Organ Transplants and Limb Replacements. Medical triumph? Or Pharmaceutical Failure?

The pharmaceutical medical establishment are masters of turning failure into triumph. They have had lots of practice over the years.

• 'wonder' drugs' and 'miracle cures' that have had to be abandoned; but only (they say) because they have come up with something better to replace them,
• cancer, diabetes, dementia, autism, arthritis, heart disease, liver disease, kidney disease, and most other chronic diseases, have risen to epidemic levels; but people are surviving longer now with the disease.
  

Organ Transplantation and Limb Replacement surgery may be brilliant. But these operations are required only following years of failed medical treatment. 

Patients who require them will all have been treated with ineffective and toxic pharmaceutical drugs for years, often decades, during which time their condition have only worsened.

Indeed, most of the brilliant surgical operations that have been developed over the last 100 years or so have successfully protected conventional medicine from having to admit that much of its drug treatment is not only ineffective, but toxic, and unsafe, and usually exacerbates the original illness until it becomes a much more serious ill-health and disease.

I have written more about this medical failure in a chapter of my E-Book, "The Failure of Conventional Medicine".

There is only one way of avoiding the spiralling need for this kind of surgery, and that is to invest in a competent medical system that produces good patient outcomes.

• Investing in a medical system that can successfully treat hearts, kidneys, livers, and other organs before they need replacing, and which can help keep them functioning properly.
• Investing in a medical system that can deal with painful limbs without the patient having to take toxic painkillers for decades, drugs that eventually, inevitably, leads to limbs breaking down.

Only then will the need for transplantation gradually decrease, and at the same time, reduce the need to increase the number of organ donors.

Transplantation surgery are brilliant achievements. But they are needed only following years of failed medical treatment. And as pharmaceutical medicine continues to fail the only certainty is that the demand for transplantation will increase, as it has done during the last 50 years. 

Organ transplantation and limb replacement does not represent medical progress, it represents medical failure.

The NHS Crisis (January 2021). The COVID-19 Pandemic, and an organisation heading for new levels of serious medical failure.

I have been writing about the ongoing crisis in the NHS since 2011, and it has been difficult to find a new angle on it. Each winter, for decades now, the NHS has faced the same crisis: too many sick patients, needing too much expensive medical treatment, with insufficient resources to cope with them. More money is demanded, and the NHS budget has been increased accordingly. Yet however much the NHS budget in increased the crisis returns again. 

• Insufficient funding, we are told, year by year; we need yet more money. 
• Nonsense, I have said; this is not a funding failure, it is a medical failure. The NHS is a prisoner of conventional or pharmaceutical medicine; this is the reason for failure; and no amount of additional money is going to change that. 
• (To see all my previous blogs go to "search" at the top of this page and type "NHS crisis").
  

Spending more and more money on a failing medical system is non-sense; it is a failure to understand, and to properly analyse, what is happening to the NHS.

However, finding a new angle on the NHS crisis this year is much easier. COVID-19 has highlighted the growing failure of pharmaceutical medicine, which means that the NHS crisis cannot be resolved with more money if it is spend on the same thing. Moreover, money is no longer the problem. Since February 2020 the government has effectively given the NHS access to an 'open wallet' from which it has been told to take "whatever is needed" to deal with the pandemic.

So now, it is us, the patients, who have to "save the NHS"!

The conventional medical establishment, including the mainstream media, is telling us that the COVID-19 pandemic has transformed the situation; it is the new virus that is causing the problem; it is a completely new situation. Yet this new virus has not really transformed anything. It is the same problem, presented in a slightly different guise. The pandemic is not the problem; it is not even a particularly notable or unusual event.

The COVID-19 pandemic is not particularly different, affecting many more peoplee, or causing more serious sickness than a typical annual influenza epidemic.

We are constantly told the this coronavirus is more infectious, more deadly than the normal flu. If it is it is only marginally so. The overall death rate this year, we are told, is higher than the average death rate. If it is the difference is marginal.

COVID-10 is more of the same old excuse for the annual NHS crisis. This crisis remains what it has always been - a medical failure. The underlying problem has not changed. The NHS has no effective medical treatment to offer. This means that if the symptoms are severe patients are hospitalised; they receive all the NHS's (normally excellent) nursing care. If necessary they can access all the medical facilities intensive care units can offer. But there is no effective treatment through all this, the NHS has admitted this. This means that each patient outcome depends on whether the patient dies (usually of 'underlying health problems'), or is strong enough to survive. All the NHS can do is to take care of the patients, and wait to see which it is to be.

