It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
– J. Krishnamurti

Basket of Contents

1. Why so late?
2. The $1.6 trillion question
3. ACA wises up
4. Company kills negative clinical trial
5. FDR’s paralysis was GBS, not polio
6. Chemo causes cancer
7. Words of Wisdom
8. Dr. Marc Swerdlick
9. KST coming to Philly, Atlanta, Phoenix…
10. Free flu shots for chiropractic students
11. The passing of Dr. Glenn Stillwagon
12. Letters
13. Humor

Why So Late?
Why is this July newsletter so late? I wasn’t on a plane this month. That’s when I have the time to write – away from patients, writing, phone, internet, driving the kids, etc. The next KST seminar has been taking up a lot of time and then a small tornado ripped up this area last week and we’ve been busy cleaning up. Where am I living? Kansas?

Timing is everything they say. Last year around this time we were in Israel for our son’s bar mitzvah. We traveled to many of the places that are right now being blasted by rockets. Please read this great short article about the present crisis in Israel, on how it started and why it persists. http://jewishworldreview.com/0706/prager071806.php3

Below is more great information to share with co-professionals and patients.

The $1.6 Trillion Question
The $1.6 Trillion Question: If We're Spending So Much on Healthcare, Why So Little Improvement in Quality? Carolyn Clancy, MD Medscape General Medicine. 2006;8(2):58.

Even though the US spends more on healthcare than any other country, we have shorter longevity, worse public health statistics, and worse healthcare inflation than most developed nations. Hope or Hype by Richard A. Deyo MD, MPH and Donald L. Patrick, PhD, MSPH

The answer: We’re not spending $1.6 trillion on healthcare – we’re spending it on disease care. The allopathic medical approach is an almost total failure in making people well and preventing illness, and is the most dangerous form of healthcare that has ever existed. It’s getting worse, with more people being hospitalized and dying from medical care than ever before. But perhaps just as bad is the medical/pharmaceutical practice of turning people into lifetime consumers of their products. They are told to keep taking drugs the rest of their lives – they never get better, and in fact suffer from years of drug-taking.

Chiropractic, homeopathy, naturopathy, nutrition, Chinese medicine, Ayurvedic medicine and other Empirical, wholistic approaches are far more effective and much, much safer than the allopathic approach (and more scientific too!).
 

ACA Wises Up
Déjà vu – the ACA and Trigon
Three years ago I was critical of the ACA’s Trigon lawsuit (see letter below). Sadly, I was correct – many DCs donated $millions to the ACA suit and got nothing in return (only some rich lawyers benefited). I suggested, in my June 2003 newsletter, that we have a class action suit against the insurance companies. Unlike Trigon, it wouldn’t have cost the profession a dime and we’d have had a better chance of winning. In fact, Aetna had already settled with MDs who sued them in this manner for $500 million.

On June 13th, 2006 the ACA did, guess what? Actually took my advice and filed the lawsuit exactly as I suggested. The ACA isn’t asking you for a dime because the appropriate way to handle this is with a class action lawsuit based on the successful model I had referenced. Congratulations ACA.

Now let me forecast my prediction for three years from now. Have you thought about what would happen to your practice if private insurance turned into National Healthcare? The only doctors who really don’t care about all of this are the ones that have cash practices. Koren Specific Technique is designed to prepare you for the future so you don’t have to worry about all of this.

This is what I wrote in June 2003 (see prior newsletters at www.korenpublications.com
Trigon. First off I want you to know that I am not “anti-Trigon” … It is a crime the way managed care companies are treating us. I know what it’s like to be the brunt of a medical conspiracy and fight for the profession.
However, the ACA’s “Trigon” is not at all like “Wilk” because a Trigon “win” would benefit chiropractors in Virginia only. Separate lawsuits would have to be filed in other states, against other health plans, by more chiropractors for real impact. Those lawsuits could fail even if Trigon was won, creating a risk of inconsistent adjudications. So outside of Virginia, Trigon has nothing to do with you. After 5 years at a reported $100,000/month in legal fees Judge Jones found the Trigon case so weak he dismissed it. http://www.vawd.uscourts.gov/opinions/jones/1-00cv00113-sumjudg.pdf. Should we continue this limited, expensive strategy for 5, 10 or 15 more years at best to help doctors only in Virginia? Should you wait perhaps 15 years to get paid fairly or are there other options?
MDs outraged by managed care treatment banded together in a coordinated effort against many different insurers throughout the US: Humana, Aetna, Pacificare, Prudential and others. Unlike Trigon, these cases were couched in terms to protect patient’s rights as well as doctor’s rights.
In addition, all this legal action, which was not thrown out of court and continues successfully today, was done on contingency – didn’t cost the profession a dime. In fact, Aetna already settled with them at a cost of approximately $500 million… It’s something we should consider exploring.


