Barely legal
Dear Friend,
The following represents my personal opinion based on 20+ years of medical practice and medical education. As you read this remember at one time I was unwittingly one of the very people I describe in this letter to you. If it could happen to me, it could happen to any doctor or health care professional. Traditional medicine continues to rail against anything that has the words "anti-aging" in it simply because they have no control over it. It's almost as if they want you to get old and sick so they can pawn off obscenely expensive drugs on you. The American Medical Association calls itself "The nation's biggest group of doctors". In my opinion they are the one group that has single handedly done the most to undermine the future of medicine and doctors in this country. As much for what they have not done for their members as for what they have done. Their latest big announcement is that they are against bioidentical hormone replacement in America. Surprise, Surprise They now join hands with big Pharma Giant, Wyeth the manufacturer of horse urine derived female hormones. This lovely company, you may remember, filed a citizen's petition with the FDA against the use of bioidentical hormones soon after their own product was found to cause cardiac problems and increase cancer incidence in certain groups of post menopausal women. The AMA, their journal JAMA and Big Pharma represent the old guard in medicine. I am here to tell you they are dinosaurs and will extinguish themselves from this planet with their pompous high and mighty attitudes that are completely out of touch with reality and in many cases simply bad science. The more sensible reaction to bioidentical hormones and the Suzanne Summers book they are so vehemently against would have been the following. 1) Bioidentical hormones have been used in countries where Big Pharma does not own Big Medicine. We should take an objective look at their data and their experience because they have treated millions of women this way. What do they say? This treatment is unproven, unsafe and we discourage the use of it. The result is, of course, the insurance companies who are hand in glove here as well have an easy excuse not to pay for it.
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