Overdosed America: How & why medicine has changed

Life in 2023 is so different than when we were kids, and much of it concerns communication and technology. Compare your life now to when you were a child.

We had no cell phones, no computers, no surround sound, no cars with electronics in them.

Have you ever wondered how the many electromagnetic forces affect your body?

The research is clear that it does. Watch your grandchildren or great-grandchildren, and you can see with your own eyes some of the effects.

Some years ago, I had a patient who brought her 11 year-old son in because of his ADD and ADHD.

His problems were obvious. I suggested her limiting all kinds of things. It was about 6 months before I saw her again.

I asked how her son was. When school was out, she said she told him, for the summer there would be no TV or internet or cell phone, and he needed to play outside.

She said she bought only real food, passing over all the processed food. The result:

I don’t even subscribe to television. I didn’t use the washer or dryer. I didn’t go outside. I did a great deal more reading.

At the end of my jail sentence of 2 days, I thought about when my grandparents were children and what it must have been like for tronics, so I wouldn’t do it. I would stay on my EMF diet (electro-magnetic forces).

I have many books I have bought over the years and never read. I pulled one off the shelf and read it. It is around 20 years old.

The book is, “Overdosed America,” by John Abramson, M.D. He has been on the faculty at Harvard medical school for years and, I believe, still is.

Osteoporosis, 210.

If osteoporosis drugs prevent hip fractures, 215.

Coronary heart disease, 220.

Stroke and the 3-hour window, 225.

Type 2 diabetes, 228. Depression and anxiety, 232.

Cancer, page 234.

“He is a different child.” their parents out on a farm. I understood having so many children.

I recently spent several days in what I called EMF (electro-magnetic forces) jail. I unplugged the modem, turned off the computer as well as the iPhone.

I kept the overhead lights off in the house. I did use the electric stove, but minimally. I never use a microwave.

We have either come a long way in that 125 years or we have fallen a long way. The future history books will probably tell the tale.

Every time I thought of doing something, I would realize how it was tied to elec-

As I read the book, I kept thinking, “And this book is 20 years old. Things are a lot worse now.” You can be the judge.

The book is a great reference book for me. The way I use it is when people are wondering about taking a cholesterol medication, I will say, go to the library and get this book.

I know most people will not want to read the whole book. They like for me to read it and then tell them what page to turn to. OK, I can do that.

The whole book paints a picture of how medicine has been captured by the pharmaceutical companies. It is interesting because it was less obvious when he wrote the book, but he was a man ahead of his time.

I will use the book this way: when my patients ask about these issues, I’ll give them these page references.

VIOXX issues, page 201.

Arthritis, 189.

Obesity, page 235. Putting the scientific evidence together to find health, 237.

How organisms are distinguished? 195

If I want to explain to them how sometimes normal aging has been turned into a “disease,” I will refer to page 210.

If I want a person to see what the research really shows about staying healthy and that medical care is not the first answer, I send them to page 209.

Obviously, the book is much more than this, but it is a picture of how medicine has changed and why.

I like to give references to people so they can read it for themselves instead of taking my word for it.

The whole book, in a way, is about how it has worked out to take people’s word for it. Think: VIOXX.

If you are experiencing any of the above problems, see what the book has to say about it.

You might be surprised.