I swear to fulfill, to the best of my ability and judgment, this covenant: I will respect the hard-won scientific gains of those physicians in whose steps I walk, and gladly share such knowledge as is mine with those who are to follow.
I will apply, for the benefit of the sick, all measures [that] are required, avoiding those twin traps of overtreatment and therapeutic nihilism.
I will remember that there is art to medicine as well as science, and that warmth, sympathy, and understanding may outweigh the surgeon's knife or the chemist's drug.
I will not be ashamed to say "I know not," nor will I fail to call in my colleagues when the skills of another are needed for a patient's recovery.
I will respect the privacy of my patients, for their problems are not disclosed to me that the world may know. Most especially must I tread with care in matters of life and death. If it is given me to save a life, all thanks.
But it may also be within my power to take a life; this awesome responsibility must be faced with great humbleness and awareness of my own frailty. Above all, I must not play at God.
I will remember that I do not treat a fever chart, a cancerous growth, but a sick human being, whose illness may affect the person's family and economic stability. My responsibility includes these related problems, if I am to care adequately for the sick.
I will prevent disease whenever I can, for prevention is preferable to cure.
I will remember that I remain a member of society, with special obligations to all my fellow human beings, those sound of mind and body as well as the infirm.
If I do not violate this oath, may I enjoy life and art, respected while I live and remembered with affection thereafter. May I always act so as to preserve the finest traditions of my calling and may I long experience the joy of healing those who seek my help.
11 comments:
KW,
Are you COUNTING?
I suppose you want some attention on this.
Woman number one is post-op, perhaps after a rhinoplastly (nose job). What? You afraid of some bandages? Bruising is expected, it's part of the healing process.
Cosmetic surgery is an offshoot of Plastic and Reconstructive surgical techniques. Patients knock on the cosmetic surgeons door, not the other way around.
You've already on several occasions stated how you feel about modern medicine. Maybe you should stick to your..."money grubbing quacks who pass themselves off as 'men of science'"
Calm down Doc.
No need to get defensive.
Cat mentions "cosmetic surgery" and the H1N1 Hoax and you get all sensitive.
Why are you so invested in those scams?
Cracks me up when Plantation MD's have the nerve to disparage Physicians like Dr. Mercola who have the intellectual courage to challenge the medical mafia.
Dr. Mercola is encouraging people to get more sunshine and immune boosting Vitamin D.
While the Plantation MD predictably plays the apologist for unnecessary surgeries and Vaccine Marketing Scams masquerading as "pandemics".
DMG. You speak with the authority of a medical practitioner who actually heals people.
Do you seriously believe the patients who take your advice are more healthy than the patients who take advice from Dr. Mercola?
Come on Bra.
Defensive? Get your adjectives right. I'm being DISMISSIVE! LMBAO
Excuse me "bra", but does "intellectual courage" happen to mean LYING HIS ASS OFF? Because that's all your boy Mercola and his ilk are doing.
Man you kill me when you want attention. UBM was right, you sure do hike your skirt up high when you want some attention. OK, I'll give you a pat on the head. Let's start over.
Tell me whats on your mind. We can have a good old discussion like in months past before I realized that you repeat the same things over and over again. You can even invite the flying monkeys for old times sake.
I'll let you expound on this first:
"DMG. You speak with the authority of a medical practitioner who actually heals people.
Do you seriously believe the patients who take your advice are more healthy than the patients who take advice from Dr. Mercola?"
Ready?
Attention?
LOL.
Negro please.
I'm teachin'.
And you in class Doc.
All your little exaggerated over the top efforts to APPEAR dismissive fade in comparison ... to your attendance.
You've got a Plantation degree in medicine.
You jump in every conversation remotely connected to health or diet parroting CDC / Pharmaceutical Company nonsense and bending over backwards to come off sarcastic.
You've been here for over a year.
Do you think anyone has learned anything from you of real value regarding health?