• Conventional medicine has not focus on the immune system, the importance of supporting and strengthening natural immunity through diet, nutrition, vitamin supplementation, and the like. We had to wait for the vaccine, we are told.
• There is no recourse to natural medical therapies, no request for assistance, no interest in what homeopathy, naturopathy Ayurveda, et al, could offer. Natural medicine has proven to be effective in countries like India, Cuba, and with patients everywhere who use their local natural therapists. But these therapists are excluded from the NHS, they have had to operate under the constraints of lockdown.

The NHS lacks imagination. It relies entirely on pharmaceutical medicine. It has no 'plan B'. It has become of creature of a system of medicine that has always demonstrated three main characteristics:

• it is not effective medicine; it is not capable of making sick people better,
• it is not safe medicine; drug and vaccine side effects, adverse reactions and DIE's, have been making sick people sicker now for decades,
• it has always been the most expensive medical system available, largely because it is an inherently dangerous system of medicine.

So the NHS has now become

    >>> a bottomless pit, with a seemingly endless amount of money now being poured into it,

            >>> an organisation with an ongoing inability to meet the demands of sick patients,

                    >>> and which is now asking US - taxpayers and patients- to save IT from total collapse.

So COVID-19 has done nothing other than to push the NHS further towards a terminal state. Neither government nor the mainstream media (MSM) seem willing or even capable of coming to this analysis. The have become part of the conventional medical establishment. As far as they are concerned the NHS remains a national treasure, based on the solid principle of providing people with the best medicine, freely available, at the point of need.

• So we are still being asked to praise and support the NHS, without any attempt to differentiate between supporting good nursing care and ineffective medical treatment. Both are lumped together. The former is praiseworthy and supportable; the latter is not.
  
• There is still no debate, in government, in the MSM, or the NHS, about whether patients are actually being offered the 'best' medicine', or if the monopoly the NHS has given to pharmaceutical medicine constitutes good value for money, or whether it is in the best interests of patients,
• And, perhaps most crucially of all, no-one seems to understand that the NHS has now reached the point when it can no longer make treatment available to everyone, even those patients with the most serious illnesses.
  

Medicine - freely available - at the point of need?

This time-honoured principle of the NHS is now being seriously undermined. The NHS crisis is no longer solely about funding. The seriousness of COVID-19 has been grossly exaggerated, but even so the NHS has clearly demonstrated it is incapable of coping with it. In the oft-repeated words of the Government and the MSM, we have to 'save our NHS'. And who is saving it? Who is paying the price? Patients who are seriously ill, and those who are likely to become serious sick, are saving it, often at the cost of their lives.

• The destruction of the national economy, our livelihoods and jobs, the scale of which mirrors only the calamity previously caused by the two world wars, is causing unprecedented levels of harm to mental health, with markedly increased levels of anxiety, depression and suicide,
• Enforced isolation and loneliness has led to rising levels of social distress,
• There have been rising levels of family breakdown and domestic violence, and apparently, even a significant increase in child sexual abuse,
  
• Increased levels of alcohol and substance abuse will inevitably lead to more sickness, and increased need for medical treatment,
  
• An estimated 27 million doctor appointments have been 'lost', and it is estimated that over 350,000 urgent cancer referrals may have been missed because patients believed (with good reason) that the hospitals could not cope with additional demands,
• About 50,000 "non-urgent" operations have been 'delayed'; many of these will no longer be required when patients die; and when the back-log is tackled, many patients will be considerably sicker.

So the workload of the NHS will not reduce; it will increase as a direct result of its failure to cope with the COVID-19 influenza outbreak.

This is rationing in action. Although it is not being called rationing at the moment, important decisions will have to be taken about who is, and who is not going to receive treatment for their illnesses. This is the new feature of the 2021 NHS crisis. It will get worse over the next 2-3 months. And (pandemic or no pandemic) it will return again in the winter or 2021-2022, and I will be writing about it.

NHS in Crisis (Summer 2018)

The NHS is in crisis again. It has come under 'unprecedented' pressure this winter, with Accident & Emergency attendances, waiting times and admissions rising to alarming levels. These are the words of the British Medical Association, the professional association and registered trade union for doctors in Britain. who undertake regular analyses on pressure points within the NHS. Today, after the 'unprecedented' winter of 2017-2018, they have highlighted "several worrying trends as spiraling demand outstrips the ability of services to cope" which predicts that the annual winter crisis is set to become one that goes on into the summer. Apparently, the crisis has become a constant, ongoing one!

               "Based on current trends, our assessment is that rather than experiencing the customary fall in pressures this summer, the NHS will experience similar levels of demand and activity this summer as it did in the winter of just two or three years ago."

