Fw: Doctors on Strike ... Deaths Drop

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It's been said before, and I'll say it again....

" Beware the men (and women) in white coats! "

We will come full circle with medicine, and someday, allopathic (Western

medicine) will be seen for what it really is....quack medicine!

Patty

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From: ilena rose <ilena@...>

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Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2000 1:49 AM

Subject: Doctors on Strike ... Deaths Drop

> The June 10, 2000 issue of the British Medical Journal reports that on

> March 9, 2000,doctors in the Israel Medical Association went on strike to

> protest a new four-year wage contract for doctors. Since going on strike,

> the death rate in Israel has dropped considerably according to a survey

of

> Israeli burial societies.

>

> " The number of funerals we have performed has fallen drastically, " said

> Hananya Shahor, director of Jerusalem's Kehilat Yerushalayim burial

> society.

>

> " This month, there were only 93 funerals compared with 153 in May 1999,

> 133 in the same months in 1998, and 139 in May 1997. " Meir Adler, who

> manages the Shamgar Funeral Parlour says, " There definitely is a

> connection between the doctors' sanctions and fewer deaths. We saw the

> same thing in 1983 (when the doctors applied sanctions for four and a

half

> months). "

>

> There is one town in Israel where the death rate has remained constant,

> the town of Netanya. Netanya has only one hospital and the doctors there

> signed a no-strike clause with their contract and did not participate in

> the country-wide sanctions.

>

>

>

> ********

>

> It's been stated that many people owe their lives to the fact that they

> couldn't get to a physician. This is from the London Times:

>

> " Modern medicine is occasionally quite capable of killing people. A

> remarkable example of this is trauma. Proportionately more soldiers died

in

> Vietnam than in the Falklands conflict because the doctors got to the

> Vietnam wounded very quickly. In Vietnam, helicopter evacuation of

> casualties was speedy. Transfusions were rapidly given. Bleeding soldiers

> were wrapped up and kept warm. But in the Falklands, helicopter

evacuation

> was often impossible in appalling weather. Doctors could not reach

> soldierson the moors to give transfusions. And the weather was bitterly

> cold.

>

> " The result was that many casualties in the Falklands with seemingly

fatal

> injuries survived. Without a blood transfusion, clots preventing bleeding

> were not dislodged and haemorrhage was less severe. The cold weather,

added

> to the cooling that the body itself produces in shock, slowed metabolisms

> and people

>

survived. " http://www.sunday-times.co.uk:80/news/pages/sti/2000/10/01/stirevn

ws02

> 003.html

>

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