Your a smart guy Doc. Well, I'm sure you were a good student anyway. If you would stop the petty partisanship and House Negro loyalty to industrialized medicine you could probably really help some people improve their health.
Stick around Doc.
Next week I'm going to hip you to the dangers of grains and the wonderfully nutritious and alkalinizing qualities of quinoa.
And you can explain to us how High Fructose Corny Syrup is just fine ... "in moderation".
Yes, yes, yes. Teaching...school...etc. Can we just skip the usual stuff? Get all that monkey virus juice stuff out of your system. Let me know when you are finished.
Have you dumb asses NOT YET figured out the human bodies acid-base buffer system yet? Alkalinizing foods...hysterically funny. Talk about a bunch of suckers.
Do you even KNOW what high-fructose corn syrup is? Shit do you even know what fructose is?
Can we please just skip the usual bullshit?
@DMG-
You have got put to bed on this before(HFCS).
Have you forgotten about your boy Dr. Robert Lustig[i] (click here).
A Calorie is Not a Calorie
Glucose is the form of energy you were designed to run on. Every cell in your body, every bacterium -- and in fact, every living thing on the Earth--uses glucose for energy.
If you received your fructose only from vegetables and fruits (where it originates) as most people did a century ago, you’d consume about 15 grams per day -- a far cry from the 73 grams per day the typical adolescent gets from sweetened drinks. In vegetables and fruits, it’s mixed in with fiber, vitamins, minerals, enzymes, and beneficial phytonutrients, all which moderate any negative metabolic effects.
It isn’t that fructose itself is bad -- it is the MASSIVE DOSES you’re exposed to that make it dangerous.
There are two reasons fructose is so damaging:
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Your body metabolizes fructose in a much different way than glucose. The entire burden of metabolizing fructose falls on your liver.
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People are consuming fructose in enormous quantities, which has made the negative effects much more profound.
Today, 55 percent of sweeteners used in food and beverage manufacturing are made from corn, and the number one source of calories in America is soda, in the form of HFCS.
Food and beverage manufacturers began switching their sweeteners from sucrose (table sugar) to corn syrup in the 1970s when they discovered that HFCS was not only far cheaper to make, it’s about 20% sweeter than table sugar.
HFCS is either 42% or 55% fructose, and sucrose is 50% fructose, so it's really a wash in terms of sweetness.
Still, this switch drastically altered the average American diet.
By USDA estimates, about one-quarter of the calories consumed by the average American is in the form of added sugars, and most of that is HFCS. The average Westerner consumes a staggering 142 pounds a year of sugar! And the very products most people rely on to lose weight -- the low-fat diet foods -- are often the ones highest in fructose.Duh!
Making matters worse, all of the fiber has been removed from these processed foods, so there is essentially no nutritive value at all.
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Fructose Metabolism Basics
Without getting into the very complex biochemistry of carbohydrate metabolism, it is important to understand some differences about how your body handles glucose versus fructose. I will just summarize the main points.
Dr. Robert Lustig[i] Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology at the University of California, San Francisco, has been a pioneer in decoding sugar metabolism. His work has highlighted some major differences in how different sugars are broken down and used:
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After eating fructose, 100 percent of the metabolic burden rests on your liver. But with glucose, your liver has to break down only 20 percent.
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Every cell in your body, including your brain, utilizes glucose. Therefore, much of it is “burned up” immediately after you consume it. By contrast, fructose is turned into free fatty acids (FFAs), VLDL (the damaging form of cholesterol), and triglycerides, which get stored as fat.
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The fatty acids created during fructose metabolism accumulate as fat droplets in your liver and skeletal muscle tissues, causing insulin resistance and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). Insulin resistance progresses to metabolic syndrome and type II diabetes.
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Fructose is the most lipophilic carbohydrate. In other words, fructose converts to activated glycerol (g-3-p), which is directly used to turn FFAs into triglycerides. The more g-3-p you have, the more fat you store. Glucose does not do this.
