The patient is in the doctor’s hands. They will trust you to do anything at all. You must use good judgment and restraint.Bill Cook, MDCancer is many diseases, and cures are elusive. Slow-growing tumors rarely require treatment because most never cause problems and may go away on their own. Fast-growing tumors are discovered too late to do anything. Only cancers of intermediate growth rate, a minority, have the potential for worthwhile intervention. For most tumors, a modest life extension is the best we can do. Exceptions include metastatic melanoma, renal cell cancer, a few lymphomas, leukemias, and testicular cancers. Chemotherapy may extend life or sometimes cure these. Small numbers prop up the bulk of the other treatments, and careful analysis shows that the expenses and toxicities may not be worth it. Dying patients reach for anything. People with cancer are tremendously vulnerable and have an overwhelming need to trust caregivers. They continue to believe in their doctors, almost regardless of the circumstances. Oncologists always have new, toxic, and expensive drugs. They may have seen a few patients survive long-term using some medication that rarely works and makes everyone sick. They have read studies that showed (maybe) two months’ average increased survival with certain drugs. They can usually tell the patient that there is a costly chemo that might help, and it is covered by Medicare or insurance. It is a demanding job, and the oncologists have a terrific financial conflict of interest that makes it harder. They retail chemotherapy infusions for about a 20 percent markup. Inside the specialty, they call this “buy and bill.” By 2013, 65 to 70 percent of oncologists' income was drug charges. Their pay doubled from 1995 to 2004, when it was $335,000, and then it went up again to $445,000 by 2017. Drug representatives stay in touch with oncologists and let them know whether they are “making their quotas.” The companies offer doctors higher percentages for certain drugs if they order more. This is an inducement to raise the doses of drugs, which can be harmful. In one egregious case, medications were promoted in this fashion to treat anemia that also increased the chances of premature death. Their sales were $37 billion between 1996 and 2009. Otis Brawley, in How We Do Harm, said, “[These] drugs were not used to cure disease or make patients feel better. They were used to make money for doctors and pharmaceutical companies at the expense of patients, insurance companies, and taxpayers.” If two physicians made a deal like this between themselves, prosecutors might throw them in prison. “Fee-splitting” is a similar, perhaps nearly identical crime where a physician kicks back a commission to another doctor for a patient referral. Federal Stark laws applying to Medicare and Medicaid plus many state laws impose criminal penalties for this. (Between lawyers and realtors, however, referral fees are accepted practice.)Support the show

·       Analysis by Dr. Joseph Mercola February 09, 2022·       Download PDFAbout Dr. MercolaHealth ArticlesPodcastAbridged for readability.STORY AT-A-GLANCE ·       Investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson explains how virtually everything you see and hear online has been co-opted or taken over to serve another agenda.·       Fact-checking is one part of the campaign to control what you see online, and therefore what you think and how you perceive reality·       The public is being manipulated to want their information censored by third-party “fact”-checkers, which were introduced as a tool to confuse and control the public further·       “Conspiracy theory”, “debunked”, “quackery” and “antivaccine” are examples of terms that are being used as propaganda tools; if you hear them, it should make you dig deeper for the truth·       Those who rely solely on the internet for their information are being controlled. You can fight back by doing your own research and trusting your common sensePrior to 2015 or 2016, information was freely available online with little interference. But since then, propagandists have infiltrated the internet. Working with Big Tech and the government, they began to control information. “Fact-checking” is a once-obscure term that has since gone mainstream. This is one part of the campaign to control what you see online, and therefore what you believe.See RobertYoho.substack.com for the complete essay. See RobertYohoAuthor.com to learn about my books, Butchered by “Healthcare” and Hormone Secrets. My essay with links to COVID treatment and more is HERE. A NOTE FROM ROBERT YOHO: I work nearly full time on this project. If you think this effort is important, share anything I write on your social media platforms. There is no copyright and so you may even repost my work on your own blog. And please ask your friends if they want a free subscription to Robert Yoho.substack.com. Click the subscribe button, then type their email. They will get a confirmation email. I have fewer than 2000 subscribers now, but we can triple this in one day with your help. Thanks for this and also for any feedback. “LEGAL” DISCLAIMER: Use this information at your own risk. It is general commentary and not medical advice. Robert Yoho is retired and no longer practices medicine. Make your healthcare decisions with the help of a physician or other licensed provider. Support the show