I have written much about the annual winter crisis within the NHS. My most recent blog was written in November 2017, predating this winter's crisis, and referencing all the other blogs I have published over the years. My argument remains the same.

• The NHS crisis is MEDICAL.
• It concerns the failure of conventional medicine to help sick people become better.
• It concerns the side effects, or more accurately, the 'disease-inducing-effects', of pharmaceutical drugs and vaccines - which are making us sicker - and which have led to the epidemic levels of chronic sickness and diseases from which we now suffer.

Once this cause of the NHS crisis is understood the future can be confidently predicted. Conventional medicine will continue to fail to make sick people well. Pharmaceutical drugs and vaccines will continue to make us sicker, epidemic rises in levels of chronic sickness and disease will continue. And all this quite regardless of the money spent on the NHS.

Yet when the crisis in the NHS is discussed, it is always a plea for more money, more resources, more of everything. And with every ensuing year the government is obliged to respond by investing more money into the NHS. This money is spent on MORE conventional medicine, MORE pharmaceutical drugs and vaccines, in fact MORE of the very things that are producing the ongoing health crisis.

Conventional medicine has to find a scapegoat for this failure, a reason for the crisis that deflects attention from its performance. This scapegoat is always older people.  The crisis, we are told, is caused by an ageing population, who are placing 'unprecedented' pressures on the NHS, and its ability to cope. 

This is nonsense too. Cancer is no longer just a disease of old age. Dementia is now affecting people in their 30's, 40's and 50's. Organ and limb transplants are needed by every younger generations. And the same can be said for every epidemic of chronic disease from which we are suffering today. Indeed, our babies, our children, our young people are now sicker than they ever were prior to the inauguration of the NHS.

So what is the BMA now predicting. They present their 'best case scenario' for the coming summer as follows:

• 5.89million attendances at A&E.
• 613,000 people waiting over 4 hours at A&E.
• Only 89.6% of patients seen, admitted or discharged within four hours.
• 1.51million emergency admissions.
• 127,000 trolley waits of four or more hours.

So conventional medicine is now predicting that the NHS crisis will now extend into the summer. Many more £billions are going to be spent over this period, but even so, the BMA, a leading doctor's organisation, is resigned to a winter crisis extending throughout the entire year. 

The BMA is predicting a medical crisis, but failing to recognise the medical cause of the crisis.

The NHS is running out of money, doctors, nurses, and resources of every conceivable kind. Every specialism is saying that they could cope with the increased demand - but only if they are given lots more money. But when conventional doctors get lots more money (for instance, the NHS budget was tripled between 1997 and 2010) the crisis continues - regardless!

What follows has not yet been written.......................................

This is a space reserved for comments on what happens within the NHS during April, May, June, July and August 2018.

My prediction of what will fill that space is based on my interpretation of the NHS crisis, as follows:

• The crisis will continue because conventional medicine will continue to fail to make sick people better, as it has always done.
• The crisis will continue because pharmaceutical drugs and vaccines will continue to make people even sicker, and add to the epidemic levels of chronic disease.

Is there anyone out there who dares to predict anything else?

Surgical Operations. Miracle? Or Medical Failure

Although I speak much about 'the failure of conventional medicine' most people continue to point towards surgical operations as a 'success' that proves conventional medicine is not failing. However, this is not so. Or it is so only as long as we want to ignore what has usually proceeded the necessity of surgery. What follows was originally published in a chapter of my e-book on the failure of conventional medicine.

     "Surgical operations will always be a necessary part of any modern and effective health service. Great strides have been taken during the last 150 years in surgical skills. Operations are not necessarily ‘dangerous procedures’, and many are necessary, life-saving procedures. 

     However, the demand for surgery, and the amount of surgery actually undertaken, is far greater than it needs to be. This is allied to a medical system that is incapable of treating illness and diseases safely and effectively. Conventional drugs and vaccines are largely ineffective, they do not cure illness, and in addition they exacerbate it, they cause harm to patients. Conventional medicine is doing this on a regular and consistent basis. The outcome is that medical conditions actually get worse, until patients require more invasive, surgical intervention.

Organ Replacement

     The human body comes with a fully-equipped, fully-operational and integrated set of organs that have been carefully honed to support life, and to maintain good health. This changes when patients develop some form of organ disease. If a patient then seeks conventional medicine treatment they will initially receive some form of pharmaceutical medication. Indeed, organ failure and disease is often the direct result of pharmaceutical drug treatment. It is the drugs and vaccines doctors prescribed that causes it. Even common pharmaceutical drugs, such as painkillers and indigestion tablets, sold without a doctor’s prescription, can damage our organs, and they do so more often than we are told!