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When you eat 120 calories of glucose, less than one calorie is stored as fat. 120 calories of fructose results in 40 calories being stored as fat. Consuming fructose is essentially consuming fat!
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The metabolism of fructose by your liver creates a long list of waste products and toxins, including a large amount of uric acid, which drives up blood pressure and causes gout.
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Glucose suppresses the hunger hormone ghrelin and stimulates leptin, which suppresses your appetite. Fructose has no effect on ghrelin and interferes with your brain’s communication with leptin, resulting in overeating.
If anyone tries to tell you “sugar is sugar,” they are way behind the times. As you can see, there are major differences in how your body processes each one.
The bottom line is: fructose leads to increased belly fat, insulin resistance and metabolic syndrome -- not to mention the long list of chronic diseases that directly result.
Panic in the Corn Fields
As the truth comes out about HFCS, the Corn Refiners Association is scrambling to convince you that their product is equal to table sugar, that it is “natural” and safe.
Of course, many things are “natural” -- cocaine is natural, but you wouldn’t want to use 142 pounds of it each year.
The food and beverage industry doesn’t want you to realize how truly pervasive HFCS is in your diet -- not just from soft drinks and juices, but also in salad dressings and condiments and virtually every processed food. The introduction of HFCS into the Western diet in 1975 has been a multi-billion dollar boon for the corn industry.
The FDA classifies fructose as GRAS: Generally Regarded As Safe. Which pretty much means nothing and is based on nothing.
There is plenty of data showing that fructose is not safe -- but the effects on the nation’s health have not been immediate. That is why we are just now realizing the effects of the last three decades of nutritional misinformation.
Final-
As if the negative metabolic effects are not enough, there are other issues with fructose that disprove its safety:
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More than one study has detected unsafe mercury levels in HFCS[ii].
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Crystalline fructose (a super-potent form of fructose the food and beverage industry is now using) may contain arsenic, lead, chloride and heavy metals.
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Nearly all corn syrup is made from genetically modified corn, which comes with its own set of risks.
What then DMG, is good about HFCS?
Let me give it to you plantation style for the lazy unscientific folks from one of my homies email to a friend:
"Hey, nugga-
why the F does the body process SUGAR FIRST and not fat..? The answer is in nature, REAL SUGAR, is a quick, and CHEAP source of timergy... it is such a CHEAP source of timergy that the body sends to the sun VERY FAST."
So what is HFCS?
A Very, very, very, very, very, very, VERY, very, VERY, very CONCENTRATED ammounts of sugar THAT DOES NOT TASTE SWEET.
That's it. It is sugar that doesnt taste sweet. As such, the processed food scientist can now put 3000 times the ammount of HFCS inside without tasting 'oversweetened', than he would do so with 'natural sugars'. The result is simple: You wake up guzzle your orange juice, or apple juice, or cranberry juice, or grape drank (if you're with Omu) and you just ingested 3000 times the ammount of SUGAR that you would if the beverage contained NATURAL SUGAR. But, again, to you - the drink does not seem overly-sweet..... but indeed, it is nothing mroe than loads and loads of de-sweetened sugar.
So now you're fugged. Your body now is in its primitave mode of processing SUGARS FIRST and will NEVER get to the FAT processing part as a consequence. Your body goes after sugar first -- what better way to punish the wanton cattle for their demand for cheap free food than to overload their bodies with biblical amounts of de-sweetened cork and muss each an every morning in the form of a 'healthy' oraange juice 'fortified with vitiman-c' (lol).
Look slaves. You know the code. No free lunch. No orange juice in a bottle. Unless you pick that mugga fuggah off the tree in Florida, you are simply drinking orange flavored de-sweetened frutcose."
Wax,
I told you a long time ago, that I don't waste my time with your long perseverating rants. Condense, and I'll attempt to read what you are foaming at the mouth about, eh?
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