GUEST POST NICK YAYA OF THE FREE AMERICA PODCAST INTERVIEWS AN AMERICAN HERO, PETER BREGGIN, MD. Episode 80: Dr. Peter BregginThe trucker convoy protest in Canada continues to grow in size as thousands converge on Ottowa. Farmers driving tractors have broken through police barricades, and have now blocked the border crossing at Coutts. The trucker convoy has also been exported around the world with protests appearing in Finland, Germany, Australia, and more! Ottowa police join with US FBI and DHS to investigate convoy participants and possibly execute a false flag to justify using force against protesters. Serial hypocrites Gavin Newsom and LA Mayor Eric Garcetti appear maskless at a football game and offer pathetic excuses. A Virginia assistant principal threatens to charge maskless kids with trespassing, as a California high school barricades students in a gym and turns down the thermostat to torture children for refusing to wear masks. Then we are joined by Dr. Peter Breggin to discuss his latest book, "COVID-19 and the Global Predators: We are the Prey", in which he pulls back the curtain on who is responsible for the Covid-19 crisis, who is profiting from it, and how it ties into a larger plan by globalists to roll out a corporate-fascist dictatorship worldwide. Dr. Breggin also reveals two powerful and secret entities that have been operating in the shadows and are quietly operating the levers of power as the ultimate puppet masters. This and much, much more on this revealing and bombshell episode!See RobertYoho.substack.com for the complete essay. See RobertYohoAuthor.com to learn about my books, Butchered by “Healthcare” andHormone Secrets. My essay with links to COVID treatment and more is HERE. A NOTE FROM ROBERT YOHO: I work nearly full time on this project. If you think this effort is important, share anything I write on your social media platforms. There is no copyright and so you may even repost my work on your own blog. And please ask your friends if they want a free subscription to Robert Yoho.substack.com. Click the subscribe button, then type their email. They will get a confirmation email. I have fewer than 2000 subscribers now, but we can triple this in one day with your help. Thanks for this and also for any feedback. “LEGAL” DISCLAIMER: Use this information at your own risk. It is general commentary and not medical advice. Robert Yoho is retired and no longer practices medicine. Make your healthcare decisions with the help of a physician or other licensed provider. Support the show

A HARD RECOMMENDATION: Listen to Joe Rogan interviewing Dr. Robert Epstein (#1768). He discusses Google and Facebook’s fascist censorship powers. They can easily rig elections. Put the playback speed at twice normal. Warning: if you subscribe to these links from substack.com, you will spend all your time reading. FIRST, THE GOOD NEWS. If you want comics, click HERE. Twelve European nations are dropping their mandates. Their politicians are making various excuses for their recent behavior. Matt Briggs has a high-level blog. He writes:The Official Regime Coronadoom Narrative Has Taken A Series Of Vicious Body Blows… It’s been a busy week or two for the regime. They’re having an increasingly difficult time holding back Reality from leaking into the coronadoom narrative. Not everywhere, of course. Austria is moving to full ver-are-your-papers monetary-fines concentration-camps final solution for the unvaxxed. But elsewhere, even once stalwart allies are turning their faces toward the calm sunshine. Here is similar reporting by Alex Berenson:The pathetic collapse of Team Apocalypse… Democrats and the bluechecks are sprinting away from every restriction, mandate, and rule they have shoved down the throats of Americans for the last two years… What’s changed is that despite two years of lectures, most people now understand the uselessness of what we’ve done. What’s changed are the polls. I can only imagine the internal Democratic numbers are even WORSE than the public numbers… Thus, the race to the doors of the last week.The blue-state jab mandates will be next to go, though they may hang on a few more weeks. A lot of people don’t understand yet just how useless the shots have become with the Omicron dominant. See RobertYoho.substack.com for the complete essay. See RobertYohoAuthor.com to learn about my books, Butchered by “Healthcare” andHormone Secrets. My essay with links to COVID treatment and more is HERE. A NOTE FROM ROBERT YOHO: I work nearly full time on this project. If you think this effort is important, share anything I write on your social media platforms. “LEGAL” DISCLAIMER: Use this information at your own risk. It is general commentary and not medical advice. Robert Yoho is retired and no longer practices medicine. Make your healthcare decisions with the help of a physician or other licensed provider.  Support the show