     When conventional drug treatment fails, if the organ continues to deteriorate, or when its function is significantly reduced, the condition can become life threatening. When this happens, conventional medicine will turn to surgery for a remedy. It will eventually seek to replace the diseased organ with another, taken from a donor. The number of organ replacement operations, and the number of organs that can be replaced, has increased rapidly over the last 50 years, as surgical techniques and procedures have made them viable.

     The surgeons who do these operations are without doubt brilliant technicians. Yet it should be forgotten that they are used only after pharmaceutical drug treatment has failed to treat the organ successfully, and/or has exacerbated organ failure.

Immunosuppressive drugs

     After the operation there is another problem. In order to stop the body rejecting the new organ, the patient has to take more drugs, and take them for the remainder of their lives in order that the new organ is not rejected by the body. These immosuppressive drugs can also have serious disease inducing effects. Their primary objective is interfere with the body’s immune system, which would otherwise reject the new organ. 

     This interference with the body's immune system leads to the body being unable to do its proper job, to protect itself from a multitude of threats it faces on a daily basis in its environment. So replacing an organ makes us more susceptible to a variety of autoimmune diseases, many now running at epidemic levels, for the rest of our lives.

Limb Replacement

     Limb replacement surgery has become commonplace. Indeed it is now often described as ’routine’ surgery. Limb replacement is required for people who have usually suffered some form of arthritic pain for a considerable amount of time. Conventional medicine has no effective treatment for arthritis and related diseases. Painkillers are used to temporarily reduce the pain, but the underlying condition remains. 

     Yet painkillers, especially when used over a long period of time, come with serious long-term health consequences. They cause harm to the body, they add to the toxicity the body has to cope with, and they create new diseases. But most of all, they do not deal with the arthritis, which gets progressively worse. More powerful painkillers are required, adding more toxicity, and so cause even more harm. One feature of painkillers is that they can actually worsen the condition that is causing the pain, so that ultimately the pain, and the deterioration of the joint, or joints, is actually made worse by the ‘treatment’ conventional medicine has offered! Eventually, the pain levels become unbearable, and surgery becomes the only, or the last resort. The natural limb is removed, and an artificial one replaces it. There are four main problems or issues arising from limb replacement procedure.

    1.   The fitting of this new limb may not be completely successful, and ‘complications’, such as blood loss, infection, wound breakdown, reactions to anaesthetic, and many other unforeseen consequences can happen from the surgery itself.

    2.    Drugs may have to be used, for example, such as Heparin to avoid deep-vein-thrombosis, for several weeks following the operation. Older people are particularly at risk of complications, and the side effects of the drugs used to reduce this. And of course limb replacement is often done for older people!

    3.   The new limb may not function properly, or the implanted device can fail, because of faulty design or manufacture, or it may not perform in the way it was designed.

    4.   As with organ transplantation, immunosuppressive drugs have to be taken following surgery, and antibiotic drug to deal with issues of infection following the operation. The side effects of any drug may be problematical because of a weakened state following the operation.

     Yet this is often not the end of the sequence. Conventional medicine rarely addresses the cause of the original condition that has damaged the limbs. The result is that many patients find that a single limb replacement leads to the same pain developing in other limbs, not previously affected. So after time, another limb is affected, again drugs fail to deal with it, and another limb becomes so painful that it, too, has to be surgically replaced. 

Surgical Replacement represents Medical Failure

     Undoubtedly, many patients benefit from limb and organ replacement surgery, through both the reduction of pain, improved energy and greater mobility. And without doubt they are brilliant technical achievements. But they are not achievements that ultimately improve our health in the longer term. We are all better off with our original limbs and organs, and maintaining them is the best option for every patient.

If the patient had been given safe and effective medical treatment, capable of dealing with the original condition, the need for a limb and organ replacement would not have arisen. So what the surgical replacement of limbs and organs represents is medical failure, not medical success. 

Medical Failure and Denial. Who will be first to break cover?

Conventional medicine is failing. One after another pharmaceutical drugs are falling by the wayside, with doctors, for example, no longer able to prescribe painkillers and antibiotics freely, and without reference to the damage they are causing. We are facing the medical failure of a system of medicine that has dominated health services for the last 70-80 years. Doctors have promised much over the last 100 years, but they have delivered little, except creating levels of sickness and disease (Autism, Dementia, ADHD, Diabetes, Arthritis, Osteoporosis, et al) never known before. But everywhere there is denial.

When will it end? When will the whistle be blown on the medical experimentation that has been done on entire populations with the pharmaceutical drugs and vaccines that have caused so much harm and death?

