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Off topic, to @Mia Dit --love your avatar pic, is that a Friesian?
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Off topic, to @Mia Dit --love your avatar pic, is that a Friesian?
Unfortunately, the result of NOT controlling one's blood sugar isn't a purely esthetic issue. Diabetes can and OFTEN does lead to irreversible kidney damage, blindness and loss of limbs due to gangrene. Refusing standard oral diabetes medications will most likely have a lasting impact on this woman's life, and her insurance company, most likely Medicare, will pick up the tab.
I have to assume that she's intelligent enough to watch her blood glucose when making the change.
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AND she thought enough of her doctor to tell him what she was thinking. That's trust.
This story is hearsay anyways. We don't know what was said.
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JB: Tell me about the policy you proposed. How did doctors react?
BM: I wrote policy for the Medical Society of the State of New York [where Dr. Oz is licensed] and the American Medical Association asking them to more actively address medical quackery on TV and in the media—specifically Dr. Oz.
The New York policy was passed in modified form. Organized medicine in New York is aware of what Dr. Oz is saying and how he is able to fall through the gaps of regulation. Many New York physicians testified at their annual meeting about the harm they are seeing happen day-to-day with their own patients. Patients stop taking proven medications in favor of "natural" medications that Dr. Oz promotes. Many patients trusted Dr. Oz more than their own family doctors and this conflict hurt the doctor-patient relationship.
When we brought the policy to the American Medical Association, they reaffirmed existing policy instead of our resolution asking them to take action against inappropriate medical testimonials on TV. The AMA basically thought they were doing enough with existing policy.
Though at times he appears to promote alternative forms of medicine that are not widely accepted by the medical establishment, Dr. Oz has shown himself to be nothing more than a Big Pharma shill that now pushes vaccines and other unproven quackery on the public as valid medicine.
This is hardly shocking in light of the fact that Dr. Oz has a financial stake in the drug industry, which was revealed back in 2009 during the time when the phony H1N1/swine flu scam was occupying the airwaves.
http://www.naturalnews.com/027451_vaccine_RealAge_technology.html.
In an interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper that has mostly been removed from the internet, Dr. Oz admitted that his wife and children would not be receiving the H1N1 vaccine. Most copies of this interview with Dr. Oz have been pulled from the internet.
None of this is really all that surprising, considering Dr. Oz was exposed for quietly holding shares in SIGA Technologies, a vaccine technology company that has an obvious interest in vaccine promotion. Dr. Oz even sat on its SIGA’s board of directors, if that tells you anything about his interests in promoting vaccines.
Is it right for someone talking about whether vaccines are safe on television to also be carrying stock options and serving on the board of directors of a vaccine company at the same time?
Dr. Mehmet Oz is a huge promoter of vaccines. He's been on television reinforcing fear about H1N1 swine flu and telling everyone to get vaccinated. But what he didn't tell his viewing audience is that he holds 150,000 option shares in a vaccine company that could earn him millions of dollars in profits as the stock price rises. It is in Dr. Oz's own financial interest, in other words, to hype up vaccines and get more people taking them so that his own financial investments rise in value.
Evidence describing these facts was delivered to NaturalNews by a private investigator named Joseph Culligan. That evidence includes an SEC document detailing how Dr. Oz. bought options on stocks for SIGA Technologies in 2005, 2007, 2008 and 2009. SIGA Technologies (stock symbol SIGA) is a vaccine technology company with many advanced developments whose success depends on the widespread adoption of vaccines. According to SEC documents, Dr. Mehmet Oz. currently holds 150,000 option shares on SIGA Technologies, purchased for as little as $1.35 back in 2005.
If the stock price of SIGA Technologies could be pumped up even more -- say, from someone hyping up vaccines in front of a national audience -- these options could mathematically be worth millions of dollars. Just to clarify, by the way, SIGA Technologies doesn't currently manufacture a vaccine for H1N1 swine flu. It focuses on future vaccine technologies that could be applied to many different vaccines down the road.
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Unfortunately, the result of NOT controlling one's blood sugar isn't a purely esthetic issue. Diabetes can and OFTEN does lead to irreversible kidney damage, blindness and loss of limbs due to gangrene. Refusing standard oral diabetes medications will most likely have a lasting impact on this woman's life, and her insurance company, most likely Medicare, will pick up the tab.
Before supplements, start with what we call food in this country and the woeful diagnostic criteria for diabetes first.Unfortunately, the result of NOT controlling one's blood sugar isn't a purely esthetic issue. Diabetes can and OFTEN does lead to irreversible kidney damage, blindness and loss of limbs due to gangrene. Refusing standard oral diabetes medications will most likely have a lasting impact on this woman's life, and her insurance company, most likely Medicare, will pick up the tab.