·       February 07, 2022Download PDFSTORY AT-A-GLANCE·       Mere weeks after my announcement that I was reintroducing my article archives on Substack Library for paid subscribers, the mainstream press started calling on Substack to censor and remove vaccine critics from its platform·       Recent hit pieces against me have been published by The Washington Post, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Guardian, Mashable and others, in which they call for Substack to remove my Censored Library·       Media are again relying on claims made by the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH). According to this group, Substack is generating “at least $2.5 million a year in revenue from just five anti-vaccine leaders who have amassed tens of thousands of subscribers, each paying $50 a year”·       The CCDH also claims the content on Substack is “so bad no one else will host it”·       Substack CEO Chris Best and his two cofounders have brushed off calls for censorship, saying that allowing “the presence of writers with whom we strongly disagree” is a “necessary precondition for creating more trust in the information ecosystem as a whole”Well, that didn’t take long! Mere weeks after my announcement that I was reintroducing my deleted article archives and moving them to Substack, the mainstream press started calling on Substack to censor vaccine critics from its platform.All proceeds from my content library will be donated to our nonprofits, just like the profits from my book. To their credit, Substack CEO Chris Best and his two cofounders have refused calls for censorship, saying "We believe that critique and discussion of controversial issues are part of robust discourse, so we work to find a reasonable balance between priorities."2 O   INSIDE MERCOLA.COMo   About Dr. Mercola and Mercola.como   Health Articleso   PodcastSupport the show

·       February 02, 2022 STORY AT-A-GLANCE ·   The COVID pandemic is rife with cover-ups, starting with China intentionally allowing the outbreak to spread by saying there was no evidence of human-to-human transmission·   In 2019, Dr. Anthony Fauci and a former director of the U.S. Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) hinted at a pandemic being a perfect excuse for transitioning from conventional vaccine manufacturing into experimental mRNA technology that would otherwise take decades to bring to market·   Two of the biggest cover-ups have been the persistent denials of SARS-CoV-2 being the result of gain-of-function research, and that the pandemic was the result of a lab leak (whether accidental or intentional)·   Cover-ups have created irrational narratives, which in turn have resulted in a number of irrational beliefs and behaviors, including the excessive dependence on plastic sheathing, plastic barriers, single-directional walking directives, the idea that natural herd immunity doesn’t exist but asymptomatic spread does, and the belief that lockdowns lower infection rates·   One of the most persistent irrational beliefs spawned during this pandemic is that masks prevent the spread of the virus. A recent U.K. Department of Education report found no evidence that universal mask wearing in schools reduced absences due to illness, and therefore should not be mandated From the initial cover-up of human-to-human transmission of SARS-CoV-2, there’s been one cover-up after the other. There are so many, I can only review some of the most obvious and persistent ones here.While one of the latest ones on the scene, there are clear indications that the “ultimate” pandemic countermeasure, the so-called COVID “vaccines,” are not what they’ve been made out to be, and the redefinition of “vaccine” is only the tip of the iceberg. Disclaimer: The entire contents of this website are based upon the opinions of Dr. Mercola, unless otherwise noted. Individual articles are based upon the opinions of the respective author, who retains copyright as marked. The information on this website is not intended to replace a one-on-one relationship with a qualified health care professional and is not intended as medical advice. It is intended as a sharing of knowledge and information from the research and experience of Dr. Mercola and his community. Dr. Mercola encourages you to make your own health care decisions based upon your research and in partnership with a qualified health care professional. If you are pregnant, nursing, taking medication, or have a medical condition, consult your health care professional before using products based on this content.Support the show