The movement against conventional, drug-based medicine is growing rapidly. Just look at social media. It is full of stories about the ongoing damage being caused by pharmaceutical drugs and vaccines. It will continue to grow because it is based on fact, on the evidence of what is happening all around us, of increasing harm done to patients. The movement is unstoppable because conventional medicine has nothing to offer other than treatments that do not work, and devastate the health and lives of so many people and families.

Yet we might have to wait a little longer yet for the end game!

The conventional medical establishment is immensely powerful. It influences every strand of our society - politicians, governments, the mainstream media, medical science and the universities, drug regulatory agencies, not to mention the doctors and other medical personnel who are part of the 'inner' establishment.

So who is going to be the first to break cover? Who will be the first to tell us that conventional medicine has failed, and must end?

One of the problems, perhaps the most important problem, is that it is difficult for anyone who is, or has been part of, or associated with the conventional medical establishment, to break ranks, and to blow the whistle. Consider this.

• Doctors and Nurses. These are the people who have been directly responsible for giving their patients harmful drugs and vaccines. What do they say? Sorry? I was wrong? What I have been doing for my entire career has harmed patients? I have dedicated my life to conventional medicine, and it does not work?

• Medical scientists. These are the scientists who have tested the drugs and vaccines that have harmed and killed so many people. They have pronounced them to be both safe and effective when none of them have been either. They have been employed by the pharmaceutical industry, and, to a significant extent, they have danced to their tune. They have consistently exaggerated the benefits of the drugs they tested, and failed to spot the dangers to patients before millions have suffered. Can they really be expected to say that the much lauded 'scientific' basis of conventional medicine has been a sham? Will they admit that they have been engaged in cheque-book science, junk science?

• Drug regulators. These are the people who have been charged with the responsibility of keeping patients safe from harmful drugs and vaccines, and they have singularly failed to do so. They should have examined the science behind conventional treatments, and closely observing the serious and harmful adverse reaction to them. Almost exclusively they have been place-men, the stooges of the pharmaceutical industry, more intent on promoting the profits of the industry rather than the safety of patients.

• Politicians and governments. What can we expect these people to say? Over the years they have invested heavily in national health services, and increasingly in dangerous pharmaceutical drugs and vaccines. They have been seduced by the investment and employment provided by the drugs industry, but turned a blind eye to the devastation the drugs and vaccines have caused to their constituents.

• The mainstream media. The media has been, and continues to be, slavishly compliant to the messages of the pharmaceutical industry. When they have released news of a new 'wonder' drug they have announced it, loudly, from the rooftops. When evidence of harm has emerged the mainstream media has kept studiously silent, to the maximum extent they have been able to keep the information from the general public. Investigative journalism has been totally absent, especially during the last 10-15 years. So what can we expect the newspapers to say? That they got it wrong? That they promoted drugs when asked to do so by the drugs industry, and then consistently failed to inform the public about the very obvious dangers they presented to our health? That they have failed to accomplish the very first task of journalism - to keep us informed/ And for a 'public broadcaster', such as the BBC, to make these admissions could have serious consequences to their claim to be fair and impartial.

• The Pharmaceutical Industry. And do we expect these people to say anything that might be harmful to their profits, their lucrative business, the top salaries or their top managers? It is highly unlikely. Indeed, they will continue to spend their money to ensure that they keep doctors, medical scientists, drug regulators, politicians, and the media 'on-side', whether this be through direct payments to keep them on-side, or if necessary, by downright fraud.

I thought that the 'end-game' may have come with Dr William Thompson, the whistle-blower who in 2014 admitted that the medical 'science' that said the MMR vaccine was safe, and not linked to Autism, was fraudulent. I was being over-optimistic! I have written about this situation several times here, tracing the issues, how they developed, and what has happened to it.

          Autism, the MMR Vaccine, and Media Censorship. (6 September 2014)

          Autism IS caused by MMR vaccine. Evidence of 'no connection' was fraudulent medical science. (31 July 2015)

          MMR Vaccine, Autism, and the silence and culpability of the Political, Medical and Media Establishment. (26 August 1915)

          The MMR-Autism Controversy, and the dishonesty of Medical 'Science'. (9 September 2015)

What happened was that politicians in the USA Senate did not pick up the story. The mainstream media, including the BBC have refused to report on it, drug regulators and medical science have neither acted or commented, and doctors and nurses continue to give the MMR vaccination to young children. In the USA politician are even trying to make vaccination mandatory!

And the Thompson situation actually makes the situation worse for the future. How will those who refused to comment and act on this situation defend themselves?

The house of cards that is the conventional medical establishment is imminently vulnerable to collapse, to catastrophic collapse. But when the collapse comes there are a lot of people and organisations who will have a lot of explained to do!