Company Kills Negative Clinical Trial
From THE MOSS REPORTS – CANCER DECISIONS NEWSLETTER:
In late June, the pharmaceutical company Genentech, Inc. abruptly halted a large phase III clinical trial of its drug Avastin. The trial was halted because the addition of Avastin to an approved drug, Gemzar (gemcitabine), failed to improve overall survival. Despite this setback, Avastin remains a huge profit center for Genentech. US sales of Avastin in the first quarter of 2006 jumped 96 percent to $398 million - not bad for a drug that, so far, has had only a minimal effect on advanced cancers of any kind. To read this week's newsletter, go to: http://www.cancerdecisions.com/072306.html

FDR’s Paralysis Was Guillain-Barre syndrome - Not Polio
Acute flaccid paralysis can be also caused by at least West Nile virus, Campylobacter jejuni and enterovirus but the WHO has a single minded focus on the elimination of the polio virus, assuming that will end paralysis. Sherri Tenpenny, DO, www.BirdFluHype.com

A peer-reviewed study published in 2003 concluded that Franklin Delano Roosevelt's 1921 paralytic illness was probably Guillain-Barré syndrome, not polio as previously assumed. The Bayesian analysis in the study found that six of eight posterior probabilities favored a diagnosis of Guillain-Barré syndrome over poliomyelitis.

Goldman, AS et al. What was the cause of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's paralytic illness? J Med Biogr. 2003;11:232-240. http://www.rsmpress.co.uk/jmb_2003_v11_p232-240.pdf

Chemo Causes Cancer
"A study of over 10,000 patients shows clearly that chemo’s supposedly strong track record with Hodgkin’s disease (lymphoma) is actually a lie. Patients who underwent chemo were 14 times more likely to develop leukemia and 6 times more likely to develop cancers of the bones, joints, and soft tissues than those patients who did not undergo chemotherapy (NCI Journal 87:10)."—John Diamond

Children who are successfully treated for Hodgkin's disease are 18 times more likely later to develop secondary malignant tumors. Girls face a 35 percent chance of developing breast cancer by the time they are 40 – which is 75 times greater than the average. The risk of leukemia increased markedly four years after the end of successful treatment, and reached a plateau after 14 years, but the risk of developing solid tumors remained high and approached 30 percent at 30 years. (New Eng J Med. March 21, 1996)

Words of Wisdom
A follower of Rabbi Meir of Premishlan once complained to him about a man who had started a competing business. "He is depriving me of my livelihood!" he cried. "You must tell him to close his shop!"

Said Rabbi Meir: "Have you ever noticed how a horse behaves when he is led to a water hole? He begins to paw angrily at the water with his hooves; only when the water is well-muddied does he begin to drink. Why does the horse act this way?" "I don't know, why?"

"Because the horse sees his reflection in the water and thinks that another horse has come to drink his water. So he kicks and paws until he has 'chased away' the other horse. What the horse doesn't understand," concluded Rabbi Meir, "is that G-d has created enough water for all the horses.

Dr. Marc Swerdlick
Marc Swerdlick, DC, president of S Group Inc., provides ethical marketing systems for all kinds of small businesses and organizations. Many of Dr. Swerdlick’s strategies have been used in healthcare applications and are based on a pre-education philosophy. His seminars are presented in conjunction with Integrity Strategies (www.integritystrategies.com) and he can be reached at drswerd@gmail.com or 630-693-1553. Recently he came on his own dime to a KST seminar and reported on it on his website (www.practicecentral.com).
I think every DC should read his column, Dr. Marc’s Viewpoint, on his site. Few in the profession are so honest – it’s refreshing.

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