearly 32 times
better than the .9% of
General Motors Corporation, America’s
largest car manufacturer.
The percentage of personal health dollars spent on prescription drugs has grown faster
than any other segment, including doctor and hospital bills.
— The New England Journal of Medicine
Americans comprise only 5% of
the entire world’s population, yet we consume
50% of all the prescription drugs manufactured worldwide
- more than three billion prescriptions each year.
How does the pharmaceutical
industry sustain such
profitability?
Congressmen are outnumbered two to
one by lobbyists for an industry
that spends roughly $100 million a year in campaign
contributions and lobbying expenses to protect its profits.
— Center for Public Integrity
The drug lobby invested
more than $10 million in campaign contributions during the
last election and has been a source of lucrative
employment opportunities for congressmen when they leave
office.
Annually, the drug industry spends nearly twice as much on marketing as it
spends on research and development, although drug
companies report neither total precisely.
Marketing R & DPfizer $16.90 $7.68GlaxoSmithKline $12.93 $5.20Sanofi-Aventis $5.59 $9.26Johnson & Johnson $15.86 $5.20Merck $7.35 $4.01Novartis $8.87 $4.21AstraZeneca $7.84 $3.80Hoffman La Roche $7.24 $4.01Bristol-Myers Squibb $6.43 $2.50Wyeth $5.80 $2.46Abbott Labs $4.92 $1.70Total $99.73 billion $50.3 billion
In 2004, Pfizer spent almost $120 million for media ads for Lipitor, the world's number-one selling prescription drug, while companies promoting
erectile dysfunction treatments Viagra, Levitra and Cialis spent
$425 million.
Direct to consumer advertisement has grown significantly: from $791 million in 1996 to $3.8
billion in 2004.
The pharmaceutical and health products industry has spent more
than $800 million in federal lobbying and campaign
donations at the federal and state levels in the past seven
years…
They are the largest lobbying effort in the nation and invest more money to protect their
interests by ensuring that pubic policy remains in their favor
than any other industry, except the insurance industry.
— Center for Public Integrity
All medicines are bad.
Medicines don’t save lives.
Your doctor is not a great doctor.
You should change your prescriptions without consulting the doctor who prescribed them to you.
I am NOT Saying That…I am NOT Saying That…
What I am saying is that there are three things your medical
doctor may not have told you:
1. Medicines are not as safe as we thought.
2. Medicines are not as scientific as we thought.
3. Medicine is a much bigger business than we
thought.
Want to learn more?
Read The Truth About The Drug Companies: How they Deceive Us
And What To Do About It
written by Marcia Angell, MD – former editor in chief of
The New England Journal of Medicine
The Ultimate Solution To America’s Health Care
Crisis
The Ultimate Solution To America’s Health Care
Crisis
• Yes, it is true…– America is rapidly
heading toward economic disaster due to skyrocketing health care costs.
The Ultimate Solution To America’s Health Care
Crisis
The Ultimate Solution To America’s Health Care
Crisis
Who’s going to fix our health care system?
We Are!
The Ultimate Solution To America’s Health Care
Crisis
The Ultimate Solution To America’s Health Care
Crisis
Discover Wellness …
It works, if you live it… it doesn’t, if you don’t.
The Ultimate Solution To America’s Health Care
Crisis
The Ultimate Solution To America’s Health Care
Crisis My message to you today
is one of hope.
It is time for us to work together to put the health and the care
back into health care.
If you choose to…Discover Wellness,
the ultimate solution to America’s health care
crisis…
You will discover…that staying healthy CAN make you rich.
Thank YouThank You
Medicines or Drugs: Are They Saving Your Life or Killing
You?
Medicines or Drugs: Are They Saving Your Life or Killing
You?