·       Omicron infection is rapidly ripping through populations, leaving natural herd immunity in its wake. Despite that, vaccine makers are still hard at work to produce an Omicron-specific injection, slated to be rolled out in March 2022, well after a majority have already been immunized by getting the infection·       After the rollout of a fourth dose, Israel now has the highest COVID case rate per capita of any country in the world since the beginning of the pandemic·       The definition of what it means to be “fully vaccinated” against COVID keeps shifting with the rollout of additional boosters. Vaccine passport holders in various countries face the prospect of losing their “privileges” unless they get boosted·       Government data from Australia, the U.S., Canada, Scotland and England suggest people who have received at least two shots are now showing signs of serious immune system degradation·       This immune erosion, aka, acquired immune deficiency, is thought to account for elevated rates of myocarditis and other post-jab conditions, some of which can result in death if progressing rapidly, or chronic diseases if moving more slowly At this stage in the game, it’s apparent that the COVID jab no longer works. Many health officials and world leaders are even openly acknowledging that the COVID shots cannot end the pandemic and that we must learn to live with the virus.A major driver for this U-turn in the pandemic narrative is the emergence of the Omicron variant which, by mid-January 2022, accounted for 99.5% of all COVID cases in the U.S.1The infection, which is far milder than previous ones, is ripping through populations, leaving natural herd immunity in its wake. Despite that, vaccine makers are still hard at work to produce an Omicron-specific injection.2 Pfizer has promised to have one ready by March 2022.3The question is why, seeing how by the time the shot is released, just about everybody will have been exposed. If natural herd immunity is already maxed out, what good could a “vaccine” possibly do?o   Special Reportso   En Espanolo   Mercola Social Responsibilityo   Contact Uso   Media Inquirieso   Mercola Community FAQDisclaimer: The entire contents of this website are based upon the opinions of Dr. Mercola, unless otherwise noted. Individual articles are based upon the opinions of the respective author, who retains copyright as marked. The information on this website is not intended to replace a one-on-one relationship with a qualified health care professional and is not intended as medical advice. It is intended as a sharing of knowledge and information from the research and experience of Dr. Mercola and his community. Dr. Mercola encourages you to make your own health care decisions based upon your research and in partnership with a qualified health care professional. If you are pregnant, nursing, taking medication, or have a medical condition, consult your health care professional before using products based on this content.Support the show

Analysis by Dr. Joseph Mercola        January 24, 2022STORY AT-A-GLANCE ·       In January 2022, House Oversight Committee Republicans released National Institutes of Health emails that show Drs. Anthony Fauci and Francis Collins led the effort to bury the lab leak theory, even though the consensus in early February 2020 was that the virus likely leaked from the Wuhan lab·       Fauci and Collins appear to have participated in the creation of a Nature Medicine article that denied the possibility of a lab leak in Wuhan, arguing instead for a natural origin of the virus·       The Nature Medicine article is a glaring example of propaganda being promoted as science, and of science in turn being used for political aims·       Behavioral scientist Simon Ruda, cofounder of the British Behavioral Insights Team, unofficially known as the “Nudge Unit,” confirms that the British government has been using propaganda tactics to scare the public into complying with COVID rules·       Using behavioral science to manipulate people to achieve political goals is fundamentally anti-democraticJanuary 12, 2022, “Rising” cohost Ryan Grim reviewed the content of the National Institutes of Health emails released by the House Oversight Committee Republicans. According to Grim, the emails:“... paint a damning picture of U.S. government officials wrestling with whether the novel coronavirus may have leaked out of a lab they were funding, deciding that it may very well have, and then actively suppressing those questions.”What this latest cache of emails reveal is that February 1, 2020, Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), his boss, then-NIH director Dr. Francis Collins and at least 11 other scientists joined a conference call, during which they were told the SARS-CoV-2 virus might have leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan, China, and that it might have been genetically engineered.Support the show

Treat Symptoms EarlyConsidering the uncertainties around diagnosis, it's best to treat any cold or flu-like symptoms early. At first signs of symptoms, start treatment. Perhaps it's the common cold or regular influenza, maybe it's the much milder Omicron, but since it's hard to tell, your best bet is to treat symptoms as you would treat earlier forms of COVID.Considering how contagious Omicron is, chances are you're going to get it, so buy what you'll need now, so you have it on hand if/when symptoms arise. And, remember, this applies for those who have gotten the jab as well, since you're just as likely to get infected — and perhaps even more so. Early treatment protocols with demonstrated effectiveness include:·       The Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance's (FLCCC's) prevention and early at-home treatment protocol. They also have an in-hospital protocol and long-term management guidance for long-haul COVID-19 syndrome. You can find a listing of doctors who can prescribe ivermectin and other necessary medicines on the FLCCC website·       The AAPS protocol·       Tess Laurie's World Council for Health protocol·       America's Frontline DoctorsSupport the show

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