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When you sign up to be a patient, you sign up to say that you are giving your GP authority to assess the risk to benefit ratio for "treatments" on your behalf.
As a general rule, we enjoy chemical stability in our youth. In our later years chemical instability is much more commonplace, where the cells of our bodies have received many chemical challenges in the name of ‘healthcare’ – as well as the consequences of the way our respective lives are lived.
With each prescription of ‘medicine’ are consequent chemical and other changes in the body. I say this as a scholarly patient. It is not rocket science to know that when we add a chemical to our existing chemical state, then changes will occur - some known and many more not known. The act of chemicals mixing in the body is called ‘synergistics’ – an area of science that is largely unexplored.
It is known and accepted by doctors, and as mentioned in Professor Misselbrook's article, that drugs are poisons which, if administered judiciously, will ensure that the benefits outweigh the harms.
What if our doctors get it wrong?
What if our current medical state is such that the newest chemical onslaught is the one that tips the body further into illness – an illness that can take months or years to show up?
How can the average patient prove that harms have been done – if they end up “chemically shipw...
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